PB kicks me
 

Is it me, Hewster, you are looking for?
I have serious probs not to be kicked off by PB.
For now nothing helps. No manual update to the letest files from www.punkbuster.com keeps me on lonewolf.
There is some
Server disconnected ... PB INIT Failure
or
..This PB Server requires (Ai315, Cl034) Error loading pbag
any time I am on lone wolf.

Is there any special version of pb I didn't see anywhere yet?
PB works flawlessly with RtCW or ET or anything else.
Or may this depend on playing WW on my linux box?
For the moment I have no more ideas...

So I couldn't contribute to testing yet :-((

Xebeque,
Just a simple question and I am sorry if it seeems Blunt.. I may be wrong and I am sorry if you get affended.. Do you you have a vaild "CD KEY' because every time you tried to join the game I was in PB stated you were kicked due to you having a Invalid CD KEY...? Maybe I am wrong If I am I appologize....

Peace ... VON

Just a thought - if your CD KEY is correct - does anyone else have access to it? i.e. a sibling or friend who might have borrowed the game. I believe that you can only log in with one account - so if someone else is using your "key" already, then you'll get kicked for an invalid key.

This is why the ECA has cited the use of a key generator (that's what people use to duplicate keys in order to play a copy) as something that should not be used as it can duplicate a valid players key - so the innocent player loses out.

Hello guys, it's a great great new version of wild west and i think it's the best version ever. I really love the new sound. Thanks to a very competent gamemaker Hewster. Till now i haven't found any bugs besides thoose already mentioned in earlier post. But i have to mention a problem about all theese people who is trying to logon but then immediately disconnected because of wrong version etc. You just see their name at the screen and then many times never see them again. A lot of people playing RTCW say to me that they tried to install the game but it didn't work :confused:. To get more players we of course have to make advertising where we come and second the game must be easy to find/download, install and play. I think that the-wildwest.co.uk has an brilliant design but i think that the downloadpage could be much more userfriendly. For instance split the page in two clear sections or two pages - a serverdownload and a clientdownload. Especially it is very importan for the cliendownload that there is a short and very clear description of how to do. I think that many potentiel ww-players are confused and leave without installing or after installing wrong version and then disconnected. I think they is confused when they see the downloadpage about betaplayers, version a and b, patchchanges, linux, servers etc. Basically the clienside only has to contain the following:

To play Wild West you have to download and install 2 files: WW112.exe and WWpatch140.exe (see the downloadlist below). To play WW you must have installed version ??? of Wolfenstein.

A link to the installation instruction.

After my opinion no need for more information on that page :rolleyes:.

I hope we can get more players in the future. One day i talk with a clan at RTCW (I think it was LHW, but i'm not sure??? perhaps some of you know? It wasn't dsb or el clans) and it was damm funny cause suddenly 3-4 of the players wrote a lot of different WW-expressions like "too many bullit i cant move" etc. I don't remember theese expression as good that they did :eek: :eek:. Soo there must have been people and clans playing this game a lot before i joined it. Perhaps we can find some of theese people again.

WILD WEST dk

...kicking me out
 

First of all: thanx for your help @vonner and @[DSB]Cire
I bought RtCW short period after its release and still hold the original copy. So nowbody else has the key. It was never a problem playing RtCW MP - I just had to enter the key once cause the linux install doesn't ask for it.
I found out that WW seemed not to find this key (which is set under RtCW) so i manually entered it. There the mess got into second stage: Now, yes right now it complains "invalid CD-key". I feel like a total idiot. The key is correct, its unique and mine. Verifying is ok, but logging in @lone wolf doesnt work.
After these troubles I connected to mp_beach in RtCW MP and everything worked perfectly.
Then I successfully joined WW on lone wolf via RtCW Interface (I usually startet WW wolfmp +set fs_game WildWest). No complaint for an invalid CD_key anymore. OK. Then PB tried to download files failed and kicked me. I'll turn off my firewall and try again. Next step could be a reinstall - maybe my pb is somehow broken. Still no WW isssues. Sorry.

Xebeque, I'm sorry your having problems :(

Can you check that you DON'T have a rtcwkey in your WildWest directory?
See my help sticky post for more info about this CD key issue.
http://www.gamingforums.com/showthre...threadid=11718
Help topic 4

Now if that doesn't solve it (I think it will :)) have you tried running
as root ?

Let me know how you get on.

Hewster

@ those who would say I can't spill.. lol
I thought I'd fixed amingos ?.. ok If I remember I'll check & fix this and
Olay, I mean ole or is it jole (j pronounced h in spanish I believe ;)) lol

@ WILD WEST dk, yes you are right, the downlaods need to be easier &
clearer, and so they shal;l be when we elease 1.4 to the public :)
and Thnax for your nice comments :D

Hewster

I had the Invalid CDKey issue because I entered the CD Key in Wild West.
I got up and running following Hewsters instruction to copy the cdkey file from main into the WildWest directory and mark it as read only. It's worked ever since. Personally I think this is similar to a PB issue my friend had and we had to forcably re-install PB to get it to work.

Now, this post is not off topic because I wanted to remind Hewster that he had told me he needed to remove the "Enter CD-Key" menu option so that people would not have this problem. I can't check the game at this point, so I'm putting the reminder here.

Just a thought....
 

Hey Hewster, just a thought.

Could you get the admin of the Test server to change it's title to include (for Official Beta testers only) or something to that affect? I've had 3 members of my forum, send me a pm for they've tried to connect to that server seeing that is was the only WW server w/ people on it (very common currently, ya load it up, ya see several empty servers and several on one and hit connect because it looks like it will work) The other possibility (and I'm not fond of this till official release is to add a link to the updated test files (only w/ your permission))

no more kicking me off
 

Pow, now I am on at last!
Still cannot believe I can join testing now: I cannot figure out what the problem was with my install, so I *simply* reinstalled all RtCW/WW/PB stuff with patches etc. - til now everything seems to work fine.
So my personal testing may begin now. The first impression is -much- fun playing WW - it really has the atmospehere of - lets say Sergio Leone classics and a series called "Western von Gestern" I saw on german TV in the late 80ies... I really like it.
Yet I only think the grenade is maybe too powerfull - it blows up every human being in the range of 10 meters?