Hl2mp update

[Captain Slapdash]

Hi,

Apologies for what is a little embarrassing question but I'm having trouble updating Half Life 2 Deathmatch.

I have run HldsUpdateTool with the below parameters, it updated and yet when I start the server I still get told by the Steam master server that I'm out of date and to update and restart. What am I missing?

I've run it twice, the second time Hldsupdate confirms that I am uptodate

c:\"game installs"\hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game hl2mp -dir sourcebase

can someone point me in the right direction please?

[Captain Slapdash]

also tried:

c:\"game installs"\hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game hl2mp -dir "c:\game installs\sourcebase\hl2mp"

[Captain Slapdash]

can't edit my own post. Previous should have read:

hldsupdatetool.exe -command update -game hl2mp -dir "c:\game installs\sourcebase\hl2mp"

[Edge100x]

HL2MP has moved to the OB engine and the change will require quite a bit more work on our end, unfortunately. Valve timed this update, and the large OB updates in general, for when I've been out of the office, but I'll try to get all HL2MP servers updated tomorrow.

[Captain Slapdash]

Thanks for the info Edge.

Has there been any progress or is there now something I need to follow up with?

All the best

S

[Edge100x]

For some reason I thought you were asking about a managed server there -- please accept my apologies.

For an unmanaged server that you are updating through hldsupdatetool, the switch to Orangebox means that you need to run srcds.exe from the "c:\game installs\sourcebase\orangebox" folder instead of "c:\game installs\sourcebase".

[Captain Slapdash]

ahh right, so I'm guessing all plugins (sourcemod etc) will need to be reconfigured in the new location?

Will get to work

S

[Edge100x]

Nod, that is correct. Your old plugins are most likely not compatible with OB, and you'll need to install new versions to the orangebox/hl2mp folder. If you're using Sourcemod, make sure to use the latest "snapshot" release when you do this, as the latest regular release is not compatible.

[Captain Slapdash]

Thanks again,

Made the changes and everything seems to be up and running. Will need to work on pointing Psychostats in the new direction.

As a side note it appears there is a maximum character length limit on the Target field for SRCDS.exe. So the default startup map I did have needed to be changed to something shorter to allow for the longer directory path for SRCDS.

[Edge100x]

You could also load the map in your autoexec.cfg file instead of on the command line. That is what we do here

[Captain Slapdash]

oooooh

right

nice



I'll do that then