Problems with PB

Badhabit · Post by **Badhabit** » Sun May 30, 2004 5:37 pm

Anyone else having problems with PB kicking everyone today?
1st your kicked for "General PB Client Authentication Failure "
then your kicked for "Losing Key Packets"

This problem just started today, and in less then 10 mins time 10+ players had this happen.

Chairman Kaga · Post by **Chairman Kaga** » Sun May 30, 2004 6:56 pm

I've been hearing and seeing a lot of this since the PB update came out. A clan we scrim with a lot actually had to postpone a match because it kept booting everyone with that "Losing Key Packets" error.

GGs PunkBuster -- let's just improve ETPro anti-cheat to the point where we don't need it anymore.

>QD|Skull< · Post by **>QD|Skull<** » Sun May 30, 2004 7:17 pm

Yep, our server is having the same problem, good to know we aren't alone.

Chairman Kaga · Post by **Chairman Kaga** » Sun May 30, 2004 7:25 pm

More bitching about PB @ ET-Center:

http://forums.et-center.com/viewtopic.php?t=453

Badhabit · Post by **Badhabit** » Sun May 30, 2004 8:44 pm

Looks like PB didn't test there latest version.

It also likes to crash servers.

I had both my ET servers crash twice tonight because of it.
Only fix that works is to turn PB off.

Note to Bani= Get all the bugs worked out of your anticheat system ASAP so we can dump PB for good

d3n13d · Post by **d3n13d** » Sun May 30, 2004 10:05 pm

Sunday 05.30.2004 [11:30PM]

Version 1.082 of the PB Client for ET has been released to our PB Master Servers for auto-update and to our website download page.

Release Notes for PB Client v1.069:

fixes bug with v1.081 released earlier today that was causing players to get kicked
starting with this version 1.082, Win32 versions of PB now require the game to be run as the administrator user or equivalent

*** from www.evenbalance.com

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Sun May 30, 2004 10:05 pm

Badhabit wrote:Looks like PB didn't test there latest version.
It also likes to crash servers.
I had both my ET servers crash twice tonight because of it.
Only fix that works is to turn PB off.

Note to Bani= Get all the bugs worked out of your anticheat system ASAP so we can dump PB for good

well aparantly they fixed the bug, and now all windoze clients have to run wolfet under an admin status...

gotta love pb

Badhabit · Post by **Badhabit** » Sun May 30, 2004 10:22 pm

d3n13d wrote:Win32 versions of PB now require the game to be run as the administrator user or equivalent

*** from www.evenbalance.com

Thats a bunch of BS.
If PB is going that route, I don't think it will last very long, even if this is for clients only.

Note: I just sent them an Email asking who the IDIOT was that came up with this idea. Admin rights for an online game

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Sun May 30, 2004 10:36 pm

i really gotta learn to post faster

ReyalP · Post by **ReyalP** » Mon May 31, 2004 12:17 am

d3n13d wrote:Sunday 05.30.2004 [11:30PM]

starting with this version 1.082, Win32 versions of PB now require the game to be run as the administrator user or equivalent

*** from www.evenbalance.com

Oh that is fucking brilliant. Allow a program which automatically downloads and runs native binaries full access to your system.

Absolutely fucking brilliant.

edit:
Everyone who understand why this is a bad idea should write them.

uber-noob · Post by **uber-noob** » Mon May 31, 2004 3:41 am

gotenks wrote:well aparantly they fixed the bug, and now all windoze clients have to run wolfet under an admin status... gotta love pb

I really hope this is sort of a stupid joke from a drunk pb developer and will be changed ASAP. Or else I won't play on PB servers anymore and also disable PB on our servers. There is no excuse for doing such crap like forcing a game to run with admin privileges. I never thought the PB staff would be that stupid...

KingJackaL · Post by **KingJackaL** » Mon May 31, 2004 4:35 am

uber_noob wrote:
gotenks wrote:well aparantly they fixed the bug, and now all windoze clients have to run wolfet under an admin status... gotta love pb
I really hope this is sort of a stupid joke from a drunk pb developer and will be changed ASAP. Or else I won't play on PB servers anymore and also disable PB on our servers. There is no excuse for doing such crap like forcing a game to run with admin privileges. I never thought the PB staff would be that stupid...

Wait. Let me get this straight - you guys are still running PB on your servers?

uber-noob · Post by **uber-noob** » Mon May 31, 2004 4:56 am

KingJackaL wrote: Wait. Let me get this straight - you guys are still running PB on your servers?

Yes. But if bani implements dupname and badname kicking into etpro, PB wouldn't be needed at all.

gotenks · Post by **gotenks** » Mon May 31, 2004 6:26 am

and a screenshot getting method

Chairman Kaga · Post by **Chairman Kaga** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:59 am

gotenks wrote:and a screenshot getting method

That works more than 2% of the time....