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Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
DICE has been working hard through the night to solve problems affecting Battlefield 1943, which launched on Xbox Live yesterday and should be out for PS3 today.
Apparently when it all went live yesterday, the news was not so good. Writing on the EA forums (thanks Kotaku), producer Gordon Van Dyke blamed servers unexpectedly hitting capacity due to high demand.
Later on, however, EA and DICE were able to introduce more servers, and posts to the forum and Twitter late last night suggest those included more in Europe. Judging by threads on our own forum, you're having more luck getting on now. Or maybe you're not? Let us know in the comments.
Look out for our review of Battlefield 1943 soon. We had hoped to bring it to you yesterday, but were unable to get enough time online with it pre-release. Absolute shambles around here lately. I'm planning to sack myself.
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Monkey_Puncher
09/07/09 @ 07:53
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I got on okay last night, though beforehand I was getting a lot of 'no servers can be found' messages.
Boggles the mind when a developer like DICE can honestly not expect their new version of their incredibly popular Battlefield franchise, to not be very popular. |
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asphaltcowboy
09/07/09 @ 07:54
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Started off a bit ropey, but everything started to fall into place around 12am-ish maybe (for me anyway)? Played for a good few hours and it was lovely!
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Scurrminator
09/07/09 @ 07:55
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well, when you offer EVERYONE 20 mins for free there are going to be a lot of people trying it, fucking duh
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LeeroyJenkins
09/07/09 @ 08:36
+1
Can you invert the plane controls? It makes NO sense to me that "up is up" on the joystick. I want plane controls dammit. All it would take is simple menu option and some controller code to make it possible.
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optimusprym8
09/07/09 @ 08:37
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Was playing fine yesterday morning after finding the full game download in "Video Marketplace > Game Videos > All > BF1943 > Most Popular" :-/ for about an hour with 3 friends. Was an absolute riot and great fun. Then America woke up and it all went to shit. Managed to get another game this morning without a problem but expect more issues until after the weekend and initial rush has resided.
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yeah, once again EA/DICE underestimate the european market. STOP USING AVERAGED EUROPEAN DATA AND GO BY INDIVIDUAL GAME USAGE DATA: i.e. Bad company, BF 2 - WE LIKE IT OVER HERE!
ffs, seriously! I hope this is the last time and enough servers are rolled out to accommodate real demand on the release of Bad Company 2. That said, I was able to get on one server last night and I stayed on it for a good few map changes - the game is great! Although surprise surprise there are glitchers already. tsk tsk..
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stodgypudding
09/07/09 @ 08:49
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I was just about to go and play L4D with 8 disgruntled purchasers when we were able to get on one by one. I'm seriously hoping we will be able to have a private room tonight without needing 16 players :(
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I honestly thought it would be OK and they wouldn't make the mistake they've made every other time. Tried for a couple of hours and couldn't get in (couldn't even quit the game either - had to drop to dashboard).
I'll fall for it again with BC2. At least with that you can play single player until they double the servers like they always have to. |
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metalangel
09/07/09 @ 08:51
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@Leeroy: yes, you can. It's right there in the options. I an incredibly disappointed by this game. While it looks and plays well, I can't get over the huge amount that's been cut out from BF1942 and the fact you *have to* play on EA servers. You cannot host your own game, hence these capacity problems. Not buying this.
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thegamesthething
09/07/09 @ 09:05
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It is still pretty ropey this morning - leaderboards are now up but in 30 minutes of game hunting I got 5 minutes of (admittedly lag-free) play. A bad sign, given demand at this time must be really low compared to the peak.
A pity, beacuse when it works, it is great. |
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rhubarbandcustard
09/07/09 @ 09:05
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Couldn't join a game last night, and still can't this morning.
1200 Microsoft Points waiting to be spent DICE. I'm sure a lot of gamers, like me, aren't buying it until we've actually tried the damn thing. Having said that, once the server issue has been sorted, this will probably become my most played game of the year. Also, despite the bad reviews ...Battlefield Heroes - a huge amount of fun. |
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muscleblade
09/07/09 @ 09:06
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I also bought it but joining a party with 4 of my friends that couldnt get a game going i didnt bother trying. A refund should be in place imo. I bought a product that doesnt work at all. I want a refund.
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Fightclubber
09/07/09 @ 09:31
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This is taking the piss its still not working for me at all. I somehow got on last night when i went to the leaderboard looks at the top guys profile and had the choice to join his game, after that i got to play it for about 90 mins and it was ace.
But after that ive had shat all luck, just searches for games and finds piss all. Really piss poor show |
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And sadly the problems go on...lost connection to EA now...but cheer up you know what they say, "some things in life are bad they can really make you mad other things just make you swear and curse, but when your chewing on lifes gristle don't grumble give a whistle and this'll make things turn out for the best....annnnnnnd"....
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BadBoyBonner
09/07/09 @ 09:53
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Tried about 90-100 times to get on last night got on twice both times for less than 2 minutes. Played the tutorial (again) to give me a little bit of experience. Then got so fed up went and played WAW - only for it to be constantly crashing and booting people out (no doubt a knock on effect of the EA shenanigans). Gave it all up and went and played DOD:Source on the PC to vent the frustrations.
Will be trying again tonight sometime after 10pm - fingers crossed - at least it can't get any worse. Well, when I say it can't, aren't they launching the PS3 version today?
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BadBoyBonner
09/07/09 @ 09:55
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but when your chewing on lifes gristle don't grumble give a whistle and this'll make things turn out for the best....annnnnnnd"....
Got put on a game, that actually works... -whistle-whistle-whi-whi-whi-whistle. |
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Attempted it there now. Took 2 attempts to get into a game and seems to be running well. Some guys are so good in those planes already! It's great fun.
It's morning in the US and daytime in Europe so we'll see how well it holds out this evening. I really want to get into a game with my friends. That might be a stretch today. |
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Why oh why cant you set a private game and choose how many slots you want for your mates??
fucking thing forces 16 players to start or nothing at all, well done EA another fine mess your company has put us in. Once you are in a game tho it's utterly amazing i dont think any XBLA arcade game will look as good as this. |
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CHAZBIGPOTATO
09/07/09 @ 13:03
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@ Defdumblindkid
Do you have pinball FX and are you looking forward to the release of Pinball hall of fame - The Williams Collection? |
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AphoticCosmos
09/07/09 @ 13:52
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I've been playing for 4 hours straight with only one instance of lag. It was just like BF2, but perhaps even more fun!
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Agent_Orange
09/07/09 @ 15:42
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Wont be able to play this 'til i get home on Friday night, thought I was missing out but looks like its a good thing I'm not at my XBOX...
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quantumsheep
09/07/09 @ 16:27
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When you're on and you're playing, it's just amazingly good and addictive :)
Should be even better with friends... when we can all get on! |
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DefdumBlindkid
09/07/09 @ 18:15
+1
Tried for the last hour to get my very first game as I didn't manage it last night- unfortunately 'no Dice'! :o)
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