[Question] Server does not show up in server list

[Niccoli]

What are common reasons for this to happen?

I have the firewall turned off in Windows.
I have the following ports allowed on my firewall (Cisco ASA), both UDP and TCP:
7777
27015

When I look at the access-list on the firewall, I can see how many times each port is getting hit.
I can also see the connections being opened and closed. Port 27015 is getting a lot of connections, presumably from clients searching for servers.
A player can connect directly to the IP to play.
The server shows up on gametracker fine.

But even with all of the above, it's still not showing in the server list. This really leads me to believe that a setting is fubar, I just don't know what it would be. I reinstalled the entire server, the only ini file modifications I made were for Web admin. I didn't modify any game settings other than map list.

Heck the server is even correctly showing as ranked now that it's been re-added to the whitelist.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Niccoli]

Can someone who has a server working fine/showing up in the list tell me, in your ROEngine.ini, under
[OnlineSubsystemSteamworks.OnlineSubsystemSteamworks] section, what does it have set for Region=

Thanks!

 

[XSGamers]

[OnlineSubsystemSteamworks.OnlineSubsystemSteamworks]
bUseVAC=true
ProductName=RO2
GameDir=ro2
GameVersion=1.0.0.3
Region=255
CurrentNotificationPosition=8
ResetStats=0
bFilterEngineBuild=true
VOIPVolumeMultiplier=2.0
LanPacketPlatformMask=1
bTestSteamAuthDenials=false
DenyCode=5

Although my server doesn't always show in the Ranked browser for me. In fact its doesn't show, more than it shows.

 

[Niccoli]

[OnlineSubsystemSteamworks.OnlineSubsystemSteamworks]
bUseVAC=true
ProductName=RO2
GameDir=ro2
GameVersion=1.0.0.3
Region=255
CurrentNotificationPosition=8
ResetStats=0
bFilterEngineBuild=true
VOIPVolumeMultiplier=2.0
LanPacketPlatformMask=1
bTestSteamAuthDenials=false
DenyCode=5

Although my server doesn't always show in the Ranked browser for me. In fact its doesn't show, more than it shows.

Ok, I was wondering if that was the case. I know that I've seen people join it, so I guess it's hit or miss right now. Hopefully something that gets fixed in the near future.

I was wondering if Region= was related to what region your server is in, or regions allowed.

 

[firehawk]

I had the same problem - my server was running behind a NAT firewall which forwarded only ports 7777 and 27015 from an interface with a public IP address.

For now, I've solved it by bridging the server to the public interface so that it effectively receives all traffic to all ports and the network interface in Windows uses the public IP address. The server showed up in the browser immediately after I did the routing change so it seems that either the Steam server browser requires some additional ports besides the query port at 27015 or just doesn't like having a private IP address and regards itself as a LAN server.

You might want to try, if possible, forwarding ports 27000-27030 to your RO2 server to see if it helps. At least TF2 dedicated servers use a number of ports within that range.

 

[Niccoli]

Mine started showing up tonight for some, so who knows.