This entry was posted in Games, Misc on Maby Tom Wardill. I hope it helps someone who was as equally as lost as me to get this going. This is all a bit fiddly, but it works for us. This will drop you straight into the server, from where you can invite people to join you. (This should be the sv_search_key you set above)ĭo not change the server choice (dedicated, best available etc), leave it as it appears. In the game, go to Settings > Keyboard Settings and enable the ‘Developer Console’īring down console (~ key, usually next to 1 on a keyboard)

You will be able to connect directly using the server ip and port if necessary. The search_key setting means that only people with that key will be able to find and connect to the server using the lobby system. Once this is done, you should see some nice console lines scrolling by and your server is now up. PORT should be the port to run the server on (27203 is our favourite) SERVERIP should be the public ip of the server machine srcds_run l4d2 -autoupdate +ip +hostport +exec server.cfg This will break the search key, and mean you then cannot reliably connect to this exact server. Do not attempt to set the Steam group settings that you can find documented elsewhere. This should be a unique key (a steam account name is a reasonable bet), and something that you can type into the game console. The important part of this is the sv_search_key setting. In server.cfg, do this (replace things in with a value, including the brackets themselves):

I won’t cover how to install and set up the server, there’s plenty of guides out there to do that, this is how to configure it, and how to start a game on that server. This is a quick note to show the current method that we have found works. But in L4D 2 I can only kick the survivors offline in singleplayer and not online. In L4D2, the tools to do this aren’t immediately obvious, and have a nasty habit of changing from patch to patch. Hi, me and my friend used to play Left 4 Dead without any computer controled survivors, so, we always played only the 2 of us, we were using the console. The usual answer for this is to run a dedicated server, as has been done since time untold (Quake). However, our experience of the L4D2 lobby system has been variable, with some servers being slow, or configured weirdly. Naturally, our game of choice is the rather good Left 4 Dead 2. Nothing quite like arguing with a coworker whether an aerial kill with a frying pan is better than a survivor steered into a convenient pool of spit. Here at isotoma, we’re partial to a few evenings spent giggling like maniacs and coming up with inventive ways to kill as many zombies as possible.

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