Start killin': Battlefield 1943 'Coral Sea' challenge has started

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 10th 2009 3:45PM

The Battlefield 1943 community challenge to unlock the "Coral Sea" map is a go -- that is, for those who can get into a game. The bonus battlefield will unlock as soon as the individual communities on Xbox 360 and PS3 reach a body count of 43 million. We'd give you the current kill count as of this writing, but it's jumped nearly 50K in this brief time. The corpses are piling up fast!

If someone with math skills wants to track the figures over the next day or so and give us a rough estimate of when they estimate the map should unlock, we won't hold it against you. Once "Coral Sea" opens up, if should include an "Air Superiority game mode." Get killin', folks, who knows if there'll be another carrot dangled in front of us when this challenge is done. We hope there will be.

Update: As of 12:19PMEST on 7/13/09 -- Xbox 360: 30,102,476; PS3: 16,434,208 [Thanks, Doug]

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Tags: battlefield-1943, coral-sea, dice, ea, electronic-arts, Microsoft, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (83)

IS THE GAME WORKING?!

I played for 5 hours last night with little to no problems

I did not. I wanted to. It took me 5 attempts to get into a game and then when I got into the game finally, the level had all sorts of texture problems going on and screen tearing issues, so I had to leave. Tried to get back in after that with zero success.

Had no problems on the PS3 since its been out.

It works perfectly on PS3 at least, I played it for about 4 hours total so far. A lot of fun, not as much polish as Bad Company though :-/ Totally worth the $15 for a change of pace.

It looks like both will make it in less than 20 days, which is amazing considering how many people can't play...

i just got a ps3 and need sum ps3 friends my psn id is

redsoxpwn22

It works for 360 now. First day it was out it was horrible, second was a little better, and today there are absolutely no problems, atleast on my end.

It worked for about three straight rounds before I was kicked off and unable to login thereafter (this was probably about 1230 am). So I went back to playing Fallout 3 for the rest of the evening.

MUST KILL ALL!

Besides the slight lag (which they are fixing) this game is a lot of fun and well worth 15 bucks

I'm getting all nostalgic playing this game.

It's kinda like making love to an ex-girlfriend who's gotten slightly better at putting on make-up and whose breast surgery turned out very nice indeed. And of course she promises to show you some new tricks if you can pleasure her 43 million times. :p

I concur, I will also add that this game is better than most retail games.

Now, if only I can not get disconnected from every time I try to play...

I spent 1200 points on it, but I have yet to actually get passed the menu screen

So me, some friends, and a bunch of random players tried to set up a private match (which requires 16 players before it'll let you start??) last night and after 20 minutes of trying to get people to stay we finally filled the room -- only to have EVERYONE get booted when the host started the game. And it wasn't a normal boot, the player grid just disappeared and left the rest of the PM interface on screen leaving you to ponder as to if the game was actually DOING anything. It wasn't and the effort was completely wasted.

Same thing happened to me last night, Storm. I was pretty pissed. I wonder if I was in the same party as you were.

I feel your pain.

I've only managed to play one game, when I was the only one in my party. Every time I tried to join with my 2 friends, we couldn't find a game or would lose the squad list like Storm said. That really sucks, as my friends have spend about 8 hours now trying to play a game together. Oh well, if it's this busy I guess the 360 will win hands down.

That's cause you have the 360 version, I did all that on PS3 with my friends and it works flawlessly. I'm sure that'll all be fixed soon anyway, Dice is quick with fixes usually.

There's nothing broken in the 360 version that needs fixing, they just need more 360 servers because more people seem to be playing the 360 version, based on the kills.

@airintake
Well from the kill rate you could also assume that 360 players die alot easier than PS3 guys.

@deanb

Or that PS3 players are much less efficient at killing targets ;)

Exactly. Though PS3 owner's may just be winning through flag captures.
And where did my "Lies, Damned Lies n Statistics " quote go? That owuld of made my point much more clearer

Or maybe it's because the 360 version came out before the PS3 version?

Roughly off the rate of the first hour I figured 15 days, but it's moving a lot faster now

I love this game so far. It sucks when you have to try a few times to get a match, but it has rarely taken more than a minute this afternoon. I like that the classes have been simplified and the lack of unlockable weapons. I'm also really excited to have a fun online multiplayer game on the hard drive. Now I can switch back and forth between BF1943 and Halo 3 with my friends without having to stop and swap discs.

Getting flags and keeping them wins the game, snipers are just a minor annoyance. I just tried the demo now and i got twice as many kills and flag points as 2nd place guy, playing as infantry and mostly using tanks. ;)

But yeah i agree on the planes being a waste of time without a mouse and keyboard to control them.

A mouse and keyboard is the best way to control a plane now? What happened to joysticks, like in real planes?

I'm helping to do my part... on the playstation.
You're welcome, Xbox guys! :D

well maybe if the game would work.... i would try it

(btw those the game work now?)

think about this though, the 360 one came out 2 days before the ps3 version

so of course the 360 will win

No the challenge just started today

I played last night on the PSN for about 3 or 4 hours with zero lag, no disconnects, no unable to join errors, and geting into games in about 10 seconds, But hey you get what you pay for right? ............wait.

over there, do you see it? what you did.

same here, zero problems since came out on the ps3, lucky us

I've had no problems at all :)

good fun

do kills on the trial version of the game count?

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/10/

That's funny, and true!

Couldn't get on the first night, played a couple games without an issue last night. Game of the summer.

I know im going to get downvoted for this, but I hope to god the PC port isnt a smoldreing piece of dog shit. If there gonna make us wait, it better be damned good.(with plenty of mod support)

Ug, heroes. I played that once in beta, never went back.

Well, to be honest its not bad for a "free" game, actually its quite good. Its just not the same battlefield to me though. No one works together,at all. I mean i know the same could be felt of in BF2, but in this game, theres really no need for team work. Along with the "super powers" or what ever the hell they called them it just wasnt my cup o' tea.

Assuming the 360 users continue to average 10,000 kills per hour (and that means the game's fanbase can never die off), that would be 4,300 hours to get 43,000,000 kills. 4,300 hours = 179.166 days. We're looking at the 360 community unlocking this in January of 2010.

eh.. ill give it a week tops....

I don't think that will be a problem. The 360 knocked out 5 million kills on the first day of release.

This game is a sham. How EA can be allowed to release a game onto XBLA that clearly isnt working for many people days after release is wrong.

Microsoft should never have permitted this. I and many others will be thinking twice before jumping in at launch with anymore EA affiliated products.

Castle Crashers says Hi!!!

Now the Battlefield 1943 website is under maintenance? Are there any servers EA didn't underestimate? This is getting hilarious. I've yet to be able to play the game with my friends.

So is it the PS3 version or 360 version having issues?
From reading theses comments it seems the 360 version is the one with issues.
I messed about on the PS3 trial last night and it was fairly enjoyable, I'll probably pick it up tonight if the PS3 version is okay.

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