I'm asking this: What advantage, if any, does the lobby browser give to these groups of people:
-People looking for specific servers -People who have friends with whom to make a lobby On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Shane Arnold <[email protected]>wrote: > > I have yet to find one, so can someone let me kow what the advantage > of the new system is for people looking for specefic servers > > openserverbrowser, or ms_force_dedicated_server when starting a lobby. > Left4Dead matchmaking is based on Steam Groups. > > > people with friends to make a lobby with? > > You mean creating a lobby and making it friends only? > > _______________________________________________________ > > Shane Arnold - [email protected] > > "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost. For want of a horseshoe, the > horse was lost. For want of a horse, the messenger was lost. For want of a > messenger, the message was not delivered. For want of an undelivered message > the war was lost." > > > > Jonah Hirsch wrote: > > I have yet to find one, so can someone let me kow what the advantage > > of the new system is for people looking for specefic servers or people > > with friends to make a lobby with? > > > > On 7/16/09, Shane Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Groovy update. Cheers for the news Jason. > >> > >> _______________________________________________________ > >> > >> Shane Arnold - [email protected] > >> > >> "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost. For want of a horseshoe, > the > >> horse was lost. For want of a horse, the messenger was lost. For want of > a > >> messenger, the message was not delivered. For want of an undelivered > message > >> the war was lost." > >> > >> > >> > >> Jason Ruymen wrote: > >> > >>> Left 4 Dead has been updated to include a lobby browser. This is an > >>> optional update. The lobby browser (under Play Online) will show you a > >>> list of optimal games available for you to join. The browser pares > down > >>> the thousands of lobbies and games currently being played to show you > the > >>> best list of games available to you. This list includes official and > >>> add-on campaigns, including add-on campaigns you have not yet > installed, > >>> making it a great way to discover them. You can filter by difficulty, > >>> official and/or add-on campaigns and by lobbies and/or games in > progress. > >>> > >>> The Play on Steam Group Server screen now displays which Steam group > it's > >>> searching while updating the list. > >>> > >>> After calling a vote to change difficulty in game it is now correctly > >>> updated in matchmaking. > >>> > >>> Add-on Campaigns: > >>> - When downloading a new version of an add-on and installing it (by > double > >>> clicking the .VPK file), it will now correctly overwrite the pervious > >>> version, even while Left 4 Dead is currently running. > >>> - Addressed a crash when two mission files with the same name are > >>> installed. > >>> - Steam Group Servers now will now correctly offer download links when > >>> running add-on campaigns. > >>> > >>> Server: > >>> - The server will now warn if the public or private tags exceed their > >>> limits. Public tags are limited to 63 characters. Private tags used > for > >>> matchmaking are now limited to 1024 characters. > >>> > >>> SDK: > >>> - The VPK tool can now handle campaigns larger than 500MB. > >>> - You can now drop an add-on a VPK file onto the VPK tool to have it > >>> extract it for you. > >>> - Detail.vbsp and lights.rad have been added to the distribution. > >>> > >>> Note that the Linux Steam objects have been renamed. This shouldn't > cause > >>> any issues. > >>> > >>> Jason > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > -- Jonah Hirsch ----------------------- Sent from my BlackBerry _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
