MWEB Battlefield 3 Server News and Updates

Greetings!

In an recent attempt to control overseas players coming in to our local servers and causing a ruckus, we installed a country-specific filter in a whitelist approach to filter out players from the outside world while keeping the locals happy. As some of you may know, this has caused a problem with certain players located within South Africa from being able join the servers, due to their IP addresses being flagged as being either "unknown" or simply not on the list of allowed countries. We've attempted to adjust the country filter to allow those affected players, but so far those attempts have been unsuccessful.

We've taken a new approach to the country in the way that it handles blocks: it has now been set to a blacklist approach, so countries on the list will not be allowed to join the server, rather than counties are on the list can only join. The blacklist is pretty large and is growing, as countries are added.

We've also added a new server with new hardware to test the 64-player lag issue, and are asking players to test and provide feedback. Since the current flavour is Metro, Metro, Metro and nothing but Metro - this is a Metro CQ server, 300% ticket count (that's over a thousand tickets). The connection info for this little one is here

Your feedback is encouraged and is appreciated!

 

 

 

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  Rastaman79

  No_To_Namibia Dude where do you get off saying stuff like that? Get your facts straight before attacking us. Probably 15 years old and gets pwned alot thats why.

  Friday, February 03, 2012 12:18:55 PM

   
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  Lawless_sa

  But on a positive note, the amount of hackers of late have definitely decreased

  Friday, February 03, 2012 11:26:42 AM

   
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  Choc_Salties

  'd love to but the high-ping kicker doesn't quite work the same way it did on BFBC2 and the replacements aren't as good as they should be. I'll follow up on a closed testing cycle and get back to you on the forums.

  Friday, February 03, 2012 11:11:46 AM

   
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  JoeCoZa

  99% of players with high pings are from outside SA and all of them are hacking! The 1% with high pings from inside SA.. get a better connection you are slowing down the servers!

  Friday, February 03, 2012 10:26:34 AM

   
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  Orange

  I dont get much chance to play online due to Telkom line issues, maybe more mediation from Server Admins..?

  Friday, February 03, 2012 10:19:54 AM

   
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  Nandos

  Remove INT high pingers... Implement some sort of filter for those peeps.....

  Friday, February 03, 2012 9:59:22 AM

   
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  No_To_Namibia

  Please also ban Namibian players, they like to play "unfair" if you know what I mean.

  Friday, February 03, 2012 9:58:39 AM

   
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  Lawless_sa

  Agree, filter out the high pings, = no international douche bags and the local high pingers that hop and bounce around the map will be easier to shoot

  Friday, February 03, 2012 9:54:14 AM

   
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  TBag_za

  There is a simple fix. Stop anyone from joining with a 200+ ping. Solves any lag issues as well as stopping overseas ppl from joining.

  Friday, February 03, 2012 9:49:36 AM