Problems with kicking and banning through BattlEye

[Yurifag]

Hey there Epoch community,

 

I setup a Epoch server recently, but it seems to have problems with BattlEye.

The BattlEye Client and Server load up fine, but when I try to ban a player through BattlEye with "#beserver ban [GUID]" with the BERcon.exe tool it just doesn't work and returns no output.

There also seems to be no bans.txt.

All the BattlEye configuration files like "publicvariable.txt", "createvehicle.txt" and so on don't seem to have any effect either.

So when I try to kick a player programmatically with a script I wrote like this

publicVariable "somevar";

it doesn't work.

 

What confuses me is that there are 3 BattlEye folders:

\Battleye <- here are all the BattlEye filter .txts from the Epoch server files

\Expansion\BattlEye <- this is where the BEClient and BEServer are loaded from

\instance_11_Chernarus\BattlEye <- this is where I had to create the BEServer.cfg with the rcon password

 

I'd would be great if someone could help me out. I don't quite get where to place the bans.txt or why it is not created and why the BE filter .txts don't work.

[SchwEde]

\instance_11_Chernarus\BattlEye 

This is where you BE-Filters are

you actually dont need to add something to the publicVariable Filter, since already kicking for everything except the defined variables.

To ban someone you will have to use BEC for this, but i dont know how to get this done, i just know that Battleye itself will not write something to the ban.txt (might be wrong here)

[Yurifag]

Thank you, Schwede.

I didn't realize I had to copy them to the instance folder.

I know I don't need to add anything to the filter. It was just that BattlEye never kicked for anything, because there were no filters that set up this whitlist behavior in the first place.

 

I never used BEC. I just tried to use the method described on the BattlEye wiki page.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BattlEye

 

I used the official BE RCon tool and tried to ban a player by his GUID, but nothing happened.

Also I read something about a "bans.txt" and also a "ban.txt".

Were these people simply talking about the same file and were should it be located?

 

[Markokil321]

bans.txt is what you need, it should be in the same place all your filters are (scripts.txt etc, in your case \instance_11_Chernarus\BattlEye)

If this file doesn't exist, create it.

[Yurifag]

Thank you guys, everything is working properly now.