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Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Updated to R9
Apr 08 2010 16:12:55 by Killing
All Bad Company 2 servers have been updated to version R9 this build includes a number of crash fixes, so we hope all servers will be even more stable now.

The full change list is:-

• admin.say command implemented
  
  • - the output currently looks a bit funky on the game client, like so: Player: [Server]: <text> but with the next game client it will look like: Server: <text>
  
  
• admin.yell to squad has changed (you need to specify both team and squad)
• squad numbering has changed - the "no squad" squad has ID 0, and real squads are 1 and up.
• Autobalance improved, it shuffles people both during and between rounds now, and does a better job. Note: There is currently no way to turn it off
• mapList* commands reworked
• banList* commands reworked
• listPlayers command added
• admin.listPlayers command reworked (GUID, kills, deaths, ping and score added)
• Players have non-PB GUIDs now (these are distinct from PB GUIDs)
• onChat event reworked
  
  • now it specifies target player subset as well
  • shows text before profanity filtering
  • client-originated chat messages starting with "/" make it to the server, and broadcast via onChat, but are not broadcast to other game clients
  • use "/!<command>" if you want to be able to send commands to your homemade rcon tools without showing the commands to other players
  
  
• player.onAuthenticated added (it's triggered when a player receives GUID)
• player.onSquadChange, player.onTeamChange implemented
• Couple of crash fixes
• Support for server-side "region" setting (not yet used by the game client)
• Ranked ON forces game-password OFF
• Ranked and PunkBuster settings can only be changed during server startup
• A server is marked as "hardcore" either when Friendly Fire is enabled, or when all the typical hardcore settings (hardcore killcam minimap etc) have been flipped
• exposed number of rounds per maps in maplist.txt, and via the remote admin commands

Update @ 2010/04/08: Unfortunately R9 seems to have cause a few issues with a number of remote admin tools including Live Control. We are currently working on fixes for these issues. Update @ 2010/04/08 19:21: Clanforge LiveControl has now been updated to deal with the new player list format in R9