tf2 how to invite friends to your server

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. Since 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.

Or, your friend can right-click your portrait and simply choose Join Game. I think you can then right-click the portrait, and choose Invite To Game.

Open a conversation through Steam Friends.

First you open your game and run your non-dedicated server When your server is opened and running nicely you ask then to join your match! Make sure everyone has the same mods subscribed on workshop and everyone is up to date with everything!

in my experience, try to ask your friends to join your game through the friend list menu on steam.

Tf2 how to invite friends to your server