For Anyone Interested

[Hammer]

I've had a bit plat around this afternoon.
When you can get on a server the game is bloody brilliant.
The atmosphere is very good. Tried the UAV which is a mini helicopter you can fly around the map and call in arty.
Earned a couple of unlocks so I've a few weapons to try.
Just need EA to fix connection issues and get some games with the clan with comms running.

[Stocky]

Tried searching for Eagle but couldn't find a plain old Eagle.
I've 2 players set up
Hammer UK
&
GSV Hammer

try the first one as I forgot about the clan tag option so the second one shows up as GSV GSV Hammer.

It's without the "" not the []

Sent requests just need you & Eagle to accept.

[Nellyboy]

Installed and been playing single for a couple of hours.

look for n3llyboy please.

Ahhh I pine for the old days, full server, beer and good friends to kill.

[Stocky]

Request sent Nell's & another to you H.

Sorry Eagle, I missed your message last night, it probably came through whilst I had my head in my hands in despair at the awfully slow server browser. I did the trick to tick all the boxes, ranked,pb etc etc but then it only shows up a handful of servers. Xfire won't let you join the server your friends are in

Will continue to persevere but it's getting real old, real quick.

What are we doing about comms??

[Hammer]

Dated from the 5th March

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[Eagle]

Sorry Eagle, I missed your message last night, it probably came through whilst I had my head in my hands in despair at the awfully slow server browser. I did the trick to tick all the boxes, ranked,pb etc etc but then it only shows up a handful of servers. Xfire won't let you join the server your friends are in


What are we doing about comms??

The reason for the message last night was to let you know that me and mega were in xfire and we were in the "gsv" chatroom.

in your xfire browser on the lefthand side the 2nd tab down is chatrooms.

Once you have been invited you can join the chatroom and enable voice comms.

Afterwards the chatroom will be in your recently visited list so that you can then join at any time.

I think we should try the xfire solution for a bit to see if its any good, if not then perhaps think about a TS server.


When browsing for servers I find that its best to change the search parameters to "conquest" "ranked" "not Full" "no password"

If you tick the punkbuster box you get very minimal results but if you leave it unticked you get hundreds.

Would seem that people are shying away from it, probably coz its crap as we all well know.


There was an instance last night however when me and john were playing that 2 guys that were on our team had some strange things going on with their rank.

If you look on the squad screen you see your rank insignia next to your name but these guys rank was cycling through everything continuously.

Not sure what that was all about but time will tell i guess.

EDIT

found this, looks like its a bug

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCvq1mGkP7Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCvq1mGkP7Q</a>

[Hammer]

Right after getting kicked from PB (failure to INIT) I've been playing around. I've ran the test from the PB folder on the BC2 DVD and the data is failing to receive at my end. I've set my firewall up to allow data in and out on BC2 and PB. and the tests fails.
I've reran the tests with the firewall disabled and the tests run. I running ESET Internet Security v4.

I now need to change my Firewall and AV. What are you guys running.

[Eagle]

Have you ran "pbsvc"?

This should set up all the exceptions required

[Mega]

Right after doing the PB test for Hammer this morning (running test services) I too am now getting:

You have been kicked from the game. The reason is:Punkbuster kicked player ‘playername’(for 0 minutes) … PB INIT FAILURE (if this persists, visit evenbalance.com slick support to manually update PunkBuster).

This is the test result im getting

Starting PunkBuster Service Tests (v0.988) (03/07/10 13:30:36)
Checking OS
Windows XP (build 2600, Service Pack 3) 32-bit
Checking PnkBstrA service status RUNNING
Checking PnkBstrA Version OK (1032)
Extracting "PnkBstrB.exe" to:
"C:\Documents and Settings\john\Application Data\PnkBstrB.exe"
OK
Checking firewall settings OFF
Checking if PnkBstrB is running RUNNING
Manually stopping PnkBstrB STOPPED
Getting port for PnkBstrA OK (44301)
Opening socket for packet send OK
Sending version packet to PnkBstrA SENT
Receiving version from PnkBstrA OK
Received 6 bytes from 127.0.0.1:44301
Response = 9032 (ms) Version = v1032
Getting PnkBstrB install instance OK
Sending start packet to PnkBstrA SENT
Waiting for packet from PnkBstrA OK
Received 3 bytes from 127.0.0.1:44301
Response = 16078 (ms) PnkBstrB started.
Load SUCCESSFUL.
Watching for PnkBstrB instance change (9) CHANGED (10)
Getting port for PnkBstrB OK (45301)
Sending version packet to PnkBstrB SENT
Receiving version from PnkBstrB OK
Received 5 bytes from 127.0.0.1:45301
Response = 3016 (ms) Version = 2202
Checking PnkBstrK driver status NOT FOUND
Extracting new PnkBstrK to:
"C:\Documents and Settings\john\Application Data\PnkBstrK.sys"
OK
Sending load packet to PnkBstrB SENT
Checking PnkBstrK driver status RUNNING
Stopping PnkBstrK STOPPED
Deleting PnkBstrK OK
Checking PnkBstrK driver status DELETED
Manually stopping PnkBstrB STOPPED
Removing test PnkBstrB file OK

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Tests finished.



Been to the site Downloaded both manual updates
<a href="http://websec.evenbalance.com/index.php ... rt-bc2.php" target="_blank">http://websec.evenbalance.com/index.php ... bc2.php</a>
and used Software Updates: Download
and downloaded these
For Players Filename: pbsec.htm
and
PB Client v2.158 for Win32 Filename: wc002158.htm
put both in the PB folder
and still not working

(CHEERS HAMMER)

Have uninstalled BC2 and PB and reinstalled both still the same


LOOKS LIKE ITS A PB PROBLEM NOT ONLY RELATED TO ME & HAMMER:
Read
<a href="http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/03/ ... #IDCThread" target="_blank">http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/03/ ... CThread</a>

[Nellyboy]

I downloaded the pb updater, ran it and it updated pb. Could not join any servers at all, it don't hang just sits there. Tried running game as admin too, no joy.

Now I can join for 10 secs with pb init failure. PB is up to date, ran the thing on the dvd and it passes.

[Claw]

Nothing is being said on the PB website.

These problems wouldn't make me choose to not buy the game. But the problems being reported at the moment centre on just PB. I wonder if their PB servers can't handle the demand at the moment? Considering the interest in this game, it wouldn't be surprising to hear their servers are max'd out.

You'll probably find that by the weekend this will have been sorted out. All the same it's a poor start and I'm sorry to hear about your problems.

[Hammer]

I've changed my ISS to Avast. So far no more PB problems. Still get the connection error now and again, DICE are to sort this out in the next patch. This shouldn't be to far away as a lot of people are having problems.
Some server Admins haven't updated the server side of PB, this may explain the odd kick from PB because the versions of PB aren't the same.

The PB check on the BC2 DVD passes ok now.

[Slatz]

I went into Game today to buy this.

Spotty oik behind the counter got arsey when I pointed out is was £10 cheaper on their website.

Now waiting to Postman Pat to do his stuff.



BTW, what do you call Postman Pat once he retires?






































































Pat

[Claw]

I went into Game today to buy this.

Spotty oik behind the counter got arsey when I pointed out is was £10 cheaper on their website.

Now waiting to Postman Pat to do his stuff.
BTW, what do you call Postman Pat once he retires?

Sold!!

Just ordered from Game, great find Slatz.

This should be arriving asap... if Pat wants to keep his title of course...

[Hammer]

Well so far I'm enjoying this game. The GFX are great the gameplay atmosphere is awesome. Still a lot to learn, the maps and the kit.
We we get online together with some comms the squad play should be great. Only 4 men in a squad though.
Just set me assault guy to carry the laser darts instead of the pistol. When you mark a target i,e a tank the engineers RPG will track the dart. Very handy for moving vehicles.
Had a couple of epic fails one in a chopper and one when i went to C4 a tank. Someone blew it up my C4 exploded and killed me nice suicide got a few points for it, lol

On 2-10 today so will be on after work.