The new servers are online, I've set them up and added admin (tested on all servers)


Please let me know if you have any feedback regarding lag, lack of admin or anything else going wrong.

The old servers are now opened to the public and I'll leave these until their contracts run out.

I'll be intending to group together a maps pack for l4d1 and 2 and upload to both servers once I know they're stable

ta,

Monkey

servers #1 && #2 do not have the insanity mod. server #10 does. can we get it on #1 && #2 ?
!admin stuff works good on all the l4d servers, except you have to do the alltalk vote every map
and it wouldn't let me choose it again after the first map

yup... doing that at the moment, will post when it's done

[Edit: done, servers 1,2,10 & 11 all have the mod configs on them]
[Edit2: the custom objects weren't working e.g. rocks on DT finale, have fixed.. probably]

will check it out in a bit

sv_search key sneaky and mm_dedi commands puts me on a server but the stats dont work using that method.

Servers havent got the SM welcome screen, probably haven't reloaded due to the new update last night.

Only 2 servers are in the L4D2 steam group server list in game.
These 2 don't show...
212.187.208.113:27015 SneakyMonkeys.com L4D2 #12
217.163.31.59:27015 SneakyMonkeys.com L4D2 #13

But...
83.142.49.20:28003 SneakyMonkeys.com L4D #3
83.142.49.20:28004 SneakyMonkeys.com L4D #4
...do

***update***
connect serverip doesnt work for me on servers 12 and 13, think Cobolt had same problem.
I think only stats are working on servers 3 & 4. I'm not sure what servers sv_search_key sneaky connects too?

You say stats don't work when using sv_search, mm_force.. which server did you connect to? (just so I can look through the logs) the stats should accrue by remote log parsing so it shouldn't make any difference how you connect to them :s

Server #12 & #13 need to have their set master values set to appear in the steam group... will do this now.

Indeed will need to reload the welcome screens after the updates will do this next

Also, I note you're having the same problem as cobolt regarding l4d2 connecting to servers using ports previously assigned to L4D1... I assume you can't connect to any L4D2 servers that use the port 27015? need to check this one out further as its a l4d wide bug and not restricted to our servers (so say the steam support forums)

WIll update this post as I get stuff sorted...

[Edit: set master added to servers 12 & 13, should appear in steam group server lists soon]
[Edit2: server welcome messages on l4d2 should be back]
[Edit3: try and connect to server 12 & 13 now?]

I'm really not sure what's going on now, lol.

connect serverip works on 12, 3 and 4 but not 13.

There's now 5 L4D2 servers. 2 of which are labelled No.12.
212.187.208.113:27015 SneakyMonkeys.com L4D2 #12
212.187.208.113:27016 SneakyMonkeys.com L4D2 #12

Port is different tho.

Stats don't work on either server 12 or 13. I think they do on 3 and 4 tho.

And the welcome screen is blank.

And sv_search_key sneaky took me to the 2nd #12 then took me to a non SM server.

And I used mm_dedi to connect to server #4. It connected fine but I had it set to expert campaign in lobby but server defaults to advanced. Not sure how to sort server so it doesnt change from what it was set to in lobby.

unlucky 13 I logged in and connected to 217.163.31.59:27015 using connect IP. I'm guessing this may have something to do with the next bit..)



I have no idea where the second one (port 27016) came from as we've never used that port on that server.. we did however have a memory error on the server and support had to reboot the bos (corrupted update or the like) however this still shouldn't have affected the port (unless they manually changed something temporarily for some reason) - either way the second entry is wrong, the first is correct. Will have to check when I get home



The l4dstats system, if you click on th server 12 & 13 it have begun to collect stats as of yesterday. Server 13 has you on there at 17:36 saying "was just checking server lads, have fun, seems fine" .. will probably login to these this evening and play a map on each to see if everything is being collected.


All the motd and host files are in the correct place and showing for me. If the screen is blank, when you press H (to being the screen back up) does it have the welcome message? The only thing I can think of here is that either it hadn't finished loading the page or valve have changed something in their requirements for what is displayed.. again will have to check this out when I get home


That's just all manner of wrong, since at no point should we have a server with port 27016 so I really don't know whats going on there The list of servers that I see in sneakymonkeys.com/admin is the current online list and I can't seem to connect to the 27016 server via telnet. So will have to check again when I get home

Am fairly limited during the day.. I'll poke around the server files and see if I can dig anything up, otherwise a lot of stuff will need to be looked at when I get home and can get into game

[Edit: server 12 & 13 were set to sv_search_key meaning that public could only connect via server browser, have now opened these to the public proper for the prupose of getting some stats]

Do I give you the most work Monkey? lol

I noticed last night the welcome message was showing, it wasn't at 1 point tho.

I went through the stats from each server and saw 12 and 13 were collecting something from me. Gabe, Me_1230 , sven and some other dude were playing expert on server 12 or 13 last night and their stats weren't collecting, may have been b4 the sever was collecting tho.

I'll go through everything again now just to make sure. Maybe save u checking when u get home and can come play without hopefully rage quitting like last night, haha

ragecrashing more like... I alt tabbed out and l4d2 wouldn't come back although since I was dead (on account of my entire team going completely the wrong way leaving me shouting where are you going??!?) it probably didn't have any impact on the game



Don't mind server work... would rather get them all working-ish rather than find that everyone's been playing on random servers because ours have broken, but no-one got around to mentioning it

Will check the servers tonight anyway... would rather have a weekend of gaming than still be trying to fix them tmrw

Co-incidentally I tested out the 8 player coop and 8v8 on l4d2 last night, it works, but I needed modify and recompile sourcemod... which is not fun. Might give this a crack over the weekend though

That #12 27016 is gone and so is L4D1 #5

glad the phantom #12 has gone. As for server 5.. the setup (taken from the sneakymonkeys.com/admin.txt file) is:

***** CLAN SERVERS *****

L4D
Server #1 mm_dedicated_force_servers 83.142.49.20:28001
Server #2 mm_dedicated_force_servers 83.142.49.20:28002
L4D2
Server #3 mm_dedicated_force_servers 83.142.49.20:28003
Server #4 mm_dedicated_force_servers 83.142.49.20:28004

*** Public =SM= Servers *****

L4D1:
Server #10: mm_dedicated_force_servers 217.163.31.65:27015
Server #11: mm_dedicated_force_servers 217.163.30.170:27015
L4D2:
Server #12: mm_dedicated_force_servers 212.187.208.113:27015
Server #13: mm_dedicated_force_servers 217.163.31.59:27015


There is no server #5 anymore!

Keep forgetting to mention but whenever I launch server for a vs on dead center, the first chapter has no items like medkits or guns etc. There's also no pick ups available. When the opposing team plays first chapter when we all dead, they have all items available.

ahh I heard grumblings of something along those lines... is this on a specific server or all servers?

[Edit: confirmed on server #4, not sure about any others]

::: seems the server may be slipping into realism mode - I've heard that the beginning of dead centre has no weapons on realism :s

everything seemed to work fine for l4d1 servers last night tho i only played on one of them

not sure if this is the same problem cobolt is having but i cant connect to #4 , i get no error message at all wierdly

if it helps here is a condump of a connection attempt

Connecting to public(83.142.49.20:28004)
Sending UDP connect to public IP 83.142.49.20:28004
Server using 'friends' lobbies, requiring pw no, lobby id 0
RememberIPAddressForLobby: lobby 0 from address 83.142.49.20:28004
Grace request retry for unreserved server...
Retrying public(83.142.49.20:28004)
Sending UDP connect to public IP 83.142.49.20:28004
Server using 'friends' lobbies, requiring pw no, lobby id 0
RememberIPAddressForLobby: lobby 0 from address 83.142.49.20:28004
Server approved grace request...
Retrying connection to 83.142.49.20:28004, server requires lobby reservation but is unreserved.
Received game details information from 83.142.49.20:28004...
BinkOpen( c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\media\l4d2_background04.bik )
Connecting to public(83.142.49.20:28004)
Sending UDP connect to public IP 83.142.49.20:28004
Server using 'friends' lobbies, requiring pw no, lobby id 0
RememberIPAddressForLobby: lobby 0 from address 83.142.49.20:28004
Server error - failed to handle reservation request.
BinkOpen( c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\media\l4d2_background04.bik )

If we create a game on server 4 from lobby, if you leave, u can't rejoin and can't invite anyone new. Not sure if #3 does it also.

recently i've noticed a lot of lag on both l4d2 servers

pings are good, but frames from the server are positively awful, it's like day of the teleporting zombie hordes out there ^^

also seems to be some issues with the new/old CSS style weps that have been added

you sometimes get "jesus pose" survivors running around, gangsta style shooting (tbh this one is quite comical) and weird animations when getting dragged by smokers ( chars look like they are hanging off ledges while moonwalking backwards ^^ )

also another time it was on hard rain map 1, the tier 1 weps were on the floor just at the start (nothing unusual there) but when picked up they transformed, into tier 2 weps AK's and Berlieni's

i dunno whats causeing these issues, but the most annoying one is the lag

could we have one server modded as is, and the other more vannilla with just usual admin/kick ban stuff only? to see if its the mods that are lagging out the server?

yep - anyone with admin can ftp into the server and move the relevent plugins into the disabled directory to stop them loading.

I've therefore disabled the weapon unlocky mods and will probably look over the source code in work to see if they're filled with my usual bad coding and typos that might be causing problems :-)

thx

Monkey

oh and another issue with l4d1 insanity mod

you can turn it on mid round but unable to turn it back off again :/

is a server restart the only way to deactivate? as running the standard config isn't really doing anything

yeah, this is a problem with all configs of this type. Basically it changes cvars, but L4D doesn't store the initial value of the cvars that you can see e.g. if you set gravity to 0.2 and want to undo this change you won't know what to set it back to (as the console normally shows sv_gravity or whatever it's called as blank) - so restarting the server loads the default configs and the stuff thats set by default not in the configs

I started doing an undo mod, but found the values as described as default on the interweb were often not correct. Also doesn't help when steam do an update and tweak default values - the effect of that is we turn a a mod on then the turn mod off option sets it back to slightly different modified valuse. gah

yeah i only brought this up, as we had a game last night and your mod made the game very difficult ^^

most of it i liked tbh, but i thnk the mod spawns too many zombs as the pings during boomer rapage jumped from 45-60 all the way up to 400-500 lol and frames went down to sub 15

i think just normal zombie spawns with slightly more health(so melee spam dont kill them) and poss a point more damage would have the same outcome without the lag

well it was a work in progress but never really got tested properly... ermm did you enable that mod or was it already on? am sure I've posted somewhere saying if you've enabled that mod to restart the server afterwards (to stop people being connfused )

Weird' I hadn't seen any additional pingage on the server when I tried it last time.. have reduced the number of horde back down to usual levels for now

i didnt get a bad framerate as such but pings did get a little high - i liked the mod however i dont think its a mod you can play with all talk on.

what ever you changed in the l4d2 servers seems to have worked monkey

had a sm game and there was 0% lag ^^ woot happy days

this is the official config for the ESL for when slightly more advanced teams are playing so killing someone means they stay dead lol

dunno if anyone would fancy having this as a option on the l4d2 servers to turn on/off as and when needed ?

mod files here
http://code.google.com/p/confogl/

The main Confogl Features are:

Match mode can be enabled anytime with !match command Match mode includes the following features:

* Reduced Spawn Timers to 20 seconds
* Tank on EVERY map
* Tank is frozen and ghosted with fire immunity for 5 seconds
* Tanks take 50% less damage from melee weapons
* Tank punch-fix (allows the tank to punch survivors off an edge that otherwise would have incapacitated them on the spot)
* Witch 75% spawn rate on maps 2-4
* T2/3 weapon spawns limited during map and removed from saferooms (replaced with T1)
* Medkits replaced with Pills
* Defibs removed
* Explosive / Fire ammo removed
* Laser Sights removed
* Chainsaw nerfs (Removed as default)
* Grenade launcher removed (can also be nerf'ed instead)
* Minor witch buffs (Fixes wandering witch)
* Jockey releap after incap timer reduced to 15 seconds (from 30)
* Reduced health items density by 2/3
* Reduced throwables density by 2/3
* 100 pt survivor and 100 pt Tie Breaker bonuses
* Pause Feature
* Special infected 'Ghost-warp'
* Ghost mode enabled on finales
* Kills lobby reservation
* Water slow down
* Password feature
* HUD in spectator mode which shows health and control of a tank when in play

Hard-mode enabled by !buffsi command The features on the !buffsi command are the following:

* Smoker buffs / longer and faster tongue
* Increased jockey damage
* Witch becomes aggressive faster
* Reduced spawn timers to 15 seconds

okee dokey... I've added it to both L4D2 server (but they'll need to be restarted for it to take effect) - I've not included the annoying item remover (fire/explosive ammo/nade launcher) as they've included the sourcecode to make the file on the specific version of linux that we use (rather than nicely precompiling the plugins for windows/linux) so I'd need to jump into visual studio for a bit and compile it... everything else should work after a restart though :-)

cheers i think me1230 will be interested ^^