KF2: Join a Server by IP and Add It to Favorites

Some servers do not show up in the browser filters, or you simply want a permanent shortcut. This page paraphrases a bilingual (English and Russian) guide with two ways to do it. See also enabling the console and connecting by IP and joining a friend's server.

Method 1: Steam server browser

1. In Steam open View, then Servers. You do not need to launch the game.

View, Servers in the Steam client.

2. In the server browser choose Killing Floor 2 in the game filter.
3. Open the Favorites tab, right-click and choose "Add server by IP address", or press the "Add a server" button.
4. Enter the IP and confirm.

The Favorites tab with the add-server prompt.

Method 2: console and in-game history

1. Start the game.
2. Open the console (the default keys are ~ and F3).
3. Type open <IP>, for example open 123.45.67.89.

The open command in the console.

4. For a passworded server type open <IP>?password=<password>. You can also use plain open <IP> and enter the password when asked.

Joining with the password in the command.

5. Go to the in-game server browser and open the History tab.
6. Find your server (usually the first entry), select it, press Server details and press the star button at the bottom right.

The star adds the server to favorites.

For Russian-speaking players

The author adds a short Russian recap: in Steam choose View, Servers, pick KF2, go to Favorites and add the server by IP with a right-click, just as in Counter-Strike 1.6 and other Valve games. The second way is to join through the console, then find the server in the History tab, press Details and use the star.

A server list in console suggestions

A guide from the killingfloor.ru forum thread "Как создать свой список "Избранное" ... kf 2" for players who join servers with the open command. The file is C:\Users\YOUR_PROFILE\Documents\My Games\KillingFloor2\KFGame\Config\KFInput.ini (easiest to edit in Notepad++).

Option 1: an autocomplete suggestion. Find the ManualAutoCompleteList lines and, between the last of them and the HistoryTop= line, add your own:

ManualAutoCompleteList=(Command="StopMemLeakChecking",Desc="Stops the periodic MemLeakCheck that was started via DoMemLeakChecking")
ManualAutoCompleteList=(Command="Open 00.00.000.00:7777",Desc="(ХХХХХХХХ)")
HistoryTop=..

Here 00.00.000.00:7777 is the server IP and port (the port depends on the server), and ХХХХХХХХ is the server name (it does not have to be complete; you can add the IP for convenience). Now when you type open in the console, the game suggests the saved servers; if there are several, type the first digits of the IP.

Option 2: console history. In the same file find HistoryTop and HistoryCur, set both to 15, and enter addresses in the History[0]= ... History[15]= lines. You pick a server with the up and down arrows in the console. This is less reliable: joining new servers overwrites the entries, so it suits players who stick to a few regular servers.