How To Set Up Your Own Killing Floor 2 Server

Check and see if this file is already in place before making your own.

How to set up your own killing floor 2 server.

These steps are required every time the game is updated. Find and install the killing floor 2 dedicated server. Downloading the killing floor 2 server this describes the process of updating the kf2 dedicated server application. Game server manager is something i have been adding to for quite a few years now.

To automate this process for future updates see automating steamcmd. While official instruction on setting up a dedicated killing floor 2 server can be found here below is a much easier way that makes life simpler. Tutorial on how to set up a killing floor 2 server the non dick ripping way. If it is you can just create a shortcut to it on your desktop and launch your server through that.

Except for hosting games. If you aren t proceeding from the previous set of instructions first launch steamcmd. Once you select your server and. Next select the favorites tab and you should see your server there in the list.

If your server is running on a different port to the default 7777 udp you need to add the port with a colon between the ip and the port like so. Just slinging this up here for anyone interested since i have recently put up a dedicated server of my own for killing floor 2. It started as a simple program to restart game servers and has blossomed into quite a feature rich universal tool that is useful to server operators. Note on the end of the post you ll find common issues with servers and how to fix them.

When i created my kf2 server after using app update 232130 the required bat file was already in the c kf2server file. If it s not on your system replace that ip with the ip of the server. On your steam client hover over your library and select tools. Although you may want to edit it before you do.

Now that your server is in your favorites go ahead and start up killing floor 2 and select browse servers. Not enought server s to play with your friends. Enter your nodecraft server ip address into the box in the middle and add it to your favorites. We recommend server admins set up a server steam account for this process.

The ip above will run the server on your system equivalent to localhost. You can find part 2 here. To launch a server with default settings on survival biotics lab use the. Downloading the killing floor 2 server this describes the process of updating the kf2 dedicated server application.

Just follow steps one by one and have fun. Kf 2 did everything fine. I m here to explain how to create a dedicated server for kf 2. Find your server in game.