Just a Disgruntled Player.

Been playing Crossfire for years now, always loved this game for its Instant Action capabilities, but lately it's becoming far too big a hassle to even get IN the game.

Starting off by just clicking the icon, it takes quite a few minutes to load. My computer meets recommended requirements, I am on Windows XP SP3, and I have an extremely fast internet connection. This part doesn't bother me, just stating the above for future reference. As soon as it is done loading, I have around a 70% chance the game will load, or a 30% chance the game crashes and I have to bring up Task Manager to close it and restart the tasking process again. IF the game loads, all is well up until the Server selection screen. Once I get here, I have about a 20% chance that the game freezes on me on the "Connecting to Server" step. If I make it passed this part, all is well up until selecting a channel. Once it comes to selecting a channel, I have about a 10% chance the game, again, freezes on me and I have to do these tasking processes ALL the way from the start. I have around an overall 60% chance that the game crashes for me, and I have to restart the whole shebang from the beginning. Tried doing it four times now, and failed all four times. If I make it passed that, oh joy, onto the fun part! Actually enjoying this wonderful game**.

** Game crashes 2/10 times with some random number error followed by a "You have been disconnected from the server" message, and subsequently crashes.

Along with the aforementioned anomalies, comes the fact that the game randomly(couldn't provide a possible, fair percentage) crashes with another "You have been disconnected from the server" message. Also, very rarely, when going to the Black Market, Storage, and Item Shop, I'll recieve the above message.

A fair, also I'm sure frequently complained about feature, is the log-in and server selection timers. Log-in timer doesn't particularly bother me, I normally never get bugged by it. Server timer on the other hand, kills me frequently. I'll go get a drink while the game loads up from the log-in, see what my child wants or needs, answer a phone call or text, grab a snack, anything and come back to see the muchly-coveted message: Server Selection time exceeded, you have to do this joyful process all over!

Now I'm sure the fact that my single post will greatly affect my sway on matters such as this, but a player with one post means just as much as a player with one-thousand posts. I'm far too busy to peruse Forums frequently. I caught a moments reprieve and was able to hop on to complain.

I love Crossfire, I really do. This is a great game. You guys did an amazing job with it, but there are just quite a few bugs needing fixed. The game was made to serve people with good computers as well as those with bad computers, I.E. the general public, so why not help someone who provides you with constructive feedback? I hope to recieve a little insight on just how to fix said problems, or at the very least the knowledge I gave the Developer's a helping hand with a few bugs that they can work on fixing.

Notice how I used the term "process" quite often. No game should be considered a "process" by any player by any means. That is what it has become for me though, I love the game so I go through the process in hopes of getting on, and more oft then not fail miserably and waste more of my time.

Anyways, my ranting is over, and to whomever this may concern, thank you sincerely for looking this over completely, and sorry for the Bible. I'm an ex-Moderator Supervisor on a Forum with 20,000 plus members, quite used to writing and revising them, thank you.

Crossfire player,
Jakanadin