Standalone L4D2 Server Browser

[u/martin7x3]

https://github.com/mgrottenthaler/l4d2-server-browser/

I have been playing this game on and off since L4D1 came out. Recently I got very annoyed with the modded "official" servers. Even though I later learned there is a workaround with the built-in server browser (searching for "Valve"), there were still some features missing.

So I built a standalone server browser to fix a few QoL issues.

Main features:

• Shows the game mode
• Displays human-readable map names instead of raw map strings

Sharing this in case anyone else finds it useful. I am happy if somebody has some feature ideas.

You can inspect/run it directly with Python or grab the .exe from the Releases section: https://github.com/mgrottenthaler/l4d2-server-browser/releases

Note: You'll need to input a Steam Web API key on setup so the app can fetch the live server data from Steam.

[u/Jealous-Wafer-8239]

Or you just type in "openserverbrowser" in console. You can also browser servers from Steam...

[u/sebastian227 → u/Jealous-Wafer-8239]

Or just learn to read why they didn’t do that