Update: The New Server Update Has Started Rolling Out

[tater2sacks]

UPDATE: The new server update has started rolling out

 

The new server update just started to roll out. It will take about 6 hours to complete on consoles and at least 24 hours before a large majority of PC servers have taken the new update.

 

Battlefield 3 Game Server R33 change list

1) (Server renters on PC only) The “rcon” server info command now reports external IP and port as well as information regarding whether the backend queue is enabled or not.

 

2) Fixed an occasional issue where console servers changed max player counts incorrectly.

 

3) We now enforce a minimum player count of 4 on both PC and consoles (PC previously had no such limitation while console servers had 2 players as the limit) to be able to exit preround on Ranked servers. You will still be able to move around freely in preround, but the match doesn’t officially start (and thus no stats are affected) until at least 4 players have joined. This goes for both PC and console servers. This will make it harder to easily use Ranked servers as boosting servers.

 

4) “Hardcore no map” is now a proper preset on both the server side and backend. This means console users can now filter between hardcore servers with and/or without the “no map” setting.

 

5) We fixed a bug where server admins could exploit the system to effectively become immortal on his/her server.

 

6) We introduced a number of server stability improvements which should lead to less crashes throughout. Two specific crashes that we have eliminated are:

A) Servers running 9 or more maps that would crash when loading the 9th map

Servers running high player counts in combination with very high ticket count where end game reports would stall out the server

#3 is not good for starting servers

#6 where do we find info on this to be made aware of it before they patch it.So we have aclue on what is going on with server

[tsw 8.5]

that will make it hard to get the servers going ...and restarting over and over is just shit ..thanks for making the game ..or should i say killing it ..morons ......

 

thanks tater

[pancakes]

The whole restarting over and over if u dont have 4 players is total bullshit

[xCaliber]

4 player minimum is not good for server... DICE needs to do something about this.

[pancakes]

Ive already seen alot of people say they wont be paying for another 3 months for a server so DICE is gunna lose quite a bit of revenue. maybe they will figure out that boosting is a big deal and undo their dumbass changes