[1.1.4.1] New Condos / Game World maps have stopped appearing in the condo rental store

The Condo Rentals store has stopped spawning in newly posted Condos and Game World maps. The “New Releases” and “New Maps” shelves have paused and no longer show any newly posted condos.

Steps to Reproduce

Walk into the rental store. The newest maps are stuck at SDNL Annul and Jeopardy.

What I expected to happen

The most recent condos and workshop maps hare shown.

What happened

The new map sections seem to be stuck around May / April in the rental store.


Notes / Media

These are the shelves as of today (7/17)

These are the newest maps according to the creations page. 8 ball race maps are unlisted in the rental store, and 12 condos are unlisted:

We’re looking into this issue. It’s most likely being cached by Steam.

Hi,

Not sure if this will help tracking the issue down, but there seems to be a general problem with the Steam back end at present. For example trying to browse for a mini golf map will just fail as below.

When it does work is seems to show an almost random selection of maps, sometimes very few other times far more. There does not seem to be any way to trigger either behavior. This is particularly true of the trending tab, which can show just 6 or several pages apparently at random.

I have also noticed that while uploading a map to Steam works, it then does not download the small file linking your subscription to the new version. You have to unsubscribe and then resubscribe to force Steam to do so.

While this is not a huge issue you do need to be aware of it otherwise you will not be able to full test (as in host) the new version. I do not know if this means that folk who have subscribed to the map are not getting the new version, or if it is just creators,

As a quick addition to the above. If you select mini golf - or any - custom maps browser and click trending you get a small selection of maps as below

If you then click new, wait for the 1st page to load and then click trending you get a completely different set of maps and many more of them.

For some reason Steam is not showing all the maps in the trending category at first but does once a different search is carried out. I’ve no idea if this helps with this issue, but its a bit odd.

We’re currently updating the condo hub to use the new workshop APIs that Valve now has.

Valve has been updating how workshop queries are handled.

Many thanks Mac. I wonder why they don’t just publish the fact they are going to change things? Or maybe they do? Anyway hope its not too much work to solve.

Valve doesn’t really give anyone any heads up on changes like these, it just happens. And we also have to figure out what they changed too on our own.

Sabrina said her work on the issue was completed last Friday, so now we have a better way to get the data for the rental store.

What a pain, and one that would be so easy for them to solve. While I’m glad that it didn’t take that long to sort out doing so must take away development from other projects.

All they had to do is post a news article somewhere. How long would that have taken them?

Many thanks for the updates.