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[TFU] Thegoon84

[TFU] Thegoon84

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BC2 Server owners thread.

I’ve started this thread because some server posts get losts in the enormous official BC2 thread.

Anyways have any of you guys got PB the stream while your server reports PB as off? EA have put us in a very unfair position… Do we leave PB on and slowly kill our server’s population or do we turn PB off and leave our self’s vulnerable to masses of hacks!

We followed the guide to turn PB off yet still have pb working…. However even tho procon says its taking screenshot and working I really don’t think it is. We had someone online last nite blatantly telling us he’s using a spawn hack, yet no ban. And as of this moment we’ve yet to see the message come up on screen “**** banned for aimbot.

When are EA going to make it compulsory for ALL RANKED servers to running punkbuster, this is so out of line its beyond a joke. Its opened the flood gates for hackers to test all their new hacks
 
I've not setup pb streaming yet but standard pb seems to work okay and the server is usually full during peak hours 6pm-2am.

Tend to agree re the ranked servers requiring punkbuster point. It's ridiculous that they don't - they may as well allow server admin to host the servers on their own boxes really.
 
Don't forget chaps, Pb doesn't kick straight away. Anyone caught hacking is basicly marked untill they do a sweep, inwhich they will ban all cheaters caught between the preset dates.
 
oneale90 said:
Don't forget chaps, Pb doesn't kick straight away. Anyone caught hacking is basicly marked untill they do a sweep, inwhich they will ban all cheaters caught between the preset dates.
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Ah yes, so any1 who streams punkbuster will automatically ban a player if he's been caught else where as soon as they join the server.

Hence some servers saying "***** banned for aimbot"?
 
Thegoon84 said:
Ah yes, so any1 who streams punkbuster will automatically ban a player if he's been caught else where as soon as they join the server.

Hence some servers saying "***** banned for aimbot"?
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The 'banned for aimbot' message isn't anything to do with streaming - I've seen it on my own server before and I've definitely not configured streaming.

Contrary to oneale90's post I believe that pb does kick immediately if it detects a hack. It's VAC that has delayed kicks/bans.
 
Goon, what are your PB logs saying ?

If its generating GUIDs and its logging connects/exits and any other events then PB is running. The issue is atm though is that PB integration is utterly borked, Its like the ugly kid at the party looking in through the window, it can see the fun going on and make a note of it but it cant quite get involved.

Ive wondered myself if ours is working properly but it behave no differently regardless of whether PB on/off workaround is in place or not. I know its streaming because PsB tells me it is, so its definitely sending info out. I'm just unsure as to how useful PB is right now.

I'm with you though with regards how utterly cast off we have been as server hosts. And the sad thing is I cant see it getting any better for at least a few weeks yet. From speaking to a lot of people "in the know" it seems like there are a lot of things being virtually re written, The browser being one of them.

On the plus side we played a scrim last night against [TiG] and it was awesome, even though we all had to say "i'm ready" at the start of the round before it got going (it was like going back in time).
 
Lol to the scrim. Apparently tho DICE are writing the code for match servers.

Yeah agree with what you’ve said. How they can just ignore the biggest issue of all.. punkbuster is beyond me!

You about 2nite, any chance you could pop on our vent so myself and CDgreen can have a chat about the whole punkbuster thing? Who are your severs with?
 
we are hosted with Killercreation.co.uk streaming to Punksbusted

I will be about from 8, Do i have to install vent though :( that thing hates me.
 
Its a pain, we had a full server for 2 days in a row and then we thought why not turn PB on. Now we have only had the one hacker on, but still wanted it turned back in just incase.

Now the server is empty and i dont think it will fill again, if it does it will be slow!

I just wish EA would sort it out and also sort the auto balancer so it works without using 3rd party software!
 
teaboy5 said:
Its a pain, we had a full server for 2 days in a row and then we thought why not turn PB on. Now we have only had the one hacker on, but still wanted it turned back in just incase.

Now the server is empty and i dont think it will fill again, if it does it will be slow!

I just wish EA would sort it out and also sort the auto balancer so it works without using 3rd party software!
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I feel your pain mate!

You know you can run pb even tho it says off yes?

If PB is turned on i wouldn't hold your breath for populating it anytime soon.

LOAM, its ok i think CDGreen has got it working.
 
teaboy5 said:
How do we do that?

Any guides?
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there are several ways to do this, some will work better for you than others. Basically;

Option 1
1. Set your server via your gsp admin panel to have PB on
2. add the line

pb_sv_task 30 -1 vars.punkBuster false

to the bottom of your pbsv.cfg

3. Reboot the box via your gsp admin panel
4. Count to 30
5. Launch game and confirm PB off status.

or

Option 2
1. Reboot the box via your gsp admin panel with PB on then close the your gsp admin panel (your done here)
2. Launch Procon and log into server rcon
3. Goto server settings and select pb off
5 goto the player tab and if it went well you should see country flags and clicking on a player should return a GUID at the bottom of the page.
6. Launch game and confirm PB off status.

or

Option 3 (the only one that works for us)
1. Reboot the box via your gsp admin panel with PB off then close the your gsp admin panel (your done here)
2. Launch Procon and log into server rcon
3. Goto server settings and select pb on
4. count to 10
5. select pb off
6 goto the player tab and if it went well you should see country flags and clicking on a player should return a GUID at the bottom of the page.
7. Launch game and confirm PB off status.


NOTE: All 3 methods return a PB off status to the master lists whilst actually running PB, the server will continue to stream to which ever repository you are currently streaming to (if you are)
 
My server is streaming to PBBans. Since R8 update the PB workaround doesn't work for me at all. Doesn't matter if I leave PB completely On or switch it off in LiveControl without server restart (I decided to keep PB running all the time). The only way to fill my server atm is to have few players playing on it until others join, sometimes it is 5 min, sometimes 1 hour and sometimes it does not happen at all.

This whole situation is a joke and we are paying big money (severs ain't cheap) for something that clearly does not work. I raised a ticket with Multiplay (my server provider) and they said DICE/EA are aware of the problem and working on a solution. Yeah, right. They'll release R9 out that will fix few minor bugs and create some more major issues.
 
RBL said:
My server is streaming to PBBans. Since R8 update the PB workaround doesn't work for me at all. Doesn't matter if I leave PB completely On or switch it off in LiveControl without server restart (I decided to keep PB running all the time). The only way to fill my server atm is to have few players playing on it until others join, sometimes it is 5 min, sometimes 1 hour and sometimes it does not happen at all.
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As I said above, you can not do this from within clanforge it has to be via an external rcon program such as guardian or procon.
 
LOAM said:
As I said above, you can not do this from within clanforge it has to be via an external rcon program such as guardian or procon.
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Well, I used Option 4 before R8 and it worked a treat. What is option 4? Read below.

1. restart your server from clanforge with PB on (command in ServerOptions.ini: PunkBuster=true)
2. go to LiveControl and switch PB off (server won't be restarted).

Log into the game and your server and see PunkBuster OFF while logging in. Check BC2 Guardian and see all the GUID, country and lots going on in PunkBuster tab = PB on but showing as off.

As I said PB workaround does not work after R8 update (by does not work I mean it won't help you to fill your server). If you don't have few members of your team to kickstart server (play on it alone for X amount of time), your server will remain empty whatever option you choose.
 
Yo

We have been running well with PB on but using the trick to turn it off since thursday and it has never been more stable, 2 crashes in 72 hours and once it was empty anyway, streaming with punkbusted

Yeah its totally unfair but what option do we have, either that or its empty,
Yesterday was a bad day, but i didnt have time to go on myself


AFAIK screen shot are broken no matter the setting you use, im sure i read that on EA forums, mibbe DX11 related



What RBL said i think is down to the join now button,
I have went to my own empty server and seconds later have been joined by 8 people, it filters for not full, not empty and low ping apparently, so if your all empty nip in for 5 minutes and see what happens

Dont even say the words "team balance" :(
 
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gizmoy2k said:
What RBL said i think is down to the join now button,
I have went to my own empty server and seconds later have been joined by 8 people, it filters for not full, not empty and low ping apparently, so if your all empty nip in for 5 minutes and see what happens
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You are right, but it is also very random. Sometimes I can run around my empty server for 30 min and nobody would join, other time after 2-3 min I can see few people joining one after another. This is just a big lottery atm.
 
we have pb streaming on our server via multiplay and i only play on servers that have pb on,even if the game does crash.
 
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