Hello!
Some beta steam binaries are available for testing. They have several
improvements meaningful to dedicated servers, mostly related to handling of
server browser packets such as the A2S_INFO packet that has been discussed.
If you do not set any environment variables, the new binaries
Yes, the A2S_INFO w/ challenge just appends the 4 byte challenge after “TSource
Engine Query\0”. PLUS in the future there may be other stuff! Specifically, a
future update to the protocol may append a server-assigned “revision number” of
the game data (map name, server name, tags, etc)