Battlefield 4 - Catch-All (It's ALIVE)

KEA_Lightning wrote:

I found a plugin to run Auto Balance on the server and its active. It should now only balance on very lopsided maps, player count from last joined, squads will stay together, forbid switching to winning team, forbid switching after being switched, and clan tags. There are many other settings and we can test it out to see how it works going forward.

The server is also streaming to Metabans. This means that any player banned from another streamed server will not be allowed into our server. We can add exceptions (VIP list) if needed. I know Moto and I got banned before in a BF3 server for not opening up our locked squad.

Banning should only happen for Cheats/Hacks/Racial Slurs/Repeat offenders.

Sounds great.

KEA_Lightning wrote:
groan wrote:
KEA_Lightning wrote:

I have the Procon tool working finally!! There are two supported plugins that seem to be working. You should now be able to Vote for the xext map and also the Chat Filter is running.

I have not tested either and hopefully will get the chance tonight.

Admins - I will send you pm's with details.

There needs to be a mobile Android version of this. That would make it so there are ALWAYS mods available. That would be most awesome.

I'll check it out tonight.

There is an app for both Android and iPhone. The Android version is $1.79

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leomar75mobily1.droidprocon&hl=en

Buying it now!
This will make managment easier while in game and at work. Random kicks are fun! (i kid, of course)

EDIT:
Note this app is not working for BF4 yet.

groan wrote:
KEA_Lightning wrote:

I have the Procon tool working finally!! There are two supported plugins that seem to be working. You should now be able to Vote for the xext map and also the Chat Filter is running.

I have not tested either and hopefully will get the chance tonight.

Admins - I will send you pm's with details.

There needs to be a mobile Android version of this. That would make it so there are ALWAYS mods available. That would be most awesome.

I'll check it out tonight.

There is an app for both Android and iPhone. The Android version is $1.79

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leomar75mobily1.droidprocon&hl=en

Currently it only supports BF3, but plans for BF4 are in the works.

KEA_Lightning wrote:

I found a plugin to run Auto Balance on the server and its active. It should now only balance on very lopsided maps, player count from last joined, squads will stay together, forbid switching to winning team, forbid switching after being switched, and clan tags. There are many other settings and we can test it out to see how it works going forward.

The server is also streaming to Metabans. This means that any player banned from another streamed server will not be allowed into our server. We can add exceptions (VIP list) if needed. I know Moto and I got banned before in a BF3 server for not opening up our locked squad.

Banning should only happen for Cheats/Hacks/Racial Slurs/Repeat offenders.

Sounds good. I like winning as much as the next guy, but it starts to get old when you are continuously trouncing the other team.

Does the voting for the next map also allow voting for the game mode on that next map or is it fixed?

Edwin wrote:

Does the voting for the next map also allow voting for the game mode on that next map or is it fixed?

Yes, however I have not tested it yet.

I've found auto balance based on number does far less than help.

Have you found any one of those rare mods that switch from the top of the list of qualified candidates for switching?

Pikey26 wrote:

I've found auto balance based on number does far less than help.

Have you found any one of those rare mods that switch from the top of the list of qualified candidates for switching?

I found every-map shuffle did far more to balance than any of the 'auto balance' servers i used to frequent.,

THe problem is it's usually going to be 10-15 of the core players making the teams skewed.

Auto balance mods swap players out based on when they joined (aka latest to join get swapped)

Because on any servers runnning more than 32 players, 3-4 on any given team will always leave (usually more like 5-8), you're only shuffling about recently joined players.

Nyxs Optare wrote:

Parked CPU Cores:
Don't know if this has been discussed here yet or not, so I'm throwin' it out... I was having a few problems with some micro-stutter within the game and stumbling upon this in Reddit yesterday really fixed me up.

I run BF4 across 3 screens and this fix allowed me to switch everything to ultra / 4x / HBAO. Turns out, when I ran the little un-parking program below, 3 of my 4 cores were parked. After unparking I'm getting great results.

Hope this helps someone...

Unpark Cores with this:
http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-...

Link to reddit BF4 discussion of core parking.
http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_...

Do I have to do this every time I boot or only once and then reboot?

I found this screenshot that someone posted:

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/8nJhYkq.jpg)

Defenses crumbling...urge to upgrade GPU and download, mounting.

PRG013 wrote:
Nyxs Optare wrote:

Parked CPU Cores:
Don't know if this has been discussed here yet or not, so I'm throwin' it out... I was having a few problems with some micro-stutter within the game and stumbling upon this in Reddit yesterday really fixed me up.

I run BF4 across 3 screens and this fix allowed me to switch everything to ultra / 4x / HBAO. Turns out, when I ran the little un-parking program below, 3 of my 4 cores were parked. After unparking I'm getting great results.

Hope this helps someone...

Unpark Cores with this:
http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-...

Link to reddit BF4 discussion of core parking.
http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_...

Do I have to do this every time I boot or only once and then reboot?

I found this screenshot that someone posted:

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/8nJhYkq.jpg)

You only need to do the change once as its a registry edit. 53fps to 200 is HUGE. I hope I can play on Ultra after this.

Pikey26 wrote:
Pikey26 wrote:

I've found auto balance based on number does far less than help.

Have you found any one of those rare mods that switch from the top of the list of qualified candidates for switching?

I found every-map shuffle did far more to balance than any of the 'auto balance' servers i used to frequent.,

THe problem is it's usually going to be 10-15 of the core players making the teams skewed.

Auto balance mods swap players out based on when they joined (aka latest to join get swapped)

Because on any servers runnning more than 32 players, 3-4 on any given team will always leave (usually more like 5-8), you're only shuffling about recently joined players.

The plugin is called MULTIBalancer. It's only beta for BF4 so we will see how it works. Can't physically play BF4 until later tonight. Hopefully the new plugins/settings will be for the better, but there may be some tweaking involved before its working as we want. Sorry in advance.

Naw I am up for improving the experience.

Just two cents from me and my past experiences with autobalance.

Also if there's a range for the no switching to winning to balance you should definitely look into tweaking that just right. 50-100 deficit is not enough to deny switches imo. Especially for pubbies trying to play with theirfriends.

After all we should look after them muggles too.

Aries wrote:
Slevinsins wrote:

I wanna play damnit! I guess I should go get it soon. Now that there's two feet of snow at my place I don't have much yard work...

Yeah, get on it Slevin!

Just picked it up at lunch!

Slevinsins wrote:
Aries wrote:
Slevinsins wrote:

I wanna play damnit! I guess I should go get it soon. Now that there's two feet of snow at my place I don't have much yard work...

Yeah, get on it Slevin!

Just picked it up at lunch!

One of Us!

If those massive CPU spikes in that screenshot are caused by insufficient CPU power, then I am well and truly f*cked. That's exactly what I see when I turn on the perf graph.

My CPU (Pentium G850 2.9 GHz) is above min spec (Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz), but I get CPU spikes regularly in the campaign, along with looping audio. I've tried pretty much everything short of upgrading to fix the problem.

BadKen wrote:

If those massive CPU spikes in that screenshot are caused by insufficient CPU power, then I am well and truly f*cked. That's exactly what I see when I turn on the perf graph.

My CPU (Pentium G850 2.9 GHz) is above min spec (Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz), but I get CPU spikes regularly in the campaign, along with looping audio. I've tried pretty much everything short of upgrading to fix the problem.

Not by insufficient power, I think, but by cores deactivating or not activating in the first place. I'm guessing if BF4 detects you have 4 cores it will try to use all of them but fail spectacularly when one core is shut down. If it only detected 3 cores to begin with, it'd probably run a lot smoother.

I say this because the game seems to run very well (around 30-35fps on low detail settings, 1366x768 res) on my M11x R3, which is running a dual-core hyper-threaded chip at a blazing 2.0Ghz. I can't imagine your processor is the problem. What GPU are you using? Turning down the resolution might be necessary if you're already on low detail settings.

I wonder if it will also help with COD Ghosts. The menu's are almost unbearable.

Sooo, I *may* have picked this up on the PC. How would one go about becoming an easy target for you fools online?

CptDomano wrote:

Sooo, I *may* have picked this up on the PC. How would one go about becoming an easy target for you fools online? :lol:

1. Friend up a few of us on Origin
2. Find the GWJ server that "everybody who's anybody" is playing on.
3. Come stand next to me (I die a lot)

I look forward to getting into some battles with you all.

Also, does anyone plan on picking this up for the Xbox One as well?

CptDomano wrote:

Sooo, I *may* have picked this up on the PC. How would one go about becoming an easy target for you fools online? :lol:

I shot you a friend request. Follow me to our server whenever.

CptDomano wrote:

Sooo, I *may* have picked this up on the PC. How would one go about becoming an easy target for you fools online? :lol:

1. Friend up a few of us on Origin
2. Find the GWJ server that "everybody who's anybody" is playing on.
3. Come stand next to me (I die a lot)

Lazy link to server:
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4...

CptDomano wrote:

Sooo, I *may* have picked this up on the PC. How would one go about becoming an easy target for you fools online? :lol:

Friend us up on Battlelog and then jump in whatever server we're in. Usually it's the GWJ one, but you'll see small groups playing elsewhere sometimes. I'm Hemidal in BF4.

Excellent, thanks!

one you are a friend of a gwjer have a look at thier friend list. if it's like mine it will be full of gwjers. Mass-friend everyone.

I only have GWJ friends (since my real friends are lame).

My Origin ID is in my sig.

Does the GWJ server has a pwd or is it public?

RooneyFan wrote:

Does the GWJ server has a pwd or is it public?

Public.

groan wrote:

one you are a friend of a gwjer have a look at thier friend list. if it's like mine it will be full of gwjers. Mass-friend everyone.

Done. LOL.