Heads up.
Insanity is upon us.
We'll include the Halloween map cycle file that we're going to be using on
about 70% of our Valve servers, so you can have an example for how you might
want to configure your servers.
Your humble servant,
Fletch
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There is a bug causing all gameservers to report that they are full,
preventing them from receiving matchmaking traffic.
It should be a small patch, and will be available in about an hour or so.
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The orangebox engine games (Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike:Source, Day of
Defeat:Source, HL2:Deathmatch) are being upgraded to SteamPipe. Steam's
new-and-improved content delivery system. SteamPipe is currently used by most
games on Steam.
This change will impact server operators in at
Team Fortress 2 Beta:
* Fixed motd.txt file being in VPK instead of loose on disk. (This caused
custom motd.txt to not be used.)
* Linux dedicated server: Fixed srcds_run script calling old HLDSUpdate tool to
perform autoupdate.
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Team Fortress 2 Beta:
* Fix custom audio sometimes using data from wrong sound cache.
* Sound cache for official shipping content now updated with the game, clients
no longer need to compute it
* Misc audio system optimizations
* VPK structure changes. Deleted models and materials, added
We have released a SteamPipe version of the Day of Defeat:Source dedicated
server.
A note of clarification: this announcement concerns Day of Defeat: *SOURCE*.
Alfred announced a very similar release for the original Day of Defeat product.
This is a different release. Try not to get
DoD:S beta:
* Fix mismatched version numbers in client and server
* sv_pure should be functional.
* Added readmes in the custom and downloads folder.
* Linux dedicated server: Fixed srcds_run script to properly use StamCMD for
auto restart.
Note that you will not receive an out-of-date
There are some changes coming that TF2 server operators should know about.
CHANGES TO QUICKPLAY
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The next TF2 update will make two changes to quickplay:
* Show servers button. This runs the ordinary quickplay search, but instead
of joining the server with the
y question, but is there a smaller padded packet size
that could be used, which doesn't trigger DDoS protections but is still big
enough that it makes a reflection attack less appealing to the asshats who
launch them? Just curious.
Thanks,
Dave
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:54 PM Fletcher Dunn -
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
The previous change to pad the server browser query A2S_INFO packets has
triggered some aggressive Anti-DDoS filters for some games. This change was
made to address a reflection amplification attack in the protocol. So it looks
like we will need to address the vulnerability by securing the
A steam client beta has been released:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/2896341257765264787
It understands how to respond if the server issues a challenge in response to
an A2S_INFO request. Importantly because of the existing filtering environment
The steam client was updated with the changes to the server browser protocol
that have been discussed.
More info here:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/14/2974028351344359625/
The latest binaries for all gameserver platforms, with experimental features to
harden against server
Hello!
Over the next couple of months we will be releasing some changes to how servers
and clients using steamclent.so/dll handle the venerable Source engine A2S_INFO
message used by the server browser. This includes the Steam client server
browser, all Source engine games, and all Steam
. Only a set of
users will be using this client, and we are not quite to deployment step #1
described below.
From: Fletcher Dunn
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 4:47 PM
To: 'hlds_announce@list.valvesoftware.com'
Subject: RFC: Changes to the A2S_INFO protocol
Hello!
Over the next couple
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