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hondaf17

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4 player server, intense!

It increases dynamically based on how many people are in the server. Right now 57/64 and it usually is pretty darn full (especially nights). We're active admins too so if this community wants to join our servers that'd be fine by us.

64 player conquest:

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf...4af4287b/WDA-Graveyard-Chicago-24-7-Conquest/

32 player mix:

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf...7-9cf1-f0e9f343ae50/WDA-Graveyard-2-24-7-Mix/
 

SabaII

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Anyone on? I am getting better (slowly) at flying and will be rockin fly maps. 360 controller helps lol.
 

Destiny

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Spent the past 3 hours flying with Heavy brake:

If you use it correctly you can shake most people off your six and get on their six with an additional maneveurs...

Bad thing about heavy brake:

You slow down enough for rockets, javs, etc to catch up to you and knock you out of the sky...infantry and snipers can shoot you out of your cockpit if you fly low enough... A good chopter pilot can take you out of the sky - but you can shoot down chopters easier now...
 
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GullyFoyle

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Battlelog - BF3 PC Server R18 will roll out on Tue Jan 24th

2012-01-23 14:48

A few RSPs will be trialling the server during this evening/morning. The new server update will begin rollout with all RSPs during Tuesday if no gotchas are found.

Changelog

Fixed the most common server crash. The story behind this one is fairly convoluted:

When a player begins the process of joining a server, the server will begin buffering some kinds of information in anticipation of the player completing the loading & joining phase. However, players sometimes get stuck in the loading screen. This makes the server buffer more and more info for that player. A side effect of this is a temporary resource leak in the game server. The leak is immediately restored if the server changes map, or the player completes loading, or the player shuts down the game client. However if a player manages to remain stuck for 30+ minutes in loading on a server with lots of activity and the server doesn’t end the round, then the server could run out of the particular resource – it would then crash.

The new server version will forcibly disconnect clients which are threatening to exhaust that particular resource. With this change in place, we do not know of anything that would make high-ticket servers less stable than normal-ticket servers.

Long banlists will not crash the server.

The banlist supports up to 10.000 entries now.
The banList.list command has been modified to return at most 100 entries at a time (similar to how BC2 PC’s banList.list command works).
Any administrative tools will need to be updated to be able to see more than the first 100 entries.

Corrections to the banlist documentation.

The new server administrator documentation can be found here: http://static.cdn.ea.com/dice/u/f/bfbc2/tmp/BF3_PC_Server_R18_902705_Docs_ServerAdministrator.zip [static.cdn.ea.com]
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96Firebird

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Bah - kept getting disconnected tonight

Was wondering what happened to you... I crashed once, on Gulf of Oman. Was in first place with 5k points, while the next highest was like 2.5k. Was killing it in the battlebus before crashing...
 

imaheadcase

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Wow, just wow. This is unreal... I might actually be able to fly the F35 now instead of HATING it. Everytime you brake it goes into hover...etc.

Don't use this tool if you have SLI/Crossfire. It disables it for some reason.

I just used it to change keybindings and now won't go over 30fps for some reason no matter what. Thats even low for a single card. lol

You have to go back in the game and reset graphic settings to default to make it work again.
 
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Termie

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Expandas, AlbinoSquirrel, and I (along with my novice bro) were chewing through a noob server last night, mostly Karkand, Tehran, and some Caspian, and it was all on foot. I have a feeling Expandas was getting bored, since he kept pulling top 1 or 2 scores and was going like 3-1 K/D. He was even called a hack for falling from a roof and not dying. That's a new one...something you need to tell us, Superman?!?

That being said, we worked as a squad and all of us (except for my bro) were top scorers in every round. The day before I'd done battlebus duty and got plenty of points that way (MVP2, I think), but it was nice to see that I'm handy with more than the blowtorch when a good squad is working together. It makes a huge difference.

Zargon - I saw you tried to join us and then left quickly. Hope it wasn't because our squad was full.
 

Remobz

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Jun 9, 2005
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I have not bought the game yet. Still need a new computer and money to pay for it at the moment.

Anyway, what is the current state of the game after all the patches (3?) so far?

Could the game use a lot more patches at this time?
 

VulgarDisplay

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Some of these server RCON mods are annoying as all hell... Join a server. Get a headshot with a sniper rifle get banned for using a banned weapon...

Going 11-0. use all my Rifle and pistol ammo, switch to rockets. Banned for using a banned weapon. AT LEAST TELL ME WHAT'S NOT ALLOWED ON YOUR SERVER...
 

DeadFred

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Some of these server RCON mods are annoying as all hell... Join a server. Get a headshot with a sniper rifle get banned for using a banned weapon...

Going 11-0. use all my Rifle and pistol ammo, switch to rockets. Banned for using a banned weapon. AT LEAST TELL ME WHAT'S NOT ALLOWED ON YOUR SERVER...
YES PLEASE!

I havent been banned (I dont think) but have been kicked from a couple of servers for using a sniper rifle. I just joined the game and on my first kill KICKED for using a banned weapon, WTF? No warning, no posted rules, nothing.
 

GullyFoyle

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Battlelog: BF3 PC Server R19 will roll out on Wed Jan 25th

2012-01-24 12:37

Server R18 had a crashbug in it. We have resolved it, and will soon send out server R19 to the RSPs.

A few RSPs will be trialling the server during this evening/morning. The new server update will begin rollout with all RSPs during Tuesday if no gotchas are found.

Changelog

Fixed the most common server crash. The story behind this one is fairly convoluted:

When a player begins the process of joining a server, the server will begin buffering some kinds of information in anticipation of the player completing the loading & joining phase. However, players sometimes get stuck in the loading screen. This makes the server buffer more and more info for that player. A side effect of this is a temporary resource leak in the game server. The leak is immediately restored if the server changes map, or the player completes loading, or the player shuts down the game client. However if a player manages to remain stuck for 30+ minutes in loading on a server with lots of activity and the server doesn’t end the round, then the server could run out of the particular resource – it would then crash.

The new server version will forcibly disconnect clients which are threatening to exhaust that particular resource. With this change in place, we do not know of anything that would make high-ticket servers less stable than normal-ticket servers.

Long banlists will not crash the server.

The banlist supports up to 10.000 entries now. This limit can be raised in the future.
The banList.list command has been modified to return at most 100 entries at a time (similar to how BC2 PC’s banList.list command works).
Any administrative tools will need to be updated to be able to see more than the first 100 entries.

Corrections to the banlist documentation.

Docs
The R18 documentation applies to R19 as well. It can be found here: http://static.cdn.ea.com/dice/u/f/bfbc2/tmp/BF3_PC_Server_R18_902705_Docs_ServerAdministrator.zip [static.cdn.ea.com]
OPK-Juice
 

Zargon

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Zargon - I saw you tried to join us and then left quickly. Hope it wasn't because our squad was full.

nah I was just playing while some laundry finished drying so I could go to bed

but my squad SUCKED. I quit after going on a nice like 18-3 run though

well i hope the new pbupdate will fix the hackers banning players
hackers banning innocent players

yes stay off 'GCC' servers

though the hackers claim they are done for now, and are doing it to try and get PBB to close some security holes

I guess they included some ESL admins but PBB reversed their bans and no one elses
 

imaheadcase

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Some of these server RCON mods are annoying as all hell... Join a server. Get a headshot with a sniper rifle get banned for using a banned weapon...

Going 11-0. use all my Rifle and pistol ammo, switch to rockets. Banned for using a banned weapon. AT LEAST TELL ME WHAT'S NOT ALLOWED ON YOUR SERVER...


My favorite is admins banning people for cursing. Cursing..in a war game..with cursing already in it.
 

96Firebird

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He was even called a hack for falling from a roof and not dying. That's a new one...something you need to tell us, Superman?!?

Yeah, some "Waffles" guy was raging last night about him being a cheater. I think that guy eventually got kicked...

greginfinity even admitted to having a hack that automagically stabs me, and me only. Wasn't working right though, he never got a single stab in. :biggrin:
 

gregulator

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greginfinity even admitted to having a hack that automagically stabs me, and me only. Wasn't working right though, he never got a single stab in. :biggrin:

Yeah, can anyone help me get it to work? I bought it and the instructions say to press Alt+F4 a bunch of times and you can stab JDubz313 from anywhere on the map. Maybe my CrossSLI drivers are acting up (I have a 460 and 6870 on PCI-E 1x slots)? I am connecting through AOL 9.0 but it seems to crash when I try it... any ideas?
 

96Firebird

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Nov 8, 2010
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Try to get one of those demo CDs for AOL10, you can try it for 30 days to see if it helps. :thumbsup:
 
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