BF:BC2 M8D International Rush server is down

[M8DSkizza]

Sorry guys I've not renewed the BC2 server rental for this month. It was a fun game, but a very badly flawed console port and only ever a stop-gap until a proper online PC game came out.

Next week Natural Selection 2 Alpha and Starcraft 2 are both being released, this is a great time for online PC gaming

[M8DMrMouse]

Very nice indeed. Good job skizza

[M8DSkizza]

It was dead all evening Monday despite Zerg/Supercharged/Mouse's efforts so I renamed it to "Multiplay.co.uk :: M8D International Rush server", now it's full

[M8DNanite]

Good job gettin the server and hope it stays like this.
It was too hard (too much idling) to fill up the BF2 ranked server we had.

[Snostorm]

Nice, i will check it out some night.

[M8DBattledude]

Seem to be kicked (server con lost)...pb updated...haven'd got that prob on other servers...how come?
Player: "M8D Battledude BC2"

[M8DNanite]

Havent seen that myself.
pb server log only shows:
[05.05.2010 15:38:56] Lost Connection (slot #25) xx.xx.xx.xx:10000 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(-) Battledude BC2

There were 4 other players dropping same time with you so it seems that there were some hickups on the BC2 master servers. Did it happen yesterday when u played on our server or just today?

You can also enable PB logging on your BC2 client side. Enable it and pm the log to me next time you got a kick.
Here is how to enable PB logging in BC2:
http://www.pbbans.com/info-center-clientlog.html

[M8DBattledude]

oke, wil try, thx for fast respons and guide!

Here's the log:

[05.05.2010 21:04:32] pb_MsgPrefix = [skipnotify]PunkBuster Client
[05.05.2010 21:04:32] pb_LogToFile = 1 (0=No, 1=Yes)
[05.05.2010 21:04:32] pb_SsLog = 1 (0=No, 1=Yes)
[05.05.2010 21:04:32] pb_SsSave = 0 (0=No, 1=Yes)
[05.05.2010 21:04:32] Attempting to resolve master4.evenbalance.com
[05.05.2010 21:04:32] Resolved to [66.180.170.20] (14)
[05.05.2010 21:04:32] PunkBuster Client (v2.220 | A0) Enabled
[05.05.2010 21:04:32] Game Version [529843]
[05.05.2010 21:04:32] Not Connected to a Server
[05.05.2010 21:04:36] PB Services socket initialized
[05.05.2010 21:04:41] PnkBstrA successfully loaded PnkBstrB
[05.05.2010 21:04:45] PnkBstrB service installed and started successfully
[05.05.2010 21:05:19] Connected to Server 213.163.68.246:19569
[05.05.2010 21:05:28] PnkBstrB service installed and started successfully
[05.05.2010 21:05:29] WARNING: PB Kicks for Level 1 PB Restrictions on this Server
[05.05.2010 21:05:29] PB Server assigned guid = a5953a494db17f95e83b7a5a290673bb
[05.05.2010 21:05:29] Receiving from PB Server (w v1.763 | A1382 C2.220)
[05.05.2010 21:08:32] Master Query Sent to (MASTER5.EVENBALANCE.COM) 66.36.231.175
[05.05.2010 21:08:34] Received Master Security Information
[05.05.2010 21:10:13] Removing "Wralphie" 516f (0 minutes) This PB Server Requires (A1382 C2.220) - Error loading pbcl
[05.05.2010 21:12:08] Removing "xxxLoboxxx" 66a7 (0 minutes) This PB Server Requires (A1382 C2.220) - Error loading pbcl
[05.05.2010 21:16:58] Not Connected to a Server
[05.05.2010 21:17:07] PnkBstrB service installed and started successfully
[05.05.2010 21:24:34] Connected to Server 85.236.109.41:19667
[05.05.2010 21:24:45] WARNING: PB Kicks for Name Spamming and Non-standard Characters and Level 1 PB Restrictions on this Server
[05.05.2010 21:24:45] PB Server assigned guid = a5953a494db17f95e83b7a5a290673bb
[05.05.2010 21:24:45] Receiving from PB Server (w v1.763 | A1382 C2.220)
[05.05.2010 21:24:53] Removing "Battledude BC2" 73bb (0 minutes) RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrA.exe
[05.05.2010 21:24:53] Removing "Battledude BC2" 73bb (0 minutes) RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrA.exe
[05.05.2010 21:24:54] Not Connected to a Server
[05.05.2010 21:27:29] pb_MsgPrefix = [skipnotify]PunkBuster Client
[05.05.2010 21:27:29] pb_LogToFile = 1 (0=No, 1=Yes)
[05.05.2010 21:27:29] pb_SsLog = 1 (0=No, 1=Yes)
[05.05.2010 21:27:29] pb_SsSave = 0 (0=No, 1=Yes)
[05.05.2010 21:27:29] Attempting to resolve master5.evenbalance.com
[05.05.2010 21:27:29] Resolved to [66.36.231.175] (14)
[05.05.2010 21:27:29] PunkBuster Client (v2.220 | A0) Enabled
[05.05.2010 21:27:29] Game Version [529843]
[05.05.2010 21:27:29] Not Connected to a Server
[05.05.2010 21:27:32] PB Services socket initialized
[05.05.2010 21:27:37] PnkBstrA successfully loaded PnkBstrB
[05.05.2010 21:27:41] PnkBstrB service installed and started successfully
[05.05.2010 21:29:34] Connected to Server 85.236.101.63:20267
[05.05.2010 21:29:43] PnkBstrB service installed and started successfully
[05.05.2010 21:29:44] WARNING: PB Kicks for Non-standard Characters and Level 1 PB Restrictions on this Server
[05.05.2010 21:29:44] PB Server assigned guid = a5953a494db17f95e83b7a5a290673bb
[05.05.2010 21:29:44] Receiving from PB Server (w v1.763 | A1382 C2.220)
[05.05.2010 21:31:29] Master Query Sent to (BC21.EVENBALANCE.COM) 204.15.228.214
[05.05.2010 21:41:19] Not Connected to a Server
[05.05.2010 21:41:29] PnkBstrB service installed and started successfully

[M8DNanite]

I dont see anything strange besides the first try to some other gameserver u went that the game wasnt able to start the PB client services.

You have slighty newer PB client than mine "PunkBuster Client (v2.158 | A0)".

Doesnt hurt to put the "pb_Sleep = 500" in the PB config too, takes less bandwith.

Test the PB services with
http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/pbsvc/pbsvc.exe
and try to reinstall the PB services with this.
What operating system you are using?

Try also disabling you virus scanner/firewall temporarily to test if these makes the PB kicks.

[M8DSkizza]

For some reason pbbans hasn't been streaming the last few days, I've reactivated it and pbbans.com says it's ok now.

[M8DNanite]

The server was full 32/32 over 24 hours straight \o/

Did it restart? Hopefully that pbbans reactivation wasnt the reason the server emptied.

[M8DSkizza]

The server was full 32/32 over 24 hours straight \o/

Did it restart? Hopefully that pbbans reactivation wasnt the reason the server emptied.

It crashed at about 11am, couldn't find a reason on the server log. PBBans hadn't been streaming for a few days before.

Here's a weird one, you left at about 10pm last night after the server had been stuck at <8 players all night, I turned off Autobalance in Guardian at the same time and it filled within 20 mins.

[M8DNanite]

I tried it once and the Guardian autobalancer is too agressive.
Silly if it affected the players joining even if its just on and doesnt do anything just announces. So lets keep it off in our Guardian clients. Or do you mean the games built in teamBalance setting?

If not, the game still had its own autobalancer on even its not on in Guardian. The original built in balancer dont move players to other team it just dont allow players to change teams if other team has more players or there is only 10% tickets left. Under 10 out of current max 100. This ticket info is new just found it from the official forums.

[M8DSkizza]

Last night some noobs joined the server and asked if I could teach them how to play:



http://bfbcs.com/BFBC2_leaderboard/pc

[M8DZerg00s]

Looks like they like the server! That's great! I hope they'll keep coming.
Hopefully I can have their tags this way.

[M8DSkizza]

Sorry guys I've not renewed the BC2 server rental for this month. It was a fun game, but very badly flawed and only ever a stop-gap until a proper online PC game came out.

Next week Natural Selection 2 Alpha and Starcraft 2 are both being released, this is a great time for online PC gaming

[PinKy]

*cries*