Battlefield 4 R51 Server Update

A server update, R1, has been applied for Battlefield 4. Details of the change are as follows…

• New map added (Zavod: Graveyard Shift)
• Three new experiences added to take advantage of the new map (NIGHTSMALL, NIGHTINF,
  NIGHTLARGE)
• Netcode improvements:
  • Added support for high tickrate (currently disabled, it will be enabled at a later date after
    live testing is performed)
  • Improved “rubber banding” handling
  • Improvements to reduce “dusting” effect on fast moving vehicles (mainly jets)
  • Updated server stall detection
• Skill based team balancer: The new team balancer is a start-of-round balancer. It is designed to
  balance lopsided servers by breaking up teams over several rounds. It is enabled by default on Official servers, it can be controlled on non-Official servers by using
  vars.SkillBasedBalance.
  The team balancer works by:
  • Taking both team sizes and skill into consideration. It works by:
  • Rebuilding the teams based on skill after every round
  • Keeping squads & friends together
  • Preventing excessive team stacking
  • Assigning joining players by skill during rounds
  • Replaces players that previously left the game with new joiners
  • Evaluating manual team switching on a case by case basis and refuse team switching
    which may ruin the balance of the server
  • Attempting to prevent team stacking by being more restrictive of high skilled players
    trying to switch to the better team
  • Freely allowing team switching when there are very few (less than 5v5) players on the
    server
  • Being enabled in “bigger” team based game modes only
• Fixed a rare server crash