In a similar case, the Battlefield series generally
puts dedicated servers to good use as well.
Not exact matches
DICE also stated that the biggest reason for the Beta was actually to test the
dedicated servers that the game will use by
putting it under as much stress as possible to ensure the best experience possible when Battlefield 3 releases at the end of October.
The master list has bugs,
putting up your own
server, whether
dedicated or not, has bugs, and connecting to a
server has bugs.
However, now Epic has rolled out the
dedicated servers, it should finally
put to rest seemingly perennial Gears issues like host - advantage and lag.