L4D Demo

[PotshotPolka]

Needs to die in a fire, I hope all the errors we've been having tonight can be chalked up to an overflow of resources, and perhaps some bugs caused by removing game files to make the demo... but still, it was pretty cool when you actually managed to keep a game up for more than five minutes.

[Crimson]

What's wrong with the demo? Besides the shitty game search

[Red Tampon]

Okay after spending 30 min trying to play ONE game that doesn't crash after 4 minutes I've given up.

And the server join system is retarded as fuck.

[andre1028]

I just hope they scratch the whole matchmaking system and keep a server browsing list like the old days. It's really simple but effective and useful.

[VirDeBello]

For some odd reason when I downloaded a patch last night.....everytime I reach the safe point and start heading out........I lag......So I thought hell maybe its because I am wireless, let me go downstairs and connect directly to the router and see if that helps....nothing........any ideas?

[PotshotPolka]

You can view servers the normal way by typing openserverbrowser in console, if I remember correctly, only works though if there is already someone in the server though.

[Wrathek]

how were you guys playing? i've played over 3 hours no troubles at all.

haven't bothered with the server search yet.. just quick played so far.

[Paul]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...d.php?t=744310

A thread on steam about the matchmaking function.

[Wraith]

This game is freaking awesome. My friends and I played on a dedicated server for like 6 hours with very little lag to non at all. And damn i couldn't keep myself away. I can't wait for the real thing.

[PotshotPolka]

I don't know if you've tried this Litkey or Astrum, but supposedly this can remedy the "cannot connect via connect ip command"

Originally Posted by Jason Ruymen (VALVe)
In addition to those, we've also added some early features to help enable "private" servers. There are two ways to enable this:

Set a sv_search_key to a unique string on the server
Do the same on each client that will want to connect
Start a map on the server
Searches for games should be restricted to only finding servers with that search key

Or

Set sv_allow_lobby_connect_only 0
Set sv_password to a non-empty string
Start a map on the server
Tell the client the IP address of the server
Client uses console to "connect <ip>" just like the good old days
Should result in password prompt during connect to server

These features are still a work in progress.