Resolved - Steam-Adding Friends Bug

[Smithers 1st MRB]

Name: Smithers

Rank: Technical Sergeant

Type of issue: STeam

Brief Description of Issue: Unable to add friends to my friends list. My current players tab is consistently blank, and my previous players tab is from days back. Im unaware of any solution to the problem.

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Current Status: Resolved

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Main Technician: Cpl. C. Gundersen

Supporting Technician: Pvt. Vicari

Edited July 26, 2014 by Gundersen 1st MRB

[Gundersen]

Hello Smithers, I have found a answer to this bug. The players tab is simply very buggy, many people have issues with it. So, there is no solution to make your players tab appear. But, if you want to add a friend, you can simply click the friends tab in Steam (Top Left of the Steam menu), click Add a Friend..., and then enter the name of whoever you want to befriend.

Please reply to this stating if this did/did not work.

Thank you.

Edited July 23, 2014 by Gundersen 1st MRB

[Gundersen]

Also, if you would like to accurately find out who you recently played with. You can hover over your name in the steam menu, click friends, and click the recently played with tab.

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

Hello Smithers, I have found a answer to this bug. The players tab is simply very buggy, many people have issues with it. So, there is no solution to make your players tab appear. But, if you want to add a friend, you can simply click the friends tab in Steam (Top Left of the Steam menu), click Add a Friend..., and then enter the name of whoever you want to befriend.

Please reply to this stating if this did/did not work.

Thank you.

I think his issue might be that he knows how to add friends, but it isn't adding them.

I thought maybe you had reached your limit, but I don't think you have. You're at level 5, only got 96 friends...pretty sure you can fit more, at least 4?

What exactly happens when you try to add a friend?

[Vicari 1st MRB]

The friends list in Steam is part of the cloud connection that the games use as well to save button configs and saved games. I would recommend that you uninstall steam and download it again. It sounds like that section is having trouble connecting to pull the information to your PC. If this doesn't work, also make sure that you aren't past the max amount of friends you can have on your list.

[Heresy 1st MRB]

Please to not reinstall Steam quite yet.

The in-game current player list is garbage and a known issue with Steam in general. If you want to add friends please go the main Steam window outside of the game, click on your name in the top menu, and then select "Friends". If you do this while in game there will be a tab that says "Players" and you can add people from there who are currently in game. I do this quite a bit when recruiting people since the in-game current player list is worthless and searching for people in Steam can be daunting with number of players along with poor searching functions from Steam in general.

[Smithers 1st MRB]

Please to not reinstall Steam quite yet.

The in-game current player list is garbage and a known issue with Steam in general. If you want to add friends please go the main Steam window outside of the game, click on your name in the top menu, and then select "Friends". If you do this while in game there will be a tab that says "Players" and you can add people from there who are currently in game. I do this quite a bit when recruiting people since the in-game current player list is worthless and searching for people in Steam can be daunting with number of players along with poor searching functions from Steam in general.

I will try this.

My issue was not that I did not know how, I can do it manually sure. The problem was when I shift-Tabbed out of game and used that friends list function. The current players list is/always blank and the past players tab is from days past. It seems as if its just a shoddy feature and Ill just have to do it all through the main steam friends window if that works.

Thanks

[Smithers 1st MRB]

Consider this resolved. I've decided my Shift Tab friends list is bugged and ill just have to do it the hard way.