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http://twitter.com/#!/zh1nt0/status/124208854702624769

Even steamworks has in-game VOIP http://steampowered.com/steamworks/gameservices.php At this rate MW3 has no worries about being dethroned sadly.

It gets worse https://twitter.com/#!/zh1nt0/status/123936635728572416 Really starting to look like MoH 1.5. No spec mode really pissed me off in MoH, that and no ping on the scoreboard. Both made it really hard to figure out if someone was cheating or just had a much lower ping. Cheaters must be loving BF3. No spectator mode, no battle recorder and possible no working PBSS (Jury is still out on that one).

https://twitter.com/#!/zh1nt0/status/123892438690574338

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But think about the resources used to make, operate and maintain the stats systems yet we have to rely on 3rd parties to make admin tools. I would love to see a true GUI admin interface in-game with drag and drop functionality and more. But in the case of BC2, MoH and BF3 you can't even run anything on the server and all admin tools have to be hosted off site. Least BF2 had server modules and others like the Source engine have server plugins. A lot of the "experienced gamers" are the ones running the sites like PBBans, major gaming communities, podcasts and others. If we are not happy with the games coming out then there is really no reason for us to continue devoting our free time to support those new games. Jockyitch hanging up his mic for BashandSlash was a good example of that. There are a lot of other dedicated groups that make admin tools for games already such as BF3CC, Procon, B3 and many more. We don't have any control over PB integration. All we can do is test, make suggestions (Which I have done) and hope a dev makes the changes / fixes. And that's providing a developer even listens. Last i checked this is the "Gamers Sanctuary - Discussions for any game." forum which is for talking about anything game related good or bad.

Unless you're an old school gamer like me and become more and more pissed off at games that locked more and more things to keep the kiddies playing. Only so much I'm willign to accept in the unlocks department and frankly I think BF3 may have cross the line for me. I have a gut feeling we are going to see more stats padding and cheating than any previous BF game combined. They are creating a much greater demand for it in BF3. I still say give us a $10 unlock all option. I'd pay it to play the game like the old days. Unranked will have the ability to use all the unlocks but sadly they are never populated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrwCd4oeuXc Can't go wrong for $1 :)

When I read comments like that that I always think of Time != Skill :)

Saw this post on EAUK about Jets having counter-measures and missiles as unlocks to which I replied http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3-pc/1438347-jets-unlocks.html I've always wondered how many people start cheating because they were sick of being owned by people with unlocks they didn't have. That's the violation number for a rank hack in CoD4.

I have very little interest in BF3 anymore. The unlocks system has gone too far for my tastes. So many basics are now unlocks that totally ruins the game. An example being flares for air vehicles or smoke countermeasure for tanks. They have gotten so obsessed with unlocks it creates an unfair advantage for the people who have the time to devote to the game or cheaters. Makes me wonder why I bother fighting against cheaters. Have to unlock the same optics over and over again makes me feel like I'm working to dig the same hole again and again. That's not fun that's an annoyance that makes me want to play something else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKgDVruHfo

Or use the latest versions we have available in our downloads area :) http://www.pbbans.com/forums/files/enemy-territory-windows-file67.html http://www.pbbans.com/forums/files/enemy-territory-linux-file68.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfrBmKFgy5c

I wouldn't worry about it :D

Pretty much but some are not that smart.

They are different. Newer DICE games are tied to an EA account so they have the same GUID. Least when Kalms does the PB integration :)

yes. BF3 GUID's are the same as BC2 and MOH.

With some games using one standard PB GUID that is shared among multiple games, we have added a new Enforce Cross Game Bans option which checks connecting players GUIDs against the MBi across multiple games that share the same PB GUID. This means that if you get banned in one game you are kicked in other game that uses the same GUID. Games that share the same PB GUID are: - Bad Company 2 and Medal of Honor (2010), - Battlefield 4, Battlefield 3 and Medal of Honor Warfighter. - Red Orchestra 2 and America's Army Proving Ground That means if a player is banned in Battlefield 3 they are also automatically banned in Battlefield 4 and Medal of Honor Warfighter (For servers with the Enforce MBi Bans (Cross Game) flag enabled) but that does not apply to Bad Company 2 as they do not share the same GUID.

PBSS aren't being returned to the server at all now which is most likely because they are not implemented yet either from DICE or EB. I wouldn't worry about it at this point since we are still 3 weeks away. That's one reason I said we have not desided if we are supporting it. No need to jump the gun and claim we will support it when the game isn't out of beta yet.

Since we are being asked if PBBans is supporting Battlefield 3 I decided to give an update for anyone interested. After some PB testing in BF3: Streaming works, other things don't (PBSS, Hub messages, PB kick messages in battlelog). Also the lack of a way to search or connect to a server using an IP may be an issue. At this time we have not decided to support BF3 until we are sure PB integration is satisfactory. We jumped the gun on BFP4F which has a boat load of PB integration issues. But I have faith in Kalms to have it sorted before release. If you want to play on our test server it's: NL i3D.net - PBBans.com Test http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/servers/show/fa6bd053-4892-4761-a4f9-ce805238f8e1/NL-i3D-net-PBBans-com-Test/ Thanks to the fine folks at i3d for providing us with a BF3 test server.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE3zESmcqwA

With the PB auth server offline no new GUID's will be generated and current ones will not have the age info anymore which effectively means this is the end of the line for PBBans support in ET. Without the PB auth server the Hub will not add new bans.