Im running 3 l4d demos for now and all 3 show, as for connecting to one of them thats another story.
You get the 'no servers found' message. ________________________________ From: bl4nk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:49:32 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Steam community group features It somewhat works for me. I currently have 6 L4D servers running, and it will take a few seconds before it displays one. I've never seen it display more than one (despite 2 or 3 being empty) at a time. It will display all of the servers eventually over time, but never more than one. Fudgstu wrote: > I've set the sv_steamgroup "xxxx", but don't have the > sv_steamgroup_exclusive in the config. The steamgroup comes up, but it then > goes to searching for the steamgroup and can't find any servers. I did have > it actually find and was able to get to the lobby, but then it kept > searching for the dedicated server, while in lobby. I was unable to > actually connect to the server. I do like this feature of having > sv_steamgroup for our community. > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Andrew Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > >> Are you aware of any problems with this group feature not working right? >> >> I just tried to look again for servers in a group I am in. >> >> Someone else reported the same problem: If I waited 30 seconds or so at the >> main menu, I eventually see servers scrolling by for 'Steam group servers', >> but this takes a while, as they do not appear immediately like friends >> playing on servers does. >> >> However when I click on them to go to the 'find games' screen, there are >> never any results for games to join, Ive tried waiting at this screen for >> several minutes too. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Johnson >> Sent: Saturday, 15 November 2008 3:33 PM >> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> Cc: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> Subject: Re: [hlds] Steam community group features >> >> It will work in most cases, just not all yet. We'd like people to test >> it though. >> >> >> >> >> On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:51 PM, "Kitteny Berk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> They said it's not completely implemented, which to me reads like test >>> it, it might explode something amusingly. >>> >>> Was mostly just mentioning it doesn't work, and given the password >>> doesn't appear to work quite right, We could be stuck without private >>> servers, which is A Bad ThingT >>> >>> msleeper wrote: >>> >>>> They said that the sv_steamgroup_exclusive is not functioning yet. >>>> >>>> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 03:41 +0000, Kitteny Berk wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Also seems that sv_steamgroup_exclusive 1 doesn't work at all, the 2 >>>>> servers I tried removing the password on filled immediately. >>>>> >>>>> sv_password "" seems to be buggered too (though it could be >>>>> openserverbrowser related), my remaining passworded server will >>>>> let me >>>>> connect from the server browser, puts me into a lobby that lasts >>>>> about 3 >>>>> seconds, loads a map and crashes my client. >>>>> >>>>> Andrew Armstrong wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Just another quick (bug?) report, if you click 'Create Lobby' >>>>>> from the 'Play >>>>>> on Steam Group Server' screen, it goes to a find lobby screen >>>>>> instead of one >>>>>> with the 'create lobby' button. >>>>>> >>>>>> - Andrew >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik >>>>>> Johnson >>>>>> Sent: Saturday, 15 November 2008 12:54 PM >>>>>> To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>>> Subject: [hlds] Steam community group features >>>>>> >>>>>> Ok, we're getting ready to ship the first round of the group >>>>>> features we've >>>>>> been working on this week. >>>>>> >>>>>> There is a new cvar called sv_steamgroup, which takes the Steam >>>>>> group number >>>>>> (which is now visible on the group's administrative page). The >>>>>> server will >>>>>> still be part of matchmaking, but users that are in that group >>>>>> will be able >>>>>> to browse directly to it from the main menu. Also, if this value >>>>>> is set, >>>>>> there will be a button near the message of the day that allows >>>>>> users to go >>>>>> directly to that group's page. This allows them to join that >>>>>> group if they >>>>>> like, and then be able to browse back to it in the future. >>>>>> >>>>>> There is another convar in there called sv_steamgroup_exclusive, >>>>>> which isn't >>>>>> completely implemented yet. The goal if it will be to make a >>>>>> server only >>>>>> joinable by users within that group, but there are some edge >>>>>> cases where >>>>>> matchmaking could still potentially put users on there. People >>>>>> are welcome >>>>>> to play around with it for now, and we should have it fully >>>>>> implemented in >>>>>> the next few days or so. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hopefully this addresses some of the concerns server admins have >>>>>> brought up. >>>>>> >>>>>> Erik >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>>>>> archives, >>>>>> please visit: >>>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>>>>> archives, please visit: >>>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>>>> archives, please visit: >>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>>> archives, please visit: >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>> archives, please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
