Rainer_Wahnsinn

EA created a different release (1.612) for the download version of the game. Therefore the game is not compatible with the old 1.61b servers (you can only play on 1.612 servers). But apart from that both versions seem to be very similar (no additional patches included etc.). The only major difference that I recognized is that there are currently no IDs assigned to the players ingame (Hashkey, User ID) which makes it impossible to ban a player and not only a nick.

I set up a server today and it seems like the most recent pb version for the retail version of BF42 is also working with it (I am still checking but at least I am not getting kicked ;) ). If it really works it should also be possible to implement a pb streaming.

Same here. I would bet on a pb update that went wrong. I counted more than 200 kicks on our servers the past ten minutes. It seemed to work again and one of our servers filled up with 64 players but five minutes later all players were kicked again :(