Not sure this game was ready

[JohnyRico]

Just my opinion but considering the number of peeps (myself included) who either can't get into a game or stay in for more than 1 whole round this one might not have enough polish on it yet. I have yet to play 3 rounds without freezing. Coming out of a freeze it is about 90-150 seconds from the time I hit the join server button on the Lair to the time I am actually in the game. That's after I get task manager to unfreeze me. I've also hung up so long at the start of a round that by the time I spawn in the first time there are guys with 1000+ points already. Add in that you lose all the points you had when you freeze out and I am getting kinda peeved.

[Apache Warrior]

Could the freeze be a hardware or software problem on your end. I had a freeze problem on one of the earlier games and it ended up being a hard drive starting to fail.
I did have a weird problem last night with the menu in game. After playing a couple of hours my menu locked up. The mouse could not change any settings. I could not change options, spawn points or even exit the game. The only thing that worked was the enter key. I would then spawn at the highlighted spawn point, our main spawn. Using the escape key did not work either. I had to use Task Manager to exit game.
Apache

[Schultzy]

I've had three big issues that have more/less broken the game for me.

1) Eyefinity does not work due to the icon glitch - no player indicators. I also have an issue with the HUD still.
2) Punkbuster Issues last night. I am actually wondering if I was PB Banned, as I cannot join any servers now.
3) Random kicking from server/connection stability.

I spent nearly three hours last night and never got a chance to play but for more than 30 minutes when I played CoOp - which I did not find to be amusing.

[Qicmee]

"Released before ready" is normal.

The usual story: Some of these problems were discovered during the beta, and they will be fixed in the first patch. Some other problems are new (not a problem during beta); work is in progress. Most problems will be figured out in the first week or so, either to fix in the patch or as advice to users. And some problems will never be fixed because they are built into the foundation of the software, like BFBC2's broken VOIP.

[WalkinTarget]

The server will always get PB updates in a timely fashion, but client PCs will take a while to propagate, so its the same old same old with PB .... easiest thing to do is manually update it via the pbupdate.exe file.

[{CLR} Cobalt]

Apache, I had the same mouse thingy too. Couldnt highlight anything couldnt deploy. Mouse moved ok but it didnt do anything but move.

I accidently hit the right button out of frustration one time and it started to work. So hit the right mouse button to unhang it and then try the left. Worked for me.

[ryanbatc]

Instead of waiting to end program via taskmanager just hit alt+F4 to terminate BF3... that should help speed things up.

[juneau]

Could the freeze be a hardware or software problem on your end. I had a freeze problem on one of the earlier games and it ended up being a hard drive starting to fail.
I did have a weird problem last night with the menu in game. After playing a couple of hours my menu locked up. The mouse could not change any settings. I could not change options, spawn points or even exit the game. The only thing that worked was the enter key. I would then spawn at the highlighted spawn point, our main spawn. Using the escape key did not work either. I had to use Task Manager to exit game.
Apache

I had that multiple times during the Beta.

[Apache Warrior]

Thanks Cobalt. I will try that if it happens again.

There was the same complaints when BF2 and BF 2142 were released. They tweaked the games as we played and they got better. Most complaints will be fixed.
Apache

[slice]

Thanks Cobalt. I will try that if it happens again.

There was the same complaints when BF2 and BF 2142 were released. They tweaked the games as we played and they got better. Most complaints will be fixed.
Apache

Yeah I remember BF2 having tons of issues, even well after its release. Same with BC2. So this may be no different. But once they hash everything out, this game will be amazing.

[baconoclock]

Just my opinion but considering the number of peeps (myself included) who either can't get into a game or stay in for more than 1 whole round this one might not have enough polish on it yet. I have yet to play 3 rounds without freezing. Coming out of a freeze it is about 90-150 seconds from the time I hit the join server button on the Lair to the time I am actually in the game. That's after I get task manager to unfreeze me. I've also hung up so long at the start of a round that by the time I spawn in the first time there are guys with 1000+ points already. Add in that you lose all the points you had when you freeze out and I am getting kinda peeved.

You still get in faster than me, even with having to task manager it. I hit join and it's 2-3 minutes usually until i can spawn.

[JohnyRico]

The Alt+F4 thing is cool. Thanks.

The forum section in origin is blowing up people complaining of the same general bugs. We'll see how it goes.

[Apache Warrior]

Last night I hit escape while between maps and was able to exit the game. It pops up a message asking if you want to leave.
Apache