Guys I did some tests lately and I found the issue. Which was an intended
change which became a problem.
This change actually affects all games that use steam server browser. Issue is,
it's more noticeable on CS:GO because of the amount of my servers. The tests I
did to reach this conclusion:
NOTE: I am from UK. Also all this tests were done around 23:30 GMT+0 (BST)
Went on CS:GO searched for servers, only 1000 pops up and none of them are from
US or Asia (started to notice on the late night on Europe due to many empty
servers), when I noticed that I wondered why it kept doing that. So I found
this:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/769#issuecomment-14911881 , I
thought it was only on 1.6 but I found that it happens on all games.
Decided to do more research, games such has DoD 1.3, DoD:S , and such games
that has a lower server number it showed up all servers including the ones from
US and Asia and such.
Went back to TF2, CS:S, 1.6 also had such issues, since the total server number
is really high. From there I noticed it only happens on games that it has a
high amount of servers, it starts to filtering for some odd reason. According
to that link I posted above it seems it only shows servers near your IP
Geolocation with some rare exceptions.
So since such issue happens I found that I should force to LOWER the amount of
servers it’s being asked to the masterserver to update. So I decided to set my
filters to "No Password”, it didn’t work at all, WHEN I tried to setup “Has
users playing” I found that the game/steam server browser (Started first with
CS:GO but I did also on TF2, CS:S, 1.6, also in steam server browser not only
in game) starts showing servers from US, China, and so on, and I compared to
the list presented on Game Monitor which I know it’s not accurate but it gives
a perception of what you are missing (also used www.serverbrowser.com), so I
wonder why is not working with “No password” and it is with “has users
playing”??
So I ended up ticking off the box from “No password” and it showed up servers
with password, but when I unticked “Has users playing” I noticed it didn't
update anything. So I came to the conclusion when you use “Has users playing”
masterserver ignores all empty servers, which causes your list to have a lot
less servers and starting to require more to keep a certain threshold which I
don’t know what it is, since differs from game and from day time.
After this next day, around 19:00 which is CS:GO peak time and I noticed same
didn't happen anymore. Since many EU servers are populated and are more than
enough to show up in the server it never showed up more than the usual nearby
EU servers (even start filtering servers from Sweden, Finland, and so on even
near me).
So with this I found this is a issue with the new Steam Server Protocol which
is terrible for mod communities.
Some keypoints and conclusions about this research, more of TL;DR:
Issue is NOT on CS:GO but it is on Steam Server Browser protocol since lastest
update to ignore sv_region and it happens on games total server numbers is
really high
Filtering what you request from the masterserver seems to work quite perfectly.
External websites such as Game-Monitor, ServerBrowser seems to work as they use
different ways to refresh servers from the master servers
on CS:GO test if you do on Steam Server Browser NEVER works because it shows
all Valve servers on it, which causes to be a large number of servers being
retrieved therefore you are never able to get more servers than the ones near
you
The only setting to far to seem to fix is “Has users playing” others such as No
password, tag filtering, map filtering, ping, location, part of the world, is
not full does not work.
So Valve needs seriously to rethink what they have done, this can hurt many
communities on the long run, not only on CS:GO but also in others games, gladly
small player base games such as DoD don’t have that problem or the game would
die quickly.
Sent from Windows Mail
From: Gamemann
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 9:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Dear Counter-Strike: Global Offensive developers and server owners,
I need to address the current state of the modding community and why things
must change. The modding community is lacking major functionality at the
moment. First, I want to talk about how important the CS:GO modding community
is. Counter-Strike: Source and Counter-Strike are still alive due to the
modding community. Server owners put time and effort into creating servers and
providing a unique gaming experience for players. Ever since CS:GO launched,
the modding community hasn’t gone anywhere due to the modding community not
having the right tools to prosper.
The first major issue in CS:GO is the unfinished community server browser. This
issue has been discussed multiple times but Valve has been quiet about the
issue. The community server browser will one day display 500-1000 servers and
the next day display only 10-60 servers. These servers usually have a password
or are Valve official servers. The CS:GO’s community server browser should be
similar to CS:S’s community server browser where it will show all community
servers (5000+ servers), with the default region set to “ALL”. It should also
filter all Valve’s official servers since they will flood the server browser
results. Many well-done community servers lack population and the unfinished
community server browser is to blame.
The next major issue in CS:GO is the “qconnect” attack. There have been
servers down for months straight from the “qconnect” attack. Many communities
have sent e-mails to Valve about the attack but no useful responses were sent
back. These attacks disguise themselves as legitimate packets, therefore
blocking the attack through the firewall blocks all legitimate traffic. These
IPs are spoofed, therefore we cannot filter per IP address through the
firewall. The command “sv_max_queries_sec_global” doesn’t work correctly, when
at a ridiculously high value (9999999999), the server doesn’t use extra CPU and
rejects legitimate packets. The e-mail sent to Valve with more information is
here: http://pastebin.com/kLKi6fjm
The final issue is the model precache limit, usually the amount of models
isn’t an issue, but the table includes materials. There have been servers
crashing with errors such as
“Warning: Table modelprecache is full, can't add materials/XXXX.vtf”. There
should be a separate material precache table for materials only. The limit at
1024 maximum models/materials is not enough for the modding community and
restricts the modding community from enabling unique features that worked fine
in CS:S.
I hope these major issues can be addressed.
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