Lobby Connect method
- This is the most commonly used and officially recommended way of connecting to your server : Link here
Steam favorites method
- Start your server
- Be sure your server is online and querying, you can use Steam to check
- Close your game
- Get your server Query Connection Info IP:PORT from your control panel
- Open Steam and select the option View > Servers
- Change to Favorites tab and press Add Server and paste your server Query Info IP:PORT
- Change to Internet tab and then back to Favorites tab and double-click your server to join it
Ingame direct connect method
- Start your server
- Be sure your server is online and querying, you can use Steam to check
- Open your game and select console with the "tilde" key left of 1
- Get your server Connection Info IP and PORT from your control panel
- Type in console connect #########:#### (replace ### with your server ip:port)
- Press enter
Windows direct connect method
- Start your server
- Be sure your server is online and querying, you can use Steam to check
- Close your game
- Get your server Connection Info IP and PORT from your control panel
- Press Windows key + R on your keyboard
- Past the following code in the box: steam://connect/IP:PORT
- Replace the IP:PORT part with your IP and PORT from the Connection Info and press Ok
