Punkbuster

[BootLace]

Will the new seasons be played with Punkbuster enabled? If the answer is no, then you can ignore the following

I ask, as we've been having nothing but hassle with it ourselves (crashes one players machine, and lots of issues with auto updating not actually working for the rest of us). On the whole, it looks like we should be ok if we update manually pre-match, but we may all get dropped if PB decides to auto-update during the match, which obviously isn't ideal.

Also, I've noticed the bookable servers aren't always running the latest version of PB. I gather this is because they aren't always running Quake 3, which I'd also imagine would be the same for the league servers. This has the unfortunate side effect that they may update during match play, which can lead to some interesting pings for a bit, and may not be ideal for serious competition.

Anyway, I'd be interested to know your thoughts.

Regards,

 

[bigfoot]

This is actually a very good question, on the one hand i would love to have PB enabled but on the other i too have had problems with it - simply by not playing for a week or two and then having issues with upgrades.

 

[race]

seems to be running fine with the latest version of pb, i think that we should persevere with pb cause id rather have pb hassle than cheats in the league

 

[BootLace]

Yeah, the auto-updating seems to be working ok for us with the last couple of versions. Although we've still got one guy whose machine crashes with pb enabled Teach him to use XP

Still a little concerned about what could happen during a match if PB updates. Just playing friendlies (CTF) people appear to update at different times, and obviously just hang whilst it is updating, which would be nice to avoid.