If you look at the server count while searching for a competitive game, there's actually a lot more of Valve servers.
On 16 December 2014 at 01:19, Jesse Oak <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nice find hope it gets addressed > On Dec 15, 2014 5:43 PM, "byteframe" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> boring. >> >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Gamemann <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Dear Valve and others, I want to talk about a major issue with the >>> Steam Master Servers. For a while now, the CS:GO server browser would only >>> display <1000 community servers in the server browser which is low >>> especially for a very large game. The only people to blame were the CS:GO >>> developers. Recently, I’ve been testing out the server browser, and I’ve >>> concluded this isn’t a CS:GO specific issue, this issue impacts CS:GO more >>> than other games due to the amount of Valve official servers. >>> >>> I’ve discovered that Valve official servers are not shown on the >>> CS:GO in-game server browser. I’ve used a program called “Wireshark” and >>> started a packet capture when I refreshed the server browser, in the >>> detailed packet capture, all the tags are listed and for Valve official >>> servers, there was a tag named “valve_ds”. I have set this tag for one of >>> my servers on the server browser and it also disappeared immediately, >>> removing the tag made the server reappear again. This shows that even >>> though no Valve official servers are displayed on the in-game server >>> browser, they are still being requested from the Steam Master Servers. The >>> Steam server browser is different, it does not filter servers with the tag >>> “valve_ds” and shows all servers the Steam Master Servers give you >>> including Valve official servers. >>> >>> This leads to the problem with the Steam Master Servers. It is >>> capped at 5000 maximum servers. On the Steam server browser (no filters), >>> every game that I’ve tested, including Team-Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: >>> Global Offensive, Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike: Source, etc (¾ of >>> these games overall have 7000+ servers) will not display any more than 5000 >>> servers. The CS:GO server browser usually displays around 50-1000 servers >>> because there are around 3000-4000+ Valve official servers. If there is a >>> cap on the amount of servers it can give you, then this is a valid reason >>> why it doesn’t display 1000+ community servers. Remember, the CS:GO in-game >>> server browser still requests the Valve official servers but filters them >>> in the browser itself. >>> >>> This should help Valve fix the issue. Another thing I would like to >>> mention is that every game I listed uses the Steam Master Servers, I did a >>> packet capture with Wireshark when I refreshed the in-game server browser >>> and it gave me the same Steam server IP in Wireshark right before it >>> requested all the game servers (the Steam server IP changes if you block >>> the current Steam server IP through the Windows Firewall tool). One last >>> thing I would like to mention is even if there isn’t exactly 5000 servers, >>> doesn’t mean it isn’t capped at 5000 maximum servers, I’ve found that it >>> sends a request to every IP the Steam Master Servers give you, if it >>> doesn’t respond, it will not display on the server list (there were 50+ >>> servers not responding with my search which is the reason why I only got >>> 4911 servers on the Steam server browser for CS:GO instead of 5000 exactly). >>> >>> >>> Valve should also consider setting Valve official servers to not >>> report to the Steam Master Servers. CS:GO doesn't display any Valve >>> official servers, but it still requests each server, therefore, the server >>> browser will stop displaying new servers (server browser "stops") for a >>> period of time because it is filtering all the Valve official servers and >>> it will take more time to display all the community servers after the Valve >>> official servers. >>> >>> Overall, I hope Valve addresses this issue. Fixing this issue will >>> benefit Valve and the community. >>> >>> Thanks for reading. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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