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[Solution] For anyone with "Querying master server" issues. Thread contains fix.

Vegard

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First of all I've been looking through threads on a few different forums for more than 2 hours and I find the answer in the thread for killing floors?!? What's up with that...
If you are not finding any servers and clicking refresh doesn't help you need to follow the below steps.
It appears to be a steam related issue where the program removes the files that contain the info the game needs to connect to the master server and thus allowing you to find games to play.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1452-HCVB-6984
Exit from Steam completely
Download these custom files: MasterServers.vdf & MasterServers2.vdf - If the files do not download when clicked, please right click this link and select "Save Target As..."
Place it in your \Steam\config\ folder (You will need to overwrite the current file already in place)
Default location: C:\Program Files\Steam\config\
Right click this updated file and select "Properties"
In the General tab, make sure the "Read-only" box is checked and click OK
Re-start Steam and test the issue
The files might not even be in the config folder, if that is the case this is a guaranteed fix.
Re-installing /might/ work, but steam might still be acting up for you. The above does however work.
 
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Glad this thread exsists, I was going crazy wondering what was wrong with the game. I just reinstalled it today after a few years and was wondering why I saw no server list. Thanks for your help!

Edit: restarted steam after doing the fix but the problem remained, and no maps would even show up if I wanted to do practice to shoot bots. Pretty strange though.

I uninstalled the game and redownloading now. Thank God I have cable internet and it only takes 15 minutes to download 2GB's...
 
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So I tried to run RO this morning and found that I had this problem. I couldn't download the files and it didn't give me the option to 'save link as'. I can only open the files in my browser or copy shortcut.

I copied the shortcut and put them both in program files/steam/config, restarted Steam and tried again. It did not fix the problem. I can see the news just fine, although it's dated 18 June 2010.
 
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If you for some reason can't download the files, you have to make them yourself. Just create two text files in the config folder, name them MasterServers and MasterServer2.
Then put the following text into the files:

MasterServers file:
Code:
"MasterServers"
{
	"hl1"
	{
		"0"
		{
			"addr"		"69.28.151.162:27013"
		}
	}
	"hl2"
	{
		"0"
		{
			"addr"		"72.165.61.136:27014"
		}
		"1"
		{
			"addr"		"72.165.61.136:27012"
		}
		"2"
		{
			"addr"		"72.165.61.151:27014"
		}
		"3"
		{
			"addr"		"72.165.61.136:27013"
		}
	}
	"rdkf"
	{
		"0"
		{
			"addr"		"67.132.200.140:27012"
		}
	}
}

And MasterServer2:

Code:
"MasterServers"
{
	"hl1"
	{
		"0"
		{
			"addr"		"69.28.151.162:27013"
		}
		"1"
		{
			"addr"		"69.28.151.162:27013"
		}
		"2"
		{
			"addr"		"69.28.151.162:27013"
		}
		"3"
		{
			"addr"		"69.28.151.162:27013"
		}
		"4"
		{
			"addr"		"69.28.151.162:27013"
		}
		"5"
		{
			"addr"		"69.28.151.162:27013"
		}
	}
	"hl2"
	{
		"0"
		{
			"addr"		"72.165.61.153:27015"
		}
		"1"
		{
			"addr"		"72.165.61.153:27015"
		}
		"2"
		{
			"addr"		"72.165.61.153:27015"
		}
	}
	"rdkf"
	{
		"0"
		{
			"addr"		"68.142.72.250:27012"
		}
	}
	"gms"
	{
	}
}

After that save the text files with .vdf file extension or just rename the files in windows as long as you have "hide extensions for known file formats" turned off in folder options (that can be found in Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Folder options)
 
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