By Lola at Wednesday, November 16, 2016 2:17:00 PM

Yesterday, EA DICE released Battlefield 1's Fall update, as well as rent-a-server for PC and PS4. I know many of you have been waiting for rent-a-server in the hopes that Africa will be included as a region. Unfortunately, as we've stated from the beginning, EA will not allow any third-party hosts, so no, Africa is not included. In case you've missed the many explanations - yes, we have done everything in our power to get local servers.

Let's move on to how rent-a-server works now that it rolled out, as well as some feedback from those who have been playing on a server. We're busy setting up one ourselves and will give you feedback very soon.

Right off the bat I can tell you that Battlefield 1 RSP is not what you want it to be - yet (forgetting the region issues). It's currently in Beta phase, so we can expect a lot of improvements rolling out over the next few months. However, what I do find very disappointing, is how EA DICE have been handling RSP and Battlefield fans. There has been no proper feedback from "Top Questions Regarding the Battlefield 1 Rental Server Program" or any updates on the official Rent-a-server forum post, or the Battlefield 1 Rental Server Questions Master List.

In fact, looking at early feedback, rent-a-server is even worse than fans imagined. It's like EA DICE complied a list of questions from fans, but didn't bother to use it. Below is a summary of the list from GrowlmonDrgnbutt detailing all the current issues.

The short of it: "You have no admin privileges even though you rented the server." We predicted this in "Let's discuss: EA's removal of core admin commands for Battlefield 1's RSP."

Battlefield 1 Rent-a-server known issues

Can only add up to 6 maps in a rotation.

No ban list.

No in-game server menu - cannot choose the next map, kick players, or balance teams

Can't disable "skill-based" auto balance.

Can't see a list of players in your own server unless you are in the game.

Any edits made to the server will label it as a "CUSTOM" server.

Can't make changes to weapons allowed, only the type of weapon

"Land Vehicles" and "Air Vehicles" are the only options for removing vehicles. You can't remove the Behemoth.

Can't make any changes to the Behemoth

Can't reserve slots for yourself, admins, or VIPs.

Can't set anyone as an admin.

The good news is that many of the issues are already "under development." According to Ali Hassoon, Producer at DICE, they are working on the following.

RSP for Xbox One

Kick/Ban/Move

Class limiting

Behemoth disable

Passwording servers

Battlefield 1 Rent-a-server Basics

Below is a video showing what you can currently do with rent-a-server. The official description reads that you can "...manually tweak every detail from spawn times to tickets. Create your personal game experience ..." EA DICE has a way to go before this promise is reality.

Name your server

Add maps - All nine available

Add the map mode - All five modes available

Server size

Other on/off - Kill cam, friendly fire, HUD, regenerate health, 3D spotting, mini map spotting, always fog, nametags and vehicle 3P cam

Rules percentage - Bullet damage, ticket count, respawn time, vehicle respawn

Region - Asia, Europe, US East, US West, South America, Oceania

Rental period - 1 day (R29.95) to max of 180 days (R2199.95).

Our server will be up and running as soon as space opens in the European region. Keep an eye on GameZone for more details soon.

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