I started downloading the demo and had a serious problem connecting to XBL last night. It would connect for 2 minutes and then drop out. I had to unplug the unit and the router for about two hours before the connection was stable again.

I hope this is as good as I remember...

This is literally the best menu system I have ever played. 10/10

The stunning music fills the player with confidence as they try out portions such as "Quick Match", or "Achievements". A visual eye-candy of Planes speckles the background and is a clue to the Easter egg of the menu, which comes in the "Tutorial" section: There, it features an actual mini-game of a 3D World War II first person shooter, obviously put in as a nod to the menu system's roots in being a prelude to games.

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My favorite part? The one where you obviously leave the room and just continue to press the A button as the game repeatedly rams it's cock into your limey asshole.

Played the demo of the PS3 version and I didn't have any problems connecting (probably because there are less people playing it), though I didn't get to try out playing with a squad. The game ran smoothly though, and I had a fucking blast with it (definitely picking up the full version, just need to run out and pick up a PSN card tomorrow). My only complaint would be the lack of voice chat, but I don't know if it's just not present in the demo or if no one else actually had a headset (being the PS3, I'm willing to bet the latter).

If anyone else is getting the PS3 version, we definitely need to get a squad together.

Voice chat only works within a squad. It's to cut down on massive chatter that would exist across an entire team, although the team sizes in this aren't large enough to present the level of the problem that they seem to be worried about.

Better than nothing, I guess. As long as it has some form of working voice chat this time around (the voice chat in Bad Company was fucking terrible, didn't even work half the time even after they patched it).

Normally i hate WWII shooters, but this one was cool. Played the demo, and I found pretty much to be Bad Company with WWII era style. Its a colorful, bright game...but Rock...did you notice they really kinda went lazy on the voices in this game? The people when they die are identical to Bad Company's. That was lazy I think.

Overall I really thought it was cool. If I have the money to blow, i'll go ahead and get it. MvC2 first though, then BF 1943.

Well it is basically the same game just reskinned with a WWII theme, so it's not surprising they did the least amount of work possible. I like the changes they did make though, and I still think it's different enough to warrant buying even with all the time we've put into Bad Company.

So yeah, you better buy it. :p

Tried this morning since servers were supposed to be fixed. No one to play with, but I did manage to get into Quick Match and played for an hour or two. Its pretty fun.

This game can seriously get fucked. After endless searching earlier I finally make it into a game, one which is horrifically unbalanced. "Oh well, the game moves the teams around" I think to myself remembering how Skills and I, having entered the game through the 'Play with a friend in a squad' function, had been split up after a round because we were doing too well. Nope, no dice, just unbalanced teams for a few rounds. Sod that.

Then later when I return to try again, the game has a new trick up its sleeve. It was letting me join games easily enough, though it decided that I was doing too well at certain points and froze my whole Xbox up. Five times.

The most frustrating part is when it's good, it's fucking fantastic. This is great fun when it's working. The problem is that that's fucking rare.

This is shoddy fucking work, and if I was part of the team responsible I'd be about ready to top myself from embarrassment.

Chalk up another two refunds. Omagnus and I scored one for how continually fucking broke this thing is. Even though the news ticker says Quick Match is fixed, going in this afternoon results in yee olde ass fucking again. I recommend Devon try it if she's as annoyed as I was.

Devo, Ultima and I: a fucking force to be reckoned with. Also, the only three people doing a damn thing on our team.

Best Squad Award 15 times. Seriously though, fun times guys.

We definitely came the top squad most of the rounds we played, but I swear last time I checked the stats page I only had the badge x8. To be honest, I don't entirely trust EA's stats reporting, it seems far too flaky and unreliable (I know Skills mentioned it took ages for the game to acknowledge the Best Squad achievement he'd already earned).

I also wonder why the game doesn't give you actual stats to look at rather than that stupid awards page. If you know how many people I've killed, how many flags I've capped, etc, then why can't I see those numbers?

Yeah, I'm still disappointed I didn't get my 1006% rank upgrade. Should have taken a picture of that, that was a really "WTF?!" moment.

Stats are very broken. There is a page tied to it on battlefield1943.com that gives you slightly more interesting numbers, but not only were they entirely incorrect the other day when they were up, right now they aren't even available. Super.

http://www.battlefield1943.com/soldier

Log in and use that link to find yourself, but chances are good that it'll be fucked up in one way or another.

Regarding "best squad". I have been in it well over 20 times now, but I've only got the stamp for 9 of those, and the achievement for it didn't pop until I started playing without joining a squad whatsoever. Came in first overall while not in a squad and oh there it was.

Hell, half those stamps seem totally random. The five airplane kills in a round one took me many rounds of fulfilling the said conditions before it would show. I think I got it on my fourth consecutive round of getting at least 6 plane kills, if not more.

Soldier profiles have apparently been disabled according to a news story on the site:

So yeah, don't even bother.

Also, if I'm not mistaken (and the thing is actually working), apparently the Xbox kill count is already up to 27 million. Christ.

I'm surprised too.

Imagine if this shit actually worked properly? It might have been unlocked already.