Players unable to join custom map.

Blacksprite

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I am pretty new (2 days) to level editing and still learning about the all the different things to do.

I recently created a map with 2 spawn rooms and a room for the players to run around it.

Thats about all i did. Loaded it up in tf2 and was happily running around, but no players could seem to join the game even if I created a server from the TF2 menu. I tested this over the LAN network i have set-up. but all they got was server not responding.

I was wondering what could be causing this to occur.

My theories:
No map goals set.
You cant create a server like that.

Any help would be appreciated or an explanation for my understanding.

Thanks a lot.
 

Hanz

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You can't join a custom map, while making the server with 'create server' in the TF2 menu. I don't know why, but it seems like, when I compile my map, ppl can join, but at some others it isn't possible to join there server while they're compiling. :S

If you really want to test your map, you have to upload it or let somebody upload it to a server. You can maybe ask somebody to upload it on a tf2maps server?
 

A Boojum Snark

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Several thing can prevent them from joining.

First and foremost, they cannot join you via Steam's join game function. Your own steam sees your LAN IP and reports that as the server you are on. You need to get your WAN IP (www.whatismyip.com) and give that to them.

Second, servers created in such a way have sv_lan 1 set. You need to set it to 0 and then reload the map (changelevel command) to open the server to the world.

Last, your router/firewall needs to allow traffic through on UDP port 27015 (default for Source servers)
 

Earl

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Also, they actually need to have your map's .bsp. It won't auto download for them unless you have a highspeed DL server set up.
 

MaGicBush

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I was actually getting ready to post a similiar topic, but I have the opposite happen. For instance I was testing out my map last night with bots(using rcbot), and everything was going great. However I randomly had 2 people join my game, I never set the lan to 0 so not sure how they joined. They also didn't seem to be English, as their names looked Japanese or something. How do I prevent people from joining my game?
 

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Blacksprite

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Jun 19, 2009
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Thanks for all the responses, less than a day after i posted.

If I can just some things up to make sure I understand it all.

They cannot join you via Steam's join game function. Your own steam sees your LAN IP and reports that as the server you are on. You need to get your WAN IP.

Does this mean if I have players on my LAN try to join they would only need my LAN IP?

sv_lan 1 set for LAN play?. and sv_lan 0 set for WAN play?

Your router/firewall needs to allow traffic through on UDP port 27015 .

May or may not need to have your .bsp file.

Thanks again i'll edit the top post to include al lthe answers to make it easier for other people that want the information to find it.

Love the forums and the community here btw.

UPDATE
Tried every combination of the things suggested but all they get is a server not responding message.
Any other ideas?
 
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