Procon Goes to Sweden!

In order to make sure admin tools are properly supported for the release of BF3, DICE have flown Phogue from his home in Aussie Land, all the way to cold chilly Sweden.

Over the next 2 weeks, while in Sweden he will be meeting and working with the DICE team, in order to move the RCON interface along to a usable state for the launch of BF3.

Phogue and the rest of the Procon team would like to put a special thanks out to Mikael Kalms for all of his efforts working with third party developers for all of DICE’s products.

SITREP!

We’re getting a lot of questions, especially BF3 related concerns. I thought I should post up and explain the projects direction, goals and timelines. Hopefully this entry will answer some of your questions. If you notice these question elsewhere then link em to this post for some answers.

Bee-Eff-Free is *only* 1 month away!!!!

We’re still waiting for the beta to be released, dice/i3D to give us access to a server as well as (and most importantly) a stable documented rcon protocol to work from. Implementation of Bf3, given a highly similar protocol to BFBC2/MoH:2010 is expected to take a day with a further day of bug fixing and config generating. Map calibration for the battlemap is expected to occur when we have access to all of the maps.

There really isn’t a major hurry and no one is responsible for any delay, chillax. You’ll get BF3 support asap

Version/Licenses/Game support.. Procon 2?

Here’s a graph of today, the day of the BF3 release and some time next year. Note that everything is okay on these dates

Nothing’s actually happening though is it?

Today I filed the papers to incorporate my own company. This company will be selling licenses to those that charge you for hosting our software.  Aaron “feeblemedic” our officially unofficial lawyer has been getting whipped by Mark “Ike Ikerson Rodriguez”, our resident slave driving physicist. Aaron’s been crafting an awesome license for us to use that is so insanely close to being done we’re wondering if Ike is being lazy.

Ike’s also been in contact with Procon hosts that are seemingly coming out of the woodwork. I know a lot of you use this software, but you’d be surprised how many people have this software hosted. I am, what the hell have I been doing for the past year and half?

What’s Imisnew2 doing?

He’s in Japan. He’s either bludging or he’s studying abroad for a year. I think he’s just bludging though.

bludge [bl?d?] Austral and NZinformal

vb

1.(when intr, often foll by on) to scrounge from (someone)

2.(intr) to evade work

3.(intr)Archaic to act as a pimp

n

a very easy task; undemanding employment

What about the… “other people”?

Morpheus is still admining, Phil’s still being German and Decker’s plotting world domination with his awesome work on the next iteration/version/release (he’ll post up here soon about this confusion). Zaeed donned the Admin hat here as well in the past couple of months. I don’t have the time to do stuff like that and he sets a far better company image than I ever could.

Ike’s also getting shafted on credit for some side projects of mine. I’m not even going to tell you here what the projects were as well. I’ve purposefully left his name out on a few things so I alone get the glory of knowing 1′st year remedial physics

For the most part though, the “nothing immediately urgent is happening” alarms are going off. Everything is happening in the timeline I wanted and I’m in no hurry. We have some deadlines (25′th October) that we’ll meet, but other than that we’re pretty much twiddling our thumbs till next month. It’s going to be chaotic and awesome