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BF3 - Rush/Karkand Server Update

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:06:05 +0000

Just wanted to let everyone know that our Rush and Karkand server will be moving to a new machine later this evening or early in the morning. Hopefully just when they are empty.

For those of you who don't know though about the issues happening, those 2 servers are on the same box. Well there was another server who was constantly being attacked, which would cause people to lose connection in both of those servers.

That will no longer happen after I contacted Branzone and they said they would be moving our servers for us!

BF3 - Karkand/Rush Kicking Entire Server

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:34:35 +0000

Just recently, for the past 2 nights at the SAME time our Karkand and Rush server has kicked everyone in the server. It's not the server crashing, and normally we only expected this once in a blue moon due to EA/DICE issues and the connection to their servers gets lost.

I'm not so certain that EA/DICE is the full blame here since it has happened two evenings in a row, since it was rarely happening to us with our Branzone servers. With that being said I have a request out to Branzone to look into this issue. I will keep you all updated on this issue with whatever it might be EA/DICE or the Data Center and I apologize for any issues this has caused for you.

Thank you for supporting the =ADK= Gaming Community

::EDIT::

We got a response back from Branzone. They informed us that both of these servers are on the same machine in which there is another IP being DDOS'd which is causing the issues. That being the reason why 2 nights in a row around the same time this issue has occurred and caused the connection issues. The IP has been null routed by the data center which is why we are able to access the servers again.

BF3 - Maintenance January 31st

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:49:53 +0000

Unfortunately our populated servers will be coming down here in about 7 hours so it seems. They haven't told us what exactly they are doing yet, but once they release the notes we will let everybody know. Below is the current information that we have from EA/DICE.

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There will be some downtime tomorrow during a regular maintenance period at

12:00 AM PST - 3:00 AM PST
03:00 AM EST - 06:00 AM EST
08:00 GMT - 11:00 GMT
09:00 CET - 12:00 CET

This will affect online connectivity on platforms PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

During this downtime, Battlelog will be updated. More information on this tomorrow.

Battlefield 3 - R19 Patch - 1/24/2012

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:04:02 +0000

This new update is supposed to fix some more server crashes as well as expanding the ban list to prevent crashes that way. Seems as though they are finally stepping up and realizing how many hackers are truly out there! Thank you EA/DICE!

Listed below is the changelog

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Fixed the most common server crash. The story behind this one is fairly convoluted:

When a player begins the process of joining a server, the server will begin buffering some kinds of information in anticipation of the player completing the loading & joining phase. However, players sometimes get stuck in the loading screen. This makes the server buffer more and more info for that player. A side effect of this is a temporary resource leak in the game server. The leak is immediately restored if the server changes map, or the player completes loading, or the player shuts down the game client. However if a player manages to remain stuck for 30+ minutes in loading on a server with lots of activity and the server doesn’t end the round, then the server could run out of the particular resource – it would then crash.

The new server version will forcibly disconnect clients which are threatening to exhaust that particular resource. With this change in place, we do not know of anything that would make high-ticket servers less stable than normal-ticket servers.

Long banlists will not crash the server.

The banlist supports up to 10.000 entries now. This limit can be raised in the future.
The banList.list command has been modified to return at most 100 entries at a time (similar to how BC2 PC’s banList.list command works).
Any administrative tools will need to be updated to be able to see more than the first 100 entries.

BF3 - Server Updates - 1/12/2012 (2 pm PST)

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:09:57 +0000

So many of you got online and were wondering why the servers were empty.

Well after getting kicked off of Origin and not being able to login, I decided to go and look at the issues.

I looked in the Battlelog forums, and sure enough many other people were having the same issue. Checked the EA Server status HERE and sure enough the servers were listed as "Stressed" and that was why I saw literally tons of people trying to connect to the TDM server and nobody was able to get in. Then hopping on Team Speak to find out Elegy and many others were having the same issue.

As I finish writing this it looks like after many hours the PC servers are no longer stressed and people are able to join. I will keep you guys updated if there are any more issues! And I do want to thank those of you who came on the site and on the Chat this morning asking about what was going on. I appreciate the fact that people care, and support the community and our servers. Stay tuned for more info about the removal of our NFo servers and possible gaining of 2 new servers.

Metro and Rush to be shut down. (Please Read)

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:47:04 +0000

After much deliberation we will be removing the 24/7 Metro and 24/7 Rush server in the next few days if not sooner than later.

Those of you who have been on Team Speak while the multitude of issues have occurred with the Metro/Rush servers know I am fed up with NFo. They have and will always blame all the issues that have occurred on EA/DICE. While that's understandable, it's happening way too often on NFo servers, where as Branzone has not had any of these issues since the first few patches. So that only leads me to believe that there are some issues that NFo could take care of in some way, but won't.

All of our BF3 Servers are in Chicago, and yes there are multiple data centers in every state. But when a customer says they aren't experiencing this issue with another provider, you'd think they would look into the issue. No, in fact they won't. And rather than trying to figure out a way to prevent the issues from occurring, they just put the blame elsewhere constantly. I'm fine with issues being EA/DICE related, but when they continue to occur multiple times with just these 2 servers.

Also, when these issues started occurring multiple times a day/week we were told that we were being DDOS'd. I didn't believe it and neither did my friend who was getting us the servers at a discounted price on his dedicated box. So we asked to change the IPs of the servers, after a bunch of grief saying that would take a while to do they did it. Well what's the reason now for the same issues occurring? They didn't say anything about DDOS, but instead they say it's an EA/DICE issue. So what one is it?! DDOS or EA/DICE? I don't think they know, especially because they will take 16 year olds to "volunteer" for them to answer support tickets. And then the tickets always get pushed to the Owner anyways since the support techs can't do anything.

Nuclear Fall Out is not what I once remembered it was supposed to be. NFo is not a place for a growing gaming community, but rather young gamers who are looking for a start. Here at ADK we need reliability and top notch support, and NFo definitely doesn't have that.

We are terribly sorry to all of you who have found us through our Metro and Rush servers, but we will be taking them down. While they were cheaper for us than the $80 - 90 a month that we have to pay for our Branzone servers they were nowhere near the quality.

We would love to get those servers back up and running, and if we do end up purchasing 5 servers from Branzone, we can get a discount of about 1 free server. So the total would be about $350 a month for all 5 servers, plus High CPU Priority, and then the 6th server that we currently have for our Scrims/Matches. So 5 servers with High CPU Priority would be around $450 dollars a month, and that doesn't include the 6th match server.

There's an opportunity to get a great deal here, but currently we don't have enough revenue for $350 a month. We are probably about $100 short. Donations are greatly appreciated. We can take donations of any amount, starting at $2. All donations go directly towards the game servers. And everyone who donates will also be entered into our monthly raffle.

Thank you for your support and understanding of the current situation. We look to bring back those 2 servers as soon as possible.

BF3 - Vote kick/ban REMOVED

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:46:44 +0000

Alright,

So yesterday I added the Vote Kick/Ban feature to all of the servers, despite having doubts about it and what it will do to the @report and @admin feature in our server. Which is the BEST feature we have and allows us to be ontop of all the hackers.

Well this evening, 2 servers emptied because of the Vote Kick/Ban feature being used and not being successful. And because people were too busy using that feature they didn't use @report or @admin, which is exactly what I knew was going to happen, even without announcing that I added it. Because once 1 person tried it, everybody and their mothers followed along and didn't contact the admins.

With all that being said Vote Kick/Ban is now removed from all of the servers. I'm sorry but I'm not going to risk servers emptying while admins are at our computers because people won't use a feature that will get the player removed quicker than Vote Kick/Ban. That should be used in case of an emergency and admins can't be there.

I hope you all understand, and PLEASE make sure you tell everybody in the server to use the feature. I don't care if I get 30 emails at a time while one hacker is in the server. I would rather have that than 2 64 man servers completely empty because of a feature people say is needed, when truly it's not.

So while I am frustrated that the servers emptied because of that feature, I know we can get them populated again, so I hope you will all join us in the morning to fill them.

Thanks for your support of the community!

BF3 - Server Technical Difficulties

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:14:50 +0000

Just want to give a little update to everyone who visits our servers frequently.

If you have been on either our Rush or Metro (Conquest) Server you have been noticing a bunch of crashes/disconnected/things along those lines. Well there could be many different things wrong. We've been talking to the server provider (Who is not our normal provider for the TDM, Mixed, Karkand Servers) and it kind of seems like we're getting the run around. So we are doing whatever we can to take care of these issues.

For now though we have changed our Karkand Server to 24/7 Metro Conquest. Please let your friends know and hop on that server if you'd like to get those points or just have tons of fun! And we ask that you let all of your friends know as well for the time being!

Thank you for your patience and support during these issues. We never like having these issues, but like any successful community, there are always bound to be these issues.

Battlefield 3 - 32 Players in Queue for ADK Ser...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:06:20 +0000

Check this picture out! Never thought i'd see 32 people in queue for the =ADK= Server! That was epic!

Battlefield 3 Servers - Down for R3/R11 Update

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:48:50 +0000

Just want to let everybody know about the current update. The downtime is scheduled to be between 12 am - 4 am Pacific time. They have been pretty good about updates and hopefully battlelog will be up before the 4 hour time period for us PC users.

The =ADK= Battlefield 3 Servers should be ready to go by the time Battelog is up as well, so get ready to hop in the servers and have some fun!

Thanks for your support of the =ADK= Gaming Community!

You can view more details of this update HERE.

Battlefield 3 - 11/21 - Patch (11 PM PST)

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:19:23 +0000

A much needed Patch is finally going to be released for Battlefield 3! Below is the change log for the patch. As you can see it's going to be a big patch. So be prepared to download a large file!

We should all be happy about this update and lets hope it brings some good changes to the servers!

Major client update for the PC version Battlefield 3 as well as a server-side update for all platforms.

The update will be made on Nov. 22nd 7:00 AM UTC / Nov. 21st 11:00 PM PST.

We’ll share release timing on the console patches as soon as we are clear on the timing, these take a bit longer due to console certification process.

---- Client-Side Changes:

-- Visuals, Stability and Performance Fixes:

• General performance and loading time improvements
• “Black Screen” fix for an issue occurring on some PC Configurations
• Stereo and Rendering Support for Nvidia and AMD Graphics Cards
• Adjusted the “stuttering” encountered on some PC configurations.
• Fixed several Crashes when joining MP and Co-Op sessions
• Fixed multiple problems when using multiple monitors (Eyefinity / Surround).
• Fixed visual corruption issues on certain Nvidia Cards
• Improved loading times for certain textures
• Added console command “GameTime.MaxVariableFps” to limit max FPS
• Added console command “UI.DrawEnable” to hide UI for screenshots / videos

-- Balance and Gameplay Adjustments (PC)

• Fixed a problem with high speed mouse movement
• Added back some missing Growlers on Kharg Island Conquest Large
• Added back EOR sound for SQDM and TDM
• You should no longer be able to damage a friendly vehicle when sitting in an open position
• Grenades now drop to ground if you get killed while attempting to throw it(note the affect this will have on Hardcore mode!)
• Spawn protection now should work in Conquest. You should no longer spawn on points too close to enemies
• You should no longer spawn too close to enemies in TDM and SQDM
• Combat areas on Kharg Rush tweaked in order to disallow defenders to access the carrier ship after 1st base is taken and being able to enter the AA gun
• Fixed a problem with revived players not suffering suppression
• Fixed a problem with the camera when being revived in COOP
• Added joystick deadzone setting
• Fixed sound for when climbing ladders
• Fixed an issue with some weapon sounds in first person
• Fixed a swim sound loop error
• Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns, AA guns, and Jet Cannons against infantry
• Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns against jeeps.
• Reduced the physics impact of AA guns and Jet Cannons, players under attack from these weapons should no longer lose control.
• Increased the damage of the 44 Magnum slightly.
• Increased the range and minimum damage of the .357 Round from the MP412 Rex.
• Increased the range of all .45cal and 9mm weapons.
• Slightly increased the range of the P90 and MP7 and PDW-R.
• Slightly increased the range of the 5.56mm PDW-R and decreased the minimum damage at long range.
• Slightly increased the minimum range of the Mk11, SVD, and M39 EMR 7.62mm rifles.
• Decreased the maximum damage and maximum range of the G3 and SCAR-H 7.62mm weapons.
• Reduced the damage from FIM-92 and SA-18 IGLA missiles against aircraft.
• Increased the damage and range of the 40mm BUCK rounds.
• Reduced the damage .50cal weapons do against Helicopters.
• Updated T90 canister shell tweaks to match Abrams canister shells
UI Changes (PC)
• Added round duration and ticket summary at EOR
• Advanced squad polish – should be more intuitive
• Significant changes to the Join Squad functionality (see below)
• Fixed a problem regarding keybindings while playing
• You should now get a better error message when being disconnected via Battlelog

---- Server Update Highlights

• EOD Bot exploit fix
• Several crash fixes
• Anti-stat padding measures taken, disallowing ranked servers to run obscure settings
• Improved team kill kick configuration
• Support for unranked servers. Unranked servers do not report players' scores to Battlelog, but server administrators can freely control all settings

-- Share your profile and stats with new Battlelog functionality

• Ability to share your Profile and Stats pages to Facebook, Google+, and Twitter
• User Profile and Stats pages on Battlelog can now be accessed without being signed in to Battlelog if you know a user's URL
• Single sign on from Battlelog to Origin. If you're not logged in to Origin and join a game server, Battlelog will automatically sign you in to Origin in the background and join the game server

-- Quick notes on Squad changes in the Nov 22 update

• Removed FIND ME A SQUAD option
• Allow players to join empty Squads alone, thus having 1/4 squad members
• Change order of options to LEAVE SQUAD, INV A FRIEND, SWITCH TEAM
• Disable Privacy flag when 1 man squad
• Reset Privacy flag from Private to Public when squad drops to 1 player
• All occupied Squads will now show up colored blue on the Squad Selection screen
• Players who choose not to join squads will also show up as Blue in the "Not in a Squad” line
• Squads that are currently empty will display as white -- if you wish to join an empty Squad, you can choose the first one marked with white text

-- A detailed look at Squad refinements

A detailed look at Squad refinements

Today's PC client patch features numerous tweaks to Squad functionality and is part of our ongoing efforts to make it easier to play with friends and Platoon mates. These changes will also be implemented for consoles when we release the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 updates shortly. Stay tuned for the exact date of the console updates.

First, we need to look at how joining with Squads and Platoons affects the balance of teams. Initially, servers are commanded to equal out each side, so joining with friends can impact that balance while joining with Platoons further hinders this. As a result we have made some adjustments to the in-game Squad management screen.

For PC, you are now able to highlight the various Squads and select which one you wish to join by selecting a Squad and then clicking the Join Squad button. Please note that the Squad Privacy option still allows 2 man Squads which, during 64 player sessions, can lead to players with no squad position –- the number of people with no Squads will be shown at the bottom of the Squad selection list.

After the patch is applied to consoles (in the near future) you will be able to join Squads by cycling through the list and selecting which Squad you wish to join.

Battlefield 3 - Server Updates

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:44:30 +0000

Just wanted to give a few updates about our Battlefield 3 Servers, since people have been having questions or the normal complaints in our TDM Server.

TDM Server Updates

Spawn Issues:

The more people in the server, the more it happens
These issues are NOT caused by plugins on the server (plugins weren't even on the server when this first started happening after a patch that was supposed to fix spawn issues)
Complaining in the server will fix nothing. Please visit the EA Forums and complain there
We do not create the spawn issues on purpose. (If you're that naive to believe any admin will do that to their server you need to reconsider your plans in life.)
We will be adding more admins to try to limit spawn camping/killing

Conquest Server Updates

General Updates:

We are moving the server to a new location to hopefully fix some issues. It could work, or it might not work. All of the issues that we are having with the server are known issues that EA has yet to fix. It's been 2 weeks to the day since there has been a patch from EA. And there are still plenty of issues.
This will be a 64 man server when things get stable for the server, but we will probably leave it at 32 for a while till we see how things

General Updates

We are adding the admin abilities to both of the servers
Will be looking for mature, level headed, and ACTIVE members for admins for BF3
If you enjoy our servers, help support us by donating. Even $5 helps, because both servers are around $90 each month! Just click "Donate" at the top of the website!

Thanks for playing on the =ADK= Gaming Community Battlefield 3 Servers! We appreciate your support, feel free to let us know if you have any comments or suggestions!

Battlefield 3 - 11/10 Scheduled Downtime

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:28:28 +0000

Just informing everybody that on 11/10 sometime between 6 - 10 am our server will go down for an upgrade that will hopefully help limit the amount of crashes that servers are experiencing. Our host has talked to many other hosts and have found that there are many servers out there that are experiencing crashes.

We were also informed that we will probably have to wait until Monday/Tuesday for a patch to be released. So lets hope that the server will be fine after this upgrade.

If you experience any other issues please let us know, but for now lets just hope that this upcoming patch fixes a lot of issues!

Thanks for supporting the =ADK= Gaming Community!

BF3 Server - Ticket Updates

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:59:02 +0000

Well we just received some information that we might now be able to change tickets on the server. I have a variable in the config, but it will not be able to be tested until the server restarts. So we will either wait till the server A) Crashes or a patch gets pushed out that restarts the server.

Let's hope that it does change and we can play some DM for a little bit longer than 8 minutes each round.

Thanks for playing on the =ADK= BF3 Server!

Battlefield 3 - 11/4/2011 Downtime

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:27:46 +0000

We've got another update coming from EA that will hopefully fix some more issues. Mainly the spawn deploy issue since that is the BIGGEST problem right now. So lets keep our fingers crossed.

Below is the message from EA:

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We will be rolling out updates that will affect PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 players. Maintenance begins at 2 AM PDT and will last until 3 AM PDT.

Battlelog and online multiplayer services for PC will be unavailable during this time. Online multiplayer services for PS3 and XBOX 360 may experience intermittent issues over the hour-long period. Sorry for any inconvenience – we’ll have you back in and playing as soon as possible!

We generally try to do maintenance Monday through Thursdays around this time so that as few people as possible are disrupted.

As you can see most of the maintenance will be done Monday - Thursday so if there ever is an issue on the weekends know that it might be a few days before it's taken care of.

Make sure to come join us on our server after it comes back up around 3 am PDT!

Thank you all for your support and patience while we try to work around the deploy issue.

TF2 Servers Back To Normal

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:53:17 +0000

After a great Halloween Event, we are putting 2 of our main servers back to their normal rotations.

So our main server: 174.34.176.21:27015
is now going back to the Badwater/Goldrush Rotation

And our trade server: 69.147.230.212:27015
is now going back to just trade_plaza

If you are still interested in the Halloween event we do have 2 other servers that are still running the halloween event. You can find them at:
23.19.141.6:27015
23.19.141.5:27015

We all hope you had a successful and fun Halloween and hope to continue to see you on our servers!

Thanks for your support!

Battlefield 3 - 11/2/11 Downtime

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:52:28 +0000

Another schedule downtime for Battlefield 3. This time isn't during the wee hours of the morning though. So all servers will be down for about 2 hours. Make sure to join us when servers come back up though!

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We will perform maintenance on our servers (all platforms) on the 2nd of November at 9:00 - 11:00 GMT. During this time, you won´t be able to play online.

Battlefield 3 - R7 Server Patch

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:43:29 +0000

Listed below are the changes of what took place in the latest patch - R7. Some great improvements should be seen here for everyone in our server!

Changes

Fix for rubber banding
TDM/SQDM spawn point fix
2 crash fixes in end of round
Fix for connection problem when joining password protected servers

Battlefield 3 - 11/1/11 Downtime

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:55:12 +0000

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Be advised! We are boosting the capacity of our Battlefield 3 servers tonight. As such, all platforms will be down for maintenance and performance upgrades at 2AM PDT for about an hour. Thank you for your patience!

Make sure to get your gaming in for the night before the downtime, or you can always hop in the server afterwards!

=ADK= Minecraft server

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:12:53 +0000

Have you gone and checked out our minecraft server yet? If not, what are you waiting for! Check it out today!

Do you want to play Survival? or would you rather play Creative and build whatever you'd like? Well don't worry we have the best of both worlds, so come check it out today and let us know what you think.

Cookiemonster has done a lot with the server and we think you'll be happy!

We hope to see you in the server soon!

Server IP: sc20.servercraft.co8780