Battlefield Bad Company 2 (BFBC2): ‘PB Init Failure’ message hits PC gamers
By: Alan Ng | March 7, 2010Filed under: Gaming, PC Games
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Following on from our post this morning, which informed you that EA were investigating problems for the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield Bad Company 2, we are hearing that PC gamers are experiencing a new error message – related to PunkBuster.
As reported from HeartlessGamer, Punkbuster is an anti-cheat software program that is used within the game. But rather than help gamers, it seems to be stopping them from connecting to servers at all.
A new error message has been reported, which seems to be affecting the majority of PC owners. The full message is:
”You have been kicked from the game. The reason is:Punkbuster kicked player ‘playername’(for 0 minutes) … PB INIT FAILURE (if this persists, visit evenbalance.com slick support to manually update PunkBuster).”
This latest error seems to be different from the issues affecting console versions, as it looks to be a problem related to PunkBuster specifically – and not EA. Luckily, there are a few steps you can try out to fix this problem, head to the link above for information on this.
Have you been greeted with this message when trying to connect to servers online?
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Yes same thing here. Link does not solve the problem. Have downloaded both relevant files but still does not work. Still get kicked from game within 10 – 20 seconds of playing.
This game needed a bit more testing before being released as there are just to many problems with it. My advise to anybody thinking of purchasing it. DONT wait to see if they sort out the mess first very poor to release a game with so many problems from day One.
well u can download a pb updater to in the future
EA are letting themselfs down badly. Its ameteur night on the servers!!!! I managed to get on the severs after running the updater program that can be found in the game folder (PC). But its very hit and miss, now Im being kicked by PB as the experiance hasnt been bad enough so far . Get a grip EA !!!!!!
pb init failure sucks…played for a couple hours, take a break and boommmmm it's broken
can anyone say TOYOTA!…what a joke this is. get it togheter
I was on fine playing yesterday. Got off for an hour or two and when I tried to get back on this PB error is what I get now. This Sucks!
I was able to join servers before but now I cannot join any until today, I joined a server and PunkBuster didn't kick me fortunately but, they seriously need to fix this..
got it too…! it was fine until yesterday (6 march) now i get kicked, i also tried to join a server which didnt have punbuster enable and i was kick again(wtF?). and i also manually updated the pb
yea PB SUCK I DONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUTH THOUSE NOOOB CHEATERS I WANT TO PLAY THE GAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OFF PB
how to fix that shit ???????? OMG i bought the game 49$ I WANT MY MONEY BACK YOU PRICKS
i bought it on STEAM
that s h i t PB ! i cant even update it on pbsetup becouse there is no battlefield bad company 2 THEN WHY THE FUCK PISS OFF PEOPLE with some shit PB if you dont even get the new version of bf in that shit setup