Weekly Clan Event, Meeting News, and Battlefield 4 Giveaway

Posted by [AK907]Pricky on May 2, 2013
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Hello everyone, and thanks for taking a look! Today’s post is going to go over last week’s Clan Event winner, tonight’s weekly clan event, our Battlefield 4 Giveaway, and meeting news from this Sunday’s [AK907] Clan Meeting, so thanks for reading!

[AK907] Clan Meeting

Official clan post about the meeting is located in our forums here: http://forums.ak907.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=189#p723

Last Sunday’s clan meeting went very well with about 8 people joining us for the meeting and providing great feedback about the questions we had!

During the meeting we were able to discuss financials, giveaways, server population, and YouTube videos.

  • [AK907] will be discontinuing the use of it’s 48 slot Battlefield 3 server at the end of this month and using the cost of that server toward purchasing Battlefield 4 for our members.
  • We will be giving away Battlefield 4 to our donating members, per the outcome of:
    • Server population (who is on the [AK907] Clan Server the most?) – 30-70%
    • In-Game (Battlefield 3) Goals (most headshots, or something along those lines) – 20-40%
    • Anything else we want to factor in? – Remaining percentage
  • Trying to populate the [AK907] Clan Server more with giveaways and a new map rotation for the 24 man server
  • If you record videos, we have obtained credentials for a Mega account and you can use them to upload your videos so Gr0wzy can edit them together. Please do your best to ensure these videos are at least preliminarily edited (meaning you’re only uploading the section of the videos that you want to be edited/merged with other Clan players). I’ve been using Microsoft’s Movie Maker to edit the AVI files output from Bandicam and have been cutting out all of the “in-between” stuff on my bad runs to get to the good ones. I believe AVIDemux is another one that could be used (free – GNU) Check the forum post here for the credentials to Mega.

Last Week’s Winner

Last week we had an ok event with 3 people stopping by for some kills. I thought I was going to take the win this time, but TheGermanR00ster came through and completely blew me out of the water in the realm of “General Score” with one game, and he played several like that!

 

Battlefield 3 Clan AK907

Congrats to this week’s winner: TheGermanR00ster!!!

TheGermanR00ster ended up walking away with the week of fame (5th time he’s won – WOW!) after obtaining 59,165 General Score in just 7 GAMES! Congrats to you, R00ster, and the best of luck to everyone for this weeks event!

Tonight’s Clan Event

Tonight is going to be an interesting one for sure! I’m trying a new method of scoring and I’m hoping it gives us a little more flexibility in terms of determining a winner. Tonight’s challenge is to have the BEST 3-GAME AVERAGE KILLS between 4:00 PM and 11:00 PM tonight. The way this is going to be calculated I will be putting everyone’s KILLS for EACH GAME they play between the time frame into a spreadsheet. These kills are obtained by going to the players Battlelog page and clicking on EACH of the games they’ve played in the last 7 hours (11:00 PM minus 7 hours = 4:00 PM) and pulling their “Kills” from those reports. Then, my spreadsheet will take take the TOP THREE games for ALL of the players that were in TeamSpeak and averaging them (Add them all together and divide by 3). The player with the highest AVERAGE from their top 3 games will win this weeks event.

Make SURE you join us on TeamSpeak for our Weekly Clan Events, as this is the ONLY way you are entered for a chance to win the weekly prize of a week of fame on our [AK907] Clan home page. A reminder that this event is open to ANYONE who is on our Official TeamSpeak 3 server (not just clan members!), so click the TeamSpeak 3 picture below to join up!

TeamSpeak Logo

Click to join the AK907 Clan TeamSpeak 3 server!

I think this new method of scoring will not only give me a chance to see how it will work and if it should be used in the future, but also I’m hoping it will “broaden the audience” so more people that enter have a chance to win. Instead of Gr0wzy and R00ster taking all the wins, and while there’s no problem with that at all, I just would like to see everyone that plays have a fair chance at winning. This way, if one person only hops online for 3 rounds, the people that are online from 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM don’t just blow them completely out of the water.

Good luck to all for tonight’s event!

Closing

That’s all I have for today, but keep an eye out for news about the Battlefield 4 Pre-Order GIVEAWAY in the coming weeks.

See you on the battlefield, SOLDIER!

-GnvrRickPerry

 

Tonight’s Clan Event and Clan Meeting Sunday

Posted by [AK907]Pricky on April 25, 2013
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Today’s blog post is going to go over tonight’s challenge, last weeks winner, this Sunday’s clan meeting, Battlefield updates, clan server updates, and anything else I can fit in here.

Clan Meeting This Sunday

This Sunday will be our second [AK907] Clan Meeting, and I hope everyone will join us for our discussion and updates. It’s important for everyone that wants to be involved with [AK907] (accepted members, donating members, recruits, and non-members) to try and join in for these meetings because they affect how the clan is ran. If you like or do NOT like something, bring it up in the meeting! There’s no “bad discussions” in our meetings and there are DEFINITELY no “bad questions”. Anything about the clan goes!

Here is what I plan on trying to discuss in the meeting:

  • Financials
    • Donations
    • Expenses
    • Purchases
  • Give-Away (Where to obtain funds to purchase)
    • Battlefield 4
    • Computer Parts
    • Other stuff
  • Server Population
    • How can we populate our servers?
    • Map rotation change?
    • Free reserved-slots for regulars?
  • [AK907] Clan YouTube Channel Videos
    • Does anyone in the clan record (FRAPS/Bandicam)?
    • How can we help Gr0wzy get our channel going?
  • New Recruits
    • [AK907] Clan – Our History
    • [AK907] Clan Goals

If there’s something else you would like to discuss, please mention it here or post a comment on this thread in our forums: http://forums.ak907.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=189&p=721

 Last Weeks Winner

Battlefield 3 AK907 Clan

GvnrRickPerry does some annihilation of the opposing force obtaining unheard of TEAM SCORE in a single round! (Click to see larger image)

 

Last week we had a couple of people hop online for some pwnage, including a new “regular” going by the name of “CRACKdaSKULLS” (add him on Battlelog if you haven’t already). We pwned it up and eventually came away with some great stats.

Congrats to the winner of last week’s event, with a total of 480 TEAM SCORE: CRACKdaSKULLS!

Battlefield 3 AK907 Clan

Congrats to this week’s winner: CRACKdaSKULLS!!!

I hope to see several of us online tonight for our next clan event! Thanks for playing!

Tonight’s Clan Event Challenge

Tonight should be another great turn out for our Weekly Clan Event, so be sure to join us between 4:00 PM and 11:00 PM Central US Time on TeamSpeak 3 (click the TeamSpeak 3 image below to be auto-connected to our clan server) where you can compete to win a week of fame on our AK907 Clan Home Page!

TeamSpeak Logo

Click to join the AK907 Clan TeamSpeak 3 server!

Tonight’s challenge is for you to have the HIGHEST GENERAL SCORE between 4:00 PM and 11:00 PM Central US Time. Tonight I see us playing on a few different servers, but I hope we can get our 48 slot clan server going just so it will ease the whole stats logging that I have to do after the event.

I believe I’m going to try to change the map rotation up a bit. I’ve seen other servers do a CQ map (any map pack) followed by a CTF or CQ map from the End Game map pack and it seems to attract some players, so I may set that up some time today to get ready for tonight. Here’s to hoping! :-D

[AK907] Clan Servers

Well, as most of you know, we dropped our 3rd clan Battlefield 3 server (Branzone) last month and it was finally cut off for us. We may be dropping the 24 slot AS server soon if we do not receive some additional donations as well. I’ll be updating the AK907 Clan Servers page at some point today as well to reflect this. Other than that, most of our servers seem to be working fine: CS:S, DOD:S, TS3, BF3:24 Slot, and BF3:48 Slot. I’m also thinking about purchasing CS:GO and replacing the DOD:S server with a CS:GO server. I may still do this at some point in the near future because I would love for the clan to bring in additional members that would support those servers.

I have been working very diligently, when I have the time, on fixing the vastly broken TeamSpeak 3 permissions for our TS3 server. Right now things are a long ways from how I want them, and it’s going to take several hours to get them back right and working like I would like them to.  I hope to be working on this today and over the next week, so keep an eye out for changes!

Updates from EA/DICE

So, as most of you have seen, Battlefield 3 will be receiving another Double-XP event that begins at 4:00 AM (Central Time) on Thursday, May 9th. As you can rest assured, many [AK907] members will be online during the 96-hour time-frame to attempt to level out their soldiers. We look forward to seeing you all online during this event!

Battlefield 4 Clan AK907

Chopper over the Caspian Sea in the Battlefield 4 campaign preview that EA/DICE gave us.

EA/DICE have not been very forthcoming with Battlefield 4 hints, but we have managed to find out a few things here and there:

  • Armchair General
    • Rank up into the seat of the brand new Commander mode and lead your team to victory
  • Battlelog 2.0
    • The next version of the stat-of-the-art gaming portal. Track every shot, every opponent, and every detail of your online Battlefield career.
  • Go Premium
    • Stand out on the battlefield with exclusive uniforms, weapons, and more. Get exclusive expansions, starting with Drone Strike (TBA).
  • Thrill Ride
    • Thrilling single player campaign takes you all over the world as part of an elite squad of soldiers.

And a release date of late October, 2013, was all found on a poster that EB Games had put up. Keep in mind that the release date may not reflect the release date in the USA as this poster was found at an EB Games in another country that is overseas:

AK907 Battlefield 4 Clan

Closing

That’s all the news I have for today, so I hope you enjoyed the blog post.

Again, be sure to join us on TeamSpeak tonight for our Weekly Clan Event, and definitely don’t forget about Sunday’s [AK907] Clan Meeting!

See you on the battlefield, SOLDIER!

-GvnrRickPerry

Last Night’s Winner!

Posted by [AK907]Pricky on April 14, 2013
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Well last night was a great turnout with about 4 or 5 people showing up to get down on some pwnage, but only one person walks away a winner…

Last Night’s Winner

Last night Gr0wzy was finally able to join us for one of our weekly events, and boy did we decimate!

 

Battlefield 3 AK907 Clan

Congrats to this week’s winner: TheGermanR00ster!!!

The winner of last night’s event, with just a couple of amazing accuracy rounds, is TheGermanR00ster for the second week in a row! Congrats R00ster, and good luck to everyone for next weeks event! R00ster will not be eligible to win next week’s event since this was his second win in a row.

Clan Meeting

We need to try to get together to discuss the status of the clan servers and catch up on things since our last meeting. I have started a thread in the forums (here: http://forums.ak907.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=189 ) for the agenda. I hope to have this meeting the 28th of this month, so please let me know by posting in the forums if there’s anything you would like to discuss.

That’s all for today’s post, but check back next week for the challenge for our next weekly clan event.

See you on the battlefield, SOLDIER!

-GvnrRickPerry

 

Last Night’s Winner!

Posted by [AK907]Pricky on April 5, 2013
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Last night was an ok turnout, but I had to leave early due to some tiredness. My computer crashed at some point during the night too, so all I have record of is Dedaciai, Gr0wzy, R00ster, and myself. If there were others on TeamSpeak that played Battlefield 3 last night, let me know so I can check the scores, but either way I’m pretty sure R00ster took the winner. :-)

Dedaciai and I hopped on the [AK907] servers for a few rounds and tried to get them going before we called it quits. We had some very nice AS rounds and ended up winning (albeit we started off loosing), which was a big relief. I checked the scores this morning and TheGermanR00ster completely decimated the competition in a single round worth over 2200 SQUAD SCORE points, which was more than everyone else added together. On top of that he played more rounds than anyone else in the given time frame, so this weeks prize goes to the R00ster! Congrats man!

Battlefield 3 AK907 Clan

Congrats to this week’s winner: TheGermanR00ster!!!

We need to get together and discuss ponying up some cash to pay for some BF4 Pre-Orders and figure out how that is going to work. I hope to aim for another clan meeting in a couple of weeks, so stay tuned for that!

That’s all for this week, but I hope everyone has a fun and safe weekend. We look forward to seeing you online for next weeks event, and if you have ideas about what the challenge should be let me know!

See you on the battlefield, SOLDIER!

-GvnrRickPerry

 

Last Thursday’s Winner and This Week’s Challenge

Posted by [AK907]Pricky on April 4, 2013
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Todays post we will be discussing last Thursday’s winner, this Thursday’s challenge, some changes to our servers, and a few other bits of information.

Last Thursday’s Winner

Last Thursday we had a small turnout, but ended up getting the AS server going and had a bit of fun on some HT servers as well. The challenge last week was to obtain the HIGHEST OBJECTIVE SCORE between 4:00 PM and 11:00 PM Central time. Congrats to the person that walked away with the highest objective score last week: Dedaciai!

Battlefield 3 AK907 Clan

Congrats to last week’s winner: Dedaciai!!!

Tonight’s Challenge

Tonight is sure to be fun times and friendly competition as there are definitely going to be a few people online fighting for the winnings! The challenge for tonight will be to obtain the HIGHEST SQUAD SCORE between 4:00 PM and 11:00 PM Central time, so hop on TeamSpeak, squad up in Battlefield 3, and pwn teh newbs! Please keep in mind that to be eligible to win the “week of fame on the [AK907] home page”, you MUST join our TeamSpeak server between the time allotted. You can join our TeamSpeak server by clicking this image:

TeamSpeak Logo

Click to join the AK907 Clan TeamSpeak 3 server!

Other News

I changed the rotation on the RUSH server to be RUSH/CTF (2 rounds each) and I’ve also changed the auto-balancer A LOT on both servers (our U MAD BRO YOLO server went away on the 1st) and it seems to be working a lot better. Last night the AS server got populated all by itself! :-)

As usual, if you have any questions about anything, just HMU and I’ll do my best!

See you on the battlefield, SOLDIER!

-GvnrRickPerry

Thursday’s Winner and… Battlefield 4!

Posted by [AK907]Pricky on March 27, 2013
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Today’s post is all about last Thursdays Weekly Clan Event winner, and everything we’ve been able to find out about the Battlefield 4 announcement.

Last Weeks Winner

Well, last weeks clan event was great with 9 people joining us on TeamSpeak to fight for the prize! We pwned it up on the new End Game maps and dominated the opposing force every time. The winner of last weeks clan event, with a total of only 4 Air Kills, is AFTERBURN321!

 

AK907 Clan Battlefield 3 End Game

Congrats to this week’s winner: AFTERBURN321!!!

Congrats man, and the best of luck to those who join us this Thursday for our Weekly Clan Event. This weeks clan event challenge is to have the HIGHEST OBJECTIVE SCORE between 4:00 PM and 11:00 PM Central Time, Thursday, March 28th. Be sure you join us on TeamSpeak so you are eligible for the week of fame!!! I look forward to seeing you online tomorrow so we can pwn it up!

Battlefield 4

Battlefield 4 was announced to the media yesterday, and to everyone else this morning, and it is a site for sore eyes (that have been staring at Battlefield 3 for the past 2 years…) There’s a 17 minute video of campaign gameplay that is definitely enticing to watch:


Here are some of the key items that I spotted throughout this video, and that have me curious for more:

  • Challenge Invite from XXXX – this pops up on the screen during gameplay.
    • What do challenges involve?
    • Are they anything like matches in the Battlefield 3?
  • Baku, Azerbaijan - The “Fishing in Baku” video (above) is hosted in Baku, Azerbaijan which is located on the Eastern shore of the Caspian Sea
  • Massive Environments – The skyscrapers in the video above appear to be fully accessible, or at least more accessible than towers in Battlefield 3
  • Massive Destruction – The skyscraper started falling apart because it was being attacked by an attack chopper.
    • This could have been a video sequence considering the video shows campaign gameplay, but it certainly look promising. Explosions from grenades look incredible!
  • Trophy System – There appears to be some kind of a trophy system, or maybe this is related to challenges, in the upper right-hand corner of the video.
  • Weapons are more customizable (such as the ability to detach/lay down the scope of your weapon so you can use the iron sites)
  • Battlefield 4: Premium – Confirmed

What peaked your interest while watching the video? What are you most excited to see? What are you most disappointed about from watching the video? Comment below!

Other Stuff

There’s a poll going on in the forums right now requesting a vote to change game mode rotation on the 48 slot server. Please read and submit a vote before tomorrow’s clan event!

http://forums.ak907.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=188

I believe I have fixed the auto-balance issues that were happening on the AS server. I hopped online yesterday and actually got the AS server populated before I realized it was so late and I still had work to do…  I also believe I’ve fixed a lot of the spam issues we were having with the forums. I know most of you guys never saw any of this, but we were getting multiple spam registrations per day on the forums and every since I implemented the fix, we haven’t had a single false registration. That being said, please let me know if you find you are having issues posting to the forums, and leave me as many details as possible so I can try to fix it.

That’s all I have for today, but I look forward to seeing you online for tomorrows Weekly Clan Event!

See you on the battlefield, SOLDIER!

-GvnrRickPerry

Tonight’s Clan Event and Battlefield 4!

Posted by [AK907]Pricky on March 21, 2013
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Today’s post is all about Sunday’s winner, tonight’s clan event schedule and challenge, and some tips we’ve been hearing about Battlefield 4!

Sunday’s Winner

Sorry for not getting this up sooner, but I have been working on a couple of things for this Sunday event and have been trying to figure out how to “glorify” the Sunday winner. I tried to add another BF3 Stats entry on the home page, but the code isn’t setup for that in WordPress, so that failed. We will have to figure something out, but for now we will just have to leave it as it is.

Sunday was a pretty nice turn out with 7 people showing up in TS for the clan event, along with a few others that weren’t counted because they weren’t on TS. It took me a few days to calculate the scores up because of the amount of people playing, and the fact that I had to load the BF3Stats report for each game they played (sometimes the BF3Stats hangs and I have to wait a day for the system to clear up). Sunday wasn’t a straight lets-stay-in-the-air-killing day, but several of us managed to hop in a chopper or jet and get a few kills. The player that walked away with the most AIR KILLS this Sunday was TheGermanR00ster, with 10 Air Kills! Congrats R00ster, and we hope to see you online tonight to help populate the servers! :)

AK907 Clan Battlefield 3 End Game

Congrats to this week’s winner: TheGermanR00ster!!!

Tonight’s Clan Event

Well, it’s Thursday again, and time for another one of our Weekly Clan Events! Tonight should be loads of fun as several of us plan on hopping online to try and get the RUSH server populated. I will be online all day (minimized) trying to start things off right, but I may try to start populating the AS server at some point today too.

I have been monitoring the servers regularly, and it seems there’s a couple of problems with some of the plugins, but I don’t know how to fix them without sitting down for hours and pouring over documentation and trying things until they work better. It seems the Auto-Balancer (We are using the plugin called TrueBalancerBF3) isn’t configured well enough to properly balance skill on the AS server, which I believe is the reason why it has been dead since the weekend. One of the other problems we’re having is a complete lack of people trying to populate the servers. I can be on a server all day and it will not populate!

When I get online to play Battlefield 3, yeah sure I’m not going to lie, I would LOVE to hop on a FULL server and get some action, but most of the time I don’t. I hop on one of our servers, that no one else is on, and start trying to populate it to no avail of course. This can be looked at many other ways, but I look at it like this: Generally, Battlefield 3 players want to get on an already populated server, so if our server is not already populated, they’re not going to even try it. To attract players, attention to the clan, and all the other stuff we’d like to have, OUR [AK907] Clan Servers need to be populated so people WANT to play on them. If no one is on our servers to begin with, no one else is going to want to hop on anyways. While Thursday’s are a great day to populate the server, it would be nice if they were all populated every day during the week – This is all I’m going to say about this for now – I’m just asking to try and keep a conscious effort to populate the [AK907] Clan Server. :-)

TeamSpeak Logo

Click to join the AK907 Clan TeamSpeak 3 server!

Tonight’s clan event challenge is to have the MOST VEHICLE DESTROYED ASSISTS between 4:00 PM and 11:00 PM Central Time. Congrats to the last clan event winner, Dedaciai, and good luck to tonight’s winner, whoever it may be! All that is required to register for this event is that you hop on our TeamSpeak 3 server, which can be done by clicking the TeamSpeak3 image here.

Battlefield 4

 

There has been a TON of hype about Battlefield 4 since the Twitter post of GameStop’s CEO after Sony announced their PS4, and I’ve been trying to find out more details, but things are still pretty closely guarded. There’s a big promo going on right now and the more people that sign into http://www.battlefield.com/battlefield-4 the more they will release for us on March 27th, which is the “official” announcement date for Battlefield 4. You also get a free Battlefield 3 dog tag for entering the site, so if you’re in to swagger, I suggest you link on over there and get your tag on!

Dog Tags copyCheck out some of the details about BF4 here in the forum post I made, and leave comments so we can start a discussion! :)

That’s all I have for today everyone, but I sincerely look forward to seeing you online tonight so we can all get together and get our servers populated and pwn the newbs!!!

See you on the battlefield, SOLDIER!

-GvnrRickPerry

 

Last Night’s Clan Event on End Game

Posted by [AK907]Pricky on March 15, 2013
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Last night we had another great clan event with several people hopping online to help get things going. I got all of the servers configured with the End Game map packs, and switched them up a little so they are running 24 Slot Air Superiority, 48 Slot Rush, and 18 Slot CTF (Hardcore). We actually had both RUSH and AS servers full last night, and that continued until well after midnight!

Clan Event Winner

Last night we had 5 people on TeamSpeak, so there were definitely enough people to determine a winner for this weeks clan event! Since KUCF has won twice in a row, he is not eligible to win this event, but that doesn’t matter anyways because he didn’t get very many air kills. Fortunately, I hopped on the AS server before anyone else got online and had a couple of ace rounds there before hopping over to the RUSH server and trying to get it populated. Eventually the rest of the crew got online and joined us on the Rush server, and then it started to get full! I ended up switching myself to the other team at first because they were loosing pretty bad, and I wanted to make sure they stuck around. That was a bad choice, because I only won 1 round last night because of that… :-) I will say that I did have a couple of really nice rounds as far as points go, but I think everyone else did too.

AK907 Clan Battlefield 3 End Game

We ended up having some great rounds as far as points go, but only one person wins the event for tonight…

So Dedaciai hopped on for 3 rounds last night and ended up walking away with the prize due to getting 16 kills in one round (albeit most of them were my deaths)! Congrats to Dedaciai and we hope to see you online Sunday, and again next Thursday for the Weekly Clan Event!

This Sunday

This Sunday we’re going to do another one of these Clan Events and see who all is able to make it. The challenge will still be to obtain the MOST AIR KILLS between 4:00 PM and 11:00 PM, so make sure you join us on our TeamSpeak 3 server (AK907.NET) so you are eligible to win! It’s going to be difficult to showcase two players, but I believe I can accomplish this with another widget in WordPress, so we’ll give them a week of fame as well!

There has been lots of playing around with server settings trying to get quickmatch to work correctly, along with making sure the configuration is ideal and people want to come play on our servers. I think we finally have most of this figured out, but what I’ve found is that the crowd changes every few days. When End Game first came out, our CTF server was getting a lot of the attention (AS is always full!), but lately (past two/three days) it has died down, so yesterday we changed it over to Rush and got a full 48 slot server again. I think there will be lots of map and game mode changes to try and get something that everybody wants to join in on, but for right now we are going to leave things as they are and see what happens.

 

AK907 Clan Battlefield 3 End Game

Congrats to this week’s winner: Dedaciai!!!

That’s all I have for this week, but make sure you join us this Sunday as well as next Thursday for our Weekly Clan Event! Also, check out our forums as registration is now open (but SEVERELY restricted until I approve and authorize the account, so use a familiar nickname) and anyone can register! I have been monitoring spam attempts, and we get several of them a day, but so far they have been thwarted!

See you on the battlefield, SOLDIER!

-GvnrRickPerry

Last Thursday’s Winner, Meeting Notes, and Air Superiority!

Posted by [AK907]Pricky on March 12, 2013
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Last Thursday we had a great time with a couple people showing up for the Weekly Clan Event and then again on Sunday when some of the clan members came together for our first Clan Meeting, and then comes End Game with Air Superiority!

Thursday’s Clan Event Winner

Well, last Thursday we had another 7 hours of gaming and fun times. Unfortunately, only one person signed up in the forums, so the victor again is KUCF – Congrats man! I don’t have any screenshots or any other information to throw regarding last week’s clan event, but stay tuned for this week’s event because it’s bound to be fun times in happy town since the End Game released in the US today.

Sunday’s Clan Meeting

Sunday’s clan meeting was definitely healthy. I am glad to report that we are going to be keeping the 48 slot server at 48 slots, though at times that player count may change to conform to the “Quickmatch requirements” needed to try and get our server going. There’s a final report and follow-up regarding that meeting that has been posted here for everyone’s enjoyment: http://forums.ak907.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=167 (My notes are in RED in the second post in this thread)

AK907 Battlefield 3 Clan

Battlefield 3′s End Game was released today including two new, original, game modes: CTF and Air Superiority
Join the AK907 Clan Thursday on TeamSpeak for a chance to win big with Air Kills!

Other Stuff

Dedaciai purchased a 24 slot Air Superiority-ONLY server for the clan for the rest of the month of March (Thanks Dedaciai!!!). I am happy to report that the server has been full most of the day now, and there has even been a queue for it at times! I have changed the 48 slot server over to CTF-ONLY as of about lunch time today. We’ll let this roll for a little while and see how well the CTF mode is taken. If things aren’t picking up for us in a couple days, we should probably switch it over to 24/7 CQ Large on the End Game maps and see how that’s taken.

 48 Slot End Game CTF:

 24 Slot End Game Air Superiority:

 (If you are looking for the [AK907] Clan Battlefield 3 servers, type “AK907″ in the search box to find them!)

There was an additional patch that was released with the Battlefield 3: End Game map pack that fixed a couple of items on EA/DICE’s list. Here’s a brief overview of those fixes:

  • TV-missile should no longer be able to blow up the chopper shooting the missile (YAY!!!)
  • Fixed proximity defense on mobile artillery and increased proximity defense radius
  • Scavenger ticket count increased (by double)
  • Enabled player movement on Gun Master pre-rounds
  • Improved the position of the repair torch on the screen when repairing vehicles – it works now
  • Fix the issue where AT mines would count as vehicle kills
  • Fix an issue where player camera would flip 180 degrees if the player was revived in water
  • Added ticket status at the end of round screen for Scavenger
  • Enabled Co-Op dog tags to be used in-game now
  • Added some additional ProCon commands

There were a couple other lesser-known bugs that were patched as well. A full report from EA/DICE can be found here: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/news/view/2925730253179557023/

This Thursday’s Weekly Clan Event is sure to be fun times, so be sure to join us in TeamSpeak for your chance to win a week (or two!) of fame on our home page! This week’s challenge will, obviously, be to get the MOST AIR KILLS in light of the Air Superiority game mode that was released today. Be sure to hop on our TeamSpeak server between 4:00 PM and 11:00 PM Central Time to get your pwn on!

That’s all I have for today, but I look forward to seeing you online to help get the servers going every day this week! :)

See you on the battlefield, SOLDIER!

-GvnrRickPerry

 

Thursday Night’s Winner and End Game!

Posted by [AK907]Pricky on March 8, 2013
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Thursday night’s clan event winner is discussed as well as End Game and the [AK907] Clan Meeting on Sunday.

[AK907] Clan Meeting

Next week is going to be a big week for [AK907] as we are going to be

  • Meeting Sunday to determine several factors about the clan as well as core members
  • Increasing the player count from 26 to 48 slots on our Chicago server
  • Switching the 48 man server to CTF-ONLY (on the 12th)
  • Purchasing an additional 24 slot Air Superiority-ONLY server (implemented on the 12th)

I don’t know how to say this without sounding like a complete douche, but it is imperative that you join us on Sunday for the clan meeting. Even if you do not have anything to give, your opinion still matters to me and I would appreciate if everyone that has been on the TeamSpeak server in the past 6 months join us on Sunday to talk about things. The agenda for the meeting can be found here (http://forums.ak907.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=167) but the items I will be discussing are going to be brief and I will try to finish my topics as quickly as possible so I can address each of the people that join us for the meeting.

Last Night’s Winner

Last night I got online a little later than normal due to me being behind on a lot of things because of my move last week and my vehicle problems. I did catch up with a bunch of stuff and hop on the [AK907] Clan Battlefield 3 Server and try to get it going for us. After sitting in the map rotation that the clan voted on for about 2 hours with no one joining the server, I decided to change things up a bit and re-implement the GunMaster/Domination rotation. Sure enough, shortly after switching the maps to a Domination game mode, the server started receiving players. We managed to gather about 8-10 people online last night, and with 200% tickets we were able to hang on to most of those players through several maps until well after 11:00 PM.

AK907 Battlefield 3 Clan

Congrats to this week’s winner: KUCF!!!

 

A big shout out to =365=X1101110266 for hopping on the server later last night and helping to maintain the player count! The =365= Insomnia Clan has pledged their assistance in helping the [AK907] Clan get going and with any questions we may have about clan related items. They have also offered to assist us in getting our server started, if we find we desperately need the help. :) That being said, I would like to say “thank you” to everyone in the =365= Insomnia Clan for being so welcoming to us, and specifically for allowing me to ask the questions I’ve asked and to play on the =365= server without worrying about pissing people off. THANK YOU!

That being said, there was a sign-up in the forums last night for the weekly clan event, but since I’ve had such a rough week and only one person signed up for the event, I decided to change the event to “no sign-up required” for yesterday only, and to just work off of the people that hopped on the TeamSpeak server. This is going to be something that is discussed in the clan meeting on Sunday as well. Even given that I was going off of the TeamSpeak list, there was only 3 people (including myself) that were online for the clan event yesterday. After the dust settled and the kills were counter, it was determined that this weeks clan event winner was KUCF with a total of 116 kills! Congrats man, and good luck to everyone for next weeks event!!!

Battlefield 3: End Game

The End Game map pack has been released for Premium PS3 players, and while I haven’t downloaded and started playing it on my PS3 yet, I have read several reviews that have only gotten me more excited for this release! What has really got my goat is this video:

Specifically the first 25 seconds of it. I’m not gonna lie. I’m pretty turned on from watching it again. I have read quite a bit about what EA/DICE was trying to accomplish with this final release and it definitely sounds like they have succeeded in what they were trying to accomplish. Their goal for End Game was to use the Fostbite 2 Engine to render 4 distinctly different seasons across 4 different maps:

  • Kiasar Railroad with it’s spring setting offering players a vast landscape with, as the name suggests, a railroad cutting through it creates a simple yet effective crossroad layout
  • Nebandan Flats is the summer settings with a low and very flat desert location offering players capture points centered around small groups of buildings to take cover in
  • Operation Riverside offers a “tangle of rural pathways leading down to a chaotic jumble of buildings”, including a river as a natural boundary and plenty of buildings to use as cover
  • Finally, Sabalan Pipeline with the winter season, that takes place in a snow-covered oil refinery with each capture point built around lots of cover

What’s obvious about these maps is they are definitely Battlefield maps with a familiar feel, not catering to a particular style of gameplay such as the CQD maps. The End Game map packs also bring back to Battlefield the original CTF and Air Superiority game modes which are bound to liven things up for a while until Battlefield 4 is released.

One of the most exciting items coming with End Game is the new DropShip, which is a C-130 Hercules that has the ability to drop vehicles  into much-needed locations:

AK907 Battlefield 3 Clan

Dropship: A new vehicle that will be coming with the Battlefield 3 End Game map pack.

That’s all I have for today. Congratulations to KUCF for the win this week (second week in a row, so someone new has to win next week), and I look forward to seeing you all online Sunday at 9:00 PM (Central) for the [AK907] Clan Meeting.

Have a great weekend, and see you on the battlefield, SOLDIER!

-GvnrRickPerry