I'm going to make the assumption that when searching for "Best Available Dedicated Server" from a Lobby that it looks at your Steam Group servers first, which actually might explain a lot of why I keep getting the same servers with bad pings. Guess I'll be leaving the official Left 4 Dead 2 Steam community so it stops going for the servers people have attached to that group.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, shoskins73 <[email protected]> wrote: > "you can't just join any server and start playing." > > Actually, yes you can, it's called Quick Play and is in the UI for all game > modes. This is no different than selecting a server from a browser list > (CSS/TF2)...except for one small thing, you don't get to choose which server > you are actually joining. You can also join a game in progress from the > Game Mode screens, but you can't see ping, who is currently playing, etc, > etc. > > The system as it is now, is really flawed. Has been since they started it > in L4D. Removing the ability for people to choose the server, see the > status of said server before joining and then not including a UI function in > the Lobby for joining a specific server is a step backwards. Almost as bad > as MW2 not having dedicated servers at all. > > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:34 PM, msleeper <[email protected]>wrote: > >> This seems like a lot of user error then since all of that stuff works >> for everyone else, or at least works as much as it is supposed to. Why >> doesn't search key work for you? You should investigate that. Why can't >> you "actually connect" to the server? That also seems like something >> that should be important to figure out. >> >> The search key and force dedicated servers lets you, as lobby leader, >> specify what servers you want to preference to. If the servers are full >> then you'll go to another server, just like you normally would. >> >> I don't get what you're not understanding. "I should have the direct >> option of choosing a server (mine and my favorites) as well as the >> option of being matched to one." That's exactly what search key and/or >> force dedicated servers does. You specify a server to use, and if it is >> free then you go to it. Your little list of complains all work with >> minimal effort, except the first one which doesn't really make sense >> with the type of environment in L4D/L4D2. >> >> This isn't TF2 or CSS, you can't just join any server and start playing. >> If you want to do that, then remove your server from the lobby system >> and connect directly via IP. If you want to use a lobby, then use some >> combination of the many server CVARs to make it possible. You can't have >> it both ways, they conflict how eachother work. >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
