Joining the Left4Dead Server

Doorman · November 25, 2008, 05:54:08 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;252464We could but then we would lose the ability to have lobby! Valve, in their infinite wisdom, gave us the ability to password it OR to have it in a steamgroup OR to have lobby.

Why do we need to be in a lobby? Or am I missing some gen?

b00n · November 25, 2008, 06:07:51 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;252464We could but then we would lose the ability to have lobby! Valve, in their infinite wisdom, gave us the ability to password it OR to have it in a steamgroup OR to have lobby.

I'd go for steamgroup then, the lobby system is a complete mess just now. For example, if you join our server, vote to return to lobby, change any settings then start the game again you won't end up on the dMw server. It's like a lobby isn't actually for any particular server, it just looks for any server that matches your settings... so changing lobby settings doesn't change anything on the server and means that you won't get back to the same server because it's not what you're looking for any more. :doh:

Even if you return to lobby and don't change any settings, and with sv_search_key set correctly, it often fails to find the dMw server when you start the game and asks if you want to host a local server. There's a sv_search_max_results setting which is set to 75 by default, I assume that's the maximum number of servers it'll check for your key before giving up. I changed it to 500 (more than the total number of servers which show up in the server browser) and it didn't seem to make a difference. :g:

Anonymous · November 25, 2008, 06:20:07 PM

Quote from: Doorman;252471Why do we need to be in a lobby? Or am I missing some gen?

The lobby allows you to get some guys together, decide on which map and difficulty setting, and then to kick the server into life.

Anonymous · November 25, 2008, 06:21:16 PM

Quote from: b00n;252473I'd go for steamgroup then

but with the search key set we can join directly through shortcut or through lobby.

With steamgroup you can only join directly

Anonymous · November 26, 2008, 04:59:09 PM

BUMP

First post amended to show we have changed things again

It will be a permanaent, passworded, 8-player server

DuVeL · December 27, 2008, 11:28:46 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;252380[/COLOR]
If you are using a desktop shortcut to go straight to the server you no longer need the password so the desktop shortcut will consist of:
"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 500 +connect cs.deadmen.co.uk:27030

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How does this work exactly?
Tryed it but no luck.
Not that good with configfiles and such.

Anonymous · December 27, 2008, 11:33:00 PM

Quote from: DuVeL;256196

How does this work exactly?
Tryed it but no luck.
Not that good with configfiles and such.

Ignore, you do need the password.

DuVeL · December 27, 2008, 11:34:56 PM

Okay, how to exactly setup through something on the desktop shortcut?
Me and Tox tryed today but failed.

Anonymous · December 27, 2008, 11:38:39 PM

Start Steam
Open the "Games" dialog by right clicking on the steam icon in your sys tray
find the entry for Left4Dead
right click on it and select "create desktop shortcut"
Edit the startup details of the shortcut to be:

"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 500 +connect cs.deadmen.co.uk:27030 +password "password"

It will probably be:

"C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe" -applaunch 500

by default so you just have to add:

+connect cs.deadmen.co.uk:27030 +password "password"

DuVeL · December 27, 2008, 11:54:39 PM

Got it to work now, thanks for the explanation.

Still what I find annoying is the game freezing up alot.
Any solutions for this aswell?

Anonymous · December 27, 2008, 11:58:53 PM

Quote from: DuVeL;256205Got it to work now, thanks for the explanation.

Still what I find annoying is the game freezing up alot.
Any solutions for this aswell?

I haven't seen it freezing up I'm afraid. I've seen several other annoying bugs like no animation for puking as Boomer sometimes.

KKND · December 28, 2008, 09:37:37 AM

Quote from: BlueBall;256206I haven't seen it freezing up I'm afraid. I've seen several other annoying bugs like no animation for puking as Boomer sometimes.

I had the same thing as Pete with L4D that it was freezing.
But it happend by me when i installed the newest Nvidia drivers.
So delete the new ones installed an older one and no freezing anymore.
Maybe it's the same with you Pete.:flirty:

OldBloke · December 28, 2008, 10:35:52 AM

Quote from: KKND;256217I had the same thing as Pete with L4D that it was freezing.
But it happend by me when i installed the newest Nvidia drivers.
So delete the new ones installed an older one and no freezing anymore.
Maybe it's the same with you Pete.:flirty:

Aha! The penny's dropped.

Duvel - sorry but I'd forgotten about the driver issue.

You can, as KKND has suggested, roll back your drivers or a solution that worked for me was to put L4D into borderless windowed mode.

Benny · February 03, 2009, 07:41:22 PM

Top post updated with additional server and connect details.

ChimpBoy · February 05, 2009, 02:18:10 PM

Created the 2 shortcuts as BB suggested, but is there any way to quickly browse the servers outside of the game to see if and who is on? The steam "server" screen won't let me look at them - do I have to use something like X-fire?