Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[Malakili]

I can't see the server and searching for Bat Country gives me no results, is the server up?

[fuser]

I can't see the server and searching for Bat Country gives me no results, is the server up?

Should be the console says its running I wonder if its a DICE listing issue. You can see the status here.

[Nija]

Their server browser in BF2 is STILL a piece of shit after 5+ years. It works better than the one in BC2, but it is really really bad.

This is one of those "be careful what you wish for" issues that we cause ourselves.

Remember all the raging against Gamespy as a whole?

Now, weren't FPS games a lot easier to get into when everyone used 3rd party server lists like gamespy/all-seeing-eye and that sort of thing?

These days everything has their own built in browser (granted - some are ran by gamespy for reasons unknown. They suck - that's what got us to this point.) and they all collectively suck. We keep seeing the same limitations and problems repeated by every single company that has games featuring an in game browser.

[WayAbvPar]

Is the underlying technology so tough to master, or is it that no one bothers with it until the last minute and then has the intern whack out a quick browser? This is a market inefficiency, and if I wasn't a lazy dolt I would find a way to fill it 

[fuser]

We are sending out new servers to our providers called "R5". They will be testing them out and changing over the servers by tomorrow evening. This server contains some fixes for the "Connection to the server has been lost" message that a lot of you will have seen.

We are also working on making another new server over the weekend as EA has set up some dedicated front-end boxes just for Battlefield Bad Company 2 which we will update the server to use and should work to improve the stability of connections to EA for everyone.

Hopefully it will filter out soon.

Also

btw: PC currently has more people playing and are in game servers than both the consoles.

[Pennilenko]

How to be donating into the server fund?


Also my friends list doesn't appear to work, Several friends and I have tried to add each other with no luck. I'm having a tremendous amount of fun though.

[caladein]

How to be donating into the server fund?

Clanpay allows you directly pay to to server balance and shows the current amount and the fee.

[fuser]

Master server imploded ~20mins ago all multiplayer is dead, apparently Bat Country not being in the master list is a known issue with DICE. Hopefully I'll see you guys in game tonight!

Thanks everyone for kicking in some cash for the server  


Edit: R5 has been installed

[WayAbvPar]

Welp

Who would want to play on Friday night anyway? Fucking clownshoes.

[caladein]

Welp

Who would want to play on Friday night anyway? Fucking clownshoes.

Less than two minutes after you posted I got a plain jane 502 error page.

Clownshoes indeed.

Edit: Tried a few more times and I got on.  Here's the Google-translated-from-French announcement:

"Hello, This message is to inform you that EA currently operates maintenance on their master server, which should help overcome the bugs experienced by many. This maintenance is already underway and to help accelerate the process EA asked all providers to close a total of 40 000 slots.
We will close our public servers but if you want to lend a hand to their technicians working day and night since the game's release, we ask you to consider the option of stopping your server the game panel, and this up at the end of this maintenance *.
Note that this is not an obligation but rather a boost that can voluntarily choose to give them. We all hope that this will end the problems of crashes BFBC2.

* End of maintenance: 3am America / 9h am / France "

[LK]

Wow.

[Nightblade]

Welp

Who would want to play on Friday night anyway? Fucking clownshoes.

That was posted yesterday, and is unrelated to the current outage.

Still, this is pretty much horse shit. It's not like this is release day or anything. I was looking forward to unlocking the UMP today. Oh well.

[fuser]

Everything is up and Bat Country is in the master list.

[Malakili]

Everything is up and Bat Country is in the master list.

Nice.  Was in game briefly just to make sure I could find it.  If anyone sees [RR-Zhenya in game, thats me.

[LK]

This is all happening on PC, right? Bat Country?

[Pennilenko]

Yes,

I got disconnected, it appears to be a popular server, cant get back on because it is full.


P.S. I have put f13 on as a clan tag, if i am the only one interested then cool if not the more the merrier. I will likely only hang out on this server.

[Yoru]

Welp

Who would want to play on Friday night anyway? Fucking clownshoes.

That was posted yesterday, and is unrelated to the current outage.

Still, this is pretty much horse shit. It's not like this is release day or anything. I was looking forward to unlocking the UMP today. Oh well.

Actually, it is release day for Europe. And, in fact, most of the places that aren't the US/Canada. So they probably doubled their load or better in one day.

Not that it excuses being unprepared; their master servers were already pretty heavily overloaded during the beta alone.

[Pennilenko]

Fuser that shit was awesome, time for sleep though. Definitely will play only on the server.

[Furiously]

If anyone wants to friend me... katiri

[WayAbvPar]

I wish we could set it to multiple game types. The 4 or 5 same maps over and over again gets really old. Plus I am not a big fan of Rush 

[Furiously]

Who doesn't like Rush?  Limelight is like a great song...

And rush mode is equally good.

[Azazel]

Finally connected to the Bat Country server. Had a play around with Fuser which was also fun, and didn't seem to have any latency issues, despite the pacific ocean in the way. If I can connect with any consistency over the next couple of days, I'll definately kick in for a spot. 

[fuser]

The history and favorites list is working now so hopefully you can add the server now instead of having to do a full refresh. I had to restart the server about 30mins ago due to a small issue but its been stable for over 12hrs now with 25+ people so it looks like the R5 release is good so far.

Switched the mode to conquest for the day.

Finally connected to the Bat Country server.

Yeah was kinda fun but rush is horrible with less then 10 people. The reserved slot system is wierd to say the least. I have it setup with two reserved slots but it was reserving like 5 and locking some people it.

[Azazel]

Oh yah, it wasn't exactly a "real" game, but I got to test out what the latency was like, and it's always gratifying to shoot choppers out of the sky with the tank's main gun. So it was fun despite not being "for reals".

 

[squirrel]

Got this as a gift today, installing now. So expect to see me fail spectacularly in public soon!

[kildorn]

Yay, got my crash issues resolved.

Unfortunately, by running in windowed mode and only being able to use "play now" because the server browser crashes me to desktop now.

*sigh* Why must you be so fun but so damned buggy, BF series.

On the up side, I managed to kill 5 people in about 15 seconds with an engineer! And only 3 of them were cheating with the autoaim knife!

[fuser]

Yay for EA servers crashing out again knocking everyone offline

Unfortunately, by running in windowed mode and only being able to use "play now" because the server browser crashes me to desktop now.

Add me as a friend binfuser and you can join batcountry off of me

[Pennilenko]

anyone from this place needs to put f13 as their clan tag when they play on our servers so we know who to take it easy on.

[Nightblade]

The shitty release that keeps on giving. Servers are now back up! BUT BUT BUT is now kicking people punkbuster violations!

After an entire night of the following:

Spamming the spot button while chasing a tank with my drill out, the engineer Im playing in plain english yelling "Pull over so I can fix that shit up!". Moron driver proceeds to take a half dead tank deep into an enemy base where he dies. Quickly.

Medics not dropping health packs... at all. Even when asked. Preferring to spray their LMGs at snipers. Guess how that ended.

Joining a squad deathmatch game with 3 other people who decide to camp out in a very flimsy cover area. After scoring them 5 kills (doubling their pathetic count) I flee to a building. My team lags behind me and decides it would be more prudent to stand outside and fire their BULLETs at the tank that I was trying to evade.

After a while of searching - I had finally found a decent server where two evenly matched teams were fighting a good rush match (You know, we arm the bomb and the enemy team actually comes in and defends / tries to defend), suddenly...! LAWL CANNOT CONNECT TO EA PLEASE CHECK UR CONNECTION.

[Pringles]

I wish we could set it to multiple game types. The 4 or 5 same maps over and over again gets really old. Plus I am not a big fan of Rush 

You can set multiple game types, see here.

I shall check out the Bat Country server, in game name is Gevo

[Azazel]

Is autobalance a server option? You might also want to set me up as an admin, since my playtimes are overall different to most of f13, and someone is needed to enfoce the law onto fuckwits, Judge Dredd style. 

[WayAbvPar]

I wish we could set it to multiple game types. The 4 or 5 same maps over and over again gets really old. Plus I am not a big fan of Rush 

You can set multiple game types, see here.

I shall check out the Bat Country server, in game name is Gevo

Oh sweet! I willl see if I can make heads or tails of that tomorrow- just played for 3 hours and am wiped. Got most of my first few unlocks done for all the classes now, so I am rapidly approaching usefulness.

Oh my do  I love stabbing people in the face. Only thing that could make it more satisfying is if I had a force feedback mouse or something. Very good times.

[Jimbo]

Threw some cash to the server fund, thanks fuser for putting it up, had fun playing the other night.  Wish I didn't have to work this weekend, damn full moon and the crazieeees are out and chewing on the seat cushions.

[climbjtree]

I'll be pretty pumped up when they resolve the Punkbuster issues. I get kicked about 30 seconds into every game.

[Pennilenko]

Is autobalance a server option? You might also want to set me up as an admin, since my playtimes are overall different to most of f13, and someone is needed to enfoce the law onto fuckwits, Judge Dredd style. 

I am totally in favor of Nazi style admins. I will kick in cash to the server fund again and regularly if we run a tight ship.