Please fix server browser in games TF2/CSS/L4D2/CS2/CSGO

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♈ Ram 2 Oct, 2024 @ 8:53pm

Please fix server browser in games TF2/CSS/L4D2/CS2/CSGO - URGENT

Server browsers in games like CS2, TF2, CSS, L4D2 are exploited and spammed to oblivion with unsafe Russian redirect servers…. Css alone has 6900+ of those servers that appear like they are full with 255/255 players. They always pop up on top of server browser search and kill every other decent legit community server. Its a shame cause it’s been already more than a year since those servers appeared and NOTHING was done to remove them. Valve devs, please address this issue urgently because those servers are unsafe and dont respect at all valve’s TOS. Steam users are being misguided and baited into servers they dont trust or want on a daily basis. Thanks for reading!

Last edited by ♈ Ram; 3 Oct, 2024 @ 11:07am

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xelm 2 Oct, 2024 @ 9:13pm

i vouch.
make CSS great again.

< Vladivostok 2 Oct, 2024 @ 9:33pm

volvo please fix, the games are not yet dead and many people still play them, this is not a hard fix

< joltzz 2 Oct, 2024 @ 9:35pm

This is an absolute no-brainer: Something that for sure needs to be remedied here. It's taking away from the discovery of a genuine server with a real playerbase.

Lt. Tactical Bhopper 2 Oct, 2024 @ 9:35pm

would be great

< WashedUpOldMan 2 Oct, 2024 @ 9:58pm

Absolutely! Its almost impossible to search for good servers now! I play both css and left 4 dead with my kids and they are constantly being harassed and baited into these servers! PLESE HELP US

♈ Ram 2 Oct, 2024 @ 10:12pm

Yes, this really is a huge safety concern first… if you put aside for a second the time you ‘ve lost connecting there … you really have no clue of where you are being redirected to and you have to hope and pray that they dont inject dlls to your game files on connect…it’s totally out of this world that those servers are still listing on valve’s master server’s list.

TheZombieDon 3 Oct, 2024 @ 4:22am

Absolutely a huge concern!! Valve, please fix.

sourshoes 3 Oct, 2024 @ 4:45am

Ridiculous this hasn't been fixed. Not very demure....

GhostsAreHaunted 3 Oct, 2024 @ 7:51am

I vouch for this 100%. They need to also fix the server browser for CSGO so people who play that can connect to community servers.

♥ Bonfire 3 Oct, 2024 @ 9:44am

valve please fix

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Mailer 3 Oct, 2024 @ 10:16am

I have seen a similar problem mentioned with Left 4 Dead 2 some time ago, because community servers are pretty much advertised dead center on the main menu.

If it has really turned to worse with most of Valve's legacy games at this point then that's a big shame. I hope they find some motivation to fix it at some point. Valve hasn't been opposed to security and stability fixes across the board for their old games before.

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ДДºBallGanda 3 Oct, 2024 @ 10:41am

Security hole.

Cost of fake servers load on steam servers?

Fake servers and players counts in the millions! How do those faked numbers affect business decisions and consumer decisions. Steam charts are off by likely over a million players.

There has to be real cost to valve doing nothing. Have to make this about the money to get valve to do anything.

I hope that valve has not looked into this and decided that the fake numbers prop steam games up and make them better off from the money making perspective.

Ps: V please do not break all community mods of old games with a fix update, please.

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♈ Ram 3 Oct, 2024 @ 11:06am

SUGGESTION SOLUTION #1: Disable "redirect' commmand on all source games. Servers have tokens to change ips now, noone needs redirect command anymore.....

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♈ Ram 3 Oct, 2024 @ 11:07am

This will impact only redirect servers, nothing will brake other than that, all other mods that dont use redirect command remain untouched

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<Dirty Girthy Gamers> bl4nco 3 Oct, 2024 @ 2:08pm

Agreed~ A single modder on gamebanana already made a plugin just 13 days ago now that blocks out fastpath servers & any other fake servers that appear on the list.

Sketchy servers being so widely available leads to a number of problems.

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