There's a house a bit further down hill from where I live... when someone gets close to their door, a hidden speaker screams for like 5sec. It's really loud, and it happens every 10 minutes. The kids are terrified lol.

Otherwise, I'm not doing anything special. I killed Monoculus though, does that count? 

EDIT:
Oh! But I re-designed the site for Halloween! (Took me 5min, I know  )

Nope.
GTX580 and on Ultra. 40-60 FPS.
It slows down a little bit sometimes, but it's not noticeable. I think the real problems right now are server stability (oh that reminds me of TF2, that's good), rubber banding and lag. Especially since I only play on 64 players servers.

As for Battlelog, or Facebook for Murderers as Penny Arcade called it, I didn't like it during the beta. But I don't mind now. I wish I didn't have to be logged to a server to edit my graphical settings or my keybindings, but I don't change my settings every game so it's not a big problem. What I really don't understand is the squad system. It's a huge pain. In Battlefield Bad Company 2, you could select which squad you wanted to be in. In BF3, you just get assigned to a squad automatically until it's full. You can leave the squad, but you can't decide where to go. So for example, if I want to play with a friend, it's a mess. You have to keep trying until the system puts you and your friend in the same squad. That smells bad console shortcut.

And the last problem is obviously Origin. God, I hate this program. I have to send an invite from Origin to a friend. Ok, good, so it's like Steam. But then! I have to invite that friend again in Battlelog if we want to group up. And the steam in-game equivalent screen, you have to press SHIFT+F1, which is the most comfortable keybinding ever. I need to figure out how to change it.

There are other problems, and I see a lot of people either disappointed because they die really fast (but seriously, it's like this in every team based shooter, it's not fun to be on the losing "bot" team in TF2 either), the tanks/jets are overpowered (if you're inside, it's awesome, if you're not, you're screwed), and graphical glitches/server crashes/instability.

It does take a while to learn to play a Battlefield again. BF BC2 was really different. The maps in BF3 are huge, even with 64 players, you're lucky if you get more than 8 kills during a match. You also have to learn how to pick a good respawn point. If you pick the home base, you're gonna be miles away from the action, and you either have to go on a "marathon" in the desert or wait for a jeep to spawn. If you pick a respawn point that is being captured by the enemy, you're going to die in the next 10 sec. Sure, it's frustrating, but you just have to respawn on your teammates, or on a safe close to the action spawn point.

Ah well, in two weeks, people will move on to CoD MW3. And I'll stick with BF3. I've enjoyed playing CoD1 and 2, even had a dedicated server for CoD2. MW1, I played the SP, thought it was fun. I played some MP, unlocked a few weapons/gadgets, but I didn't like it. Maps felt too small, too arcade-y and reminded me a lot of Counterstrike (but the bad side of CS). And the killstreak system, I don't know. I like the "a tiny bit more realism" style of BF3. I will probably play the SP for MW3 though at some point. I hear BF3 SP is boring and short. Usually MW's SP are short but entertaining, and the weapon handling is usually fun. A bit too arcade-like for me, but fun to use.

Am I the only one playing BF3 in this TF2 driven country?

This is strange. I'm using IE to browse and post right now, and I see nothing wrong.
Does it just randomly times out when you move around the website? Or anywhere specific? Does it give you an error code when it hangs?

I must admin I'm using Chrome as my default browser, but I've tested the site using Firefox, Opera and IE, and everything was fine. Try to clear your browser cache and maybe cookies too. We did move the site around a bit, so you might still be using old cookies or session info in your browser cache somewhere.

But we'll figure this out, so please give us more info. We really want to be sure the site loads fast for all the major browsers.

Valve released a client patch this morning (100MB), and a server-side patch around 5PM. Both servers are up to date and have been stable for a couple of hours. I still hear reports of client crashes, so we might see another update tomorrow.

Overall, it seems like the worst is over... Get ready for the Halloween update and it's spooky server crashing bugs!   

We're moving to a new server, so expect a lot of broken links on this temporary website.
However, I believe I've fixed most of them in the VM Beta news post. The link above should also take you to the application form.

Be sure to meet all the requirements.

So Valve released a new patch to stop the client crashes, unfortunately, it seems to have made things worse. Players randomly crashes every 5-10min, and there's nothing we can do on our end. Valve has said they will release a patch on Tuesday that will fix some of the issues.

We'll update as soon as it's available, and I really hope they get it right this time. Meanwhile, I apologize for the current server issues, and hopefully everything will be back to normal soon.

Hang on everyone!

We do have a Paypal account for donations to keep the gameservers and our website going. It's a bit hidden at the moment on the Home page at the bottom. And it's not very pretty. On the next website version, we'll be changing the Home layout quite a bit and make it much easier to donate.

Also, keep in mind, we do not give any donator benefits like other servers do right now. It's still something we need to add. But, we will never give any perks that gives an unfair advantage ingame.