Battlefield 3 Update R9 News

[IcEWoLF]

The R9 update for Battlefield 3 has been delayed until this Wednesday. This patch is expected to fix most issues you all have been having with server crashes and issues getting your servers populated / showing in battlelog.

[GitSum]

Good news!

What was your source?

[IcEWoLF]

I rent from another provider and that's what they announced under the news section.

They have been correct on all of their announcements so far..

[Edge100x]

RSPs are not allowed to release internal estimates, so that provider would be breaking their contract in issuing any sort of update, if that is what they are doing.

Right now R9 has no firm release date that DICE has announced, for good reason. I would not put too much faith in this one.

[IcEWoLF]

Does that mean you know some things that we don't John?

Anyways, It's Monday, but I am hopeful that they will have R9 released soon...
It's super annoying having empty servers and wasting money and space..

[Edge100x]

Whether servers fill is more up to Battlelog, the number of empty servers currently out there compared to the number of players, and factors that the customer controls (number of seed players, server mode, etc). So, I don't expect for R9 to help with server emptiness issues. R9 may help with crashes and other concerns, however, and near the end of this month, I expect for the a ton of empty preordered servers to go down after their first paid month ends.

It is up to EA/DICE to release information publicly on R9.

[globel]

I kinda get all gitty when people complain and say that they are going to cancel at the end of the month... Sorry about your loss John, but YAY more players to play on my server.

[IcEWoLF]

I wouldn't cancel all my servers, just cutting back from 4 to 2.
And possibly lower my cores from 6 to 4.
No use wasting money for now until EA gets everything squared away.

It's disappointing that EA has a horrible broken system, I hope you are giving this information to EA John (please).
I have to call out EA and tell them this was the worst online MP bust ever (besides MW3 dedicated servers)

[Forbestoo]

You obviously weren't around for the Crysis 2 launch. Way worse than this.

[Smoka Cola]

^ Or BC2 the first 3 weeks you could barely log into EA Login, and half the time it would shut down. At least you can get a few hours in on this game, sometimes a whole day before anything crashes or a server empties.

[//RS Maverick]

Whether servers fill is more up to Battlelog, the number of empty servers currently out there compared to the number of players, and factors that the customer controls (number of seed players, server mode, etc). So, I don't expect for R9 to help with server emptiness issues. R9 may help with crashes and other concerns, however, and near the end of this month, I expect for the a ton of empty preordered servers to go down after their first paid month ends.

It is up to EA/DICE to release information publicly on R9.

Agreed. I think the only thing holding me back from a full server everyday is the infamous black loading screen.... I can see joiners in battlelog constantly but the number just idles at 14...16....18... then back down to 8 because no one can get through. I'm confident that if R9 fixes this... alot of us will have full servers.

Gotta give it to NFO for handling Dice's crappy server side issues so well. You guys rock.

[IcEWoLF]

Still John, I expect some type of help from ea with quick match filling up my servers when I have 12-15 of my guys in there for hours..

[IcEWoLF]

You obviously weren't around for the Crysis 2 launch. Way worse than this.

I don't play Crysis and we don't run a Crysis division so I wouldnt know.

If ea is charging gsp to provide ranked servers then we should expect the same type of service when we are paying extra to host ranked servers.
We the server owners are kept in the dark until gsp announce version releases.
I know it's in the tos but hopefully ea improves this in the future.
I am not pointing my fingers to NFo, but EA/Dice.

[Edge100x]

Still John, I expect some type of help from ea with quick match filling up my servers when I have 12-15 of my guys in there for hours..

I wouldn't expect any QM players on a 64-slot server, since it does not fill them by default. To get QM players, you should be running with the vars.maxPlayers set to 32.

[IcEWoLF]

Still John, I expect some type of help from ea with quick match filling up my servers when I have 12-15 of my guys in there for hours..

I wouldn't expect any QM players on a 64-slot server, since it does not fill them by default. To get QM players, you should be running with the vars.maxPlayers set to 32.

Well it use to, and I think some of the owners here have their players automatically join 64 via quickmatch.
At least that was the case for me for the first week when my 64 player was full...until Dice had to go in there and mess with battlelog.
I am running 32 player slots too, no success there either.