That's excellent.
Out of curiosity, will the bandwidth control cvars like sv_maxrate,
sv_minrate, sv_maxupdaterate, sv_minupdaterate, etc., be included in the
final release?
Thanks,
Dave
Erik Johnson wrote:
> First off, thanks to everyone for running servers for the demo. We knew going
> into the release that we were going to need to figure out some ways to make
> it worth it for server administrators, and now we have a ton of feedback to
> work with.
>
> Right now we're looking at ways that server administrators can both build a
> community around their game server (by subscribing to matchmaking) as well as
> service their group of "regulars" that play on their server. Hooking game
> servers into Steam Community is going to be our first step, and we're working
> on that now.
>
> There is a key difference between Left 4 Dead and games like Counter-Strike
> and Team Fortress in terms of matchmaking that we wanted to solve, and didn't
> think the server browser could accomplish. In CS and TF2, you can have 2 or 3
> players leave in the middle of a game, have their slots filled by new people,
> and everyone else's experience doesn't completely suffer. When a player or
> two leaves Left 4 Dead the game suffers quite a bit, and we were worried that
> the server browser model wasn't the right one for this game. In hindsight,
> there are a number of cases where the server browser does a better job than
> the new matchmaking system does, so it is highly likely that we'll be adding
> it back in soon. It isn't trivially easy to turn back on, but there is
> overlap between it and the Steam Community work we'd like to do.
>
> Right now we're working toward getting that release out within a week or so.
>
> There are a number of Valve employees reading all of the posts on this list,
> and while we can't reply to every question that comes across, the discussions
> here are ones we reference commonly when talking about what to do next
> internally.
>
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