Beta Server Status

[.osiRiS]

Due to the big influx of players recently, we have seen that the amount of current servers that we are hosting on the hardware is affecting performance in game. Therefore we are reducing the amount of servers we are running to hopefully spread round the load more evenly and reduce the rubber banding occurring in the servers.

- .osiRiS

[O-L-W-A-G]

tysvm was raging for last 30mins wondering wether it was BF3 update or GFX caps

[private_hell]

how manyservers are you running now? 10? 15?

[solman]

not enough... they're are all full :(

[Craigorsarus]

how manyservers are you running now? 10? 15?

currently 22, so 704 slots

Should be able to increase it a bit later on, just waiting for some VM's to migrate

[private_hell]

cheers guys

[LeadCollector]

Cheers for the update :)

[=C=]

what ever happened to BF3 64-player servers.... myth?

[Craigorsarus]

26 servers, 832 slots

there are 30 slots free

... no.. make that 2 slots..

actaully, nvm, all gone

[swindle]

So when will we see Caspian Boader yo?

[=C=]

26 servers, 832 slots

there are 30 slots free

... no.. make that 2 slots..

actaully, nvm, all gone



I LOL'd. :D

[.osiRiS]

26/10/11

[solman]

26/10/11
not the answer we are wanting..... please come back with the appropriate response :P

[solman]

Oh and Awesome job on the servers guys.... tonight must be right up there with the highest for the amount of traffic

[Spork]

what ever happened to BF3 64-player servers.... myth?

Rush is only 32 players, thankfully, would you really want to see Metro with 64 players? Fuck that.

[Craigorsarus]

28 servers, 896 slots.

And no, there isn't a spare slot for you.. yes you, the guy reading this post right now.. yeah you missed out already

[Dr Woomanchu]

But I could always Queue Queue

[.osiRiS]

I have some free slots but I'm looking at $50 a pop if keen meet me on the corner of 3rd and fifth

[Spork]

But I could always Queue Queue

I have never been able to queue for some reason, is this something which I have to turn on somewhere?

Also, I keep thinking you are swindle, because of that joker avatar he had a while back.

[Dr Woomanchu]

fuck me I better fix that

[=C=]

Rush is only 32 players, thankfully, would you really want to see Metro with 64 players? Fuck that.

LOL :D

[5tacK]

Need high ping kicker...

[GoldenMild]

Cheers guys ur doing a good job, keep it up!

[Solarghost]

No, we need a 5tack kicker :P coz u always run around with sling shots shooting rubber bands at everyone !

[Arseynimz]

Sooooooo as the night gets long for us here in NZ, the reasons as to why ON3 Network is ridiculously busy for the servers becomes apparent.

1. The three main server providers for Australia are GameArena/Mammoth, Hypernia, and Games.on.net with GameServers.com also tuning in with a few alongside others.
2. Yesterday we were provided with a server fix for which was not 100% stable. ON3 Network decided to not update to this patch due to the lack of stability - what turned out to be a good idea based on feedback from others.
3. Those who did update to the server fix were greeted with servers randomly crashing and not restarting after varying shortish periods of times (sometimes a few hours, sometimes a few minutes).

So with the above noted, DICE have not advised regarding whether the server fix is compulsory or not, albeit they originally provided the fix and said it must be done by X time. As a result some providers updated to the new server release and maintained it, while others either updated and rolled back, or like us, did not update at all. Those who did update and haven't rolled back are now experiencing stability issues, and of course on that list is most of the Australian providers - in fact, all three of the first ones I listed above.

These providers have not rolled back at this stage due to no formal advice being given by DICE which is fair on one hand given it's a beta, but on the other in my personal view is a bit weird given the issues are obvious. So 1+1 equaling 2 like it does, Australia has a huge discrepancy in the number of servers available to it's territory for the first night of the beta in the first territory to have a peak time. As a result, ON3 Network has seen a load of Australian players come across the ditch to play on our servers, and thus why we have been continuously full since 6:30pm NZDST. I expect this to continue for another 2 hours through to 3:30am NZDST which is the equivalent of 12:30am AEST (note their DST kicks in tomorrow night).

So as we expected, the beta providing it's interesting issues, but this one we certainly didn't think would happen. Hopefully this issue is sorted tomorrow/tonight by DICE and we will see a more manageable night tomorrow night - albeit if we don't, it means good things for the NZ BF community. We're also kind of grateful, as although annoying, Craigor is confident the performance of the servers is now optimised - we just need to get rid of some of the rubberbanding we're hearing about - we believe this is due to the international link being saturated by Aussies, but won't know until they go back to their side of the ditch and play :P

Thanks for your perseverance everyone, and hopefully it wasn't too bad a night's play. We would still appreciate any feedback whether via PM to any of the Head Admins, or just in general in a new thread to let us know your experiences for the night.

[Growler]

great work ON3 crew.

28 servers up before, ALL full, i had to keep spamming join to try get a spot.

You need to password 1 of the servers for us cool forums users ;)

[Arseynimz]

great work ON3 crew.

28 servers up before, ALL full, i had to keep spamming join to try get a spot.

You need to password 1 of the servers for us cool forums users ;)

Thanks Growler - we'd love to pword some servers, as I myself didn't even get to play tonight either (cbf'd looking at the servers being so full, and also because I wanted to keep Craigor company), but unfortunately, we're not allowed to. Only the Caspian servers are allowed to be locked up, and they are restricted to the hosts who hosted the Alpha only.

[Solarghost]

Might wanna sticky this for now bud

[[∞]MadMike]

You guys are just awesome ON3 :D well done.

[O-L-W-A-G]

Sooooooo as the night gets long for us here in NZ, the reasons as to why ON3 Network is ridiculously busy for the servers becomes apparent.

1. The three main server providers for Australia are GameArena/Mammoth, Hypernia, and Games.on.net with GameServers.com also tuning in with a few alongside others.
2. Yesterday we were provided with a server fix for which was not 100% stable. ON3 Network decided to not update to this patch due to the lack of stability - what turned out to be a good idea based on feedback from others.
3. Those who did update to the server fix were greeted with servers randomly crashing and not restarting after varying shortish periods of times (sometimes a few hours, sometimes a few minutes).

So with the above noted, DICE have not advised regarding whether the server fix is compulsory or not, albeit they originally provided the fix and said it must be done by X time. As a result some providers updated to the new server release and maintained it, while others either updated and rolled back, or like us, did not update at all. Those who did update and haven't rolled back are now experiencing stability issues, and of course on that list is most of the Australian providers - in fact, all three of the first ones I listed above.

These providers have not rolled back at this stage due to no formal advice being given by DICE which is fair on one hand given it's a beta, but on the other in my personal view is a bit weird given the issues are obvious. So 1+1 equaling 2 like it does, Australia has a huge discrepancy in the number of servers available to it's territory for the first night of the beta in the first territory to have a peak time. As a result, ON3 Network has seen a load of Australian players come across the ditch to play on our servers, and thus why we have been continuously full since 6:30pm NZDST. I expect this to continue for another 2 hours through to 3:30am NZDST which is the equivalent of 12:30am AEST (note their DST kicks in tomorrow night).

So as we expected, the beta providing it's interesting issues, but this one we certainly didn't think would happen. Hopefully this issue is sorted tomorrow/tonight by DICE and we will see a more manageable night tomorrow night - albeit if we don't, it means good things for the NZ BF community. We're also kind of grateful, as although annoying, Craigor is confident the performance of the servers is now optimised - we just need to get rid of some of the rubberbanding we're hearing about - we believe this is due to the international link being saturated by Aussies, but won't know until they go back to their side of the ditch and play :P

Thanks for your perseverance everyone, and hopefully it wasn't too bad a night's play. We would still appreciate any feedback whether via PM to any of the Head Admins, or just in general in a new thread to let us know your experiences for the night.

In other words bloody useless aussies. jks spork

[CSfaith]

Mike, go back to bed. Or are you still awake ? :P And you 2 old lady. Pretty sure old ladies like to nana nap ?

[[∞]MadMike]

LOL I played till 1am and was at work by 5am :P damn bf3 is going to give me more grey hair

[solman]

...................but on the other in my personal view is a bit weird given the issues are obvious. So 1+1 equaling 2 like it does, ............


Its not hard to understand Arsey..... Aussie have trouble counting that high.... and 2 is a pretty high number.

Great work on the servers guys.... other than the initial issues of not being able to connect (which has resolved itself somehow), they have been pretty stable for me to get raped regularly

[O-L-W-A-G]

Mike, go back to bed. Or are you still awake ? :P And you 2 old lady. Pretty sure old ladies like to nana nap ?

I called it a night at 9pm last night just woke up an hour ago

[CSfaith]

9am, the day begins. Now time to try and pass time until 5.30 pm then wam bam jam time :D

[Arseynimz]

Quick update: overnight (around 4am NZDST) the Master Server was updated. This update is supposed to help with the stability of the latest server build. As a result we will monitor to see what feedback the other providers have before upgrading. There is also a further upgrade scheduled for later today, so we may just skip to that in due course. Either way, please be aware that we may drop the servers to upgrade without any more notice than this post.

[Growler]

How long (estimate) do you take to do a rolling upgrade on all servers?

More asking out of curiosity etc. How many instances per rig? how many rigs, how much BW you been through so far. It would have to be the most traffic the servers have seen for a while?

[Kaizer]

Need high ping kicker...



THIS.

Servers are filled with foreigners who join using the play now matchmaking button. They lag the server

[Solarghost]

Yerrr. Limit pings to about 130ms (To cater for NZ crappy connections)

16 CPUs, for all servers, so not enough processing power basically is one answer, other things that add lagg:

Aussies, Match making service, BF3 not testing their network code :P I guess beta means everyone else tests it for em ha. A reduction in servers to about 10 servers would help alot as well.

[simcore]

16 CPUs, for all servers, so not enough processing power basically is one answer, other things that add lagg:

Aussies, Match making service, BF3 not testing their network code :P I guess beta means everyone else tests it for em ha. A reduction in servers to about 10 servers would help alot as well.

LOL?

[Solarghost]

LOL? ?loL

[Craigorsarus]

Yerrr. Limit pings to about 130ms (To cater for NZ crappy connections)

16 CPUs, for all servers, so not enough processing power basically is one answer, other things that add lagg:

Aussies, Match making service, BF3 not testing their network code :P I guess beta means everyone else tests it for em ha. A reduction in servers to about 10 servers would help alot as well.

16 CPU's? where did you get that number from..

If I only had 16 cpu's to play with I think i would have /suicided last night...

[Arseynimz]

If we only had 16 CPU's you'd be playing on a shit ton less servers. On topic for this thread anyway, this is about the status.....

So, latest from the list is the potential update has not been completed, and thus we haven't updated yet. We will need to move to the latest build soon, so this we will try to do before peak time tonight. With the stability of the other providers now, we should see more freedom on the servers, and less alien infidels sucking our bandwidthsnesses.

Get to it marines!

[Solarghost]

It was a figure of speech, settle petal ! haha..

[.osiRiS]

Servers going offline for upto 30 mins. Thanks for your patience.

[Grumbee]

just like to report that i still cant connect to the on3 servers

[Emrico1]

Some info on the fix;

A SELECTION OF CHANGES FROM OPEN BETA TO FINAL, PART 1
(Not a complete list – for up to date news, visit the News section in Battlelog (http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/devblog/))


Fixed occasional client crash when reviving.
Fixed killcam showing glitched area under map if your killer is dead.
Issue with spawning on dead squad mates fixed.
Fixed a bug where shooting at a moving enemy could cause more than the intended amount of damage.
Crosshairs for shotguns have been replaced with a new, thinner, art.
A subtle low health screen effect has been added.
Tweaked scores of Medals and Service Stars.
Tweaked the Rank progression.
Pushing prone on console will not play the animation twice.
Fixed loss of Squad Leader after EOR at some times.
Framerate stability fixes.
The 3D spotting icons has been tweaked to better match the target’s visibility. Icons will show frequently less on mostly obscured targets.
Fixed issue with crosshair disappearing after round transition.
Fixed issue with crosshair disappearing after trying to deploy while the countdown timer still active.
Squad list now shows specializations chosen, VOIP activity and dead squad mates.
Non working options in squad menu fixed: "Private" flag and "Switch Teams".



http://planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=165478&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[private_hell]

are they any admin tools at this stage? - because the people who so head into the clipping/glitching areas of the map are starting to get really annoying

[big table]

i think i remember reading that the ON3 admins have applied the update?
if so, i can connect way more easily than yesterday. no hanging on "connecting" :P

great work guys.

now, to see what can be done about the disconnects from server lol.

[Arseynimz]

Those disconnects are the whole server disconnecting from Blaze (the master server), and are a known issue for DICE to sort - they are a lot less frequent that they used to be - I only had one tonight, where I think we had about 4 or 5 last night.

9 more days peeps, get to it and enjoy!

[big table]

thanks for the info arseynimz, been helpful to have so i don't rage so much trying to play the game lol.

but i have a feeling, it must be something on my end then because i've been disconnected or timed out while others are still on the server (mates still playing)

have been robbed if a couple a good rounds :cry: lol

[Solarghost]

The update made my gameplay worse for some reason, I am lagging more than I was yesterday LOL

[Solarghost]

Just had a game on an aussy sever and I get no lagg what so ever. So I guess it's the ON3 servers, can't cope with the amount of game servers they are running maybe?

[[∞]MadMike]

Not getting the sort of lag your talking about solarnub so perhaps your end?

[Solarghost]

MadMike;1429762']Not getting the sort of lag your talking about solarnub so perhaps your end?

haha, well... on aussy server its sweet, so thats all I can put it down to broski

[[∞]MadMike]

dont know but guys have issues with BC2 in the same way. maybe your being routed via india or something first?

[Solarghost]

MadMike;1429766']dont know but guys have issues with BC2 in the same way. maybe your being routed via india or something first?

I have Telstra Clear Cable, so I bloody hope not LOL !!!!

[swindle]

Getting lagged out here to.

TC Cable.

Not sure why, both AU and ON3 servers. Its a horrid stutter. Makes it unplayable.

[Craigorsarus]

Just had a game on an aussy sever and I get no lagg what so ever. So I guess it's the ON3 servers, can't cope with the amount of game servers they are running maybe?


I can confirm that all the servers hosting BF3 are currently bored, On Friday night every instance of bf3 we were running was packed full and the servers handled it just fine

were you getting lag on a particular server? I could try and see if there is another reason why

[Dr Woomanchu]

Craig, it has long been a slight issue that for some reason TCL cable actually has a slightly worse connection to ON3 servers than other customers on occasion.

It's never been so bad it has been worth in the inevitable hassles of trying to solve it, but it is an issue that definitely exists at times.

When I have had the issue and no non TCL customer on the server has had a problem, it has always acted like some packet loss was happening somewhere. As I said however, it is intermittent and so very difficult to pin point.

If you could suggest a resident app that logs ping/packet loss and other connection data over a sustained period, that I could run when the problem shows up, then dump the log files on you, I'd be happy to do so.

[simcore]

Thanks for the feedback regarding InHome connectivity to the servers.

Will look into it.

[Craigorsarus]

Craig, it has long been a slight issue that for some reason TCL cable actually has a slightly worse connection to ON3 servers than other customers on occasion.

It's never been so bad it has been worth in the inevitable hassles of trying to solve it, but it is an issue that definitely exists at times.

When I have had the issue and no non TCL customer on the server has had a problem, it has always acted like some packet loss was happening somewhere. As I said however, it is intermittent and so very difficult to pin point.

If you could suggest a resident app that logs ping/packet loss and other connection data over a sustained period, that I could run when the problem shows up, then dump the log files on you, I'd be happy to do so.

Simcore beat me to it lol

[simcore]

One thing, servers are hosted in Auckland so for Cable customers in Christchurch and Wellington they have have longer transit.

Second, congestion could be an issue during peak hours on some nodes.

Can you guys elaborate on what you think the issue is? packet loss?

[Dr Woomanchu]

I think you're probably right. It feels like packet loss, and is probably transient congestion at peak hours. It is certainly not persistent, and as far as I recall, after school and mid evening is worst time for it.

As I said, it's a minor irritation, for my connection anyway. It's certainly not consistently bad.

[.osiRiS]

EA master servers playing up and not reporting servers properly no ETA on a fix. Please stand by.

[Speakman]

cool, could only see between 9 and 14 ON3 servers at a time. hopefully its nice and fixed for after work tomorrow

[krit]

all server down or just me? gettin "Could not join server since it's full " on every server atm : /

[Citysoldier]

all server down or just me? gettin "Could not join server since it's full " on every server atm : /

I get this too. See 30/32, 31/32 but can't join and refresh does nothing. Can only find 4 on3 servers at the moment

edit: Ok looks like all servers are gone now

[sadisticveneer]

I get this too. See 30/32, 31/32 but can't join and refresh does nothing. Can only find 4 on3 servers at the moment

Ditto. And right after I got past the flipping "connecting" issue! Argh. Fix it EA!

[Cdr]

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b29/iptcdr/Untitled-2-42.jpg

Xbox and PS3 servers, yay!

[.osiRiS]

Today's first Battlelog update will go live at 09.00 CEST, that's in about 30 minutes. Downtime is expected to be up to 30 minutes. This affects Battlefield 3 PC Open Beta Online play.


Fixes include:


• Moderator icon has been added on the forums for moderators. ( Dam right this is urgent!)
• Players with rank 45 will now recieve the correct icon on their stats page
• Improved the scroll handling in the Server Browser
• Added more patches for Leaderboards for Xbox 360 and PS3
• More accurate ping now shows up in the server browser
• More accurate number of players now show up in the server browser

[.osiRiS]

The stats backend is having trouble connecting therefore servers are not reporting stats or loadouts. We are unable to fix this our end and are waiting on EA/DICE for a fix.

If no rank or loadout is present your games may not save. No ETA on this issue.

[Growler]

blog down now for 15 odd mins, fix must be going out

[big table]

been having good fun with the beta especially since i can connect to the on3 servers fine (generally).
but does anyone know why i might be getting connection time outs to the servers?

[LeadCollector]

Today's first Battlelog update will go live at 09.00 CEST, that's in about 30 minutes. Downtime is expected to be up to 30 minutes. This affects Battlefield 3 PC Open Beta Online play.


Fixes include:


• Moderator icon has been added on the forums for moderators. ( Dam right this is urgent what ever will I fap to?)
• Players with rank 45 need to get a life.
• More server drops at random intervals
• Added more patches for console that nobody cares about
• More server drops at random intervals
• More server drops at random intervals

Fixed

[woofnstuff]

all PC server full at 10.30 last night, got one game in befor a CTD

[ThreeTwoBravo]

Battlelog down again?, browser not opening...

[Spork]

Battlelog down again?, browser not opening...

These are daily outages while they update Battlelog apparently?

[simcore]

but does anyone know why i might be getting connection time outs to the servers?

Happening to everyone depending on how frequently you're talking about, losing connection to Battlelog would be the main reason, when it has happened I just logged in and out and reconnected without further issue. Unless there was an actual outage and I had to wait to feed my addiction.

[Arseynimz]

feed my addiction.

This man speaketh the truth. Battlelog does not lie (when it's available).

[[∞]MadMike]

Hell yeah... Simcore is the true meaning of a beta whore at the moment... Quite impressed TBH. shows real dedication :D

[BeNZene]

Just because people might not find it in its current home:


I will bring down the servers and update them with smaller numbers and a new server set at around 10pm tonight.

[.osiRiS]

Craigor and I will be running a few tests for a few hours, you may join us if you like however the server will be up and down several times.

[Machpants]

Up and down like the Assyrian Empire?

Or up and down like the performances of the French rugby team?

[Spork]

Up and down like Obble's mother on a stripper's pole.

[Arseynimz]

Renamed and now closing thread as it was beta related.

Stand by for new thread for release action!