http://store.steampowered.com/news/2349/
That's what is going on. Left 4 Dead players are now going to official
servers by default. Since the nature of the lobby system would allow for
people to end up on any random server out there, the Left 4 Dead experience
was being ruined by modded servers. If you create a lobby and look under
Game Settings, you now have the options of Official Dedicated(default), Best
Available Dedicated and Local Server. It's now up to the player to decide
which type of server he or she wants to end up on.
My guess, which can't be all that far off just by noticing what's been
mentioned here on HLDS, is that players are using the default of Official
Dedicated because it guarantees them the cleanest experience possible.
-Richard Eid
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Mark Edwards <sixtysixno...@hotmail.com>wrote:
> Zero players on our three L4D servers in the 48 hours or so since the
> second
> update. What is going on?
>
> >> > From: Admin Bob <admin_...@cox.net>
> >> > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
> >> > <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com>
> >> > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:48:41 AM
> >> > Subject: Re: [hlds] L4D Client Update
> >> >
> >> > Still empty. Still getting errors:
> >> > A2C_print from 68.142.72.250:2701
> >> > Bad challenge
> >> >
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com
> >> > [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Adam
> Nowacki
> >> > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 2:09 AM
> >> > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
> >> > Subject: Re: [hlds] L4D Client Update
> >> >
> >> > Blood Letter wrote:
> >> > > So did this update fix the empty server issue for anyone?
> >> > > Mine is still bone dry.
> >> >
> >> > Maybe because people want to play on official servers? The search
> works
> >> > now and will actually fall back to non-official servers thanks to a
> >> > longer search timeout.
> >> >
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