You may be right, I thought for a while Valve changed it so that just by setting a search key, you were removed from public matchmaking but I may have been mistaken.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Kevin J. Anderson < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Daniel Worley wrote: > > One person claimed the sv_search_key was still working for them, but for > me > > it's not working and if I only use that flag, it puts my server into the > > public matchmaking pool and it fills up before I can even get a chance to > > start a game. I ended up creating a group for myself and just set the > > steamgroup and steamgroup exclusive flags and that's been a temporary > fix. > > > > > > Yes, using steamgroup/exclusive keeps people out unless a steamgroup > member takes the lobby to the server. Combine this w/ the variable, > and it works pretty well. I don't believe the search key is meant to > keep it from being public though, I thought it was only supposed to help > clients go to specific servers without specifying the > ms_force_dedicated_server? > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
