QTracker

Hello guys!

So, yeah, I disappeared, yes, and I hope you all do fine. :-) I am mostly playing Minecraft recently, but there has been a link which I came across with, which could allow replacing the old Gamespy server with an alternate Master server. This page is called QTracker .
It offers both a software based method as well plain 'hosts' based solution. I have searched the forum and I haven't see this being talked about.

For Hidden and Dangerous 2 please see this page: http://www.qtracker.com/master-gamespy-hostfile.php

I hope this might help to boost the HD2 community a bit... :-)

Regards
norbert79

Ok, to be honest i didn't do any testing yet. I wonder if the defined server still provides masterserver data, I will need to get into this a bit further.


Update 1: Well, server is existing, replies to ICMP ECHO, I need to do an in-depth search later on.

Alright, so the problem was simple:
When you place your hosts file into c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\, it's not enough yet, as you must also flush your DNS cache and NBT settings too by doing:
To check if the settings are correct do:
And why you can't see any HD2 server online? Easy: None of the hosting servers use this hosts file to report towards that Server as master server... So nothing is listed. All hosting servers shall have this hosts file to work as expected.

Hi,

the RpR servers are already correctly listed on QTracker, see here: QTracker server list . IMHO the problem seems to be a incorrectly encrypted response from QTracker. Seems a bit strange cause there's a post in their forums claiming it should work with H&D2. Maybe they changed some parts of the encryption code.

Anyway, for the time being I have a work around. I've uploaded a python script to my VPS that emulates a simple master server using the server list provided by QTracker.

Just edit your hosts file (clients only! root servers still need to use the QTracker IPs):


EDIT: The script pulls the latest server list every 5 minutes from QTracker