People keep joining my Private Games

[Groxxy]

Valve plz fix. had to start using local servers and kicking people with the console when they join.

[Sharpie The Dragon]

People can join your friends-only lobbies from the server browser or from the 'join game' button in your profile.

[Magnate]

Sadly not many of us intend to as the draggie respectfully said, open server browser unintentionally lets people join any friend only games.

I do agree that it should be fixed but I don’t think the TLS team can patch it but I’m sure they can poke valve to fix it.


For time being at least try to remain respectful as I know if I was told it was friends only I’d gladly leave without griefing.

[Sharpie The Dragon]

Originally posted by Jackpot:

Sadly not many of us intend to as the draggie respectfully said, open server browser unintentionally lets people join any friend only games.

I do agree that it should be fixed but I don’t think the TLS team can patch it but I’m sure they can poke valve to fix it.


For time being at least try to remain respectful as I know if I was told it was friends only I’d gladly leave without griefing.

Respectfully agree. I asked Tsuey about this but the server browser is out of scope apparently. He mentioned working on mutation UI would be easier and better since it's a jumbled mess.

[Blaquicat]

The game matchmaking is lazy..

Private/Friends-only game dont actually filter anything, it just "hide" your game from non-friends, it don't prevent them from joining.

Block system actually works, for a while, the matchmaking system goes down everyday, once its down, all running games goes "unreserved".
Once unreserved the game wont be listed anymore on the game UI, and block system will cease to function.

Theres a trick to make private/friends game to work, but you need to host your own server, just add -nomaster to command line parameters, and you game wont be listed on the openserverbrowser.

[UmbralPenumbra]

Get four people so they can't join

[AvovA]

add -nomaster to your launch options. Your server should not add itself to people's server browser.

They can still ping your server and check its status if they know the IP though, but it is unlikely.

[R󠀡F]

Originally posted by Groxxy:

Valve plz fix. had to start using local servers and kicking people with the console when they join.

Local servers dont show up in server browser so no need to worry about kicking.