Valve are on a bit of a roll lately with multiple nice Team Fortress 2 (TF2) updates coming in to fix up various issues. The latest changes the networking options for making your own game, allowing you to set who can join it.
Following on from the updates on May 1st and May 12th that pulled in lots of community-made fixes, the May 13th update now allows for Friends Only servers. More players can actually chat in the game now too with the rules being relaxed.
From the update notes:
- Re-enabled all players to be able to use voice commands and party chat.
- Added more detailed options for server visibility and privacy when creating a server.
- The "Use Steam Networking" checkbox has been replaced with a dropdown, allowing the creation of Local, Friends Only, Unlisted and Listed servers -- defaulting to Unlisted.
- Using map command by default will no longer create a join-able game.
- Fixed a crash on exit under Linux.
A quick follow-up release came after, as Valve forgot to allow you to join your own server if it was set to Friends Only, because you can't be your own Steam Friend. Oops.
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