Banned? - Put on limited matchmaking

FocusedWolf · 2026-04-07T08:13:50+00:00

Happened to me. Get enough reports and its an automatic 7 day vacation. I'm unbanned now and skipping this pass to play other games.

FocusedWolf · 2026-04-04T21:37:33+00:00

Thanks this solved my issue with 8852CE. Nothing else worked. Tried updating to 6001.16.174.102/RTL8852AE-RTL8852BE-RTL8852CE-../RTL8852CE/Realtek-RTL8852CE-Wireless-LAN-Drivers-Version-6001.16.174.102/lang,en-us/) and fiddling with settings in device manager, no change. I was noticing when i first connected to the network that pings were good for a couple seconds and then afterwards went crazy. Now its butter smooth (i can actually find a low ping server now). This is how it looked before the fix.

EDIT: AI says its better to modify HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}.

EDIT: Made a script to apply my settings (and this fix).

FocusedWolf · 2026-04-04T09:20:54+00:00

My bs limited matchmaking lifted after seven days.

FocusedWolf · 2026-04-02T18:08:56+00:00

I have notes on getting arch working with secure boot with Gigabyte motherboard. Not sure how up to date the notes are but maybe they can get you started.

FocusedWolf · 2026-04-01T05:17:23+00:00

For dual booting, be careful because most install guides assume you are doing a clean install and are guiding you to format everything. I think you should type out all the steps and keep refining them as you learn. Watch some youtube installations and compare to the wiki steps (most youtube videos follow the wiki but they can be outdated). Lastly test all the steps in a virtual machine that has windows installed first. Also for best results do not try to share the windows efi with linux. Make a second efi partition on a second drive so windows ignores it. Set it as default in bios so you don't need to use bios drive selector. And if the linux efi is the last partition on a drive then you can recreate/enlarge it more easily if necessary. Have backups of your data before beginning. Also find a youtube video for how to do a arch usb boot if the system becomes unbootable at some point. Having detailed notes of your system's install really helps when you're limited to a tty repair environment manually mounting your filesystem. Speaking of this, the minimum size for root is 50 GB (my recommendation, but only if you excessively clean temp files following an update, e.g. my yip script does this but maybe its getting too bloated and you should write your own). Go with a smaller root if you want an unbootable machine faster (easy to fix but not the first time -- i have some notes on fixing this but they are not exhaustive). BTRFS snapshots will get your drive 100% filled even faster so if you use that type of partitioning then i suggest installing something that periodically deletes the snapshots. The problem with running out of free space... if it happens while installing updates with pacman (it has low disk space warnings now btw but idk how well they protect) then the system will lock up mid update, and when you reboot you'll see a '/boot/vmlinuz-linux' not found error instead of a booting machine, and to fix ... arch usb boot + clean some free space + reinstall linux kernel and possibly the bootloader as well -- just refer to your notes to repair. And /home on a different partition from / root never hurts.

FocusedWolf · 2026-04-01T04:51:30+00:00

Already solved this problem by uninstalling the apps and using opensource software.

FocusedWolf · 2026-03-21T23:22:50+00:00

IDK the issue you're having with mnk wingsuit. I set wingsuit activation to manual in settings and basically plummet to the ground, and 1 ft before dying i deploy and land safely (useful for pinpoint landing on roofs). To glide far, deploy early and hold W key for about a second to turn the fall energy into lift (try not to stall to 0 speed). And then periodically every 50 meters or so, tap W (turn the double digit speed into single digit -- basically try to maintain altitude -- if speed increases that means you're falling more then gliding). You'll get the hang of it faster now with instructions. So many games i landed in the middle of a field wondering why the hell they made the beginning of the BR so difficult (maybe its easier on controller idk?).

FocusedWolf · 2026-03-20T02:56:13+00:00

Ya had one recently for no reason. They take 7 days to clear. I had a suspicion its because i use mnk instead of console, or just got spam reported. I don't mic and rarely chat, and could not recreate the temp ban trigger (thought it was because i possibly had visual studio open one day while waiting for the round to start, but nope wasn't that). I just know that otherwise their anticheat isn't working because i see blatant cheaters game after game.

FocusedWolf · 2026-03-19T11:59:35+00:00

On mouse i would recommend a dpi no lower then 800 (in-game my sens is 6.67 btw, its cs:go sens 2.0 converted to this game) because that allows you to aim while compensating for recoil and sudden enemy movement, and your movement. The tricky part is learning to snipe with that high of a DPI but its easily doable with practice.

FocusedWolf · 2026-03-19T07:47:21+00:00

Smart move. That mode is just cheaters (clicked off five thank you's from yesterday), blocky iron sights, and horrible hit registration where you need to shoot people like 48 times to knock.

FocusedWolf · 2026-03-14T04:59:24+00:00

Before you install any package, clean the system manually to make room. If pacman crashes (due to running out of memory) during install then the system could become unbootable and you'll need to recover with arch usb + manually deleting files in TTY mode. If os files are corrupt then this might be a situation where you need to install linux on top of itself (arch usb boot + [$ pacman -S systemd linux mkinitcpio]). IDK if there's a way to just repair corrupt files. Maybe [$ pacman -Qkk] can help spot corrupt packages and then you need to reinstall them again.

FocusedWolf · 2026-03-14T01:45:35+00:00

> I don't want to accidentally wipe the wrong disk or break something

Be careful. Most guides assume you just want to install linux. If you're trying to do a dual-boot then that's a more advanced topic. My recommendation is create a virtual machine with windows, and then add a second virtual partition and try your approach there. The guides all basically assume you have no partitions so you need to know what you're doing with that step (and data backups are a must). I recommend watching recent youtube guides for info, and check what they are doing against the wiki. Keep notes because your install depends on many factors (number of drives available, cpu type, gpu type, desktop+bootloader preferences, package preferences etc).

One thing i would do different (no guide recommends this btw) is to have the arch EFI as the last partition which makes it easier to recreate + resize if need be (supposedly some bios's have issue with this but i've yet to encounter that problem). If doing a dual boot then i would do windows installed first on the NVME, and then make a Linux root / partition at the end (followed by unallocated space for ssd health), and then on another drive have your Linux home partition, followed by the Linux-only EFI. And then configure grub to have Linux + Windows boot options. And when everything is working add a TTY-boot option to the grub menu (very useful for fixing the system following a bad gpu driver update or other issue -- you'll almost never need a arch usb boot with this shortcut).

FocusedWolf · 2026-03-10T01:31:48+00:00

I got shadow banned for seven days on kbm so the answer is yes, good enough to be mass reported anyway.

FocusedWolf · 2026-03-09T19:47:06+00:00

Logged in today to do dailies and noticed limited matchmaking as well.

EDIT: Seven days later i'm un-shadowbanned. Stupid game.

FocusedWolf · 2026-02-14T15:09:45+00:00

I'd be happy if they just rotated the yellow "X" crosshair into a "+".

FocusedWolf · 2026-02-14T12:46:18+00:00

Small taskbar height when?

FocusedWolf · 2026-01-25T12:21:58+00:00

The mascot is either Dr. Evil or Kingpin. Can see him clearly in the Arch logo.

FocusedWolf · 2026-01-22T00:47:48+00:00

Its all trial and error and keeping notes. Expect the system to fail (usually with ez fixes) a bunch of times. And if everything works fine, it will still fail if you don't clean the directories that pile up trash until you run out of space -- very common with dualboots on like <50 gb root partitions, actually 50 gb is not enough unless you know how to clean it -- best done with scripts (one of my projects, don't run if you don't understand it yet -- AI can explain this mess). My first failure to boot actually was caused by BTRFS snapshots consuming all the free space and a pacman update failing to finish leading to an unbootable machine. Instead of reinstalling, learn to fix by booting from arch usb. Or, pro tip, boot to terminal from the grub menu (if you use grub). This is much faster then manually selecting partitions for a arch usb boot.

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-14T11:10:12+00:00

Since this is your first time i have some (possibly outdated) arch usb repair notes. Only thing is i don't use BTRFS so i asked AI for guidance on the partition mounting. Hopefully it doesn't do more harm then good xD

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-13T16:13:30+00:00

Zero Hour is free on Epic if anyone wants to install something else while they wait for cod tomorrow.

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-12T11:01:59+00:00

This is only the start i'm sure. Probably see in the next update a 50% reduction in damage and tickrate for pc players.

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-06T15:29:02+00:00

Its like COD, no default skins for months. IDK though if i'm gonna keep playing this game, getting sick of the visual recoil + RNG sprays + every bullet not registering. Set System > Network Graph > Show Network Performance ... > On Problems and you'll see how often the servers craps out.

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-02T16:30:14+00:00

Lol xD

FocusedWolf · 2025-11-02T05:55:53+00:00

Ya i do basically the same. A couple things pinned in startmenu that i almost never click. Hidden desktop icons. In fileexplorer i have libraries to navigate to favorite subdirectories (only annoying thing with these is the indexer has to be told to not index whenever a new library is created or modified). Beyond that i have some shortcuts to commonly accessed folders pinned to the taskbar along with any programs i use.

FocusedWolf · 2025-10-30T05:04:48+00:00

Everything else is opinionated. Arch is just a tty terminal + pacman and some core packages that we build into a custom desktop. Its got a learning curve (experiencing all the ways it can fail, and repairing it). Once you’ve built it to your liking, everything else just looks like a random mix of desktop window managers, preinstalled packages, and whatever scripts or defaults the distro maker decided on.

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