[hlstriker]

When the steam servers go down players start getting an error "failed to join session" when trying to connect to my servers.

When the steam servers actually go down I will see a message in the console such as "Connection to Steam servers lost." I have never noticed a message when the steam servers actually come back online though.

Does anyone know of a way to detect when the steam servers come back online? I need to write a plugin to restart my game servers when the steam servers come back online or players will continue to get the "failed to join session" error.

Maybe I am just missing something?

[Taz532]

I've never used it, but could SteamTools be what you're looking for? Specifically theres this...

/**
 * Gets the current Steam connection state, the forwards below fire 
 * whenever this changes.
 *
 * @return Steam connection state.
 */
native bool:Steam_IsConnected();

/**
 * Fired upon a successfull connection to Steam.
 * Is also fired for late-loaded plugins.
 *
 * @noreturn
 */
forward Steam_SteamServersConnected();

/**
 * Fired upon disconnection from Steam.
 * Is also fired for late-loaded plugins.
 *
 * For plugins loaded with the server, this will normally be fired right
 * after Steam_FullyLoaded, closly followed by Steam_SteamServersConnected 
 * if a successfull connection is established.
 *
 * @noreturn
 */
forward Steam_SteamServersDisconnected();

[hlstriker]

I knew about SteamTools but it doesn't work with CS:GO does it?