Same issue here. Locks up midway through fleet battles. No other piece of software makes my PC do a hard freeze...
Historically, after doing a hard reboot I can rejoin the ranked match before it ends. Not this time! I reboot, quickly launch the game trying to not abandon the match and screw my teammates over... Nope, this time I discover my game has been reset to "factory settings." Instead of rejoining my match, I get rewarded with the un-skippable company logo videos, Intro movies to the game, first time pilot customization. I can't even get to the main menu without starting the single player campaign... by the time I did, it was too late. It says I abandoned the match.
As a final low-blow, I discover all of my keybinds have been erased. Honestly I would have rather lost my skins or my ingame currency instead of my keybinds lol.
Wtf is this, now I have to re-setup the game when it crashes?
I was hesitant to buy this game... experience has taught me to expect game crashes from EA games (no matter how powerful my system) - idk if it has something to do with the frostbite engines (other EA games work fine)? Either way, if other games/devs can avoid hard freezing my PC - a member of the AAA game industry can certainly do the same.
