No Steam Servers

[BearShark]

So, for the past week, I've been unable to play TF2 or L4D2 because no servers will show up. If I try to get on by going to join a friend's game, I get an error message saying "Connection failed after X retries". I can play offline games just fine. I tried submitting the problem to Steam, but even their advice couldn't fix it. Has anyone else had this problem, and, if so, how did you end up fixing it?

 

[frobalt]

This might sound like a stupid question to ask, but, you haven't set steam to offline mode have you?

 

[BearShark]

This might sound like a stupid question to ask, but, you haven't set steam to offline mode have you?

I checked that, and tried turning offline on then off again. Nothing.

 

[Ickorus]

Turn Windows Firewall off and try running one of the games, it may just be that you need to make some exceptions in your firewall. (It may have never been a problem before but technology is funny like that)

A similar issue happened to a friend of mine the other day and this is how we fixed it for him.

 

[DoPo]

Wait, what about your other thread [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/538.822668-No-Steam-Servers]? Should I assume my suggestion didn't work or what?

 

[Crises^]

Delete your client.blob data in the steam folder, this used to happen in CSS and this would fix it.

 

[CaptainThom]

My L4D2 servers have been fine but i have experienced similar problems generally resolved by reinstalling or by patches.I noticed a steam update earlier maybe that will help.