Queuing (Waiting for Slot) While In-Game

Coelispex

Dear Santa,

My Christmas wish this year is I want to be able to be queue (waiting for a slot) while in-game without having to Esc out of the server browser. Is this a possible?

Wyzcrak

Not a proper answer to your request, but in case it's helpful:

The TGNS servers allow you to spectate (without consuming anyone's gameplay slot) while you wait for a gameplay slot to open. You can hear the voicecomm of whichever teams you choose (none, just one, both, whatever), and it's a very entertaining way to wait for a chance to play.

Sig for details. Happy to answer any questions. Good luck with your feature request.

Coelispex

No, that's not what I meant. While playing in-game, I want to queue up to join in a different server. Not spectating.

Decoy

@Coelispex I'm not sure how possible it is, we'd have to get a programmer in here to answer that (@SamusDroid ?). You can queue to join off of a friend with the steam overlay, but that only works if A. There aren't any reserved slots on the server and B. You have a friend on the desired server :P Hopefully someone will be able to answer your question

SamusDroid

You'd have to make the menu think while it's closed which it currently doesn't. It would require a bit of work.

wooza

This is exactly what im waiting for. I hope to see it in a future build.

@Coelispex: I just made for my people a simple shortcut so they can join the server directly. It's the same procedure as Decoy described but you don't need a friend currently playing on the server. Just download it here and edit the shortcut's URL. Change the IP and port to your desired server. Do not use the gameport (Standard: 27015), use the query port which is one higher (usually 27016).

Coelispex

SamusDroid wrote: »

You'd have to make the menu think while it's closed which it currently doesn't. It would require a bit of work.

It would be a dream come true. Please deliver Santa.

Thanks to @Decoy for adding this to the wishlist on Trello

ATF

wooza wrote: »

This is exactly what im waiting for. I hope to see it in a future build.

@Coelispex: I just made for my people a simple shortcut so they can join the server directly. It's the same procedure as Decoy described but you don't need a friend currently playing on the server. Just download it here and edit the shortcut's URL. Change the IP and port to your desired server. Do not use the gameport (Standard: 27015), use the query port which is one higher (usually 27016).

Excuse me chiming in on this, but what Wooza is after is a general join queue per server. Something that shows you're number 4 in a queue of 5 and it'll take 10 mins on average to join. You can stay in the queue (and optionally play somewhere else like Coelispex's inspiration) or choose another server with free slots or a smaller queue.
This would require some engine work and more specifically modifcation of the query handling. It would add ever so slight cpu/net load as every server would have to manage it's own join queue.
Beside the actual use the only positive thing I can see is that there'd be less players waiting / more playing and would completely avoid the "Server full" you get so often now when you leave the join window open and someone else nabbed the slot.

GhoulofGSG9

ATF wrote: »

wooza wrote: »

This is exactly what im waiting for. I hope to see it in a future build.

@Coelispex: I just made for my people a simple shortcut so they can join the server directly. It's the same procedure as Decoy described but you don't need a friend currently playing on the server. Just download it here and edit the shortcut's URL. Change the IP and port to your desired server. Do not use the gameport (Standard: 27015), use the query port which is one higher (usually 27016).

Excuse me chiming in on this, but what Wooza is after is a general join queue per server. Something that shows you're number 4 in a queue of 5 and it'll take 10 mins on average to join. You can stay in the queue (and optionally play somewhere else like Coelispex's inspiration) or choose another server with free slots or a smaller queue.
This would require some engine work and more specifically modifcation of the query handling. It would add ever so slight cpu/net load as every server would have to manage it's own join queue.
Beside the actual use the only positive thing I can see is that there'd be less players waiting / more playing and would completely avoid the "Server full" you get so often now when you leave the join window open and someone else nabbed the slot.

Or ppl could just add their favorites to the steam server browser and queue over that But yeah would also love to have a working queue system for ns2 but i fear all the work this might take to do.

deathshroud

can we please have a scrollable scoreboard, half the time i cant see my name on it on the larger servers or see certain peoples names to mute them

GhoulofGSG9

deathshroud wrote: »

can we please have a scrollable scoreboard, half the time i cant see my name on it on the larger servers or see certain peoples names to mute them

Actually that's a good idea added it to the trello board. Thanks

SantaClaws

Having steam server browser filters work for ns2 would be a wide general qol change imo.
I often que servers through the friendslist - but if we could do it through steams server browser that would be great + it would allow us to check activity on our favourite servers without opening the client etc.

However, if I understand it correctly, it is valve/steam that have to fix this problem not uwe/cdt, but idk. Perhaps it is possible to put a little bit of pressure on valve to get this fixed?

GhoulofGSG9

SantaClaws wrote: »

Having steam server browser filters work for ns2 would be a wide general qol change imo.
I often que servers through the friendslist - but if we could do it through steams server browser that would be great + it would allow us to check activity on our favourite servers without opening the client etc.

However, if I understand it correctly, it is valve/steam that have to fix this problem not uwe/cdt, but idk. Perhaps it is possible to put a little bit of pressure on valve to get this fixed?

Actually we guess it's really a ns2 / valve issue ( sending game = "Natural Selection 2" while valve searches for the game "natural selection 2" ). So we could change that but didn't do it because we would properly break some community sites like http://ns2servers.devicenull.org/

turtsmcgurt

so get into contact with the developer of those websites and warn them. fixed.

SantaClaws

@GhoulofGSG9‌ Put a public notice for devs everywhere - please make this change, pleeeasseee..

colonoscopy_odyssey

fix it right in the...