[egor1908]

Is there any way to restart my L4D server, so players stay or just reconnect a bit later?

For example i can force them to reconnect, and restart the server at same time, is it possible?

[egor1908]

Bump.
Maybe forcing all clients to reconnect and restart the server at same time will do what i need?

[Evian]

I don't think so

[MjrNuT]

Can you explain why you would want to do this? I mean why a restart?

I can understand a reconnect...sort of.

But why a restart? what is causing a need for that?

[eXDee]

Originally Posted by MjrNuT Can you explain why you would want to do this? I mean why a restart? I can understand a reconnect...sort of. But why a restart? what is causing a need for that?

Game servers sometimes need to be restarted for various reasons.
This would be useful in other games too, instead of everyone timing out you can force a retry while killing the server process at the same time, so they reconnect when it starts.

[MjrNuT]

I would agree in general in the context of configuring a setup, a plugin, or testing. Sometimes map changes are not enough.

However, I'm asking more specifically about the OPs need. He doesn't explain what the issue is for his requests.

It almost reads like a redirection on clients, forced. I've seen around here the force connect...and its a bit sketchy imo.

Of course you can't have players remain connected during a restart. The request is: Can I restart and force reconnect ppl in succeeding execution? (at I think that is the question)

It makes sense when you've got friends on and something just happens. Happened to me recently, ReadyUp plugin was not working properly. Wanted to revert to stock playing so that VS mode would work. I didn't want to keep messing around. Took me 3 tries to rememeber to delete the Downtown extension. That case requred a restart and in that case, I could see a Force Reconnect being helpful, b/c it was the same group of ppl wanting to play, not random pubbers.

[eXDee]

Originally Posted by MjrNuT Of course you can't have players remain connected during a restart. The request is: Can I restart and force reconnect ppl in succeeding execution? (at I think that is the question).

If you can force all clients to 'retry' somehow, and then kill the server process, they will wait on the "Connecting to server" stage, then when the server comes live they will all connect again.

It worked for me anyway when i manually did "rcon quit; retry" once, theres a 10-20 second wait before the server starts up again, but it worked fine.

[MjrNuT]

huh, nice. well you answered the OPs question.

I really had no idea that players would remain connected.

Thanks for explaining your use of this.