Question Crysis 2 server help?

[Mamba]

The price recently dropped (well, on eBay at least) for Crysis 2 so our clan is buying it.

One big reason is that things have changed from what Wizz originally stated re: "There wil be no modding, mapping or anything to Crysis2".....the SDK released last month, several community maps out now. While it's not like ye olden days, I figure this is as close as we'll get and the price was right.

Initially I bought a private unranked 6-slot server as I'd read that you could still gain XP to unlock weapons\perks unranked. Wasn't working, no XP collection so I tried a private ranked server. Thought you could have private and ranked but NO, apparently not. The "help" tip on my GSP control panel says that if the ranked server is run with a password it will be unranked.

Could some C2 Admin who truly knows about how XP and unlocks work in this game please reply with that info for myself and others? I read stuff like this and it just adds to the confusion:

http://forums.gameservers.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=44966

We were running ^this way before and I saw no XP collected, but maybe that was because the server was passworded??

All we want to do is to be able to unlock weapons & perks, don't care about leaderboard status. Preferably we'd like to keep our server private but if we have to run public for awhile to progress then so be it. Once we rank up a bit, we want to run private with custom maps/mods so will need to switch back to unranked.

TIA,

M

[Mike Nomad]

Have you looked at this RCON TOOL?

[Mamba]

Thanks Mike, yah that's the one I'm using. There is also this one, tho' I prefer the former.

Mainly trying to figure out whether we really need to run ranked to gain XP. Before I suggested this purchase to our guys I'd gotten the impression that the answer was "no"....but it's not working out that way so far.

[Kill-Zone]

Originally Posted by Mamba

Thanks Mike, yah that's the one I'm using. There is also this one, tho' I prefer the former.

Mainly trying to figure out whether we really need to run ranked to gain XP. Before I suggested this purchase to our guys I'd gotten the impression that the answer was "no"....but it's not working out that way so far.

unranked and password protected will prevent you from gaining xp or unlocking weapons.

[Mamba]

>unranked and password protected will prevent you from gaining xp..

At this point I'm trying to determine if it all comes down to the password-protected aspect. Mainly due to a few posts I've seen that echo that one I referenced, where it's stated ".... But dont let the Unranked and Ranked get you fooled, you gain XP on both type of servers."

KZ, have you (or anyone) verified that unranked without a password still = no XP?

[Kill-Zone]

Originally Posted by Mamba

>unranked and password protected will prevent you from gaining xp..

At this point I'm trying to determine if it all comes down to the password-protected aspect. Mainly due to a few posts I've seen that echo that one I referenced, where it's stated ".... But dont let the Unranked and Ranked get you fooled, you gain XP on both type of servers."

KZ, have you (or anyone) verified that unranked without a password still = no XP?

i owned a server and our server stated that if you added password on it you get xp but it wont rank you up our wont unlock weapons.

we closed it because we dont support companys who charge money for mappacks while the game is bugged and servers are not running without problems.

ontopic again:D

i dont know if they changed anything about the ranked unranked servers but when we played we did not lvled up our unlocked weapons when i changed it to unranked/ password protected.

so you need a official server to gain xp/lvls/weapons

[Mamba]

Thanks KZ...
Charging for DLC is becoming SOP these days....sad. But with the SDK released last month we can now ignore those. Already a handful of decent community maps out now and more should be forthcoming.

Server-wise, C2 is kinda like the MOH server we moved from when running without a password (which is how it's set currently so that we can rank up). It takes 4 players to get out of "warm-up" mode and start ranking. OR, if I'm around I think I can kickstart it via the remote console (rcon) to get it going sooner. That seemed to work ok last night.

Without a password in place, I can't keep the pubbers off. But as long as I have exact player names for our clan in the reservedslots.cfg file on the server, it should kick non-reserved players to make room when they join. I've read that this works.

I may grab their free unranked server files to play with at home. Be easier to test custom maps and XP stuff that way than having our GSP switch our server mode.

[Kill-Zone]

Originally Posted by Mamba

Thanks KZ...
Charging for DLC is becoming SOP these days....sad. But with the SDK released last month we can now ignore those. Already a handful of decent community maps out now and more should be forthcoming.

Server-wise, C2 is kinda like the MOH server we moved from when running without a password (which is how it's set currently so that we can rank up). It takes 4 players to get out of "warm-up" mode and start ranking. OR, if I'm around I think I can kickstart it via the remote console (rcon) to get it going sooner. That seemed to work ok last night.

Without a password in place, I can't keep the pubbers off. But as long as I have exact player names for our clan in the reservedslots.cfg file on the server, it should kick non-reserved players to make room when they join. I've read that this works.

I may grab their free unranked server files to play with at home. Be easier to test custom maps and XP stuff that way than having our GSP switch our server mode.

you also cant run custom maps on a ranked server. same with mods and such.

if you get a unranked server let me know i jump in

[Mamba]

>You also cant run custom maps on a ranked server....

Keeerect...not much control period when ranked.

>if you get a unranked server let me know i jump in

I have my test server working as of a few minutes ago, using their free dedi package...am able to find/connect to it okay via the game browser. But not sure how the performance would be running from home...will need to get a few of our clan to try it out.
Will let ya know when we switch over to unranked later on.....tx.

[Kill-Zone]

Originally Posted by Mamba

>You also cant run custom maps on a ranked server....

Keeerect...not much control period when ranked.

>if you get a unranked server let me know i jump in

I have my test server working as of a few minutes ago, using their free dedi package...am able to find/connect to it okay via the game browser. But not sure how the performance would be running from home...will need to get a few of our clan to try it out.
Will let ya know when we switch over to unranked later on.....tx.

dont think it will run smooth if you host it yourself crysis 2 is bad coded they did not even fixed the orbital beam lag

but let me know when you have everything fixed :D

[Mamba]

Originally Posted by Kill-Zone

dont think it will run smooth if you host it yourself ..

Maybe it's better since 1.9; had 4 of us in there last night and played surprisingly well. The server is no powerhouse either....MS WHS 2003, single 3Ghz P4, 2GB, old Nvidia card...6800GT I think.

We played a bit on our GSP server too, but the sv_maxplayers must not work in ranked. Was fun until high-rank aholes started showing up and dust'n us. Couldn't get a kick or ban to work via either rcon tool I have...sucked. Think I'll go back to private unranked on that server sooner than planned; plenty of empty pub servers we can meet on and endure that kinda abuse...just have to find ranked ones.

[Kill-Zone]

Originally Posted by Mamba

Maybe it's better since 1.9; had 4 of us in there last night and played surprisingly well. The server is no powerhouse either....MS WHS 2003, single 3Ghz P4, 2GB, old Nvidia card...6800GT I think.

We played a bit on our GSP server too, but the sv_maxplayers must not work in ranked. Was fun until high-rank aholes started showing up and dust'n us. Couldn't get a kick or ban to work via either rcon tool I have...sucked. Think I'll go back to private unranked on that server sooner than planned; plenty of empty pub servers we can meet on and endure that kinda abuse...just have to find ranked ones.

if you have a gsp that host your server let them add another command line that works with that rcon tool that been released it worked great here and good support on that but your isp must add a command line into the server config files

[Mamba]

>that rcon tool that been released it worked great here

I already use the C2EAI tool. It seemed to be working before and it definitely worked on a player today when I tried both kick & ban functions. I think it wasn't working on the one really annoying player last night due to his name being mostly special characters. Maybe he created it that way for that reason. At the time I thought it was the tool but in retrospect...

Either way, I really don't want to have to spend my time on the server being a kindergarten cop; that was one major problem with MOH even with the Phogue scripts running. I changed our GSP server back to private unranked. You've got PM, or will shortly.

I checked today and found 51 mostly empty North America region standard mode ranked servers with pings under 130. Many of those are listed as EA servers. For ranking we'll just choose one of those 51. I'd think the hackers would be less likely to play on the EA ones. If the pubbers get annoying we'll just move to another, or go play private and use what we've unlocked thus far. I found 3 likely "n00b" servers for ranking, filtering on "New Recruit, NA region, ranked". The classes seem to unlock pretty fast, I already have Assault, Gunner, Sniper & Scout. Get'n better guns/perks may take awhile.