It was a pain trying to play Battlefield 2 yesterday with the authentication servers down... the way the game hangs when your login doesn't work is, well, not good. A post on Battlefield Nation suggests that some sort of DDoS attack was underway, also expressing frustration with how the game hangs under these circumstances. Hopefully their speculation that this behavior can be addressed in a future patch is correct.

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