How To Find Servers And Connect.
welldone101
Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8377Members
Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8377Members
<div class="IPBDescription">I am missing lots of servers...</div> I haven't played HL online very much. Mostly play on local area network servers and haven't really got into the online community.
With that said... when I click on Internet Games after NS is load as a mod onto HL, it lists all the servers... I update.. spends 30 minutes updating all that jazz etc. Then I go to filters and select filter by game NS. Then I hit refresh and it leaves me with about 30 servers.
From what I gather online there are more than 30 servers for this game.
1) How do I find them? Are there other server locator programs or server connection programs? Or is it all done in Half life?
2) When I have the servers filtered and hit refresh... does it only refresh the 30 odd servers that show on my screen.. or does it reconnect to the valve server to find additional NS servers and add those to my list also? (in other words.. If NS servers are added, do I have to unfilter, then update/ then refilter? OR can I just update with the filter on?)
Help would be appriciated as I am returning home to my cable modem in 2 weeks and am going to start playing online again. Anybody know a good server without any hopeless NS new players where the marnes actually work as a team and there is only 1 (maybe 2) gorges on the alien team?<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->?
With that said... when I click on Internet Games after NS is load as a mod onto HL, it lists all the servers... I update.. spends 30 minutes updating all that jazz etc. Then I go to filters and select filter by game NS. Then I hit refresh and it leaves me with about 30 servers.
From what I gather online there are more than 30 servers for this game.
1) How do I find them? Are there other server locator programs or server connection programs? Or is it all done in Half life?
2) When I have the servers filtered and hit refresh... does it only refresh the 30 odd servers that show on my screen.. or does it reconnect to the valve server to find additional NS servers and add those to my list also? (in other words.. If NS servers are added, do I have to unfilter, then update/ then refilter? OR can I just update with the filter on?)
Help would be appriciated as I am returning home to my cable modem in 2 weeks and am going to start playing online again. Anybody know a good server without any hopeless NS new players where the marnes actually work as a team and there is only 1 (maybe 2) gorges on the alien team?<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->?
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google it, i think it's made by udpsoft.com
Instead of getting the whole list of every game of every mod (which takes forever) and then filtering, try filtering first then click update.
Use these filters:
- Have people currently playing
- Are running game :::::: NS
- Are not full
then when you click update it will only get the list of games you can play in, which takes about 10 seconds, oh and dont wait for the whole list to download. Cancel the update when it has about 20 servers left, these are usually slow anyway. At most I've seen about 170 servers online at once (with these filter settings)