original SWBF seems to have a master server issue
can anyone else check ?
I think it is the North American Master server...
I switched to the other one during last issue.. too tirred now. I will tomorrow if no one confirms
Yeah it seems to be down for me too.
All servers have been down for 3 days now, from Oz end :o
This is all I found
http://forum.gameshare.co/showthread.php?tid=498
SWBF1 doesnt work, but swbf2 does...
Ahhg! I had offered to help more!
I'm confused; he's turned off the server and giving us the source code in the hopes that we will help but not create our own game master community? Maybe I read it wrong. I'll email him and see what we can do.
Well, if we can get the source and it really works, I will host on our linux account...
Please tell Kalle I will pay him $250 if he will help us set up a master server and give us access to the source.
Edit:
We really need to control our own destiny. I am willing to host a master server on our linux account, or another one like it. I am only really interested in SWBF and SWBF2.
Let's move forward as a united group to ask Kalle--Drunkin Master will talk with him.
Kalle has an account here, but I am not sure which one it is.
Here is Kalle's post from Anyder's link
[spoiler]
Hey guys,
after a long journey to re-engineer most parts of GameMaster we're having trouble to invest the time like before. LeKeks and me are very busy (I just got a new apartment and have much to do) and also I'm annoyed of the response of the community. I know you all really like our work and I really appreciate that! But there are always much noises if something does not work. They also threatening me, probably us, that tey'll change to GameRanger or VPNs like Tunngle if things are not working. I don't want that poop any more. Just keep cool and note: you didn't pay for that but you want me to keep it up and running. Think about that!
For now, I haven't the time to develop GameMaster alone. Hopefully someone out there knows PHP or VisualBasic and will help us to make GameMaster even better over the next years. Hopefully there isn't somebody that grabs all sources and tries to create a new "GameMaster". That's not what I want to.
I'm also surprised about the Battlefront Community. Some people (~ 5) have spent some money (~40€) for my project so I could pay the bills for the servers. But that money is gone for months now and nothing else happened. In the meantime others said via mail "I will help you" but nothing happend either. I'm sorry but it feels that nobody cares about us and the project. As an result: the official GameMaster gameservers will shutdown over the next weeks. Then you'll definately need to host your own gameservers. I don't want to spent 50euros per month any more. The GameMaster Masterservers will kept online as long as possible. But It wouldn't cost you much to spent some money (probably 1 euro per month) for our project. But it would help to buy the needed servers and spent time on doing something for the community.
The source will be available on github soon after I commented them. Maybe over the next 2 weeks. I hope someone will have a look at them and help us to improve the GameMaster servers.
Thanks for that!
[/spoiler]
PHP....I'm not a master at it but I know a fair amount. I really doubt it but maybe I could help.
I got a couple of additional smaller donations to help the offer and will make the offer to Kalle.
That's unfortunate to hear Gamemaster is having financial problems but I'm glad they will share the source. We knew that eventually we would have to host own master server as Led stated. I'd be willing to host an alternate master server on the NFO Chicago Root, which will be moving to New York by next month. We should make minimal changes to the code only as needed to get the servers running again. I'd suggest we host one in Chicago, New York, and Frankfurt. If I was running Gamemaster I would close all game servers, but not the master server. The problem with hosting all those gameservers is that players are not active continuously in this game, most only play for certain events or at times when other friends are online. It is also more expensive than running the master server. Gameranger, Tunngle, Evolve, and other workarounds are nowhere near as efficient as Gamemaster.
Makes sense to me Phobos. We'll see what Kalle and LeKeks say.
yup its still down
I can adjust my master server to accept and process native protocol or make the server wrapper report server details (such as ip, port, player stats etc). It would, however require dedicated process to support native clients (server list works perfectly even through the website MS)
the list is empty, but on gametracker i see some Servers?
Quote from: defiant on October 10, 2015, 06:59:37 AM
the list is empty, but on gametracker i see some Servers?
Gametracker doesn't seem to be using the master server. All the servers are running, but are not available through master server, because it's down (direct connection still works).
Drunkin Master has been in contact with Kalle.
It seems Kalle wants to keep hosting the master server, but not game servers. The timing of his rant and the master server going bad may have been just a coincidence.
I guess the next step would be for someone to let him know the Master Server is not working for a couple of days now.
It would be nice to have own native master server too.
I sent Kalle a note clarifying if the intention is to shut the GameMaster Host servers in a few weeks or if he has already done it (since it is down). It might be a coincidence since the Master Server list still shows our servers up but no one is playing BF1 PC. All other BF's have players right now.
for a temporary fix use this one and drop it in your GameData folder. backup the old one. :tu:
https://mega.nz/#!OR4gVa7S!xzUDNv3qOztC_73pIai2da7jWLnXXrWSTbzJJxfFYeo
english exe no cd
Does that point to the europe master server ?
it use the usa one
Quote from: oldsnake on October 10, 2015, 10:15:04 AM
for a temporary fix use this one and drop it in your GameData folder. backup the old one. :tu:
https://mega.nz/#!OR4gVa7S!xzUDNv3qOztC_73pIai2da7jWLnXXrWSTbzJJxfFYeo
Does that point to the europe master server ?
does not work with the german verison of BF
You can try using my launcher (if you have the master server ip).
defiant you can get the german one here http://forum.gameshare.co/showthread.php?tid=483 get the usa version battlefront_america_deutsch
OK, here is the issue:
The original patch we made with 1.2 no-CD won't work anymore due to an IP address change at GameMaster.
Here is what you can do for now:
use the original Gamespy exe file and your CD/DVD. If you use our patch autoinstaller, a backup copy of the original exe is in your GameData folder.
Use the NYC IP addresses in your hosts file
Gamemaster NYC IP list
We will work on updating the patch auto-installer.
162.243.230.247 swbfrontpc.ms4.gamespy.com
162.243.230.247 swbfrontpc.available.gamespy.com
162.243.230.247 available.gamespy.com
162.243.230.247 master.gamespy.com
162.243.230.247 swbfrontpc.master.gamespy.com
162.243.230.247 motd.gamespy.com
162.243.230.247 key.gamespy.com
162.243.230.247 peerchat.gamespy.com
162.243.230.247 gpsp.gamespy.com
162.243.230.247 gpcm.gamespy.com
162.243.230.247 natneg1.gamespy.com
OK, I have updated the patch autoinstaller with oldsnakes updated exe
Here is an automatic gamemaster patch installer
http://www.swbfgamers.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=1147
thank#s for the ip's it works
Quote from: Led on October 09, 2015, 05:37:43 PM
Kalle has an account here, but I am not sure which one it is.
http://www.swbfgamers.com/index.php?action=profile;u=7257
He said it was domain settings change which he has now rolled back so the old modded exe should start working again if it isn't already. I can only see that breaking it if the mod was actually using the wrong IP but perhaps my imagination is limited.
Why kalle keeps modifying the gamemaster patch.. ? if he keeps doing it, his patch is not necessary omg.
:rant: :slap:
Yes, it's been a confusing and a little frustrating experience. I still don't understand exactly what caused the problem. But although there is a problem, it sounds like Kalle wants to work with us and would like us to help him. He has said he would like to communicate more, and with his idea of making the source code open source, it may help. I think we are all wary of a game server that we don't have input on that may go away at any time. Kalle's offer to make it open source and allow our community to help may be the answer.
there is no doubt.. modders of gamemaster are really stupid.. make everytime updates, close gamemaster servers without saying.. and they think their patch will be necessary after all of these things.. it makes just people want to try others things , like gameranger.
but.. not everyone is logic.. not their fault. :rant: :rant: :slap:
Quote from: ~PFA~ Majesty Leader on October 11, 2015, 11:58:54 AM
there is no doubt.. modders of gamemaster are really stupid.. make everytime updates, close gamemaster servers without saying.. and they think their patch will be necessary after all of these things.. it makes just people want to try others things , like gameranger.
but.. not everyone is logic.. not their fault. :rant: :rant: :slap:
To be fair, they have done a lot of work to get the master server to work and don't always know if a change will affect us. It is up to us to let Kalle know.
Quote from: ~PFA~ Majesty Leader on October 11, 2015, 11:58:54 AM
there is no doubt.. modders of gamemaster are really stupid.. make everytime updates, close gamemaster servers without saying.. and they think their patch will be necessary after all of these things.. it makes just people want to try others things , like gameranger.
but.. not everyone is logic.. not their fault. :rant: :rant: :slap:
They are not modders, and they're not stupid. If the VPS where they host the masterserver requires of an update, or they wanna add more games to the master server list is up to them, not to you.
They announce it if they close temporarily the masterserver, so dont say they dont cause thats a lie.
It is necessary, otherwise they wouldnt do it. If it makes people wanna try other things its their own problem, u can use tunngle if u want as well, but not complain or cry for a service ure not even paying for.
http://forum.gameshare.co/showthread.php?tid=499&pid=2881#pid2881
Wait, so from reading what I read on the second page, does the new auto-installer work, or should I have kept the original GameMaster patch in my GameData?
Quote from: Gold Man on October 16, 2015, 05:21:56 PM
Wait, so from reading what I read on the second page, does the new auto-installer work, or should I have kept the original GameMaster patch in my GameData?
The patch has been updated, but then they changed the master server back to the way it was, so the old patch should work again.
Quote from: Led on October 16, 2015, 07:51:47 PM
The patch has been updated, but then they changed the master server back to the way it was, so the old patch should work again.
THEY ARE CLOWN !!
:rant:
Quote from: ~PFA~ Majesty Leader on October 17, 2015, 12:45:06 AM
THEY ARE CLOWN !!
:rant:
Just quit using their services if you are annoyed with all the changes.
Like i said on my previous post you dont have any rights to complain unless you pay them money for the masterserver.
The original patch works, right? I just noticed tonight that there's a ton of people on but when I click to join the timer just goes on until it times out. I tried joining an empty server and that worked, so I'm assuming that it was just my bad luck with the particular server.
I was pretty disappointed to miss out on a game with this many people...
[spoiler](https://www.swbfgamers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpuu.sh%2FkRY01%2Ff71e86e017.jpg&hash=6996eca195c4a08fdb3dfbb6635d2e5614e26999)[/spoiler]
They are still all on at 7 am this morning, so I suspect that particular server is stuck or something...you are not missing a crowd :P
46 people on right now and several names are there multiple times so it is definitely glitched somehow.
It looks like someone using fake player hack on the server, and then the names of real players who tried to join get added to the list. Anytime u see a big server and everyone is 0-0-0 it is hacked or glitched. This is not allowed in [FC] servers cuz it makes the server unjoinable until the hacker is banned or server reset.