So after entering my CD key on 4 different occasions for the game to allow me to play the MP, my friend and I tried to play some games together. So he sends me an invite and I accept. But I can't accept because it says my CD key is invalid (despite the fact that I entered the key 4 times already).

So I decide to restart the game, and it AGAIN asks me for a CD key, which I enter yet AGAIN (for the 5th time but who's keeping count?). He sends the invite, and this time it works. Great, now it's time to finally play the game right?!?

So he searches for a game. We can't find our desired game mode because all of the servers are seemingly either full or completely empty, so we decide to play anything. He finds a game, "can't connect to host". So we try again, this time we get into a lobby, so we're excited, we're finally going to try out the retail MP after enjoying the demo. Thing is the game is stuck on the lobby. After trading snide remarks with others crying "not this again", "wow, this game is maximum fail" on the chat we decide to try again, thinking nothing of it. Same thing. Game is stuck in the lobby, "retrieving session data" or something like that.

So we decide to just search for a quick match, because that server browser ain't working out. We search for any game, "no games found". We try yet again, get into a lobby, and it's stuck yet again. The cycle repeats itself for over an hour until we decide to call it quits, but THEN(!), the timer starts to countdown. We finally managed to find a working lobby it seems! The timer hits zero and we're rearing to go, but then, the timer resets! What? Maybe just a glitch nothing more, so we wait for it to count down again. 3,2,1...and it resets yet again, and again, and again.

Yeah, after the countdown restarted for the 5th time, the both of us just hit alt + F4, said our farewells through vent, and wondered if the $60 we spent on this game would ever be worth it.

Guess only time, and a significant patch from Crytek, will tell.

I seem to have gotten lucky with my server picks, maybe 2 out of 5 work, the problem is, only 10 out of 100 are populated.

The friends thing is botched up, but there is a FIX for your invalid key

start up crysis2, goto multiplayer, type in the key, then go back to singleplayer.... now, re-enter multiplayer, and type in the key again.. to see if it worked, simply go back to singleplayer again, and switch backto multiplayer, it should no longer prompt you for a key

I have the same issue here, well I didn't have any trouble with the keys at all. I have always find a server and never have any connection trouble and , but only once get in into mp. I get stuck in the lobby and when the clock is finaly ticking it just goes to 1 and then starts over or nothing happens, and it keeps showing 1. I just looked my stats and it seems that I have been "playing" mp half hour, but have been in a game 5 mins . Theres something wrong in the mp right now and no one cant deny it.

For the time being I just enjoy the capaing. Got to say that the game looks damn good. Its best looking game that I have played for a while.

My biggest issue is my stats reset 4 times already but im guessing thats because unranked servers dont seem to have that countdown timer issue.

Ranked and Unranked

So it would seem that if you find an unranked match (using the multiplayer - "Join Server" selection mode) the game works. None of the statistics save though. Quick Match appears 100% broken.
This really needs to be fixed.

My rant:

What other entertainment industry products release like this? For every 60$ one might spend on DvDs, how many of these purchases are simply lacking the last fifteen minutes?

I think failing to deliver working features as promised is an unacceptable practice that has become justified among game publishers and simultaneously a norm for the gaming consumer.

This game is released. I spent my money. The game is great, amazing, fantastic at it's core. Now I have to wait.

I love the singleplayer of this game. It's really great. But the multiplayer is definitely broken. Hit detection is way off too. Feels like the developers stopped thinking when working on the multiplayer. Why is that? Because the MP was developed by Crytek UK. YOU FAIL!

start up crysis2, goto multiplayer, type in the key, then go back to singleplayer.... now, re-enter multiplayer, and type in the key again.. to see if it worked, simply go back to singleplayer again, and switch backto multiplayer, it should no longer prompt you for a key


Thx for the tip, so far it's working. Having to manually re-enter the key was becoming a major hassle.

However, finding a working game is still a problem. I managed to get into 2 games out of probably 20 attempts, so things are still looking dire.

This pretty much sums up my experience with the game so far.

I've tried dozens of lobbys, all but 3 were stuck, and of the 3 I made it into, I apparently lost connection to all of them despite having a ping of 50 or less and not experiencing any lag.

Come on Crytek, at least make it look like you're doing something about this.

How could they not have seen how unplayable the MP was before release? It's not as if it's something subtle, the MP is downright broken on PC, it doesn't work!

Has anyone actually been able to play multiplayer mode? whichever game I choose it nevers strarts up, there is only bunch of people comming and leaving it...

Has anyone actually been able to play multiplayer mode? whichever game I choose it nevers strarts up, there is only bunch of people comming and leaving it...

I could. Once! It was my very first multiplayer match since the demo and I spent 3!!! hours in lobbies just waiting, and waiting and waiting.... After that (only 7 minute!!!) match I quit the multiplayer and went back to play some more singleplayer and search for the collectible stuffs....

Has anyone actually been able to play multiplayer mode? whichever game I choose it nevers strarts up, there is only bunch of people comming and leaving it...

I could. Once! It was my very first multiplayer match since the demo and I spent 3!!! hours in lobbies just waiting, and waiting and waiting.... After that (only 7 minute!!!) match I quit the multiplayer and went back to play some more singleplayer and search for the collectible stuffs....

I've gotten into 2 games (TWO) after about 2 hours of searching. It's ridiculous the state the MP is in right now. It's a downright mess.

Haha, and crytek is wondering why they loose their pc community
i mean seriously,i played the multiplayer about 3 hours from which i spend 2 hours in search working servers, trying to connect to my friends or just getting a crash to desktop with no erorr.

Dunno wot u guyz all complaining and crying at dont have any problems.
U **** maybe enter your serial at the login window at start so it wont come up again....

i have play muliplayer for a half hour. but than lobby's lobby's lobby's and more lobby's!

why?!

fix it!

MP is definitely broken and needs a fix ASAP

I had NO problems logging into Gamespy, NO problems with my promo code, and had a minor issue with the MP code- which was solved by using ALL lower case and NO dashes(I've heard it worked for other people when they included the dashes as well).

As for the MP servers:
In my experiences it seems all the EA AMERICAN servers are broken.
I've played MP games on the same German servers, UK, and even one in Austrailia(HORRID ping..).
But ANYTIME I try to connect to an American EA server... it sits there and does nothing or does the match countdown-then reset-then countdown again- and then when it hits "Match starts in 1 second" it just makes that annoying clicking sound.

I just don't understand how the demo seemed to work GREAT and the release is BROKEN... it should have been the other way around!

And it'd be REALLY NICE if Crytek/EA would announce/address this issue as being worked on... the game's been out for 3 days(US, PC, Steam for me), and I would have HOPED it'd been fixed by now...

One thing I might suggest that I noticed last night, is that you should ignore the NFO.com servers that are titled something like "Dallas NFO Server". I was reading another thread and apparently a lot of these matches will start if the server gets reset once it bugs out.

With that in mind, I look for clan servers or something similar to that because I'm assuming that most clan servers will have an active admin that keeps an eye on the server and restarts it when it craps out. Using this guideline, I've had pretty good luck finding working servers.

Personally, i played MP for about 3 hours last night with no problems at all(eu servers).
Tried to play again today...i have no problems getting into the game(most of the times at least...),but when i do i get disconnected after 10-30seconds.
Anyone else getting that?

I gave up on the multiplayer after failing to find a working lobby after an hour of searching. Single player was awesome though. I may go try multiplayer again now...

Dunno wot u guyz all complaining and crying at dont have any problems.
U **** maybe enter your serial at the login window at start so it wont come up again....

Yes, clearly the reason that Cry-Tom made a thread dedicated to the serial issue (and called it a Fix no less) and the fact that so many people are complaining about it is because we're stupid.

"Dunno wot u guyz **** bla bla bla" and you have the gall to call other people stupid? LOL!

I have been playing for several hours and am at rank 18. The games not broken. Fix your personal network/ internet connection and stop blaming Crytek.

I have been playing for several hours and am at rank 18. The games not broken. Fix your personal network/ internet connection and stop blaming Crytek.

How about you read through the **** thread and see that this is a problem affecting other people and not just a "personal network/internet connection problem".

I can play MW2, BOps, and SC2 just fine, but not this. If you're not having a problem, great, but don't try to downplay the fact that other people ARE experiencing severe problems with the MP of this game.

I keep getting this error... "an error has occured, please check your network connectivity" and it simply won't let me login

I got multiplayer to work by filtering only unranked populated servers. That gave me less than 50 servers (many of which looked to be European). I found one that workd and favorited it right away.