One thing i noticed is that you cant get the console up in the main menu (like you used to be able to) only in-game
With L4D i would always use sv_searchkey ocuk in the main menu or lobby and more often than not would connect to the ocuk server

. Up until last night, all of the ocuk servers appeared in my server list on the main menu so could select one of them and thus bypass the lobby screen.
Last night the only ocuk server listed was 4v4 versus which was full anyway

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With regards to the console, is it worth just joining any old game, whacking in the search key, leaving, creating a new lobby and starting again as it seems a bit of a long winded way of doing things.
Though looking at the above post again, i try adding the servers manually and see where i go from there
Cheers for the help though guys