http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45162 <pre>A required server update for Rising Storm Beta is imminent. I will let you know when it is out. Thanks, John </pre> John Gibson 2013-05-24T23:36:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45155 <pre>G’evening once again. Is anyone else still have issues with getting a MvM server setup and running with the new steampipe system? Perhaps it’s still a known issue that MvM is still have some startup problems? I have tried everything I can think of and my MvM server just will not start, it cycles into an endless loop of restarts/attempts to start. No server logs are created as the server never actually starts. I can start the server on any other map, in any other game mode...but if I even switch to an MvM map the server crashes, or just never changes. This is a barebones server with absolutely NO additional plugins, NO sourcemod or even metamod. I have checked the version of TF2 and made sure it was fully up to date, I have even created a brand new server from scratch but with no luck. Are there still currently issues with getting MvM server up and running or am I just forgetting some required cvar or settings that I absolutely need, to get it working? Thanks ahead of time folks!</pre> CTScrivener 2013-05-23T03:26:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45149 <pre>It was brought to my attention by one of our community members the following post from back in March: "SkepticalGaming has been using idles to gain quickplay score and thus...players. Not just any idles. Idles using idle scripts. We have seen the players who joined the server at the same time and we have a full list of IP and Steam ID. All the "players" that were used to pouplate only had one game and were not premium accounts. We also have many screen shots of such fake clients." First I will say that I am not affiliated with or associated with Skeptical Gaming in any way. But this does concern me, because our community does something similar and I do not want us targeted for similar behavior. During the day we have some of our what we call "seeders" hop on our servers and idle in spectator for the day, since they're off to work or school, this helps give us a boost in the QP pool when our other community members who can actively play join the server. First I'll clarify that: We are not modifying any da</pre> Chad Cummings 2013-05-22T02:51:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45147 <pre>A required server update for the Rising Storm beta is imminent. Please watch this space for notification the update has released. Thanks, John </pre> John Gibson 2013-05-21T21:08:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45124 <pre>We've released an optional update for TF2 that all clients will receive when they restart. You may update your dedicated servers, but it's not required. The notes for the update are below. -Eric ------------------- - Added support for VR mode on OSX - Fixed a bad material on the HDMI Patch - Fixed a server crash on changelevel when the Replay system has been initialized but is not currently running - Fixed the Soldier's grenades being hidden when equipping the Full Metal Drill Hat and the Soldier's Sparkplug - Removed replay.cfg from depot and added replay_example.cfg to avoid clobbering user's replay.cfg </pre> Eric Smith 2013-05-20T22:59:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45120 <pre>A required server update for Rising Storm beta is imminent. This update fixes another issue that would cause Iwo Jima's objectives to break under certain circumstances. Thanks, John </pre> John Gibson 2013-05-20T21:25:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45111 <pre>If you agree to any or all please reply so this will be seen and acted upon. 1. Please re-add Steam Ratings to the page. It was nice being able to see a compiled time played on Steam over the past two weeks. I also used this feature to make sure the admins in my community stayed active (I required them to keep a 10 Steam Rating). 2. If you're going to sort the top 6 friends on a persons profile by their profile level, could you please add a filter so offline people don't get a spot. I used to use my friends profiles to find a game to go into. If they the server they were in was full I would join one of their friends who was also in-game. Now this is limited, as it will always show offline people on this list as long as they have a high level. 3. It would be nice if you either re-added the Online/Offline/In-Game text a player profile or at least make the boarder around a persons profile thicker. When I'm trading I look at many profiles quickly. With this new layout it's harder to tell the status of a</pre> A Fearts 2013-05-19T13:06:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45101 <pre>Is there a fix for these crashes on linux servers? I think it's something in my server configs but i'm not sure. What do you guys think? There are also these really bad lag spikes. Thanks in advance. https://www.dropbox.com/s/13p35epiq5bvcra/serverconfig.txt </pre> ElitePowered . 2013-05-18T20:56:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45099 <pre>A Required update for the Rising Storm beta will be released shortly. Please update your servers to remain compatible with the game client. Also, we apologize for updating late on a Friday night. One of the maps (Iwo Jima) was essentially broken by the last beta update. We did not want to leave it broken all weekend. Here is a partial changelog: Code: - Iwo Jima fix for a condition that could cause the Satchel Objectives not to progress - BAR not able to shoot right away after ironsights - Fixed some spots where cover was difficult to lock onto - Fixed firefight teamkills giving wrong number of points - Fixed rising storm stats being disabled for some players in the beta - Fixed death sounds when a player leaves the server - Fixed the M12 shotgun firing slower when using manual bolting Maps: Guadal Canal - Built on Production Lighting - Minor Bug Fixes Hanto - Built on Production Lighting - Minor Bug Fixes Iwo Jima - Built on Production Lighting - Minor Bu</pre> John Gibson 2013-05-17T23:10:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45057 <pre>Everyone, The Rising Storm Pre-Order Beta is now live! Additionally, an update for the Rising Storm beta will be released very shortly. This update fixes the crashes in Firefight, as well as many other bugs. Please update your servers when the update is released to remain compatible with the client. Thanks, John </pre> John Gibson 2013-05-16T18:52:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45056 <pre>The dedicated server for Counter-Strike 1.6, Half-Life and other related Half-Life titles has been updated. This update rolls up the beta testing from the last month or so, notes from the release can be found here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/70/announcements/detail/1894040475927172810 http://steamcommunity.com/games/10/announcements/detail/1802842583489356076 This is an OPTIONAL update but includes some crash fixes, especially for Counter-Strike 1.6, so updating is recommended. To get this update run steamcmd with app 90, for example: steamcmd +logon anonymous +force_install_dir ..\hlds +app_set_config 90 mod czero +app_update 90 +quit - Alfred </pre> Alfred Reynolds 2013-05-16T18:18:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45047 <pre>I have downloaded the tf2 sdk_tools beta and have been using it since it was released. Last night I updated TF2 and now the tools textures are being compiled as regular textures, showing them in-game. I went back and compiled some previously finished maps, so I know its not the map, and I compiled right before I updated my game and it was fine. So, is there anyway to fix that? or manually update hammer? </pre> big john 2013-05-16T09:50:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45043 <pre>I'm sure this is well known but could easily be fixed with a simple temporary solution. MVM has at times glitched out on waves and stops sending out main bots and instead continuously pumps out support and sentry busters. Tanks won't appear, bomb goes untouched, and sometimes your own sentry will shoot at you. Temp solution? I see there's a vote option to restart the entire game, why not put a vote to restart the round? This problem has been happening quite frequently these past few months, and I don't expect Valve to tinker away trying to figure out what's causing it, but a simple Restart Round vote is a good band-aid fix that shouldn't cause much trouble implementing. Here are two .dem files showing two different game breaking glitches. One doesn't spawn bots, and the other has a bot magically outside the map demo charging over and over. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16036872/mvmbroke.dem https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16036872/brokenmvm.dem </pre> N-Gon 2013-05-16T03:42:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45042 <pre>Everyone, Very soon we will be launching the Pre Order beta for Rising Storm. This means that anyone that pre-orders the game can play in the beta instantly (well instantly after they download the beta client). In preparation for this we have just released the server files for the beta. You can grab them off of SteamCMD and the AppID for the beta is 238690. Read on for more detailed information about Rising Storm and hosting servers if you are interested in hosting a Rising Storm server. What is Rising Storm? First off here is a press kit and trailer for the game. The press kit includes info on the game, logos, key art, etc. http://www.tripwireinteractive.com/media/PressKit.rar http://www.tripwireinteractive.com/media/RisingStorm_GDC_Trailer.rar Rising Storm is the next game in the Red Orchestra franchise and features the battles between the US and the Japanese in WWII. Rising Storm and RO2 are fully multiplayer compatible. The actual dedicated server app for Rising Storm will be the same AppID in Stea</pre> John Gibson 2013-05-16T00:15:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45013 <pre>Been catching the spikes with the new commands, should we email them to someone? </pre> DragonLight 2013-05-15T05:59:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/45006 <pre>is it down? i just installed a dedicated server for testing on my box and my GSP hosted server both can't connect to it. </pre> Albert Davis 2013-05-14T20:35:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/44999 <pre>We're looking into the steamcmd problems. From: hlds-bounces&lt; at &gt;list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-bounces&lt; at &gt;list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of bl4nk Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:55 AM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Mandatory TF2 update coming Having problems updating my servers. I've ran the validate command multiple times now, and SteamCMD keeps saying it's up to date. After starting up the server, it says it's out of date. The 'version' command shows the server as being at 1734532 (newest is 1756932 according to the UpToDateCheck WebAPI script). The script I'm using to validate: &lt; at &gt;ShutdownOnFailedCommand 1 &lt; at &gt;NoPromptForPassword 1 login anonymous force_install_dir /home/source/steamcmd/tf2 app_update 232250 validate quit And the output of the script (trimmed out the "app info out of sync" messages and other garbage): http://pastebin.com/yM9PBSbM On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Jason &lt;pctoolbin&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&lt;mailto:pctoolbin&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt;&gt; wrote: 2 Server reboots and still</pre> Fletcher Dunn 2013-05-14T17:04:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/44997 <pre>I'd like to disable blood effects on my TF2 server. Is there a way to do that? </pre> cls 2013-05-14T16:28:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/44991 <pre>Good morning folks. I was curious is anyone happens to know of an updated and complete list of server cvars, complete with a small description of each one? The game I would mostly be referring to is TF2 but I figured the list is most likely nearly universal. There used to be a website with a complete list but the information happens to be out of date by a few years and I know some cvars have come and gone. I know some have been completely stripped and aren't used anymore, etc. I know you can get information from the console but figured Fletcher or other staff might have a text document, spreadsheet, something...with this information on hand. Or maybe one of you server operators might have created a list yourself. Any luck? Thank you ahead of time! </pre> CScrivener . 2013-05-14T12:16:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/44989 <pre>Hi, when I run the servers with steamcmd and the autoupdate feature I get segfaults on steamcmd. The server boots correctly after it. Any idea what could be causing that? Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation </pre> Saint K. 2013-05-14T12:46:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.fps.halflife.server/44970 <pre>Still having issues with the SV spiking on my servers. After about 16 players up to 32 players it spikes a lot, unsure whats causing it. Players are always complaining about "lag" when it spikes and we have changed nothing from regular tf2 to steampipe. Windows 2008 R2. I noticed windows SRCDS is no longer multithreaded...what happened? -DragonLight </pre> admin< at >ponyfortress2.com 2013-05-13T22:46:29 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.games.fps.halflife.server