CSGO : sourceServer.getPlayers().size() always return 1

[danielsawan]

Evrything is in the title. When there is 0 player connected, GOTV off, sourceServer.getPlayers().size() always return 1.

Then, when i try sourceServer.getPlayers().get(0).getPlayerName() i got a nullpointer exception.

Any idea ?

[danielsawan]

PS : JAVA Version of condenser

[danielsawan]

1.3.7

[danielsawan]

Didn't even try to get more player on the server to test. This method maybe doesn't work at all...

[koraktor]

Any server-side plugins? What's the player count in Steam's server browser or other tools?

[psychonic]

As of a CS:GO update a few months ago, the players list output changed,
as did others.

• Added convar host_name_store to indicate whether host name is revealed
  in queries and GOTV. Host name is always printed in status command output.
• Added convar host_info_show, operators can set it to the following
  values: 0 to block server info queries; 1 (default) to respond with all
  details excluding identities; 2 to respond with all available details.
• Added convar host_players_show, operators can set it to the following
  values: 0 to block server players queries; 1 (default) to respond only
  with max players and uptime; 2 to respond with all players details.

With the new default, it always returns a single "player" with the name
"Max Players", and the score is the max player count.

Set host_players_show to 2 to get the old behavior.

Nicholas Hastings

Sebastian Staudt mailto:notifications@github.com
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:25 AM

Any server-side plugins? What's the player count in Steam's server
browser or other tools?

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Daniel SAWAN mailto:notifications@github.com
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:14 AM

Evrything is in the title. When there is 0 player connected, GOTV off,
sourceServer.getPlayers().size() always return 1.

Then, when i try sourceServer.getPlayers().get(0).getPlayerName() i
got a nullpointer exception.

Any idea ?

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#247.

[koraktor]

@psychonic Do you know what the SteamPlayer object looks like for that dummy player? Has it any useful data?

@danielsawan Do you have one or more IPs of servers that show this behavior?

[danielsawan]

Yes here is an IP : 62.210.177.75:29011
All others servers hosted are like that :/
I don't have any plugin simple default installation. I know i had no problem before so i guess it is a valve update. It is not since the last update it is for a long time now. I thought it is gonna be fixed but nothing happen that's why i decided to open this tickets.

The CS:go browser show 0 players connected but the condenser say 1.

[koraktor]

Ok, finally found the time to have a look at this.

Because Valve decided to abuse the protocol's S2A_PLAYER packet, there's no simple solution for this problem in Steam Condenser. The servers simply return a player named "Max Player", there's no way to determine if this is a real player or just the dummy to represent the maximum number of players.

The correct way would be to have a look at the host_players_show CVAR using GameServer#getRules() and after that decide what to do with the players returned (e.g. ignore "Max Players").

BTW, the right way to get the first player is not sourceServer.getPlayers().get(0) as #getPlayers() returns a Map. Instead you could use players.values().iterator().next() for testing, but real code should check the size first.

[danielsawan]

Oh so can we say for example that real player always equals to getPlayers() minus 1 ?
And what if there is 3 players on the server ? Will getPlayers return a map of 3 or 4 ?

[koraktor]

The Map will always include the dummy player. Sadly, as said before, there's no way to reliably filter this player.

[danielsawan]

Sorry but are you telling me that right now there is now way to get the number of connected player to a csgo server calling server.getPlayers() ?
Is there any other way ??

I can't imagine that it is just not possible anymore to get such a usefull information.

[danielsawan]

Oh sorry i just understand the host_players_show 2 tricks. My bad. Thanks again ;)