Steam WTF with dedicated servers
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My Unturned server went down. It's fairly popular in my circles so that's definitely not A Good Thing™.
The game is only available via Steam, and the dedicated server even requires Steam. Apparently, Steam auto-closed for auto-updates and took the game down with it.
Filed Under: Yay a non-Discourse WTF
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Doesn't it only need 51% uptime to be considered a server?
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More of a game WTF than a Steam WTF. Steam going down shouldn't take games with it, assuming those games have been written properly.
Then again, auto-quitting for updates without checking if games are running is a WTF all by itself...
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My Unturned server went down. It's fairly popular in my circles so that's definitely not A Good Thing™.
The game is only available via Steam, and the dedicated server even requires Steam. Apparently, Steam auto-closed for auto-updates and took the game down with it.
Filed Under: Yay a non-Discourse WTF
I highly recommend using Steam's standalone installer for dedicated servers instead of Steam itself for installing dedicated servers.
...although I don't see Unturned under the officially supported games list for it. Could be that someone didn't add it yet, though.
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I highly recommend using Steam's standalone installer for dedicated servers instead of Steam itself for installing dedicated servers.
I'm not sure if Unturned works with that but I will check it out.
Unturned is a strange case. The dedicated server is the same executable as the client but with a flag passed in via command line. The main menu and everything even pops up for a minute before it realizes it's supposed to be a server. Doesn't run without Steam either, I had to register a second Steam account specifically to host this on my dedicated server. Good thing the game is free.
The game has one developer who's doing it for free, and I think he's some kid in Eastern Europe or something.
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I'm not sure if Unturned works with that but I will check it out.
Unturned is a strange case. The dedicated server is the same executable as the client but with a flag passed in via command line. The main menu and everything even pops up for a minute before it realizes it's supposed to be a server.
The game has one developer who's doing it for free, and I think he's some kid in Eastern Europe or something.
Well... that may not work, then.I know Valve games can also launch servers from their client executables, but it's not recommended.
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Even better if you want to have a linux dedicated server, you have to have WINE AND X11.
FOR A HEADLESS CLIENT
Though, to be fair, I didn't know it was a one man team.
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I've been meaning to migrate it to a dedicated Linux VM but haven't yet, somehow the WINE guides for running Windows dedicated servers NEVER EVER work for me. Would also mean a world wipe and I don't know if my players would like that.
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Apparently the server is broken now anyway.