First, make sure your console is enabled (just like all other source games), go to options, keyboard/mouse, enable developer console.
If you want to join a specific server (and no friend is in there)
connect ip:port (for example connect 65.183.111.42:27018)
If you put up a lobby and you want it to go to one of our servers (the server has to be empty), while in the lobby (you have to be the lobby leader), go to console and type:
ms_force_dedicated_server 65.183.111.42:27018
or for my 8v8 server:
ms_force_dedicated_server 65.183.111.42:27019
Then start searching for the server, it will put your lobby into the specified server.
If you want to play with 16 people and the 16 slot server is empty, use the above method to start a lobby and get 8 in the server, then invite 8 more through steam friends.
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-- .:Splak|StackableNut --Cornholio wrote:
blah thats nothing, i built houses for pirates, then do pirating myself. Then I shoot my self and perform bullet removal surgery on myself. After that I go to boot camps to train kids to kill. Then i go and fight on the Iraq war for both sides. After all i go later and drink some 7up cause ill be thirsty as shit.