often when i update my server finder through steam to play a game of counter strike i find a server which has 17 of 26 players who are playing the map militia. when i join, the map being played is actually dust2 and there are 3 players..........so i try another one with 17/32 players running the map italy, when i join there are 3 players on the map dust 2 (same server with a different name under the steam server finder)

this same server appears to go by several names. i can try to join 4 or 5 games with 17/26 players in them and find after i join that i am in the same map playing with the same 3 people.

i have found that it is also bad in day of defeat source. countless times i have tried to join a server which says that it has approximately 17 or 23 people currently playing, only to find an empty server after the map loads. in my filter settings i always make sure not to show uninhabited servers. but the steam server finder (or the server) is not showing accurate numbers or even accurate map being played.

am i the only one who has experienced this? do servers get more money or funding based on the amount of people who log in; if so then i can understand why they try to trick people.

i mostly play battlefield 1942 and call of duty but punkbuster isnt working right for me. i uninstalled norton antivirus, and turned off my firewall and my punkbuster still wont update and i get kicked after a couple minutes of play. i tried the "evenbalance" thing to manually update them and it still didnt work. any help appretiated.

i liked all three. the graphics might be slightly better on cod, but only slightly. moh 1 has deathmatch with bots for if you dont have a wifi connection. cod had only 1 annoyance that i didnt like, and that was the symbols that appeared onscreen to show where weapons were dropped. in moh 2 the last mission is very difficult, i must have tried a couple dozen times, but gave up in frustration; however this is the last part of the last mission and the rest of the game is great.

imho you cant go wrong either way if you want ww2 fps