Forgotten Soldiers

Hi guys,

Just wanted to make sure you're aware of this, as I have just come off the server, but during my game, I noticed that the server was kicking players at random, with a long number, saying that they have timed out. Normally when a player really does time out, the number at the end of the console message is 999, but I saw Badger_Brock kicked for timing out with a number something like 609873463.

This happened to several players in one game and happened about 10 minutes before this post.
Should be 'Roundhouse' if you want to check the logs.

Thanks,

Dan

I was there too when this happened. Like he said, the odd number was at the end, in place where 999 would usually be.

At first I thought it looked like their GUID, but the numbers were too long to be such. They were able to join right after, and it didn't seem to happen to the same people. And I think the same people were getting messages from the server saying to reduce their ping or they wold be kicked, but pings seemed to be fine to those it was happening to.

Nah I don't think it was a GUID, did consider maybe an error code - but it changed each time a player was kicked off.

I definitely had higher pings consistently than all of those who were kicked. I think Badger's ping was only around 80ms, whereas I'm in the UK, so I was playing with 150+ms.

Doesn't seem like a network issue to me, unless there's some kind of DDOS attack going on which I don't know about, only affecting some ISPs, causing sudden ping spikes.
But even then, normally the player is frozen on 999 for a while before the server gives them the boot.

Really really odd, never seen anything like that before... 

We are well aware of it and have been looking into it.  It's a bug that happens sometimes with B3's Pingkicker plugin. Need to report it to the devs as no one else has reported it yet. Seems like we're the only clan that has ran into it so far. Thanks for letting us know.