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Thread ID: 120538 2011-09-13 07:13:00 Anyone playing "Battlefield: Play4Free"? goodiesguy (15316) PC World Chat
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1230702 2011-09-16 06:18:00 I tried it, it's a hell of a lot better than BF Heroes but it has some pretty bad problems.

1) Graphics settings reset to lowest every single time I launch the game
2) Looking down sights on your weapon will randomly blur the entire screen
3) When you die, you get extreme lag while it 'loads other people's customizations'
4) It keeps randomly locking up and I have to kill it with taskmanager.
5) It has to launch through the website which is pissing me off.
6) The default helicopter controls make flying the thing feel like trying to move push a large block of lead through frozen treacle with your little finger.
Agent_24 (57)
1230703 2011-09-16 07:14:00 The lag thing happened because of an update. It was fine for the first few weeks I played. Then an update came out and I got the same kind of lag. Also because it's plugin based (for the web start) you have to wait before updating to the latest browser as the plugin usually wont support the new browser for a while (ea and/or dice can be quite slow to update the plugin). icow (15313)
1230704 2011-10-14 04:06:00 Been playing this for awhile now.

Only issues are, when other computers are connected to the internet, lag happens, and it seems to have quite a few "There is a problem with your connection" error's, when there is nothing wrong with my connection, and i've even fowarded my ports for it.

Apart from that, it's a pretty good game.
goodiesguy (15316)
1230705 2011-10-14 04:32:00 Have they fixed the stupid 'loading customizations' lag? Agent_24 (57)
1230706 2011-10-14 08:19:00 Nope. I was on it yesterday and it still has that awful lag. goodiesguy (15316)
1230707 2011-10-14 10:05:00 Pathetic Agent_24 (57)
1230708 2011-10-14 10:13:00 Pathetic

Yup. I'm nearly ready to give up on it. But it's the only free FPS to my knowledge that has boats, and tanks etc, that the user can operate and use to defeat the oposing force.
goodiesguy (15316)
1230709 2011-10-14 12:04:00 Oh yeah it's a good game, I meant it's pathetic they haven't managed to fix their own screwup yet. Agent_24 (57)
1230710 2011-10-27 08:42:00 God dammit!! i get new computer parts which allow me to play this with decent graphics, then a worldwide error occurs.

If anyone else plays this, how the hell do i fix the "matchmaking error"?
goodiesguy (15316)
1230711 2011-10-27 09:47:00 Have you tried manually browsing the server lists? Agent_24 (57)
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