Pocket Relay

Mass Effect 3 Server Emulator / Private Server

Discord Server (discord.gg/yvycWW8RgR) | Website (pocket-relay.pages.dev)

The master branch contains the latest changes and may not be stable for general use, if you would like to compile a stable version from source its recommended you use a specific tag rather than master

Pocket Relay Is a custom implementation of the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer servers all bundled into a easy to use server with a Dashboard for managing accounts and inventories.

With Pocket Relay, you can play Mass Effect 3 multiplayer offline, over LAN, or even over WAN as a public server.

Visit the website for more information.

🌐 EA / BioWare Notice

The Pocket Relay software, in all its forms, is not supported, endorsed, or provided by BioWare or Electronic Arts. Mass Effect is a registered trademark of Bioware/EA International (Studio and Publishing), Ltd in the U.S. and/or other countries. All Mass Effect art, images, and lore are the sole property of Bioware/EA International (Studio and Publishing), Ltd and are reproduced here to assist the Mass Effect player community. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

📖 Starting your own server

For guides check out the Website (pocket-relay.pages.dev) or refer directly to the Server Setup Guide

📦 Direct Downloads

Below is a table of the download links for the different platforms

You can find individual releases on the Releases page

🔧 Configuration

To configure the server, such as changing ports, refer to the Configuration Documentation.

⚙️ Features

• Origin Support: Connects to official servers to authorize Origin/EA Launcher accounts (configurable).
• Origin Fetching: Loads player data from official servers for Origin accounts (configurable).
• Portable & Platform Independent: Low hardware requirements, platform-independent (data stored in a 'data' folder).
• Unofficial Support: Allows playing with unofficially licensed Mass Effect 3 copies.
• Docker Support: Includes a Dockerfile for containerized deployment in a small Alpine Linux container.
• Dashboard: Management dashboard with leaderboards, account management, game monitoring, and more.

🚀 Manual Building

Build instructions can be found here.

Note Building the server can be resource-intensive.

If you are building for a version older than Windows 10 you will need to use Rust v1.75.0 or lower as Rust has dropped support for <10 after that. The server should compile on this version but future breaking changes to the project may cause that to no longer be the case.

Makefile.toml - Mainly used for maintainers

This project also includes a Makefile.toml for cargo make however its more intended for maintainers only in order to do cross compiling, building multiple versions in parallel, signing builds, creating docker releases etc

Requires installing https://github.com/sagiegurari/cargo-make

Building

Build Windows & Linux in parallel

cargo make -t build-all

Building just Windows

cargo make -t build-windows

[!NOTE] When building for Windows on a Windows host you can sign the executable by providing a SIGN_FILE (File path to the .pfx file to use for signing) and SIGN_PASSWORD (The password to the .pdf file) you will also need to obtain a copy of signtool.exe and set the SIGNTOOL_PATH to be the path to that file

After doing that Windows builds will be signed using the provided credentials

Building just Linux

cargo make -t build-linux

Docker images

[!IMPORTANT] The intended release must first be up on GitHub once its up on GitHub make sure to set the GITHUB_RELEASE_VERSION environment variable so the right version will be used make sure you don't include the v prefix just the version number (e.g 0.6.1)

The DOCKER_IMAGE_NAME env variable must be set to the intended docker image name (e.g jacobtread/pocket-relay)

Building the docker image

To build for the specific tag (Uses the version listed in the Cargo.toml):

cargo make -t build-docker-version

To build for the "latest" tag:

cargo make -t build-docker-latest

To build for both tags:

cargo make -t build-docker-all

Publishing docker images

To publish for the specific tag (Uses the version listed in the Cargo.toml):

cargo make -t publish-docker-version

To publish for the "latest" tag:

cargo make -t publish-docker-latest

To publish for both tags:

cargo make -t publish-docker-all