Adding Players

[drfeelgoodmd]

I took a long hiatus from the game (about 2 years or so). I came back earlier this summer and since then I noticed a lot of changes that never existed before.

1. Friend is in game but when you click to view their game or join or get an invite it won't show you the map, sever, player list, etc. You can't join. I eventually found the fix was to copy the server IP address and use it in the server list in game in the server list.

2. You're in a game and want to add players but due to this same bug it shows nobody in game with you in the "View Players" menu. Some servers it'll show this and some it won't.

2 1/2. I noticed recently since probably the second last update that it sometimes show a list of players with you in the "View Players" menu that are not in the game with you.

Is there a fix for this that I can do? Case in point I was in a game last night and wanted to add 3 of the people to my friends list. Since you can change your display name or have a super common name it was impossible to search Steam and find 2 out of the 3 people.

P.S. Sorry if this has been asked before but I searched and couldn't find the topic due to too many unrelated results popping up.

 

[poosh]

~90% servers are not responding, even whitelisted without mutators.

 

[drfeelgoodmd]

~90% servers are not responding, even whitelisted without mutators.

Is the reason known and is there a fix? I don't remember this happening ever before I went on hiatus.

 

[nejcooo]

Probably not, getting used to it is all you can do.

 

[DasB]

I eventually found the fix was to copy the server IP address and use it in the server list in game in the server list.

If you don't want to add every server to your list, you can use the console to connect:

copy the ip-address, open the ingame console and type

open "CTRL+V"
CTRL+V = to paste the copied ip+port into the console
should look like this: 

open 123.456.789.000

If there is a "KillingFloor://" in that string, remove it before hitting enter.

For joining as spectator just add ?spectatoronly=1 behind the ip+port.

open 123.456.789.000?spectatoronly=1

 

[poosh]

Joining the server isn't that a big issue. As DasB said, IP address can by copy-pasted.
The biggest issue imo is that you can't easily add friends anymore. "No players were reported by the server"...

 

[DasB]

Joining the server isn't that a big issue.

Yup, it's not a big issue, it's just annoying as fukk.

The biggest issue imo is that you can't easily add friends anymore.

"Anymore"? This has never worked for me in the past.

 

[poosh]

"Anymore"? This has never worked for me in the past.

It worked fine in 2010-2011.

 

[nejcooo]

Joining the server isn't that a big issue. As DasB said, IP address can by copy-pasted.
The biggest issue imo is that you can't easily add friends anymore. "No players were reported by the server"...

Ye I agree. Then somebody comes with name like God and you try to find him and get 60k results. That sucks more than "Server not responding"

 

[ramndude]

For joining as spectator just add ?spectatoronly=1 behind the ip+port.

open 123.456.789.000?spectatoronly=1

Thanks <3
Been looking for this for a while now, haha.

 

[drfeelgoodmd]

Yup, it's not a big issue, it's just annoying as fukk.



"Anymore"? This has never worked for me in the past.

This worked the entire time I've played this game starting in 2009 ish until I went on hiatus. Only once I returned this year was either of the issues I mention an issue.

 

[DasB]

Thanks <3
Been looking for this for a while now, haha.

Gotta give Skell credit for this one, he was the clever mofo who showed me that

 

[Skell]

Gotta give Skell credit for this one, he was the clever mofo who showed me that

Not really hard to figure it out. I just saw the function Connect(bool Spectator) in the class Browser_ServersList add "?SpectatorOnly=1" to the end of the URL when spectator is true.

I'm sure a lot of other people have figured it out by now.