Can Punkbuster get it right?

(jaybird) #1

With the latest update(s), people on my server are getting kicked every few minutes due to “Losing Key Packets”. It’s rather frustrating, and I’ve had to turn PB completely off (unfortunately). Anyone else experiencing this?

(corvey) #2

punkbuster sucks big hairy and .

(Rhoades) #3

lawl?

(SniperSteve) #4

o.O

Just play on Non-PB clients. You may not be able to update your online stats, but still.

(P4nth3r) #5

Got the same problem during war yesterday =/

(Dazzamac) #6

Aye, been causing a bitch of a lag on our servers. This is probably the cause of the said lag though vvv

PB will randomly take screenshots about once per minute on average and send each screenshot signature to the PB server;

(RosOne) #7

What the f…?!

The PB Server will also track information pertaining to how often windows reports the game minimized or otherwise inactive, admins will be able to configure PB to kick players who do not keep the game as the active application while playing;

!!!

I browse sites, I chat on IRC/GTalk or click other things on my 2nd monitor while being dead or bored or spectating… What? I’m gonna get kicked for that? What the hell? Yea, admins can set this up but of course some (most?) will enable that crap…

Bad ideas PB, baaad :angry:

PS. Fix that packets crap!

(jaybird) #8

Leaving PB off is not an option. We’ve already caught a few hacks in just a matter of 24 hours. They need to fix it.

(Sauron|EFG) #9
(jaybird) #10

Awesome.

(=SC=Beef) #11

pretty sure its fixed now. It seemed i was comming accross as a ‘bad server owner’ but there was nothing that could be done, however i have seen no more of these errors

(XziteD) #12

Not a really nice solution tbh.
surgery sucess patient dead.

(Joe999) #13

that’s not an option, at least not if no admin is online. ever played on a server where some nazi scum joins axis and aimbots everything down? trust me, it’s not even fun to teamkill them with the panza while they spam their hitler crap into the screen. they empty a full server within 10 minutes.

(nUllSkillZ) #14

Hmm, would be a good idea if evenbalance let PB only take pictures if the player is not “hot”.
Meaning if the player isn’t firing a weapon, takes damage / makes damage or in case of W:ET isn’t near an objective.
Not sure if the last suggestion is doable.

Nazi scum gets normally automatically kicked of german servers if they have some nazi names.
It’s some kind of server script that doesn’t allow special names.
Not sure about (auto)-muting if players use nazi words.
Normally I try to call kick votes if someone turns out to be a nazi.
Of course this only works if this player is alone and the majority of the team thinks the same about this player.

Edit:

First part doesn’t make sense.
As Evenbalance wants to take screenshots of players using cheats.
And this can only be seen in firefights (I assume).

(Sauron|EFG) #15

Kicks may have been fixed, but lag is still there.

No.
Some cheats can be seen all the time (like this). Others can be seen part of the time (players being visible through walls, in-game menus for cheats), but it’s not related to firefights. Aimbots cannot be seen at all in screenshots.

(macbeth) #16

get the same answer at my punkbuster ticket

Evenbalance wrote:
We are aware of the issue and are working on it. Thank you for taking the time to let us know.

and stiil some players are kicked

so …

(jaybird) #17

It was fine yesterday, but today it’s kicking EVERYONE after an unspecified amount of time :confused:

(corvey) #18

I think that pretty much answers this threads question ^.

(jaybird) #19

While I don’t appreciate people getting kicked off of my server for no reason, I wouldn’t go that far. Do you have a better suggestion?

(SCDS_reyalP) #20

Anticheat is a hard problem. PB has it’s share of problems, but so would anyone else trying to do the same thing.