Originally twitted and now blogged EA announce hardware upgrades and improved stability, servers will be down for about 4 hours (read: 10 hours) and they are insisting that performance issues will be greatly reduced once the log in servers come back online.
We certainly hope they are right..
“Since launch a week ago, BFBC2 has already put EA servers through the following stress:
The 4 different soldier types have gathered a score of more than 34 Billion.
There’s been more than 400M kills made.
1.3M roadkills
Squads and Teams have assisted each other to 6.2 Billion points.”
After quite a few hours playing last night I can honestly say things were better, random disconnects only happened twice and one of those was a server shutdown and not performance issues. Dukes had the odd crash to desktop but nothing overly bad. The squad play was really refreshing, we got right into it all.
Few more tweaks and this should be good to go!