Nice find hope it gets addressed On Dec 15, 2014 5:43 PM, "byteframe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> boring. > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Gamemann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dear Valve and others, I want to talk about a major issue with the >> Steam Master Servers. For a while now, the CS:GO server browser would only >> display <1000 community servers in the server browser which is low >> especially for a very large game. The only people to blame were the CS:GO >> developers. Recently, I’ve been testing out the server browser, and I’ve >> concluded this isn’t a CS:GO specific issue, this issue impacts CS:GO more >> than other games due to the amount of Valve official servers. >> >> I’ve discovered that Valve official servers are not shown on the >> CS:GO in-game server browser. I’ve used a program called “Wireshark” and >> started a packet capture when I refreshed the server browser, in the >> detailed packet capture, all the tags are listed and for Valve official >> servers, there was a tag named “valve_ds”. I have set this tag for one of >> my servers on the server browser and it also disappeared immediately, >> removing the tag made the server reappear again. This shows that even >> though no Valve official servers are displayed on the in-game server >> browser, they are still being requested from the Steam Master Servers. The >> Steam server browser is different, it does not filter servers with the tag >> “valve_ds” and shows all servers the Steam Master Servers give you >> including Valve official servers. >> >> This leads to the problem with the Steam Master Servers. It is >> capped at 5000 maximum servers. On the Steam server browser (no filters), >> every game that I’ve tested, including Team-Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: >> Global Offensive, Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike: Source, etc (¾ of >> these games overall have 7000+ servers) will not display any more than 5000 >> servers. The CS:GO server browser usually displays around 50-1000 servers >> because there are around 3000-4000+ Valve official servers. If there is a >> cap on the amount of servers it can give you, then this is a valid reason >> why it doesn’t display 1000+ community servers. Remember, the CS:GO in-game >> server browser still requests the Valve official servers but filters them >> in the browser itself. >> >> This should help Valve fix the issue. Another thing I would like to >> mention is that every game I listed uses the Steam Master Servers, I did a >> packet capture with Wireshark when I refreshed the in-game server browser >> and it gave me the same Steam server IP in Wireshark right before it >> requested all the game servers (the Steam server IP changes if you block >> the current Steam server IP through the Windows Firewall tool). One last >> thing I would like to mention is even if there isn’t exactly 5000 servers, >> doesn’t mean it isn’t capped at 5000 maximum servers, I’ve found that it >> sends a request to every IP the Steam Master Servers give you, if it >> doesn’t respond, it will not display on the server list (there were 50+ >> servers not responding with my search which is the reason why I only got >> 4911 servers on the Steam server browser for CS:GO instead of 5000 exactly). >> >> >> Valve should also consider setting Valve official servers to not >> report to the Steam Master Servers. CS:GO doesn't display any Valve >> official servers, but it still requests each server, therefore, the server >> browser will stop displaying new servers (server browser "stops") for a >> period of time because it is filtering all the Valve official servers and >> it will take more time to display all the community servers after the Valve >> official servers. >> >> Overall, I hope Valve addresses this issue. Fixing this issue will >> benefit Valve and the community. >> >> Thanks for reading. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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