I’m on the PC, I was playing Brink 30 minutes ago (8 humans vs 8 bots) and we played through maybe 5 or 6 maps. Then all of a sudden I get a message that everyone has disconnected, then I get kicked. Now I can’t see any servers. Restarted Brink. Rebooted. Nothing.
-JJ
I got this issue for the first time today too, was playng online then just "silent"crashed and went to brink main menu, there i double cheked the filters because they randomly change even if you never touch them but all was normal and 0 servers showing in brink server browser, but also i can´t see trought steam server browser any tf2 or brink and some other games servers so this might be a steam issue.
[QUOTE=Jimmy James;348556]I’m on the PC, I was playing Brink 30 minutes ago (8 humans vs 8 bots) and we played through maybe 5 or 6 maps. Then all of a sudden I get a message that everyone has disconnected, then I get kicked. Now I can’t see any servers. Restarted Brink. Rebooted. Nothing.
-JJ[/QUOTE]
Yep, als got the same message. The serverlist doesn’t get any servers back.
Can somebody put the main server back on? 
Also had the problem that I couldn’t connect to servers. It kept retrying. The strange thing is I could get on a server when I joined through a buddy…
Same. Came here searching for answers…decided to join instead of lurk.
I’ve also looked for LFD2 servers - none listed. I can direct connect to servers via IP (for the few I can remember), but cannot ‘see’ any servers in game (with no filtering).
EDIT: NM, found some LFD2 servers - was attempting to discern whether it was a Steam issue or a Brink issue. Also reported over at bethsoft forums.
Re-EDIT: After playing on a server through Steam ‘favourites’ its working again for me.
i still find that i need to delete the min player filter to see any servers. i can then add it back when they start coming down.
but also i can´t see trought steam server browser any tf2 or brink and some other games servers so this might be a steam issue
STEAM maintenance yesterday disrupted the server browser function for many games.
Browser is back to normal
Is there a way to tell when Steam is going down for maintenance? Thanks in advance.
@Rosie: The issues didn’t start yesterday for some of us.
I start to think, that the devs really should undo the network changes they did with the last patch. At least the browser worked like it should then.
@Officials: Infos pls. 
Planned downtimes are announced in the STEAM Discussion forums
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=784745
Most of the time and for most games, STEAM maintenance wont effect a player already in game, but may affect
loadouts (TF2), Friends list or the server browsers.
The 2nd last (?) BRINK patch fixed the issue of server timeouts to STEAM disconnecting the servers.
That was a major improvement 
Caleb, please can you boot the game, take a console dump and copy+paste it into this thread. Thanks.
My Consoledump. I hope it helps.
Finding servers is still more gambling than searching and the search still causes cpu spikes.
silly question, have you allowed brink in your firewall? every time i get an update/patch i have to re-allow it in zonealarm.
It’s allowed and I forwared the “general” ports for Steam. I was perfectly able to find servers and play before the last patch, without setting forwards for brink. I also tried other fps games where I don’t have specific forwards either and their serverearch don’t cause spikes either.
I’m not getting an empty result, the servers are there, but if I filter for servers that at least have 1 player I get a grand total of 4 servers right now having about 36 players amongst them.
Still close to unable to play, still no official response with information. oh great joy.
[QUOTE=Caleb;356170]Still close to unable to play, still no official response with information. oh great joy.[/QUOTE]Your boot log contains a lot of localization warnings. It’s possible that starting the game in English and changing to German, or vice versa, may have caused some issues when generating and downloading files. This may not have been fixed by fully reinstalling the game. It may not be the root cause of this issue, but it’s worth fixing anyway.
Please try the following:
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[li]Exit Brink if it is running[/li][li]Go to [b]…\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps[/b][/li][li]Delete all Brink *.ncf files[/li][li]Go to …\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\brink\base[/li][li]Delete all zzz*.* files[/li][li]Run Brink through Steam[/li][li]You may have to wait some time for some files to be re-acquired from Steam and verified[/li][/ol]
You can also try clearing the server history (note this will clear your browsing history for other Steam games, so best to keep a backup).
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[li]Exit Brink if it is running[/li][li]Go to [b]…\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata#steamid#\7\roaming[/b][/li][li]Make a backup of the file called serverbrowser_hist.vdf by renaming it or copying it to a safe location[/li][li]Delete serverbrowser_hist.vdf (keep the backup)[/li][li]Run Brink through Steam[/li][li]If the problem isn’t fixed, or if you want to restore your server history for other Steam games, delete the current serverbrowser_hist.vdf file and rename the backup back to serverbrowser_hist.vdf, effectively swapping in the original file[/li][/ol]
It’s possible that neither of these actions may solve your issue. Let me know either way.
I tried alle the things you mentioned and got rather entertaining results.
Deleting *.ncf files: Steam doesn’t detect Brink as installed.
Deleting all zzz*.* files: All text is missing. Proof!
Deleting the the server history: nothing.
So far we can learn, that the data in the brink-folder isn’t checked for completion before starting the game.
[QUOTE=Caleb;356443]I tried alle the things you mentioned and got rather entertaining results.
Deleting *.ncf files: Steam doesn’t detect Brink as installed.
Deleting all zzz*.* files: All text is missing. Proof!
Deleting the the server history: nothing.
So far we can learn, that the data in the brink-folder isn’t checked for completion before starting the game.[/QUOTE]You do need to restart Brink through Steam after these steps or the correct files will not be re-acquired. If something seems wrong, validate your local files through Steam > Brink > Properties to ensure your files are up to date.