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Battlefield Steelbacks start training!

The Steelbacks are growing to such a size that it is now possible to close our server down for a few hours once a week to train together and compete against one another.

A requirement has previously been mentioned in the forum and also online that we need to be able to work on specific skills like tanking, flying and other infantry based team play however, this is difficult to achieve when other gamers are constantly trying to kill you.

It has also been mentioned that it would be fun to play against one another so that we can learn more about what each individual Battlefield gamers skills are.

What we are going to do is lock the server down for the first time on Sunday the 21st of March at 19:00hrs for 3 hours so that the Steelbacks can work in private and in our own time on whatever abilities that we need to hone.

There won't be a specific structure for the first session but what we will do is find out over at the forums what each individual Steelback wants from the training and construct a game plan from there.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 a Success

Battlefield BC2 has been enjoying the recent sunny weather from the top of the charts recently despite the developers announcing that the game won't support private dedicated servers, mods or a developer console. The PC version having the most online players at one time beating the active amount of players on PS3 and also on XBOX, although not combined.

This popularity has come with a price though as we Steelbacks have all seen, overloading the servers and causing countless connection and authorisation issues.

On top of these problems, Punkbuster has had updating issues on servers randomly kicking players out of servers for not having the latest version of Punkbuster installed. Although these teething problems are consistent at the moment and can keep some servers empty, including ours, the game seems to be the most played FPS in many years beating the total amount of active gamers at one time that Battlefield 2 ever did.

Frankly, with these spots and scars, IWNET still gets it's butt handed to it.

EA Games working to fix Battlefield Bad Company 2 server issues across all platforms

EA Games have acknowledged the server outages that all Battlefield gamers across all platforms have been experiencing. Posted on the 7th, this is the last word of information from EA Games so far and it suggests that they were not expecting a 400% increase in server use from Battlefield Bad Company 2's predecessor Battlefield 2 and this load is causing the problems.

"All teams are actively engaged in diagnosis and remediation. We are adding additional services to alleviate load.  Despite having a major infrastructure in place, the peak traffic this weekend has been huge, 400% higher than any other Battlefield's peak simultaneous users."

It does suggest that they are working very hard at fixing the issues so for the sake of a great game and awesome community the Steelbacks, i'm happy to be patient.

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Server issues with EA Games

EA Games aren't giving away anything at the moment with regards to why the aggregating servers are constantly down or gamers get disconnected from the server. We are trying to find some information regarding this but haven't found out exactly whats going on.

We just wanted you all to know that it's not your battlefield clients, it's EA Games's problem.

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