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New announcement box since patch

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I was wondering how to use the big announcement box that comes up on some servers on the lower middle of the screen. Is this a plug-in? I didn't see this prior to the last patch.
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They finally enabled admin.yell for BF3 in that last update! :) Use it like this in the RCon console...

Simplest form - defaults at 10 seconds on screen:
admin.yell "Text goes here!"

Another way, defining it to stay on screen for 20 seconds:
admin.yell "Text goes here!" 20

Yet another way, sending it for 35 seconds to a specified player:
admin.yell "Text goes here!" 35 player Corruptor

I think you can also send it to whole squads or teams as well but I'm not quite sure as I have not had any use for that yet. I hope this helps! :)
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The command for this in the admin tool is !yell, as well. I'd been expecting them to add this to BF3 for awhile, so I just kept that command in from BC2 in anticipation (as with say-to-player, which now allows the tool to reply in-game to your commands).
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We had tried !yell and @yell commands, and seen a message like "You don't have priviledge to use this command" or something along those lines.

This happens with all our game admins.
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Pain, that just means you have to give the admin in question access to use the command through the "Easy setup" page.
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Crap - missed that step.
Someone else setup that part, so didn't know about permisssions in the easy setup.

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Since !yell didn't work before, that option was previously disabled on the "Easy setup" page. It likely needs to be checked manually for any admins that were created before the BF3 patch.
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Wow, thanks for the response. Got it.
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=S= Corruptor you can also add this line to your startup.txt config file:

vars.serverMessage "whatever message"

This will display whatever message you want whenever a player joins your server :wink:
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