When it works, it is great, mostly. I feel horribly for people that got bundles with BF4, or got it as their only game.



However:



- The squad system, where players join a squad lobby before joining a game is GONE. If you want to play with friends, you have to join them AFTER they've joined a game, and HOPEFULLY get on the same side, and hopefully the same squad. THEY DO NOT PLAN ON BRINGING THIS FEATURE BACK.



- I've lost my campaign progress twice before deciding to play through in one long stretch just to finish the game.

- Maybe 1 in 8 times, I try to join a game and get stuck at a black loading screen that I can't back out of without closing the application.

- Maybe 1 in 5 times, at the end of a conquest game I crash just before the level ends

- Once my player just stopped after getting a kill, showing the L1/L2/R1/R2 loadout selection - just that part - didn't respond to controls, and got me knifed in the back.

- Repeatable crashes if I press R1 to enter the targeting when grappling onto the ship in the last level, showing no exception handling based upon player input...where else would this happen?

- No audio when sharing gameplay recordings, should be patched soon, but still

- Sound sometimes cuts out in multiplayer where you just hear one sound effect and then oh, suddenly everything is back

- Random stuttering and jittering when my connection is fine, and the server connection was showing 5 bars. A different server worked fine. Either something was wrong with the server that wasn't showing up in the ping, or there was something else going on.

- Speaking of which, no way on the scoreboard to see other player's connection quality.



This is only the issues that I've experienced. Issues I've heard from others:



- Crashes immediately after launch. Sometimes deleting all game data and reinstalling works, sometimes it doesn't.

- One hit kills by the enemy, should be fixed in a patch real soon, but still.



I will NOT be preordering any other EA/DICE title, purchasing DLC, or any Premium content, because I can't trust that my $60 will get me a title I can play with confidence.