[eRazorzEDGE]

Ever since the last Steam DLC update, versus mode only connects 4 of 8 players to my server. I've tried taking out all the commands that aren't needed in the server configs, but still nothing.

It works correctly w/o Sourcemod installed, so there's obviously something I've missed. And since there are other servers out there functioning correctly with Sourcemod and some plug-ins enabled, well, I'm at a loss.

I would much appreciate anyone's assistance. Thank you.

[Cobalty2004]

I cannot help you but occasionally my server will reset itself to coop and DA1 (my default map) and become a 4 person limit server.

This only happens occasionally and I cannot successfully reproduce it.

[egor1908]

Check for -maxplayers 8 in your server launch parameters.
Check for sv_visiblemaxplayers 8 and mp_gamemode versus in server.cfg.

Write back if this is not working.

[eRazorzEDGE]

Not quite sure where I can find the -maxplayers 8 as it's being hosted on gameservers.com.

I added the sv_visiblemaxplayers 8; mp_gamemode versus is already there. However, it only works right when it wants to I'm afraid.

For example, as I was reading this, I saw no one on my servers. So I added the command and restarted the server. I went and checked HLSW and saw that both servers were running 8 (full) players... and then my server processed the restart command and there went 8 people on one server only to reload with only 4 people.

I can only say what it seems like to me and that is people aren't fully loading onto my server via a lobby (or are somehow being blocked). If I give it a few minutes (like right now while I'm typing this), the server eventually fills up. Either with the original people from the lobby or not, I have no idea.

Thanks for the help.

[egor1908]

open a support ticket to change you command line, that should look like this:

-game left4dead -autoupdate +ip IP -port 27015 +maxplayers 8 +sv_gamemode versus +map l4d_vs_hospital01_apartment -console -secure +exec server.cfg

i am not sure abot sv_gamemode, found it somewhere on ValveDev Wiki..

Also, let us see your server.cfg

[eRazorzEDGE]

It works now, off and on. I basically just put up the stock gameservers.com server.cfg, plus a few mods for the server like crawling, etc.

It mostly gets 8 of 8 players, but sometimes not...

hostname "Full House... of PAIN! 2 - Chicago"

rcon_password "*****"

exec banned_user.cfg
exec banned_ip.cfg

z_difficulty Impossible
sv_allow_lobby_connect_only 0
director_no_human_zombies 1
sv_gametypes "versus"
mp_gamemode versus

mp_disable_autokick 1
sv_alltalk 0
sv_cheats 0
sv_consistency 1
sv_contact "*****"
sv_steamgroup *****
sv_steamgroup_exclusive 0
sv_downloadurl
sv_visiblemaxplayers 8

sv_voiceenable 1
sv_alltalk 0
sv_voicequality 5
sv_voicecodec vaudio_speex

sv_region 0
sv_maxupdaterate 120
sv_minupdaterate 20
sv_unlag 1
sv_maxunlag .5

sv_log_onefile 0
sv_logbans 1

// Tank & Witch Spawns
sm_cvar director_tank_lottery_selection_time 0
sm_cvar tank_stuck_time_suicide 9999999999
sm_cvar versus_tank_chance_intro 1
sm_cvar versus_tank_chance_finale 1
sm_cvar versus_tank_chance 1
sm_cvar versus_tank_flow_team_variation 0
sm_cvar versus_witch_chance_intro 0
sm_cvar versus_witch_chance_finale 0
sm_cvar versus_witch_chance 1
sm_cvar versus_witch_flow_team_variation 0
sm_cvar versus_boss_spawning 1
sm_cvar versus_boss_flow_min_intro 0.35
sm_cvar versus_boss_flow_max_intro 0.9
sm_cvar versus_boss_flow_min 0.3
sm_cvar versus_boss_flow_max 0.9
sm_cvar versus_boss_flow_min_finale 0.05
sm_cvar versus_boss_flow_max_finale 0.85

// Gap between witches and tanks
sm_cvar versus_boss_padding_min 0
sm_cvar versus_boss_padding_max 0.05

// Hunter mods
//sm_cvar hunter_pounce_air_speed 2000
//sm_cvar hunter_pz_claw_dmg 7
//sm_cvar versus_shove_hunter_fov 75
//sm_cvar versus_shove_hunter_fov_pouncing 60
//sm_cvar z_hunter_claw_force 500
//sm_cvar z_hunter_claw_max_buildup_time 0
//sm_cvar z_hunter_claw_range 75
//sm_cvar z_hunter_claw_range_down 75
//sm_cvar z_hunter_health 300
//sm_cvar z_hunter_lunge_stagger_time 2.5
sm_cvar z_hunter_max_pounce_bonus_damage 24
//sm_cvar z_hunter_speed 300
//sm_cvar z_max_hunter_pounce_stagger_duration 2
//sm_cvar z_pounce_crouch_delay 0.25
//sm_cvar z_pounce_damage 4
//sm_cvar z_pounce_damage_delay 0
//sm_cvar z_pounce_damage_interrupt 300
sm_cvar z_pounce_damage_interval 0.5
sm_cvar z_pounce_damage_range_min 300
sm_cvar z_pounce_damage_range_max 1000
//sm_cvar z_pounce_door_damage 1000
//sm_cvar z_pounce_stumble_force 500
//sm_cvar z_pounce_stumble_radius 500

// Healthpack & pills conversion
sm_cvar director_convert_pills 0
sm_cvar director_vs_convert_pills 0.0

// Make the bots follow closer
sm_cvar sb_max_battlestation_range_from_human 600    // 750
sm_cvar sb_max_scavenge_separation 600            // 750  : SurvivorBots won't scavenge items farther away from the group th$
sm_cvar sb_separation_danger_max_range 300        // 600  : A Survivor teammate this far away needs to be gathered b$
sm_cvar sb_separation_danger_min_range 200        // 500  : A Survivor teammate this far away is straying from the g$
sm_cvar sb_separation_range 100                // 200  : Desired distance between Survivors
sm_cvar sb_neighbor_range 250                // 300  : How close a friend needs to be to feel safe

// General mods
sm_cvar vs_max_team_switches 3
sm_cvar z_ghost_speed 2000

// Score/Team Manager
sm_cvar l4d_team_order 0

// Rage Counter
sm_cvar sm_rage_enable 1
sm_cvar sm_rage_versuscheck 1
sm_cvar sm_rage_autoreset 2

// Load Bug Removal/Door Lock
sm_cvar 
l4d_autoCycleCampaigns 0
sm_cvar l4d_displayMode "chat"
sm_cvar l4d_freezeOn1st 2
sm_cvar l4d_prepare1st 15
sm_cvar l4d_prepare2nd 10

// Skeet Announce
sm_cvar skeetannounce_verbosity 7
sm_cvar skeetannounce_deathskeets 1

// Advertisements
sm_cvar sm_advertisements_enabled 1
sm_cvar sm_advertisements_interval 30

//ADVANCED CONNECTION SETUP
setmaster add 213.239.209.221:27011 
setmaster add 72.165.61.189:27011
setmaster add 68.142.72.250:27011
setmaster add 69.28.140.246:27011
setmaster add 69.28.140.247:27011

[egor1908]

First, remove sv_cheats 0 from the config, or even better add alias sv_cheats "status" to remove the command and make unaccessable from rcon - it produce lots of bugs. A very common one, is that infected spawn range is increased EXTREMLY, they must go faaaaar away from the survivors to spawn. And sometimes survivors start getting very little damage like if the difficulty was set to Easy. And etc etc.

After exec banned_ip.cfg add:
writeid
writeip
This will make all bans made by SM to stay.

And remove sv_downloadurl, its not needed.

sv_region must be set to region you are in or 255.

PS: Thanks for some few commands, they are usefull. For the master list too

[Frus]

Originally Posted by egor1908 it produce lots of bugs. A very common one, is that infected spawn range is increased EXTREMLY, they must go faaaaar away from the survivors to spawn. And sometimes survivors start getting very little damage like if the difficulty was set to Easy. And etc etc.

That's caused by changing mp_gamemode to versus mid-game and not restarting the map...

[egor1908]

Originally Posted by Frus That's caused by changing mp_gamemode to versus mid-game and not restarting the map...

Nah .. this bug happend when some bugged release of HLSW re-sent all commands it retrieved from server. Also, it re-sent sv_cheats 0 - that caused bugs. When i aliased sv_cheats with "status", the bug was gone.

This happend also, when i had sv_cheats 0 in my server.cfg, when i removed it, everything worked fine.

The bug comes sometimes when people are loading, and some guy on infected team is fast, so he joins Inf team while there are bots on another.

The same bug has been there since last year, when i had a server. Just another issue valve never fix.

[Frus]

Given that myself and many others use configs with sv_cheats 0 in it, without any issues, I can say that sv_cheats 0 is not the issue here.

This bug is caused by mp_gamemode changing after the map is loaded, whether it be in server.cfg, or that possibly mp_gamemode is a cheat command and changing sv_cheats changes it, and if you don't change it back it bugs out. (Which if true, could be the source of the OP's problem, and may fix his issue)

Regardless, putting sv_cheats 0 in your server.cfg doesn't do a whole lot, so it's not worth discussing either way. and you may as well remove it.