I have the same issue. Bought BF2042 and was going to play with my son, but my friends list shows as empty and my friend request is stuck in his EA-app. Manually searching for his username in-game does give a result and an option to "add friend", but nothing happens after that.
Sane issue here, can't accept friend requests. Clicking the tick or the "x" on the App does nothing.
We've found a small work around in the meantime so you can play BF2042 together. Go to Portal and browse servers you'd like to play, join the same server together and hopefully you can be in the same squad/side together. If you get split apart, one of you leave at the end of a round and re-join the same server when your team are lower on players than the other side. More likely to get on the same team that way.
As long as you stay in the same server after every round you'll remain in the same side/squad. Hopefully they will fix the friends requests issue soon.
