Heya guys,

If you are having problems finding NS servers with the Half-Life In-Game Server Browser, here are some alternate ways to find games:

Gamespy Arcade - FREE - very easy to use (sort of web-based, has chat rooms, and is a tiny download)

Gamespy3d - FREE - for more hardcore players, but a great one (full client, small download, very customizable)

All-Seeing Eye - Shareware (21 day, then very cheap price) - A great client, with an awesome support system and great automatic updates (probably the fastest server refreshes of any browser too).

Gametiger - FREE - totally web-based - Does not get you pings, but does give you near instantaneous server lists and has a game launcher.

Serverspy.net - FREE - web-based with a small optional tool called 'GameLauncher'. A great and fast tool. If used in conjunction with Gametiger makes a perfect web-based suite.

Odd, tried using GamespyArcade and 3d to search for NS, but it didn't seem to recognize it as it's own game. Still looking for a good server search prog.

That is odd. I just had a bunch of people run GS Arcade and they found Natural Selection listed on the HL mods section. And in GS3D it should show up under game 'NS'.

Just out of curiosity... are there any open-source server browsers for Half-Life?

HLSW is very good for all HL mods, and for use with IRC, raaaaah

ASE works beyond the 21 day limit but in a more limited fashion.  ASE will prioritize your scan requests and conduct the server scans (not pings) from your machine instead of one of their servers if the load gets too high.

Overall it's a great program and well worth the money as it supports virtually every game you can think of.

Quote (CrystalSnake @ Nov. 02 2002,16:28)

Just out of curiosity... are there any open-source server browsers for Half-Life?

server query is a open source browser, its pretty lightweight and it supports a bunch of games

a little bit rough around the edges, but i like it, and if you want to add features just download the source and hack away
[edit] forgot the url

FYI, u need to uncheck Use Anti-Cheat Technology box under Filter if you want to see games under the HL game finder.

I use ase (all seeing eye) its great

Quote (MonsieurEvil @ Nov. 02 2002,16:18)

That is odd. I just had a bunch of people run GS Arcade and they found Natural Selection listed on the HL mods section. And in GS3D it should show up under game 'NS'.

Use ase it finds lots of NS servers !

Don't forget http://hlit.laggyservers.com/

It's a handy plugin for mirc. Give it a shot if you use mirc often. It's just been updated to include ns.

Blah.. if you guys want a GOOD server browser that has features o-plenty and is EXTREAMLY FAST, go with QTracker (www.qtracker.com)

QUOTE (Soupeh @ Nov 3 2002, 05:14 AM)

HLSW is very good for all HL mods, and for use with IRC, raaaaah

That may very well be true, but if you're using mIRC, like 75% of all other IRC goers, you'll want to download/install SuperIP from http://www.cowboyscripts.org . It's fast, keeps a nice list of favorites for your pinging pleasure, and best of all, it actively "catches" other SuperIP messages from all channels you are currently in, to join your buddies.

God no!! HLIT and HSLW are EVIL! Well, to me. I have seeing them flood our channel in #UGL. So ugly and annoying!

Please turn off the server announcing!! I don't care where you are playing!!

*Hides underneath a desk&

Check out .hlla to search for servers & players. Playersearch is powered by gametiger so it's gametiger as a tool and much more.

If you want a quality server query tool that free and include many other features including mirc support and buddy finding, then try kquery find it at www.kquery.com

Cheers,

Adam

Ok any idea how to use Gamespy, I click on natural selection, and keep getting sent to the Front Line force room.

For that matter, no matter what room I click on, it sends me to the frontline force ones. Even the CS room, and I have CS:Retail installed. And I dont even play front line force... lol (just comes with CS:retail)

And the tab on that top that you can also select games with doesnt have NS on it.

I could however play NS fine (and have been, but now ingame browser has completely stoped working for) with the ingame browser.

Gametiger does not have NS listed as a mod and doesn't quite support it, BUT you can get the same results by searching for map "ns_"

Like this:
http://www.gametiger.net/search?map=ns_&ga...bmit=++search++

Works like a chram.

Why the suddent intrest in this stuff? Are you getting that Unable to log on Valve crap im getting too?

Ok now I've decided to use ASE, and I've managed to find NS games, but it says "couldn't execute game" so how do I configure it in the options, there isnt any option to add new games, and won't accept shortcuts.

*note* - nevermind, I've worked my way around the problem. But its really annoying that nothing works properly for CS:Retail

QUOTE (watashi5000 @ Nov 7 2002, 05:46 AM)

Why the suddent intrest in this stuff? Are you getting that Unable to log on Valve crap im getting too?

everytime i try to update and look for NS servers in HL,
(all the options selected in filter, ie, game NS,)
it still browses through like 30,000 servers, which sucks and takes a long time
and most of em are CS, so when im done like 2000 servers, i might only have 5 NS servers show up

I'm a huge SuperIP fan myself. If you only want to use it for NS, just select the HL module only on install.

All new .hlla available: .hlla2 Beta 1 @ www.hlla.net

All-Seeing Eye has problems with CS Retail and NS. It can be made to find ns_ maps but you just get an error when you try to launch the game. Rename/copy your cstrike.exe to hl.exe and make the Eye find "Half-Life" from your computer.

QUOTE (W2K @ Nov 20 2002, 05:54 PM)

QUOTE (watashi5000 @ Nov 7 2002, 05:46 AM) Why the suddent intrest in this stuff? Are you getting that Unable to log on Valve crap im getting too? everytime i try to update and look for NS servers in HL, (all the options selected in filter, ie, game NS,) it still browses through like 30,000 servers, which sucks and takes a long time and most of em are CS, so when im done like 2000 servers, i might only have 5 NS servers show up

the hl master server lists are getting verry buggy (they never work)
and it seems that when hl goes to the backup servers, the bacup send all servers and doesnt filter for only ns

damn game list servers aint working ( WHATS UP VALVE and WON?)
if the server lists are working though, finding all ns servers only takes like 16 seconds

God knows how, Y who when. But I somehow sorted out the ingame server searcher and I now launch NS games from within HL as with any other MOD, CS, DoD etc. Its quite fun, dont ask me how I did it, just one day it appeared on my Costom Games menu, I selected and it searched for JUST NS servers, it didn't go thorough the other 16,000,000 servers or however many their are, just the rough 500 count.

Searchtool is open source and written in Java but it is very fast:
http://searchtool.sourceforge.net/


XQF is Quake/QuakeWorld/Quake2/Quake3 server browser and launcher for Unix/X11. It's a front-end to QStat, a program by Steve Jankowski. XQF uses the GTK+ toolkit.

Supports Descent 3, Half-Life, Heretic 2, Hexen 2, HexenWorld, Kingpin, Quake, QuakeWorld, Quake2, Quake3: Arena, Rune, Sin, Soldier of Fortune, Soldier of Fortune 2, Tribes 2, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2003, Voyager Elite Force, Wolfenstein (RTCW), Generic Gamspy games

http://www.linuxgames.com/xqf/

Whenever my ingame server browser tries to feed me all the servers in existance, I click cancel, exit HL, and start it up again. Seems to work. So I just use the ingame server browser for now.

As far as I heard, Won.net doesnt exist, it got taken over by Sierra or something... I don't know, these are just rumours.

The Best program to search NS servers is The All-seeing Eye. Although it is 21day evaluation, you can continue using it, but it sends messages like: "scanner load too high -saving resources for registered users" and "Would you like to read more about benefits of registered users" and stuff like that.
But still, it is the best program I've ever used.

yep, eye is the best

What about Kali? http://www.kali.net
It may be old but it does allow you to do about as much as ASE.
15 minute free time but for the $20 you would spend for a registration it's well worth it. BTW I prefer it over Qspy(remember Qspy?).

oops the registration is now $10 for Kali

anyone remember pingtool? I still use it, it's a great little program. free too.

Ok, I did gamespy and now it is going through a million servers but I can't get any that are less than 800 ping. Do I have to go through all of them? Will it remember my list if I come back to it or do I have to save it somewhere?

u all forgot one tool

Half-Life-Manager

it only supports HL and its mods but has IRC ICQ Trillian ......... and so on support

try it i think its worth it

QUOTE (gforce @ Nov 5 2002, 10:28 AM)

Check out .hlla to search for servers & players. Playersearch is powered by gametiger so it's gametiger as a tool and much more.

yup. i've tried all these game-browsing programs and none come close to hlla