Sabaki Desert Combat Server

After much anticipation Sabaki Now have A Desert Combat Server up.

Sabaki Gaming Community>DC 0.7 203.57.95.48:14567

The server itself is still in its test phase and a little more work needs to be done before its working correctly so bear with us!!

cant connect and no show on ASE, is it actually up right now?

Yes its up, go test it for me :)

saw that u were on, joined, but u were gone by the time i got in.

we shoudl arrange a date for all GU DCers to jump on there

We are experiencing some difficulty with it not showing up in server query but type in ip addy:port and click join and it works (in game). You'll prolly find bornagainst on every night from now until the end of man

7. How do I setup my server behind a firewall?
If you do not care about (or want) the server being listed in GameSpy, then you only need to open udp port 14567 into your network. If you are behind a firewall/router that is also doing NAT, you will need to port forward udp port 14567 from your firewall/router to your internal server. On some routers you may also make your server a 'DMZ' host which effectively puts the server on the outside of the firewall. However, please realize that exposes your server
and all of its potentially open ports (and exploitable code) to the rest of the dirty, public internet :)

You will also need to open/forward TCP port 4711 if you want to use the RemoteConsole admin tool (or whichever custom port you specified when enabling access for the RemoteConsole tool). If you do want your server to be listed in GameSpy you will need a crapload of additional ports opened up (who knows why they need all these ports :P. Here are the ports I have open on my router:

# GameSpy
allow udp range 14567 14570
allow udp 22000
allow udp range 23000 23009
# GameSpy Master Server UDP Heartbeat
allow udp port 27900
# GameSpy Master Server List Request
allow tcp port 28900

In addition you may or may not :) need to open the ports listed in the "Working Around the Firewall/Proxy" section of this GameSpy Arcade site: (thanks to mibsc123 for the link)

8. What do I need to enable in my config for the server to be listed with GameSpy/ASE?

In you ServerSettings.con file make sure the following option is set to 1 (not 0):

game.serverInternet 1

9. Why do I not see my server in GameSpy?
There can be a lot of reasons for this including:

* You are behind a firewall which does not allow GameSpy traffic outside. See question #7
* You do not have the server set to advertise to the master servers. See question #8
* GameSpy is having problems or their software is acting up. Try refreshing/updating the list of servers in the browser a few times. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 refreshes for your server to show up. Also, GameSpy frequently has problems with master servers disappearing and removing some but not all game servers from the browser. I suggest trying All Seeing Eye (aka ASE) or directly connecting to the server via IP address.

If you cannot connect to it at all you are probably behind a firewall. If you can connect to it directly via IP but it does not show up in GameSpy or ASE, then you probably have the game.serverInternet directive set to 0. If you cannot see your server in GameSpy but *can* in ASE, then GameSpy is borked and you should tell people to use your IP address or ASE.

I just played it in ... where is it hosted? I'm in NSW, on iiNet's Bliink 1500k plan, and I was getting 100 ping + - but Telstra still have to come out and make the cables faster. So it's only playing as if I was on 512k. Still 100 :\ ping - not good :( hopefully my new internet will be better to play on.

Oh and ... gg with the friendly fire :D:D it's the best!!! Where can I find the rules to it? Link please.

I'll play there though. Even with 100 ping!

It will probably be hosted in Melbourne at Bornie's.

or off the sabaki dedicated servers in brisbane :?

ur getting 1500k adsl amph, i hates j00 :P

ill jump on there tomorro arvo

i get really bad pings on that server... like 140 plus.. :S rather play on node or ga

proberly cause you are using telstra and the server is on a Comnico network (spelling)

I'll think you find it isnt Knight...

aux-203-57-95-48.webhost.net.au

Brisbane if I'm not mistaken.

I'm use to <50 atm (on 512). I was playing on here yesterday, and had 100 ping. You don't realize (like in CS) how much it affects you until after 30 minutes of play. Cos I kept thinking (when i'd shoot down a jet and blow past it) "WTF!! I wasn't anyone near that carcass" and yet I'd seem to go down with it :( then I realized that 100 ping makes it more difficult.

Sabaki doesn't seem very popular at the moment. It's nice to be playing among people ya know though. I join sometimes to see if it'll bring in more people... but it only brings in a few ... unlike Internode.

the server is still being tested to hopefully pings maybe fixed