As much as I want to like this game I’m having a hard time.  The single player is fun but the browser and connecting to online games is a nightmare.  I get connected, play for quite a while, I exit the game and attempt to join another and the launch button doesn’t work (not to mention wtf is up with not being able to double click on a server??).   Anyway I click on launch and nothing happens, so I drop back to the menu and click “online” again and it does a refresh and never returns from refresh land.  All I can do after waiting for 5 minutes is alt-tab and kill the process.  At this point I restart the game and get a message that I’m already logged in.  Not sure how long this lasts since I went into single player at this point and played for an hour or so but it’s at least 10 minutes.

The browser is a PoS and while they took a great game engine with the UT3 engine it functions just as poorly as the BFxxxx games….it’s almost as though they thought, what is the worst part of the Battlefield experience and added it to FFoW.   The filters work about as well as BF2 in the earlier days and the lack of options is sad for the browser.  Once in a game it works well but at least with Crossfire you get flickering lights all over the place from the onset.  There were some issues with UT3 originally but that seems to have been worked out but not in FFoW and it starts immediately in a game, both single player and multiplayer.

Playing a game is fun but it seems the same few maps are usually available (even worse than the BF series) but getting into them is far from fun.   I’m going to try to focus on this game a bit more and see how it continues but right now I’m disappointed in the multiplayer.