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I don’t know why nobody brought this up here already because this is affecting many servers…
Many match servers (including mine) crash randomly. It is almost impossible to play a proper match because usually the server crashes mid match.
The crash starts with a huge lag for every player on the server and after some time everyone timed out and the server is offline. Sometimes the server comes back from his hickups but it’s still annoying. Also, sometimes if a certain player leaves the server it runs just fine again.
According to my server hoster it can not be a dos attack.
The server logs end in the middle of a sentence like “name1” killed “name2” with “tf_projec
I think this problem occured since the Australian Christmas update but I did not play TF over the Christmas holidays so I am not 100% sure about it.
Does anyone else have this problem or does anyone know how to fix it?

Yesterday I’ve noticed that some servers still online while all players are timing out. Don’t know why. Tested on the few .nl servers.

Only happens on windows servers afaik. At least that is what F2 said.

The “windows only” suggestion is a dead end, mine is a linux server.

and for us it occured the first time last friday with the new update.

Quoted from Skyride

I’ve had this issue with a few of my servers as well. I’m 99% sure it is the DDoS issue as it exhibits EXACTLY the same issues. The server doesn’t actually crash, it just makes the server drop so many ticks that it shits bricks and your TF2 client thinks the server has crashed as its not receiving any data.

So you’re saying that everytime I’m playing a pwc there’s a douche DoSing me? Fuck my pals… Aeq I’m on to you!!!

I doubt it is a DDOS attack

also change cl_timeout to “180” and you’ll still be on the server after it has had it’s fit

SAME PROBLEM HERE BOIZ