From the 3rd of March, BlackIntel will be supporting the new release Battlefield: Bad Company 2 as a server and clan section.



Due to the fact that DICE haven't released the dedicated server software (boo!) to anyone other than rental companies, we won't be able to host the game on our own serverbox, however we have managed to get a deal with Multiplay for a 32slot server, which will come online from the launch date. BlackIntel has had previous experience using Multiplay as they hosted the Ventrilo 3.0 Server and also a temporary Left 4 Dead 2 server for us.

Gwynzer will be leading the BFBC2 section, and also staying as section lead of the First Strike section due to the games being fairly similar, and that many of our current FS members will also be playing BFBC2 meaning there won't be much work for him.

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It took us the entire day, but we finally left the datacenter and the server should be working again. Unfortunately, the main board broke, and we spent two hours attempting to get a proper replacement board but failed to find any. We therefore installed a board with two major disadvantages: the SCSI controller does not fit, hence some of our disks can no longer be connected. The other disadvantage is that it only supports two RAM modules, whereas we have 4. (2x 2GB and 2x 1GB). We can therefore only use 4GB currently.

We are sorry for the inconvenience and the infrequent updates, but ironically, we do not have WiFi access in the datacenter, and had to cope with the horrible speed of a mobile phone internet within a building with loads of concrete and metal. Even calling Ghostshaw and Goztow from there required us to leave the server room because there was not enough signal inside there... Sigh.

Ah well, we are done now. Temperatures are stable so we are confident it will no longer give problems. We will still have to determine what to do with the hardware we can no longer use.

It seems our server suddenly shut down today, but it never restarted. Currently we are in the dark as to what happened; we can not contact the server in any way. We will only be able to get more information at 9 AM GMT. We will keep you updated in this thread on the forums.


Temporary TS3 server has been setup for us available at this address: 188.40.87.145:9987

As you might have noticed, our Renegade section isn't really getting much players in the server. In order to (hopefully) improve this situation we asked Jelly for a higher nickname than our current A000000A. Jelly granted us the use of his a000000 nick.
This could help our server getting more players, but it will still need the support of our regular renegade players, you!

Oh, btw, thanks Jelly!

As was posted yesterday on the forums already, the server move was finished yesterday at around 13:45. We encountered no real problems so it could be done quickly. We're sorry for the inconvenience the downtime may have caused.