How to get all of your friends into the same game and preferrablly on the same side.

Manage Squad. Then hope the servers will keep all 4 of you at least on the same team let alone the same squad.

Or even in the same game.  I was trying to play with ONE other person the other night and couldn't even join the same game..... I blame hippies.

I blame terrorists

I blame EA

Once in game you can jump into pre-made squads that are empty and then invite your friends to join same squad. As far as teams the server needs to be uneven in order to switch teams. 1 team has to have 2 or more players than the other.

Funny how someone was telling me this wouldn't be a problem in the full game because it was a BETA. I've experienced about 60% of the same *** problems from the beta. Paying customers are the new testers and the game will be better in a few months after they release a patch.

I've found that using "QUICKMATCH" instead of the server browser allows our squad to consistently join games and not be split up.

[quote user="AbnormalXMatt"]

Not so obvious in this game.  Do we all have to get into a lobby and just select not to join squad to get organize.  Isn't there an easier way?

[/quote]Look, to party up and create a squad before you search for a game, all you have to do is scroll down to manage squad(should be under "quick match"). From there, invite 3 of your friends. When they accept, you'll see 4 players, all in green boxes, that's your party/squad. Once everyone shows, hold your breath, cross your fingers and do your search.

[quote user="lDarklPassenger"]

Funny how someone was telling me this wouldn't be a problem in the full game because it was a BETA. I've experienced about 60% of the same *** problems from the beta. Paying customers are the new testers and the game will be better in a few months after they release a patch.

[/quote]Whoever told you matchmaking and server issues wouldn't be a problem when the new game launched didn't know what they were talking about. These have been problems for every new Battlefield since FOREVER, it's nothing new and it'll get fixed just like the last eleventeen times it happened at launch.  

I shoulda known better too, I'm just calling out the morons who listened to Dice when they said that the beta was lot older then the final version. Doesn't seem much different to me....