Get on WaW #1 Server Thursday for Pubby Play!

[Bs* w00ter]

I wont be making it, not currently near my gaming pc. Have fun all!

[Christie.Front.Drive]

Hopefully we can get the server rocking tonight.

[Dago Red]

Had an FH dream last night. It involved moving unseen from Villers to that Church (point 21something?), getting a flamethrower and wasting some of you before fleeing up the ladder to the second story and dropping nades/more flames until a squad arrived and an awesome firefight around the ruined church took place. So real.

Omg so real.


PS.
Have been too busy to keep up with the map pack release -- do we need that loaded to play now?

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

No, you don't need the map pack. We're keeping it on the standard maps for now.

[mobilis_in_mobili]

No servers on my FH2 list for WaW tonight... gamevox now only?

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

Been out for about 1.5 weeks, sorry for late reply.

The FH2 pubbie server isn't setup on the new dedicated hardware. I'll get to it; should be done before this Thursday's Pubbie.

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

Well, personal stuff came up and I'm just now starting to install the game.

So, no Pubbie today. Urh, now is the typical start time; right? About 8PM EST (New York).

[Dago Red]

It is indeed. Any hiccups or might it come online soon?

[Professor Anthrax]

Thanks for the effort Melvin and happy to hear it should be up for future Thursdays. For tonight I'm following Geopatt's suggestion in this thread ( http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/inde...5438#msg335438 ) and going over to the 762 map pack server. Hopefully enough people DL'd the community map pack and it auto-sizes based on player numbers, so it should be the best place as far as map options considering we have no admin powers.

[Dago Red]

Fun! trying out some of the new maps while it lasted, then 762 crashed. Maps look pretty promising, just need more warm bodies.

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

The server is running again on standard FH2 maps.

It has a new IP number, 209.222.20.114, (old was 209.222.20.115).
The pubbie name is WaW #1 FH2.48 - bfewaw.com

If anyone has problems, post here or PM me.

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

The pubbie admins should still have their rights. I'll be around Thursday for a little while to help if needed. I would also like to confirm VOIP is working OK.

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

There was some good gaming on the new FH2 server. The Professor tells me about 10. VOIP is good. Now that it is up, we should see higher numbers next week.

Just to repeat, the new IP is a little different, it's 209.222.20.114, (not x.x.x.115 as before).

I think start time is usually about 8PM US East coast time, but people show up before that and much later, too.

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

Gaming is now.

[Dago Red]

Bottle of wine, some FH, and you...

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

It's that day again. Around 8PM US East Coast, people should be gathering for Thursday's Pubbie play on the WaW Server.

[Dago Red]

Call out to those who can: Remember to get on early and stick with it so we can build the server population. Like many of you, I've been playing on 762 now and then when I get home from work early enough and have a hankering. I'm glad it's there, but on Thursdays, this becomes a lame situation -- where by 8pm EST (the beginning of our prime time) 762 is dying with no admins available to change to smaller maps and there's 15 guys trying to find each other on Operation Totalize.

Half of them are non-Europeans with terrible pings, yet they don't seem capable of switching servers. Someone should really make a post at 762 to help the FH community get more organized. I'm sure no admins there would really take offense at us trying to get more of a cohesive group on one or two nights a week, when they're all sleeping anyway....

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

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Half of them are non-Europeans with terrible pings, yet they don't seem capable of switching servers. Someone should really make a post at 762 to help the FH community get more organized. I'm sure no admins there would really take offense at us trying to get more of a cohesive group on one or two nights a week, when they're all sleeping anyway....

If the Euros are asleep and the other players have terrible pings on a German server, why not play on the American server with better pings where many players are granted pub admin rights?

[Dago Red]

Am I hallucinating... where is everyone? It's Thursday....

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

People showed up later than usual, I think.

Also, when it gets around 16 people like tonight, try playing some of the 32 maps. Not all work for those numbers, but some; St.Lo, maybe. 2 squads of 4 or more per team isn't too bad for some of the 32s.

[Dago Red]

We should be playing 64's again too. We know which ones work and which don't (PUSH work, though really need 20), and then there's always just getting WILD AND CRAZY once in a while... heaven forbid!

By the way, the server was populated, it just wasn't showing in the server browser. Wasn't just a normal between-maps-situation either, I waited several minutes and refreshed a dozen times before even posting here. Others reported having trouble seeing the server in-game browser as well. It seems to take a long time to show up these days.

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

I find the in-game server browser doesn't always show servers, but it is probably mostly the in-between maps thing as mentioned. I also don't know why FH2 website misses most of the FH2 servers that are online, like WaW's regular one and all of the FHT ones.

But in my mind, there is not much reason one cannot get to the server after getting to it once in the past. That is, click Add to Favorites and then you're done. There is some weirdness about Favorites:

• To persist after you've added them, (for it to be there the next time you run FH2), then you need to exit FH2 properly via the Quit button.
• Never refresh the Favorites window since it makes them all disappear from it. However, they will not be lost for your next running of FH2.
• When added, they remember the last name for the server, (probably for the best). It doesn't update the name in the Favorites list, but does update it in the regular Internet game search list.

Bottomline is that to keep track of this old game, one has to be proactive. Make use of whatever tools are still available.

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

Yes, if 64 maps make sense for 20 or so players, then it would be very nice to have the variety.

I don't know much about the standard FH2 maps so you guys who play these allot should comment, (particularly about ones that would not work so well with the lower player numbers).

Here is a list of the standard FH2 64 maps that are types of Push style maps:

Alam Halfa
Bastogne
Lebisey
Mareth Line
Sidi Bou Zid
Siege of Tobruk
St Lo Breakthrough
Supercharge


FH2 32 maps that are push are:

Bastogne
Giarabub
Pointe du Hoc
Siege of Tobruk

[Dago Red]

Yes and most of those work well with 30 or so, even just 20 people. We got into a steady rythm of running larger maps as soon as we climbed into the 20's for a long, long time, but seem to have forgotten this practuice (which was carried over from Wolf Thursdays so this has been happening forever). Falaise also traditionally works well, though I'm not a big fan personally, I recall it being the go-to 64 map as soon as we had over 20 people. Since those first two flags cannot be recapped and it channels the battle in a more linear fashion, it compresses the action so fewer players can still have fun while having plenty recourse/hiding places from heavy armor.

I must add though: You just have to watch for equipment imbalances on these maps. For example, maps with Tigers, or say 2+ Panthers with quick respawns were designed with a whole selection of counter measures available to the opposing team -- which is moot when there's only 10 people to try and utilize them at any given time. So while some push maps may seem good to go at first glance when you get into the 20's, in practice some end up being a bad idea (especially with some players who just go all out 110% with no regard for the experience others are having). I'm looking at you panzer weenies.

[Dago Red]

How we doing on thursday gentlemen? Not seeing anyone lately when I've had a chance to pop in... though I can never be sure of status until actually joining the server. Last week I didn't see the standard server with official maps even up. Who's in tonight?

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

Maybe there was an issue with the website transfer activity causing the admin to stop the game server. Since the transfer of the website is completed, there is nothing planned that might impact server operations.

Everything should be running OK at this time; it is still on the same full listing of standard FH2 maps, of all sizes. I just switched it to the top of the list of 16-size maps.

[Dago Red]

Sure enough, when I actually launched the game there was a 3rd WaW server up and populated. It's just weird it never shows in other browsers for me outside of the game application itself (and/or I still cannot see the gametracker embeds, separate but exacerbating issue).

Had fun on Keren last week but let's mix it up tonight and not play 5 Koth/single flag maps in a row!

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

To see the server there are places that show them. Here at our website, the status has been posted for years, but I understand some browsers have been updated with "security" protection which is excessive so they may not display, although I can no longer see that problem. (*)

Our website locations are these:

• The WaW Game Servers Status thread which is stickied at the top of the list in this very sub-forum, (WaW Public Server Forum);
• Checking the the WaW Status pulldown menu at the top of every single WaW page; or
• Simply looking at our main forum page.

There is no the need to log-in to the forums to see any of these status reports.

If clicking on the embeds doesn't work, then go directly to Gametracker.
A custom link for WaW servers is this: http://www.gametracker.com/search/bf2/?query=WaW

I've seen Gametracker be as much as 15 minutes out of date on status, but right now all four WaW servers show status no older than 4 minutes.

(*) I understand MicroSloth's Internet Explorer had problems, but I just tried IE 11 and it seems to work OK. I had heard having the Enable Protected Mode box checked was the problem, but my default installation of IE 11 has it checked and I can see the website with no problems. I also put the Security zone up to the max, ("High"), and our pages display properly.

Maybe it had something to do with our prior website hosting. It had blacklist problems with it's IP number, but those problems went away when we moved to a new platform (and new IP). I recall seeing an issue with IE in the past, but don't see it any more.

[Korsakov829]

Tonight, be there.

[[WaW]CA|Melvin]

Hummmmmmmmmm... Apparently, the server is not showing up today. For reals this time; not user error or lack of coverage by some server browsers. We will have to check into this.

But this server is almost always up. Join at IP 209.222.20.114
And, put it in your Favorites to save it for next time.