Bad Company connection troubles? Just restart!

This may be the worst tip ever. Turn your 360 off for 20 minutes and then try to reconnect to the servers? What exactly does turning your 360 off for 20 minutes do? You still have the same exact IP, gamertag, etc. I'd love to know the technical side behind this tip.

It's pretty upsetting, I already almost didn't buy the game cause of the stupid five weapons deal! Now I'm pissed that 50% of the time it starts searching for a game then just kicks me back to the main menu. WTF
you pay $60 for a game then have to deal with this crap!

LMAO that sounds like something you would do with a pc is restart it to see if the game works ok jeeez come on EA

EA - Fix this before the end of next week. I'm planning to pick this game up with UT3 and would like it to work as advertised.

K?

THX.

20 minutes? That makes it sound like your console is too hot or something. EA has never had good servers. Why don't they just own up to it?

Hi guys, I foun a way to connect faster. just press the Xlogo go to friends /recent player look for player that u already played BFMC with and look for a joinable game. Once you joined the game the NETWORK ERROR UNALBLE TO JOIN. WONT HAPPEN AGAIN. at least not with me I had huge problems connecting once I did this. it never happened again.

hope this helps you!
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I'm surprised someone in the community owns this game other than Richard and Dustin and their free copies :/

How about fixing find all 5 while there at it. Not able to link my gamer tag for Sh!t. Deleted 2 accounts and still no luck.

It does sound like something from the IT Crowd. "Have you tried turning it off and on again ?"


Find all five. Works for me. I've found all five.

god i love this game, but i fing HATE EA

i could go on for 20 minutes explaining all of the annoying problems that could easily be fixed, but EA will never do it because they are lazy money grubbing aholes

- squad system!!!!!!! who the hell thought it was a good idea to disallow people on the same team from talking to each other? they MUST implement an application for 3 squad leader positions, accepted based on rank. battlefield 2 had a commander, which was chosen in the same manner. squad leaders should be able to at LEAST talk to each other, in order to coordinate a decent team tactic. it is pathetic to see that in almost every game i enter, my team is full of fools who run off into the woods and snipe, non-communicating, and not even providing recon to the team (the name of the class!!)

- glitchers!! leaderboard is already ruined with jerks who flip cars and farm thousands of points in a single match. these people BETTER get banned / removed from the leaderboards without affecting everyone else. easy fix also...dont give points to someone who is repairing / healing damage not caused by the enemy.

-teamkill system. why the hell dont they allow forgiveness / punnishment for accidental / intentional teamkills. teamkillers get way too many chances, and honest players get so many points taken away for accidental mortar strikes on their teammates becaue they cant talk to the other squads to warn them of the impending attack. LAME


-ranking system is invented by morons. the first day i played the game i stayed up all night and already got up to first lieutenant (around 3000 points). the ranks need to be exponential, not linear!! the game came out 2 days ago and i already see many many generals littering the games. pathetic. it should take a year of playing to get that, not 2 days!! every single player has every single weapon, defeating the purpose of people focusing on a certain class. not to mention a cheater can get the highest rank of 37,000 points in a half hour. FIX THE RANKING SYSTEM


- dedicated servers run very nicely, but they frequently disconnect players and then dont fill them back up! how can it be so hard to matchmake squads of 1-4 into an empty game??? its obvious that their algorithm doesnt take rank into consideration because i played against 2 generals in my first game.

why do we have no choice as to who the other squads and players that we want to play with are?? pick a favorite map and send me into the random EA abyss. garbage. give us a server search or at least let us pair up 2 squads. take a hint from bungie you noobs, that is how you set up an online system.

- EA's site sucks, linking gamertags stat tracking and constant signing in every time you go to another page = horrible design

- veteran program is stupid, for battlefield 2 to qualify u have ot own all 3 expansion packs. glitch does not allow me to add my battlefield vietnam code either.

- infantry damage against helos is wayyyy too high. 1 MG can take out a chopper just as good as the AA gun! also...no parachutes, cant jump out of the helo = stupid. every other battlefield had it.


there are plenty more, feel free to add on by replying

Actually, you can just go into the system menu and reset or test your internet connection. Then jump back into the game and everything should work fine. It worked for every system in our apartment and our neighbors so it should fix any connection problem in the game.

Forget waiting 20 minutes.....

I waited about 10 SECONDS before I booted my system back up.

I was able to get into online games after that.

I just go off the phone with ea about C&C 3 "Kanes Wrath" not working since launch... they said it was battle feilds fault... but why no LAN support? it's pissing me off!

20 minutes.Wow that brings me back memories of Windows 95.

for those who's sniper code doesn't work...I had the same issue. I mailed EA (at their support link on the back of the manual) and said that I didn't recieve my code for my unlock. I was sent a response within a day with a new code for me to use...no questions asked. So now I have all 5 unlocks, pretty simple.

just turned off for 10mins with no luck :( was fine for the 1st couple of days but not cant join anything. its stupied they take £40 off u then leave u out to dry.. thanks EA

At first I thought this game was going to be terrible, but I gave it a try anyway, as I was getting bored with everything else. Well I really enjoy this game and the Multiplayer has been super addictive. I have about 20 hours logged already and I must be one of the lucky ones because I haven't had any connection problems since I started playing on day 1 when it came out. Haven't been dropped and I get in with my squads just fine every time. I'm sure there are problems, but I guess I'm lucky.