[L4D] How to start a Ville lobby
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[L4D] How to start a Ville lobby
This is a simple trick to use until Valve comes up with a better system. This will let you force the lobby system to choose one of our servers to play on.
This requires the console to be enabled. To do this, go to Keyboard/Mouse options and set "Allow Developer Console" to Enabled.
Starting the lobby:
1. Type sv_search_key theville in the console and press Enter (press ~ to open/close the console)
2. Create a lobby with Server Type set to Best Available Dedicated
3. Start the game as usual
The command will limit the automatic server search to TheVille servers. You can add this command to a config if you want. Hope this helps.
If you have any questions, post here.
This requires the console to be enabled. To do this, go to Keyboard/Mouse options and set "Allow Developer Console" to Enabled.
Starting the lobby:
1. Type sv_search_key theville in the console and press Enter (press ~ to open/close the console)
2. Create a lobby with Server Type set to Best Available Dedicated
3. Start the game as usual
The command will limit the automatic server search to TheVille servers. You can add this command to a config if you want. Hope this helps.
If you have any questions, post here.
Last edited by Stevo on Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: [L4D] How to start a Ville lobby
Can we get this stickied? It's still valid, and it's better than joining the group servers one at a time without having any options.
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Re: [L4D] How to start a Ville lobby
Has anyone else used this successfully?
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I've used it once. When not many people were on. Tried again when my friends list seemed to be full of everyone playing L4D and it said it couldn't find any dedicated servers and asked me if I wanted the game to be local. I said yes and only a 4-6 people max were able to connect the rest could not. I've had the same experience when trying to join other people's local servers.
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Re: [L4D] How to start a Ville lobby
I just added this to the startup parameters: +sv_search_key theville
To do that, go to My Games in Steam, right click Left 4 Dead, choose Properties, and click Set Launch Options.
To do that, go to My Games in Steam, right click Left 4 Dead, choose Properties, and click Set Launch Options.
Re: [L4D] How to start a Ville lobby
Works great! Last thursday I played with some friends on theville servers and had no issues. Thanks for hosting these btw
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Re: [L4D] How to start a Ville lobby
I have been using TheVille servers for all my L4D needs now. For some reason I haven't had one single problem on these servers, Which is great cuz other servers give me constant disconnects and changes game settings without notice. Everything here is working superb, thanks so much for the server to play on Frylock
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Re: [L4D] How to start a Ville lobby
i will try this next time i play l4d
i had heard there were issues with this cvar, though
i had heard there were issues with this cvar, though
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