Well, FUCK VALVE.
They released fucking broken server files. The dedi servers do nothing but crash. NOTHING but crash. There are now over 200 crash dump files on my server, and the multitude of updates tonight have done nothing. The hlds@list has people saying that a fix is in the works, well that's what the past two fucking weeks were for! Can Valve seriously not release working server code? This same fucking thing happened when the demo launched two weeks ago.
Valve: "Hmm... let's change the cvars multiple times a day, release broken server code, and generally make server admins sift through thousands of cvars to get their servers running. That's a great game plan! Let's go with that one!"
THANKS FOR SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY, VALVE!!!!
If I wasn't such a zombie game whore, I'd never play this again. The game's great, but only for the average player who's only interest is joining random online lobbies.