1)      Lag – The killer blow of any online game you play, with animation stuttering and opponents appearing from nowhere. If any game you play in suffers from lag you are better off leaving as I can guarantee you, it will be no fun.

2)      Team Killers – “I want the heli”. This phrase is most commonly used by beginners or the younger generation. Instead of engaging in the war, they feel waiting for a helicopter to spawn is a more productive use of time.

3)      Opponents In Your Main Base – As the rest of the spawn points are full of action, you decide to take the quiet and usually scenic routine of spawning at your main base, and then you suddenly get sniped or realize the base is overrun by opposition. Although there are no set rules about this technique, in my opinion it just takes away the fun of the game.

4)      Uneven Teams – No-one likes being outnumbered and when this occurs in an online game of Battlefield 2 it is the same depressed feeling. The worst thing that can happen is when a new person joins the game, they see what team is doing better and go onto that side, although there is a block to stop this but it still occurs.

5)      Small Number Of Locations – Although this is not the case in the retail version of Battlefield 2, it seems to happen online. Certain maps such as, Backstab and BridgeTooFar are the maps that always seem to be played. Although you do get used to the maps, they do get tedious very quickly.