HLDS - Master Server Reporting BETA

[CSN NewsBot]

Alfred Reynolds, via the HLDS announcement list, has announced a new BETA for all server admins.

We have new code in development that changes how servers report to the server list (in anticipation of increasing the information in that

stream). The initial change has no feature changes, it is just a different code path for reporting the same information.



We need in field testing of this feature, can you please put "sv_master_legacy_mode 0" in your server.cfg to test this feature and then monitor the presence of your server on the Steam master server lists (via the Steam serverbrowser ideally).

Nothing major, but if you (as a server admin) are interested in participating to find any bugs, the instructions are detailed above.

[le gritche]

Am I becoming paranoid or is this going to be used to report about the players present on the server in order to better target ingame advertisement (IP adress to guess their location and such) ?

[HeLLy]

le gritche wrote..

Am I becoming paranoid or is this going to be used to report about the players present on the server in order to better target ingame advertisement (IP adress to guess their location and such) ?

It's all a conspiracy! AHHHHHHHHH!



*HeLLy runs away screaming*

[acidsnow]

le gritche wrote..

Am I becoming paranoid or is this going to be used to report about the players present on the server in order to better target ingame advertisement (IP adress to guess their location and such) ?

I'd be surprised if they didn't already have this in place, you open up to a huge amount of advertisers if you have regional and national segmentation, instead of a handful of multi-nationals.

[Thortok2000]

What I'm /hoping/ is that the steam browser will be able to filter by additional variables, like other server browsers do.

[Splatula]

Maybe they're going to fix the serverbrowser so that it works.



OoooooooooH!!!!!! Additional filters.... THAT'S a rockin' idea.

bots=0

gungame=0

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