While I have played a FEW successful matches of CONQUEST/RUSH on HAINAN RESORT, the freeze rate is EXTREMELY high on the map's load screen. It happens at the exact same time, each time it occurs. About 3 seconds into the load, once the background music begins.
I've dealt with DICE and their signature, ROUGH starts to game launches, dating back to BFBC1, but nothing nearly as frustrating as the launch of BF4. I am honestly considering the start of a petition on change.org, so people like myself can simply return the game for a full refund, without having to deal with issues regarding the legitimacy of defects.
If I were objectively ruling on whether this game is technically BROKEN, my answer would have to be YES. Aside from constant freezing on various maps, most toward the end of matches, forfeiting any and all progress earned, the DOUBLE XP event did not function correctly, and even the DISC 2 CAMPAIGN had its own issues! I played through the entire campaign, amazingly without too many glitches. Although I did climb a ladder on a battleship, behind my NPC squadmate, only to be magically killed the first time, and a second time teleported into the water below. Once I finished and returned to play certain missions, EVERYTHING was gone! Aside from my achievements tied to my XBoxLIVE GAMERTAG, nothing was there! The entire save was corrupted, something that has plagued DICE games in the past. Like I said, I'm sitting on the fence right now, and the only thing that will save my loyalty, at this point, would be an effective patch rolling out in the next couple days. It's such a shame... I know a lot of hard work goes into these titles, but why not push the launch back a few weeks for additional quality assurance? Host a beta a few weeks or even months prior? Poorly managed...
