www.beyondallreason.bar
This is a community project - the official site is: www.beyondallreason.info

ONE LAUNCHER. ANY SERVER.

Beyond BAR

Simply download, choose a server, and play. It really is that easy!

Beyond BAR is an open source launcher fork, meaning you can review it on GitLab and build it yourself it to ensure its safe.

Alternative hosting for Beyond All Reason: Host dedicated game servers, connect to community infrastructure, and experience player-managed multiplayer gaming with total freedom and transparency.

Beyond All Reason promotional battle banner — official BAR Media Promokit, beyondallreason.info/promokit.
Beyond All Reason promotional screenshot from the official BAR Media Promokit, beyondallreason.info/promokit.

Before using Beyond BAR on Windows, you must already have Beyond All Reason installed. Download it here. On Linux, Beyond BAR is a standalone launcher and runs in place of the official one (see the Linux instructions below).

Download and run Beyond BAR Setup (Windows) or the AppImage (Linux).
DOWNLOAD FOR WINDOWS DOWNLOAD FOR LINUX

It will not affect any of your BAR preferences/hotkeys/etc. You can uninstall it at any time to restore the original launcher.

Beyond BAR launcher v0.2.0 showing the community server list with SolarGang BAR Server and Modded BAR, plus the Start button.
Start BAR as you normally would.

The launcher will now provide choices to allow you to specify your own server to connect to or choose from an automatically populated list of community servers. You can of course disable custom server connection and connect to the "official" default server as well.

Click start and enjoy the freedom of choice.

Linux (x86_64, AppImage) — a single portable file, no installer. Unsigned community fork, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Beyond All Reason project.

  1. Download the AppImage, make it executable (right-click > Properties > Allow executing, or chmod +x BeyondBarLauncher-0.2.0.AppImage), and run it.
  2. Run it instead of the official Beyond All Reason launcher. Close the official launcher first: they share one data directory (~/.local/state/<title>), so an existing install is picked up and only one can run at a time.
  3. Some distros (Ubuntu 22.04+) need FUSE 2 for AppImages (package libfuse2). If it isn't installed, run it with --appimage-extract-and-run.

Custom server selection works the same as on Windows. Version 0.2.0.
Linux AppImage SHA-256: 040468c16ad6fc20fcfbac1f46ab2e4af627d63001f59d7354d1d3ff65bb7617
Windows installer SHA-256: 666623f474b585885cd803b05165010b85028d897b1fdb72a8b509ad1310d706

Modded server support is based on RandomGuyJunior/spring-launcher. Thanks to its author. Built on the Beyond All Reason launcher, beyond-all-reason/spring-launcher.