Can't find official dedicated servers

[V3NOM]

So I just came back to L4D2 and I am trying to find official servers to play but I am always getting the message: "Can't find official dedicated servers".

What could possibly be wrong here?

So far I've tried:

- Setting the port forwarding in my router
- Making sure the windows firewall also has an entry for L4D2
- Changed my Download Region to US-MIAMI
- Installed the "Server Browser" from the workshop and it doesn't find any Internet servers either

Any suggestions or are all the official servers down now?

[chon]

This is not sth the players should have to deal with. There is something wrong with the matchmaking thats needs to be fixed, european official servers are not listed in the server browser. This is broken for days now with no update of what is going on.

[▪●NO●▪]

Originally posted by Tson:

european official servers are not listed in the server browser

You are absolutely right!

I took a look 2 minutes ago, unfortunately I can only find more than 1000 official Valve servers in Europe with the server browser.

The serverbrowser works fine

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[chon]

Originally posted by ▪●NO●▪:

Originally posted by Tson:

european official servers are not listed in the server browser

You are absolutely right!

I took a look 2 minutes ago, unfortunately I can only find more than 1000 official Valve servers in Europe with the server browser.

The serverbrowser works fine :2lamp:

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Are you assuming that I cannot click refresh or cant read? I can find official servers in cubai, india,japan and hong kong but not european ones, they do not show up in the server browser

[▪●NO●▪]

Originally posted by Tson:

Originally posted by ▪●NO●▪:

You are absolutely right!

I took a look 2 minutes ago, unfortunately I can only find more than 1000 official Valve servers in Europe with the server browser.

The serverbrowser works fine

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Are you assuming that I cannot click refresh or cant read? I can find official servers in cubai, india,japan and hong kong but not european ones, they do not show up in the server browser

I created a new screen. Take a look HERE[www.lewd4dead.com].


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[chon]

Originally posted by ▪●NO●▪:

Originally posted by Tson:

Are you assuming that I cannot click refresh or cant read? I can find official servers in cubai, india,japan and hong kong but not european ones, they do not show up in the server browser

I created a new screen. Take a look HERE[www.lewd4dead.com].


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Thats exactly what im doing
What is even more wierd is that I can't start a game myself using offical dedicated servers, I get a message about no servers found

[V3NOM]

Originally posted by Tson:

Originally posted by ▪●NO●▪:

I created a new screen. Take a look HERE[www.lewd4dead.com].


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Thats exactly what im doing
What is even more wierd is that I can't start a game myself using offical dedicated servers, I get a message about no servers found

Glad to know I am not alone now

[Sonya]

yeah the same thing has been happening to me for months before the latest update. No official servers can be found, they don't display in the browser, changing download region doesn't help, etc.

The only way for me to host an official server is to use a third-party server browser (plenty of sites out there), copy the ip and use mm_dedicated_force_servers in the console during lobby before starting. (not that I bother to do it often, as there are plenty ongoing games available or I can ask a friend to be the lobby leader)

[▪●NO●▪]

Then we now know that it is not the server browser. It has been working for me for 11 years, but I do keep my Steam clean and up to date, as well as my L4D2. Previously you could change your region, but according to this official article, Valve has restricted that.

What if I move and want to change my store country to the new location?

If you have moved to a new place, or are living abroad for an extended period of time, you can update your Steam country setting when you complete your first purchase using a payment method from that region. If your location differs from your current Steam account store country setting you'll have an option to change your store region while you view your cart or as you complete your purchase.
Example scenario: moving from Germany to the United States

Let’s say you’ve recently moved from Germany to the United States. When checking out you will be able to select the country in which you are currently located on the cart page. From this page you can select the United States to update your cart, pricing, and payment method options. After completing your purchase with a payment method from the United States your account country will be updated to the United States.

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I think this is very likely why the server browser is knocking on doors that should match your region. You can therefore change your region, provided you also make a payment that is addressed in that region.

So check your settings in your account. According to various articles, steam also uses your location by checking who the owner of a mobile number is, and where that mobile number is registered.

There are still ways to get around this, I gave it a try last night with someone I know in Brazil. Of course I can't tell you exactly how as a European I can just have a Brazilian Steam account, and then record what my region is. If Steam finds this out, and thinks it can prove it, that account will be frozen until the owner shows up with the correct information.

Back to the server browser. If the settings of your Steam account do match with your current location, then we will have to look for the culprit that is stored in either Steam, Steam Cloud or your L4D2. We have to delete that, so we don't have to change the account details.

Sometimes I read that players do a re-install of L4D2, but with great certainty I can tell you that it will not work if you have not cleared your Cloud data, and you have cleaned up hidden folders and files in Steam related to L4D2 .

You can easily place a new Steam installation on your computer by changing the old Steam path to Steam.old. That way you keep everything that was original steam on your PC (this can take up a lot of space), so check how big your Steam really is.

With a clean, new Steam installation you can then install your L4D2 completely new and clean. (ALWAYS do a verify file check after installation) If everything works fine, you can easily copy your own Add-ons, config and autoexec files from your old installation.

Pay attention! The way I described it above is a drastic measure, but it always works 100%.

I will find out where and what details are responsible in relation to the combination between your Steam account region and L4D2. It may well be that you have to clean a few folders, in your Steam, reboot your steam and update again. Sometimes something goes wrong with the updates, that is nothing special and has many factors.


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[Kenny]

Originally posted by ▪●NO●▪:

Then we now know that it is not the server browser. It has been working for me for 11 years, but I do keep my Steam clean and up to date, as well as my L4D2. Previously you could change your region, but according to this official article, Valve has restricted that.

What if I move and want to change my store country to the new location?

If you have moved to a new place, or are living abroad for an extended period of time, you can update your Steam country setting when you complete your first purchase using a payment method from that region. If your location differs from your current Steam account store country setting you'll have an option to change your store region while you view your cart or as you complete your purchase.
Example scenario: moving from Germany to the United States

Let’s say you’ve recently moved from Germany to the United States. When checking out you will be able to select the country in which you are currently located on the cart page. From this page you can select the United States to update your cart, pricing, and payment method options. After completing your purchase with a payment method from the United States your account country will be updated to the United States.

source


I think this is very likely why the server browser is knocking on doors that should match your region. You can therefore change your region, provided you also make a payment that is addressed in that region.

So check your settings in your account. According to various articles, steam also uses your location by checking who the owner of a mobile number is, and where that mobile number is registered.

There are still ways to get around this, I gave it a try last night with someone I know in Brazil. Of course I can't tell you exactly how as a European I can just have a Brazilian Steam account, and then record what my region is. If Steam finds this out, and thinks it can prove it, that account will be frozen until the owner shows up with the correct information.

Back to the server browser. If the settings of your Steam account do match with your current location, then we will have to look for the culprit that is stored in either Steam, Steam Cloud or your L4D2. We have to delete that, so we don't have to change the account details.

Sometimes I read that players do a re-install of L4D2, but with great certainty I can tell you that it will not work if you have not cleared your Cloud data, and you have cleaned up hidden folders and files in Steam related to L4D2 .

You can easily place a new Steam installation on your computer by changing the old Steam path to Steam.old. That way you keep everything that was original steam on your PC (this can take up a lot of space), so check how big your Steam really is.

With a clean, new Steam installation you can then install your L4D2 completely new and clean. (ALWAYS do a verify file check after installation) If everything works fine, you can easily copy your own Add-ons, config and autoexec files from your old installation.

Pay attention! The way I described it above is a drastic measure, but it always works 100%.

I will find out where and what details are responsible in relation to the combination between your Steam account region and L4D2. It may well be that you have to clean a few folders, in your Steam, reboot your steam and update again. Sometimes something goes wrong with the updates, that is nothing special and has many factors.


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NO !

[chon]

The location is correctly set, this is some kind of screw up on steam's/valve's side. I think in the matchmaking system

[▪●NO●▪]

Originally posted by Tson:

The location is correctly set, this is some kind of screw up on steam's/valve's side. I think in the matchmaking system

For me everything works as it should, but have a look in your L4D2 directory in the folder "bin". There you will see the following files.

client.dll
matchmaking.dll
matchmaking_ds.dll
server.dll

I'm not saying this is going to work, but worth trying. Log out from Steam. Go to your L4D2 "bin" (x: \ steam \ steamapps \ common \ Left 4 Dead 2 \ left4dead2 \ bin. Create another folder in that folder, the name doesn't matter. Cut and paste those four files in that new folder.

Shut down your L4D2, start your Steam, log in, and check if your Steam is up to date. If so, do a full L4D2 verify files check. You will see that Steam will neatly put the missing files back into your bin folder.

And then just see if this can be a solution.


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[chon]

L4D files are all validated
Steam auto updates every time I start it.

[▪●NO●▪]

Originally posted by Tson:

L4D files are all validated
Steam auto updates every time I start it.

What you can do is request the data from the master server. You do that with your api key. At the moment there are approximately 20,000 servers online, so if you just copy the server list into a txt file, you can easily filter the servers out. For example South America. Region 14 is Chile, region 15 is Peru. If you get the IP: port addresses of Peru, for example, and then paste them into your favorites file in your Steam, you can find them back in the server browser.

To check out ping before you add them all from some region, you can first try it with several locations near yours if Valve has no servers in your own country.

I know this is a clumsy solution, but better than nothing.

This is the API LINK to grab all servers from the masterserver.


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[chon]

Originally posted by ▪●NO●▪:

Originally posted by Tson:

L4D files are all validated
Steam auto updates every time I start it.

What you can do is request the data from the master server. You do that with your api key. At the moment there are approximately 20,000 servers online, so if you just copy the server list into a txt file, you can easily filter the servers out. For example South America. Region 14 is Chile, region 15 is Peru. If you get the IP: port addresses of Peru, for example, and then paste them into your favorites file in your Steam, you can find them back in the server browser.

To check out ping before you add them all from some region, you can first try it with several locations near yours if Valve has no servers in your own country.

I know this is a clumsy solution, but better than nothing.

This is the API LINK to grab all servers from the masterserver.


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Its easy to find servers in the server browser, but you cannot select game modes that way. The ingame voting system is too limited

[▪●NO●▪]

Your earlyer post said this.

Originally posted by Tson:

but not european ones, they do not show up in the server browser

So you can find EU servers now ?

With game modes you mean, Versus, Coop and so on ?


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