As you probably noticed, we have experienced an outage across EA servers today, this was caused by a routing issue outside of EA's control but it has been solved and things are back up and running again.

Tomorrow at 8:00 GMT/9:00 CET and 12:00 (midnight) PST the EA servers will be brought down for maintenance. There is no current time for when the servers will return so keep an eye on our Twitter for more up to date information as we get it: http://twitter.com/OfficialBFBC2

On a more positive note, we have released the R6 server to server providers today which should stop the PB INIT FAILURE messages that have been causing problems recently, as well as releasing new server versions, we are still investigating and fixing connectivity and stability problems that are being reported in the forums http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/.

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Possible Fix for the PunkBuster problem.

• Visit: PunkBuster
• Download PBsetup (3.4) install, run and add the game.
• Select the game and click check for updates.
• Navigate to: "installdir\pb\htm" (e.g.: "C:\Games\Electronic Arts\Battlefield Bad Company 2\pb\htm")
• Check for: wc002158.htm, wa001382.htm If YES, skip to next step else download (link in point 1) and place them in pb\htm
• Now also download pbsec.htm (for Players not Admin) from the link and place that both of these locations (to make sure): "Battlefield Bad Company 2/pb/htm/", "Battlefield Bad Company 2/pb/"

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After last nights EA server outage on PS3 and PC, EA have found the issue and put a fix in place and brought the servers back online. This  means that both PS3 and PC players can return back to playing Bad Company 2.

We are aware of a number of remaining disconnect issues on PC and we have released the “R5” server to hosts yesterday to address some of the disconnects. We are continuing to work on the remaining disconnect issues to have a solution as fast as possible as well as looking into reports of other issues raised on the forums for consoles: http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-ng/ and PC: http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/

Battlefield Bad Company 2 has managed to prove so popular that yesterday the concurrent users in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 surpassed that in Battlefield 2 which has been going strong for almost 5 years.

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UPDATE #2: Servers back on!
UPDATE: Our ranked server is online again. But the Ea-problem persists.

The EA MasterServers for Battlefield Bad Company 2 are currently offline.
As locust9(twitter) said, they are working on an outage and EA will fix this problem as soon as possible.

Here is an information regarding this issue (french - BSN-Gaming):

"Bonjour,Ce message est pour vous informer qu'EA opère présentement une maintenance sur leur master serveur, qui devrait aider à venir à bout des bugs vécus par plusieurs. Cette maintenance est déjà en cours, et afin d'aider à accélerer le processus, EA demande à tous les providers de fermer un total de 40 000 slot.
Nous allons fermer nos serveurs publics mais si vous voulez donner un coup de main à leurs techniciens qui travaillent jour et nuit depuis la sortie du jeu, nous vous demandons de considérer l'option de stopper vos serveurs par le game panel, et ce jusqu'à la fin de cette maintenance*.
Sachez que ceci n'est pas une obligation, mais plutôt un coup de pouce volontaire que pouvez choisir de leur donner. Nous espérons tous que ceci mettra fin aux problèmes de plantages de BFBC2.

*Fin de la maintenance: 3h am Amérique / 9h am/ France"

End of maintenance : 3AM in US, 8AM in UK, 9 AM in FR

We can not confirm this at this moment. Stay tuned.

P.S. Our server is offline, too.

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The official Battlefield Bad Company 2 Stats Page is finally up and ready for use.
Includes all the cool stuff: Unlocks, Leaderboard, Time until new rank, weapon, time in vehicle... ahhh scew it.

See the screen below or visit it by yourself: http://battlefieldbadcompany2.com/soldier (Log In -> navigate to "MY SOLDIER")

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The day is finally here, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has launched in North America on all platforms (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC) along with some impressive review scores such as GamePro magazine giving a 5/5, Game Informer magazine giving 9.5 out of 10, Eurogamer's 9/10 and Team Xbox giving 9.5/10.

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