Multiplayer Woes.

[ThrasherX9]

I dunno if this has anything to do with my wireless network connection that I just set up but I was trying to play Counter Strike and Day of Defeat and in all the games I try to connect to, everyone's a spectator! There was one game where there were 3 people in the game total but then 15+ spectators... what's that all about? Anyone know what the problem may be?

 

[Beerdude26]

Lol, server fillers They're just bots, so it seems the server looks (pretty) populated. They get kicked one by one when players join.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Are you also sure you aren't on the 'spectate' tab on the server list, rather than the first tab. Search whatever it is....to the left of Favourites.

 

[ThrasherX9]

Well, I'm definitely not on the spectator tab. And I've never had this problem before with the "bots". I haven't played DoD or CS in about a good month at least but last time I played it I didn't have to look for a server with players

Also what happens is sometimes when double clicking to join a server the little window pops up (the one that usually pops when a game is full and you can join automatically when a slot is available) saying there's no one in the game and my ping spikes all the way over 1000. Whhaaaa? Tis frustrating.

 

[ThrasherX9]

No hope?

 

[Link]

On the steam server selection screen, right click on the top of it (The line that says "Name | players | maps | ping") and select "bots". Then, join only servers with no bot symbol.