We had lots of cases of people having ping filter activated. Ping is now
too unreliable to actually filter by it. It can show an old super high
value and then you never see the location again.
I watched a live stream where someone struggled with this, not knowing
that right click has different functionality from left click, and had to
manually click on each entry to remove them all except one.
When a player wants to switch servers in-game, but needs to confirm the
action because of cl_confirm_disconnect, the game used to not actually
connect to the new server.
This adds a way to still connect to that server, after the player
confirms.
Signed-off-by: Sefa Eyeoglu <contact@scrumplex.net>
Summary
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The idea of this is that clients will not have to ping each server for
server infos which takes long, leaks the client's IP address even to
servers the user does not join and is a DoS vector of the game servers
for attackers.
For the Internet, DDNet and KoG tab, the server list is entirely fetched
from the master server, filtering out servers that don't belong into the
list.
The favorites tab is also supposed to work that way, except for servers
that are marked as "also ping this server if it's not in the master
server list".
The LAN tab continues to broadcast the server info packet to find
servers in the LAN.
How does it work?
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The client ships with a list of master server list URLs. On first start,
the client checks which of these work and selects the fastest one.
Querying the server list is a HTTP GET request on that URL. The
response is a JSON document that contains server infos, server addresses
as URLs and an approximate location.
It can also contain a legacy server list which is a list of bare IP
addresses similar to the functionality the old master servers provided
via UDP. This allows us to backtrack on the larger update if it won't
work out.
Lost functionality
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(also known as user-visible changes)
Since the client doesn't ping each server in the list anymore, it has no
way of knowing its latency to the servers.
This is alleviated a bit by providing an approximate location for each
server (continent) so the client only has to know its own location for
approximating pings.
Purely automatic change. In case of conflict with this change, apply the
other change and rerun the formatting to restore it:
$ python scripts/fix_style.py
- Increase size of Name and Clan in adding friend fields
- Smaller Search and Exclude fields
- No more duplicate Search - Search - Search text
- Smaller Connect and Refresh buttons
