BF3 Patch news and updates

so are we going to drop the tic count to 500 then?

I doubt it as the 1000 count server has no B2K maps and has been running 3 days without a crash

All servers have been patched except the Air Maps and B2K Rush. They will be patched once they empty or I restart the servers.

Added a Squad Enforcer plugin today. It automatically puts players into a squad.
Enjoy

That oughtta help promote teamplay within the public circle... Nice work Iron!!!

Patch R17 rolled out on our servers today.
There is no change log as this was a security update to plug the hole allowing the global kill hack we have been seeing latley.

InterNAP has notified us that they will be updating their intelligent routing software between 10pm and midnight CDT on 3/27. They anticipate that "customers may note brief route re-convergence and latency during the upgrade which should only be 15 - 20 minutes".

The PC Battlefield 3 update goes live tomorrow. March 29, 2012.
Improved commo rose, minimap, lots of fixes, & new shortcut items!

http://blogs.battlefield.com/2012/03/beep-beep-battlefield-3-update-goes-live-on-pc-tomorrow-improved-commo-rose-and-minimap-lots-of-fixes-and-new-shortcut-items-live/

Servers have been updated to R20.

servers have been patched to R-21


This is some of the content that the R-21 patch, fixes and tweaks.
This patch took place already after server restart which is done.
This goes for both servers.




BF3 server R21 (933688) has been released to us by DICE as a required patch that needs to be applied right away, and so we will be applying it to all servers in a coordinated fashion within the next 60 minutes (which will also require them all to be restarted, unfortunately). R21 is a minor, server-side-only release with the following changelog from DICE:

- Fixed AA missiles not doing damage to vehicles moving at very high speeds.
- Fixed TV Missile doing much more damage than it should (it is no longer a 1-hit kill)
- Tweaked tank armor strength
- MAV elevatoring fix, round 2; proning on the MAV will still disable it
- RCON admin.say command can send to individual players
- A few invalid map+gamemode combinations in maplist.txt could crash the server on startup; these combinations are now rejected instead
- RCON vars.serverDescription was not returning anything in R20 if the string was not set; this has been changed to return "" instead
- RCON player.onChat now reports the target player subset

here is the R-22 server patch



BF3 server R22 (940924) is now available, though DICE is not yet advising a full rollout. This version is described by DICE as having "internal changes, in preparation of future feature updates". We have made it the default version for new servers and those being repaired, and we will likely start our standard process of applying the patch to empty servers late tonight, if our further testing shows that it does not introduce new bugs or issues.

all servers crashed at 10.30 pst

06JUL2012 (Midnight) InterNAP Server Maintenance...

InterNAP will be performing maintenance on one of its routers between 10pm and 2am CDT, starting on 7/6. This maintenance may cause brief periods of connectivity loss or increased latency for our servers.


03JUL2012, BF3 Patch R27 rollout...

The updated release has this changelist:
* You can no longer revive someone who has switched team while being dead. This prevents a case where soldiers would be resurrected into the new team while still wearing the old team's uniform.
* The "invisible boats" problem is fixed. We had something similar in BFBC2, and the same solution was applicable in BF3.
* You can no longer equip the M320 Smoke grenade launcher to the underslung rail on the AUG 7. This prevents the AUG getting insanely high bullet velocity (and therefore, no discernible bullet drop).

EA/DICE provided us with version R37 (1139617). This new patch fixes bugs in BF3 that can lead to crashes and stability problems.

The nature of this patch requires us to roll it out to all servers at once, so we have scheduled that to occur early in the morning on February 9th. Between 2am and 4am PST, you should see your server go offline briefly while the new patch is globally applied.

NOTICE from DICE: Despite our security measures, we have been working around the clock to mitigate the impact of an ongoing denial-of-service attack on our Battlefield 3 game infrastructure over the last several days. While the motives are unclear, the focus of the attack has been interference with network communications preventing access to multiplayer gameplay. At this point, no user data is involved. We share your frustration about the impact this has had to our service and the ability for many of you to play Battlefield 3. We are working tirelessly to mitigate the problem. As a part of our efforts to resolve these issues, we’ve conducted rolling restarts of Battlefield infrastructure servers to apply some updates. Thank you for your patience and support while we work to get everyone back and playing Battlefield 3 as soon as possible. More updates to come. /DICE Team