So I went to play some 2142 today.\u00a0 Finally got enough hours to get Veteran Assault so I figure I’ll jump in a game a Cerber Landing and BAM 15 minutes later have the badge.\u00a0 Got into the game with the round almost over.\u00a0 Popped in 8 kills with no deaths then round end.\u00a0 Looked at my round stats and my accuracy for the Assault Rifle is 3400%.\u00a0 OK, weird I thought but whatever.\u00a0 Next round starts\u00a0and suddenly punkbuster is bitching at me about missing packets and then I get kicked.\u00a0 \u00a0So I think, “Ok, screwy server then.”\u00a0 I move on.\u00a0 Next sever immediately I get the punkbuster crap.\u00a0 “Maybe my dsl is being screwy,” I think so I restart my modem and router.\u00a0 Back in the game get into a round near the end and manage to finish the round.\u00a0 Next round… kicked again by punkbuster!<\/p>\n
And this point I shout out a loud “WTF?!!!”<\/p>\n
I check EA’s Battlefield site.\u00a0 No news about it.\u00a0 I talk to Your Mom (yes your’s) and he doesn’t seem to be having a problem.\u00a0 finally I make it to punkbusters site and I see they released a new punkbuster update TODAY.\u00a0 I also see that punkbuster should update itself automatically.\u00a0 Well guess what?\u00a0 It isn’t working!\u00a0 I download their updater utility and run it.\u00a0 It gets the update and installs it.\u00a0 Great!\u00a0 Maybe now it will work.\u00a0 Join a game… same problem!<\/p>\n
At this point I’m extra pissed and just decide to re-install the whole damn game.\u00a0 (Yeah I wanted the Veteran Assault pretty bad)<\/p>\n
Well a good half hour to an hour later It’s re-installed and patched.\u00a0 Thankfully I remembered to save my controls.con file before doing it to save me some hassle, however a good 5-6 minutes of shader optimization quickly takes away that little victory.<\/p>\n
So back in the game, but wait!\u00a0 30 seconds later it’s kick Spender time again for missing punkbuster packets!\u00a0 “Son of a Bitch!!!!”<\/p>\n
So I retry the punkbuster update tool and restart my computer to find a new extra process running in the background.\u00a0 One Mr. “PnkBstrA.exe”.\u00a0 Note this was not running after I applied the update, but before I restarted.\u00a0 Turns out that the new version of punkbuster requires this process running in the background to work.\u00a0 Gay!<\/p>\n
So I want to thank the Assholes at punkbuster for releasing a poorly executed patch to a system that does jack shit and wasting 3 hours of my time so I could get the 15 minutes of play time needed to get my damn badge.\u00a0 I also want to thank them for adding ANOTHER background process to my system.\u00a0 I just can’t get enough of those!\u00a0 Thanks a lot douche bags!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I went to play some 2142 today. Finally got enough hours to get Veteran Assault so I figure I’ll jump in a game a Cerber Landing and BAM 15 minutes later have the badge. Got into the game with the round almost over. Popped in 8 kills with no deaths then round end. Looked at my round stats and my accuracy for the Assault Rifle is 3400%. OK, wierd I thought but whatever. Next round and suddenly punkbuster is bitching…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spendernet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spendernet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spendernet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spendernet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spendernet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spendernet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spendernet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spendernet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spendernet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}