No longer do you have to wait for issues to arise with EA/DiCE games like BF2 or BF2142 after so long of playing and crashing, now you have to deal with Punkbuster and their memory resident GARBAGE.  Multiple times now while playing BF2142 it gets minimized to see a PunkBuster error.  They did a decent job in the early days but now it’s just garbage and shows up in games.  I didn’t mind it when it loaded for a specific game but apparently they’re attempting to do something with memory resident programs that crash randomly and in the case of BF2142 kill the game you’re in since it doesn’t minimize well after playing for a while.

Another company that I hope goes down in flames and someone else starts working on hack/cheat software.

The other pleasant problem with BF2142 is the blank random PunkBuster messages.  You have no idea if you were kicked for some reason or if it was PB just sucking ass and I tend to think it was the latter.  Some days it never happens, others it happens on multiple servers for no apparent reason… Is it ping?  Is it a vote?  Is it something else?  You don’t find out because the message is BLANK!