I'm no fan of the lobby system as it stands right now, but I don't know
if it's something Valve would be willing to change to give us these
features. I think it is set up the way it is in order to maintain a
common interface across both the PC and Xbox platforms. Basically, we
(PC users) are stuck with this half-functional interface because Xbox
users don't need the other functions (selecting a specific server, etc.)
Just my two cents.
- Dave
Kevin J. Anderson wrote:
> There are a lot of bugs like this, that make playing on your own
> dedicated server very difficult when it should not be. It shouldn't
> be as hard as it is to be able to select your server from a lobby as
> leader, and have it work immediately without having to reboot the
> server, or restart the game, or vote for various changes.
>
> The matchmaking/lobby process is a great idea for this game, however it
> currently is not all that easy to have it just "work" so you can play
> with your friends where you want to play.
>
> We should be able to specify "favorite servers" to join first from the
> lobby. We should not have to constantly reset the server because
> various settings are stuck.
>
> Kevin
>
> Tom Richardson wrote:
>> Thankyou for confirming this. I've not seen any mention of it on the forums
>> and was starting to wonder if it was just me! You are correct, changing
>> difficulty by voting is both annoying and messes up achievements. I
>> generally just restart the server now once I've used it for versus. However
>> I can't monitor the server 24 hours a day and I feel bad for all the pubs
>> that end up getting the wrong difficulty level on it. I'm almost tempted to
>> leave it closed until this bug is fixed for this reason.
>>
>>
>> 2009/1/6 ICS Staff <[email protected]>
>>
>>> You are not the only one who is experiencing this, we have seen it too
>>> on our servers. This bug appeared right after Valve locked Versus mode
>>> to normal. For some reason, this affects to normal games too. People
>>> dont even have to use the sv_search_key, ive countered servers to be
>>> locked on normal even though it was set to expert on lobby. It's like
>>> lobby settings will not override the server settings completely. You
>>> forgot to mention that changing the difficulty is not only annoying
>>> but after that, game needs a restart so some achievements work properly.
>>>
>>> For reporting bugs, make some noise on this list and see if they see
>>> the bug to be critical (they fix it in few days), normal (they may fix
>>> it in future patch) or minor (in your head or by design).
>>>
>>> -ics
>>>
>>>> I've noticed on my server that if it has previously been used for a
>>> versus
>>>> game, and then afterwards someone starts a co-op game on it without it
>>> being
>>>> rebooted (from lobby, using sv_search_key), then they will be dumped into
>>> a
>>>> Normal difficulty game regardless of what difficulty they selected in the
>>>> Lobby. It's possible to then call a vote to change the difficulty to the
>>>> desired settings, and that settings does stick for the duration of the
>>>> movie, so it's not a major issue, but it is quite annoying. The first
>>> time
>>>> it happened to us we played through most of what we thought was an
>>> Advanced
>>>> campaign, it seemed strangely easy, until someone noticed we were
>>> actually
>>>> on Normal during the final chapter.
>>>>
>>>> This only started happening after difficulty was locked for Versus mode,
>>> so
>>>> I assume it has something to do with that. Does anyone know a solution or
>>>> workaround?
>>>>
>>>> Also, what is the official route for reporting server bugs to Valve?
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