Alfred, for what it's worth, the patch of the patch fixed the crashing server issue, and I'm now on all the lastest files on all three K-9 HL2-DM servers.
What is beyond belief is how Valve can issue a patch that crashes all the servers that are using "log on" in the autoexec.cfg file that is so much a part of the standard setup. It is obvious that Valve is just issuing patches willy nilly with not even a simple basic test server setup before releasing them. Following the patch last night, there were about 100 HL2-DM servers left standing....mostly those who don't run logs, or didn't update.
Beyond that very simple issue, the lack of any patches for the HUGE number of bugs after this long is really disgusting. It is a significant slap in the face of your customers. You are advertising having HL2-DM on your Steam retail packages now, so this is really no longer a "free gift" that doesn't deserve or require maintenance support.
Your customers are very unhappy....and I feel like a complete chump for wasting my money running servers for this fiasco. I'm close to dumping my servers, and I know a lot of other HL2-DM players and server admins who feel EXACTLY the same way. The problem is that we all expected so much more professionalism from Valve.
Sorry to be so negative, but Valve needs to get the impact of how they are treating this community...with not a single damn word of explanation or apology. How would you feel if you didn't work for them?
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