Reading some comments on a news bit about the BF1943 server issues, saw someone reply to another user who mentioned the issue with squads potentially being split on map change.

Apparently, provided there's room on your team, you can do the My Squad > Invite trick (that we found works in game to get a squad back together if something goes wrong) even if the people have been moved to the other team. No idea if it'll work, but could be worth bearing in mind if we encounter that issue again when playing.

It only works when the other guy isn't dicking around in a plane.

Well, it's either that or explode randomly in a vehicle with a suicide claim, so there is no real avoiding it.

Try teamswapping when you're dead. The "suicide when you want to change teams and still alive" has been a rule pretty much as long as I can remember for any team-based FPS game.

That's fine RR, except this isn't teamswapping in the sense that most FPS games punish you for. There's no menu option to teamswap, so you can only do it if you're friend is on the other team. And it only happens if the game has decided to split you and your friends (who were on the same team, in the same squad) onto opposing teams. It's the fact that the game is at fault for the need to swap that it's sort of a kicking whilst you're down thing to punish you for points because you're trying to correct the game's fuck up.

Soooooooooo... I guess Ill be sticking with Left 4 Dead, huh?

I've found it's running perfect now. I love how fast the 360 unlocked the Coral Sea map. It was fun for abit, but I probably won't play that mode too often. The one thing I'm absolutely glad for is that chatting is limited to your current squad. It sucks if you have more than four friends playing a game, but you're all going to be matched up in an Xboxlive party anyways.

Either way, I'd be more happy with not being able to talk to some friends over having to listen to some of the idiots that are most likely playing. Really, does anyone want to listen to some idiot/little kid whine about not getting into a plane, or how you "Stole his kill/vehicle/plane." or "You're such a fag/noob/bitch/slut/etc."

No one is actively talking in the game channel anyway. The squads you get thrown in are already in their own party chat.

Game runs the exact opposite of perfect, but you're fortunate to have that. The amount of times it won't let me join a friend's game, or split the party after a round, or randomly disconnect me, or have crippling lag, or freeze, or something, is still about a 6 (or more) to 1 ratio to having the thing actually work as it should.

This is doing nothing but give me headaches. I am very glad that, in the end, I didn't pay for it. It is a wonderful game marred by the worst execution I've seen in years. I'm going to give it a week to improve. I'll drop it afterwards if it's still garbage.

Air Superiority mode is fun until you realize that everyone on your team is just going to bazooka the planes on your carrier repeatedly (seriously, happened every time I did this mode) and that it's easy to dominate if you're more than competant enough to know how not to fly into the side of a mountain. I've gone 15 and 2 and 18 and 3 and all sorts of shit in that since it's so easy.

Unfortunately, it'll ruin pilot stats for those of us who specialize in that in the main game. Getting the fighter efficiencies shows a lot more talent when you get it in Conquest than in AS. Real men know how to pop tanks.

AS stats should be segregated from the others, but that won't happen. :(

I'm pretty sure that Battlefield 2 on the Xbox used to occasionally throw your mates onto the other team but I suppose there was no party system back then. The reason they do squad chat rather than general chat is that voip takes up a shit ton of bandwidth. Limiting people to only talking to their squad or anyone within 3 feet of you or in the same vehicle was the only way they could get smooth gameplay with 50 people online in Frontlines, having general chat would have made the whole thing unplayably slow.

I must say I'm finding the concept of having to kill yourself to change teams being a "punishment" quite a difficult one to get my head round. If you want to play on the other team you kill yourself and get invited over. Aside from letting down your current team by switching out, exactly how does this actually hurt you? It can't take that long to die and switch surely so you're not missing out on much of the match during transition are you?

You get penalised in points and stats Shin. It's counted as a suicide, so you get -10 points, and do hurt the team you end up on.

Ah, I didn't realise the negative points switched teams with you. Every other game like this I've played restarts you at zero points when you switch teams. I can see then how that would be annoying although again, the final score doesn't directly affect your enjoyment of playing the game one would hope.

I think as far as stats go though you know you've never killed yourself except to change teams so unless you're worried about impressing people with your awesome Battlefield stats or maintaining some spot of a leaderboard then that's not really a problem is it?

And if you are worried about those things then I think you really, really need to get out more.

No, not worried about it, but it's still punishing you for the game fucking up. It's more about the principle that the actuality.

Game has been deleted. I feel better already.

Yeah, this shit has gone beyond being frustrated with the game to actually being angry enough to be nippy at each other in the voice chats.

There is no point to having your entertainment actively piss you off when it's meant to be something to relax with, so fuck this. I think I'm about to follow suit with Omagnus's fantastic idea.

I was wondering when this was going to happen. All I'd hear about is how broken the shit is (or if I happened to be in party chat, how frustrating aspects of the game were) but you kept PLAYING IT like battered housewives that just couldn't be assed to seek help.

The game didn't even have the kindness to lie and say "that's ok baby, I'm sorry, it won't happen again" after physically assaulting us though. After all the bruises and missing teeth all we got was a "clean the blood off the carpet, bitch". :(

So are you all going to get Worms instead or what?

Soldier profiles are up, but still seem off in terms of stats. My most used class is Japanese Sniper? Huh? Or, somehow my playtime is higher than Omagnus's, my score is lower, but I still have more than double his points per minute.

Oh, neat. Division is hard.

Don't know if I can trust the other numbers after that. Some seem ballpark correct but I can't be sure. (Pretty sure Omagnus has more than 67 Allied Tank kills.)

I also can't find Ultima or Devo with it, although it does find Miles, who has less playtime than the both of them.

I'm sure people have complained about the issues on forums and probably to EA its self - but has there been any offical word from them about this garbage?

There have been no official statements outside of the postings made on the website, which consist mostly of "You love us too much, we have to fix this!" and various other coy rewordings of "oops, we fucked up".

At this point, it seems it would be easier for them to fix the problems, delete the current version and put up something entirely "new". There seems to be far too many "basic" problems for a patch or two to fix.