Connection troubles with authentication process turned on

[Devious]

We have run into a serious problem while using the option "is authenticated".

Sometimes when a player gets randomly disconnected, their steam authentication fails forcing them to wait 30+ minutes before they can reconnect. I have asked for client logs so they will be on the way.

 

Not sure if you guys are aware of this, I also noticed that the server overview shows the server empty when this setting is not activated.

[cepheni]

This is a known issue, and has to do with how steam handles authentication. We are not quite sure how we should work around that as disabling it completely (as some other games have done) seems not quite right. Especially in the recent events of players purposefully trying to crash servers. We are aware of it however, and will come up with a solution if it inconveniences too many players. For now everyone hosting a server can decide that for himself, and we like that solution so far.

As for now you can disable the VAC authentication for your server only.