Thread: NCAA b-ball

haha...i dont watch college basketball....i dont watch ne basketball

Yeah, but I am sure you are a big curling fan. That sport is awesome.

Let me start off by saying I love Left 4 Dead. Been waiting for this type of game for years. The gameplay is great, graphics are fantastic. Have recommended to everyone I know. The game just has one "HUGE" issue...

Finding Servers

Problem A: Lets say you want to create a expert campaign game lobby. You create one, people join, the game begins. L4D searches for a dedicated server. 75% of the time you are put on the difficulty which you did not specifiy...

Meaning everyone has to exit out & you have to do the whole process, over & over & over again until it finds a server with the expert difficulty.

Now...yes I am aware you can change the difficulty at any time by calling a vote. However If you are trying to go for an achievement, such as "What are you Trying to Prove" it prevents you from doing so.

Problem B: This specific incident has happened 6 times over the past week. I join a server. Get to the finale, nearly complete a acheivement and 1 of 2 things will happen. 1) The host will shut down the server. 2) The host will pull some other form of BS such as activating cheats etc, preventing all people present in the game from getting any acheivement they were working towards.

Solution: Valve needs to isolate custom servers that prevent players from obtaining achievements. There needs to be an option to exclude servers which are not "Pure".

Hopefully this thread will be percieved more constructively than a rant, but the fact of the matter is I would have almost every acheivement in the game minus the 53,000+ kills at this point if it were not for running into BS on every server I join.

Or getting your own server .

I got mine from JustinTimeHosting.com | Hosting when you need it

Console: openserverbrowser

I completely agree. Finding a good server is kind of complicated, even with the use of the openserverbrowser command.
Most of them are too laggy (may have to do with my internet connection, but I mean some are extremely laggy). Some of them just shut down in the middle of the game.
The ingame server search is just stupid. It finds a server, the game starts loading and then I'm kicked back to the main menu, because the server is full.

Finding a server is the only part I hate about this game.

Originally Posted by kenny007

How can I expect a random player to find us?

You can't. That's why it's called random.