Inviting people to play Team Fortress 2 with you. Sometimes it pays to go away.
Posted on: March 15th, 2009 by octo dhdSince the inception of the TF2 Newbs server (a stock rotation server) on the first day of beta one of the challenges has been to keep the server full, or at least populated enough where I don’t have to sit there for 6 hours by myself. Unfortunately due to things outside of my control we’ve had to change the IP addresses of our servers a couple of times, combined with our rapid expansion in total servers (currently we have 8 maintained by me + 2 donated to the community by others) early in the day its common to find the servers empty, requiring people interested in playing to sit on an empty server waiting for those first few people to join. When I have time, this would be me. Oh how I yearned for a way to easily invite my friends who were around to come play too. Once in a blue moon I could hit shift-tab, bring up the overlay pick a friend, and invite them to the game I’m in. But most of the time the option just wasn’t there. I then learned from someone very very smart, that all you need to do in order to get the invite option to come back is to change your ‘status’ on steam, and it’ll magically reappear.
Here are some non-resized pictures to help.
Oh look no invite
Lets go change our status
Oh yay! I can invite now
March 15th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
That’s odd. But handy.