[chitownaztec]

server shows between 1 and 5 players in that particular server but upon entering that server, no one is there....

any suggestions?

[xSureshotBx]

OMG I hate whenever this happens. I really don't know what causes it, but I assume it's got to do with the connection between you and the server or something.

[chitownaztec]

xSureshotBx, on 17 August 2012 - 07:36 AM, said:

OMG I hate whenever this happens. I really don't know what causes it, but I assume it's got to do with the connection between you and the server or something.

at first I thought it may be a connection problem but I'm in the burbs of Chicago and it happens with Chicago servers as well...

hope someone can figure this one out..

[phd]

Same for me. I see servers listed with 5 players and then, upon connecting no one is there (and not in spec either.)
And I tried many times over a 10 minutes period to make sure the server was updated without any success.

[GlaD-slackin]

They are probably using hacked server binaries to lie about the number of players in a server. Something I toyed with years ago but decided against using myself cause its deceptive. Rambetter was the first to actually run a server with such a modification, I'm sure other people figured out what he was doing.

[chitownaztec]

I thought it was just me but still annoying nonetheless..

[UTP|Knightork]

slackin, on 17 August 2012 - 06:29 PM, said:

They are probably using hacked server binaries to lie about the number of players in a server.

I don't think so, it seems just to be an old variable, cause if you have entered one of this servers and then refresh ServerList again, you can see that there is only 1 User listet (that's you a few seconds ago). I think Value is probably only actualising when player enter server if server crashes or all player leave while Map change, the server show old playernumber. It happend to me on several servers, i will try to see if this is a usual bug to enforce this on pure server binarys.

[GlaD-slackin]

Knightork, on 18 August 2012 - 05:06 PM, said:

I don't think so, it seems just to be an old variable, cause if you have entered one of this servers and then refresh ServerList again, you can see that there is only 1 User listet (that's you a few seconds ago). I think Value is probably only actualising when player enter server if server crashes or all player leave while Map change, the server show old playernumber. It happend to me on several servers, i will try to see if this is a usual bug to enforce this on pure server binarys.

Just fyi: sv_pure has ZERO effect on a modified server binary, sv_pure ONLY pertains to the checksums of the pk3's not the binary files.