XB1 - I have heard of people having issues joining games, etc. I have not experienced it that much. Until this morning...
If you use battlelog or browse games, choosing like 2 maps, you can then find servers with no queue or small queues if you refresh and scroll down quickly.
Sometimes the screen will go black. This seems either when your client has problems joining the game, or the server is in between maps. Sometimes it seems like the server is having a hard time starting a new game. Worse is when you exit out of the game and then start the game back up. As soon as you hit multiplayer, your client joins the previous server game that seemed frozen.
This morning I saw many issues all combined to make it a frustrating experience. Maybe I have been lucky, but if other people have experienced this often, I can see why some have given up now or for good on this game.
- Some games had 6 to 10 players listed, but when you try to join the game it puts you in a queue with x number of people. Therefore the player counts don't always work. I don't think the server filled up 50 some people that quickly
- When joining a server, the game goes to a black screen. You can hear sounds, but nothing happens. When exciting the game and starting it back up (even if starting IE and closing it to try to close your previous BF4 session) you either join the previous server, which if it was on a map you don't want to play that sucks. Or it gets stuck again. Doing a full shutdown of the system via the xbox button on the system may fix this. But who wants to do this over and over? I heard this is not limited to this specific game so maybe XB1 is to blame
- When I did join a game it was very end of matches, and then sometimes experience the black screen once again to repeat the whole process
- Games I did get in, I had one or two disconnects during the match
I had started a XP boost. After experiencing all of this I quit for the morning. After an hour I had only used 15 or so minutes of the in game boost meaning I only was able to play the game 15 minutes our of an hour or more.
The reason I am posting this is not to rip on the game more. I like BF4 and I will play this game 100's of hours. I also thought maybe people just had slower/bad connections via there ISP or other additional issues related to NAT. Maybe though some of us are just luckier than others.
