Battlefield 4- Out on October 29th (current gen)

[nk4e]

On the topic of the MAV, I am fairly certain they are immune to Stingers. I have played two games of Rush recently as a Defender and in each game, I launched five or six Stingers at a MAV and none of them hit the MAV. In the second game, I asked in the chat if anyone else noticed the same thing and at least one person had the same experience. While a MAV can be useful in Conquest, a MAV in Rush can be invaluable. Throw in Stinger/Igla invulnerability, the lack of spammable vehicle weapon fire, and the thing is downright unfair. Further, it is easy to avoid small arms fire from infantry while using the MAV. In the second game, I ended up countering the enemy MAV by using a MAV myself. I figured my team knowing where all of the enemy team was at would be beneficial. I ended up with something like nine or ten spotting ribbons.

I shot down a MAV before... I was scanning the area and found it floating around.

 

[Ibonibo]

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A few days ago I jumped into a game with Pako. That was pretty fun. It was a pretty good group and we worked together most of the matches. ibonibo jumped in also. Sorry about getting separated in the squads.
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Yeah it was great 👍 Had a bit of lag but it was worth it.
First I was confused why i was kicked from the squad, clan tag, okay understood

Last time I had a really good match, not really close but 100-0 at the end. 2 Minutes before the end I was thrown into the losers team. I was 2nd best in the first team.
I want balance really bad in game, especially level or spm oriented, but that was just really lame.

Today I had a few awesome matches. Shot down my first heli with a tank. With standard ammo! Awesome. Finally understood why the support class has it ups. I hated it as it was nil against tanks, but then I took the motar. Holy cow.

Destroyed the other team on Rush.

And took the ebot and ebot baged two recon guys. Last one tried to shoot at me. He looked confused Only thing missing was the mark from MGS when they spot you. Awesome.

Scout heli all unlocked. That thing is a killer.

And the attack boat also all unlocked. Tv missiles are fun. Parcel storm shooting over the islands 👍

Bugs are still as bad as before though. But at least mine is quite stable. Crashes are rare.

 

[sesselpupser]

Ever thought about Port Forwarding?

Huh? Have I missed something or did that not make sense on purpose?

 

[nk4e]

Huh? Have I missed something or did that not make sense on purpose?

Probably a unfinished thought while I was at school but I just trying put some input on improving your online experience.

 

[sesselpupser]

Probably a unfinished thought while I was at school but I just trying put some input on improving your online experience.

Oh right, I see, sorry. It's not a connection issue though, it's either just how the game was designed or a bug.

 

[Brett]

I also unlocked the MP7 last night. I tried out the weapon on the Test Range. However, I did not have a chance to try the weapon outside the Test Range. Getting a vehicle destroy with a Stinger or IGLA was a pain. I could consistently get hits on vehicles, but most people would bail out after getting hit once and I would not be able to get a vehicle destroy.

I gave the MP7 a run today. The weapon is very good in close quarters. The hip fire is very good and the rate of fire is fantastic. The reload speed seems to be pretty good. Mid range is decent, but not very good. The recoil makes putting rounds on target at range difficult and the very low damage at range makes trying to hit the target pointless, as most targets will be able to find cover quickly or return fire more efficiently.

 

[Daniel]

Please let this be real.

 

[TiZzla]

I'm on Windows 7, but I'm not even considering upgrading to 8 just for BF4. I play a whole load of games and a lot of them don't work with Windows 8, so it's just not worth it for me. At the very most I might consider a dual-boot arrangement...

I installed the trial version of Windows 8.1 on a separate partition yesterday and wow, the performance increase with bf4 is massive. All video settings are now on high and the fps is silky smooth. Now i'm not sure if I should upgrade to Windows 8 or just keep it as a dual boot set-up.

 

[Earth]

I find it to be easy to cause havoc on Operation Locker by going with the outside route. The outside route is not used nearly enough and it makes it easy to bypass the cluster. Once the cluster is bypassed, it is fairly easy to come in from behind and pick off quite a few people on the other team. A full squad is usually more than enough to cause problems. While that squad is back capping and causing the other team to pull people away from the cluster, the rest of the team needs to push the cluster back and gain the middle point. Sacrificing one squad to cause a distraction to gain ground is a wonderful solution on Operation Locker.

This is probably the best solution. A full 5 man squad working together should be more then enough to break up a bottleneck from behind.

Is driving the EOD Bot as bad in BF4 as it was in BF3? That thing was awful to drive in BF3. I absolutely hated having to use that thing to complete an Assignment.

I had BF3 on PC, I have BF4 on PS4. Its alot easier to control on PS4 with a DS4.

The attack choppers are garbage in BF4. The mobility of the attack chopper is dreadful. The scout choppers are everything the attack choppers wish they could be.

Attack helicopters are stiffer then the scout choppers, but I think they make up for it somewhat in firepower. If you have a good gunner (30mm cannons) with laser guided missiles you can take out infantry and tanks rather easily. The problem is most pilots and gunners are rubbish. Countless times Ive joined someobody in a scout helicopter with a stinger and reapair tool to assist them only for them to have some lame crash.

The biggest problem I have with both helicopters is the lack of defense. Like the jets, I believe the only thing that should really be able to take you down is another helicopter. As it stands now on any map without buildings to hide behind you get lit up like a christmas tree by stingers.

And by the way its pretty easy to steal the enemy's attack helicopter at Shanghai. You just need to park by where the enemy chopper spawns and have your gunner jump out and take it once it spawns. Me and a squad member did this a couple of times. It was nice having air superiority

I have found one way to hold on with the helicopters without the gyro stabilizer. You can gain altitude and hope that you are far enough away to not allow for a follow up shot. With the added elevation, you can sometimes have enough time to recover before crashing. However, it is not an overly reliable method, but it is an occasional solution. Gyro stabilizers are definitely a better option.

This definitely needs to be patched, it would really help the helicopters defenses if you didnt have to waste an upgrade on a gyro stabilizer.

A few other patches Id like to see

- AA missles on jets and helis need to reload faster
- flares/ecm jammer on jets and helis need to reload faster
- pistols are too powerful/too accurate

Right now the only thing Im missing from the PC to PS4 version of this game is the custom 24/7 fast vehicle spawn servers. I've never been a fan of cycling through all 10 maps

Dawnbreaker is probably the best map in the game for me personally. Lots of cover for good infantry fights. Lots of cover for the helicopters. If I could choose a server rotation of 3 maps I would choose Dawnbreaker, Operation Locker, and Shanghai.

And one more thing, I think Battlefield needs more then 64 players. The next game needs 96 or 128 players. Either that or make the maps smaller and reduce the number of flags.

 

[sesselpupser]

Please let this be real.

A bunch of RPS guys and I went out hunting it yesterday, only all we had to go on was 'apparently there's a cargo container somewhere with a physics object in it', we flew around in helicopters and floated around in boats, found nothing and then the server was suddenly flooded and the hunt became significantly more difficult, so we gave up in favour of a round of iron sights snipers only Rush. This is a lot more to go on.

 

[Ferrari458Italia]

god this game keeps freezing up on me :/

I dont know what it is with ALL EA games, but it seems like FIFA, Madden, NFS, and Battlefield are just notorious for freezing up. so annoying. i wonder if it's going to be like this on the PS4 as well

 

[sesselpupser]

A few things:

The 30mm cannon for the AA showed up as Zuni rockets when I unlocked them, and TV missiles for the attack jets came up as heatseekers... Also I tried out the TV missiles in the test range and my jet kept exploding, so I think I'll stick to hydras.

The UCAV, why did they make it self-levelling? It makes it very difficult to fly that thing as you need to continually move the mouse to turn or pitch; I think I'll get my one kill with it and go back to claymores or C4.

PDWs are actually pretty great, I haven't been using the MX4 for long but I've grown to appreciate it, I had one kill with it up until two nights ago and now I have almost 60 after maybe three rounds of conquest. The shorty 12g is also pretty good, I'm using it with my recon class alongside either a silenced SKS with a holo sight or a silenced, er, bolt action rifle (the default one with the forgettable name) with the 6x and canted irons. I might use a 4x instead though because the range is already quite limited by the suppressor so I might as well do away with the scope glare. It should be a handy counter-sniper weapon for aggressive recon use.

 

[Ibonibo]

^My unlock bars are also messed up. Some wierd glitch. Attack boat all available, yet I still get the unlocks on the screen and in the stats it's not all available. And I can only select all the weapons in the ingame loadout not in the browser...


So wierd.

 

[sesselpupser]

^My unlock bars are also messed up. Some wierd glitch. Attack boat all available, yet I still get the unlocks on the screen and in the stats it's not all available. And I can only select all the weapons in the ingame loadout not in the browser...


So wierd.

Yeah, I had that too. I thought maybe they'd increased the score you need for the attack boat unlocks after I'd unlocked them all, so Battlelog says I have yet to unlock the burst cannon, TV missile and active protection yet I have all three on my boat, so whatever. I'm not exactly impressed with the burst cannon but it's good for infantry and helicopters (not great against other boats, though) and I guess if I take it off I won't be able to put it back on. Same story with the TV missile, actually, only I find it useless against everything because of the delay between moving the mouse and the missile responding. I think I'll put the TOW missiles back on for some anti-boat capability.

 

[Brett]

I just played some Pistols only Team Deathmatch/Domination and it was quite fun. Domination is a much better game mode with that setup. Team Deathmatch is enjoyable more often. The games I just finished playing all ended in close games.

I also now like the MP443 better than the P226. The straight upwards recoil and slightly faster ability to reset after each shot makes the weapon work better. The ever so slightly faster reload is also a bonus and having an extra two rounds available can be helpful. I did not notice being able to fire slightly slower.

 

[Ibonibo]

I started playing also Pistol only matches.
And I agree. Those matches seem the most balanced.
I enjoyed every minute of the few matches I played over the we.

Still haven't a really preference for a pistol (I want my glock !!! and 1911)

 

[Brett]

I started playing also Pistol only matches.
And I agree. Those matches seem the most balanced.
I enjoyed every minute of the few matches I played over the we.

Still haven't a really preference for a pistol (I want my glock !!! and 1911)

I jumped into one match with you. It may have been the last one you played. I went 12-2 in that match.

I have only used two of the pistols in matches. So my experience with pistols is very limited. Of the two I have used, I like the MP443 slightly better than the P226 because of the very low symmetrical horizontal recoil. That recoil pattern seem to allow me to put shots on targets a hair more consistently. The recoil pattern also ends up netting a few more head shots too. I just looked at my Battlelog. With the P226, I have 103 kills and 3 head shots. With the MP443, I have 97 kills and 27 head shots. The differences between the two are so slim that I could pick up either and still be effective.

I am looking forward to using the Compact 45. As the Compact 45 and 1911 are balanced now, the Compact 45 is better than the 1911 due to having three extra bullets and being able to fire 10 rounds per minute faster. The rest of the stats are the same.

I also want to try out the 93R. It looks to be an interesting weapon from what I have seen in videos. However, I did not use the 93R during its glory time in BF3 and after the changes, I never really got along with the weapon.

Lastly, I have a small interest in the FN57. However, I am guessing the fire rate is probably not going to be quite high enough for the weapon to be very effective. I would expect the lower damage model to lead to many kill assists.

 

[Ddrizle]

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING!


Foul language but he is on point and pretty hilarious too.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Not sure if already posted:

 

[Ibonibo]

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING!


Foul language but he is on point and pretty hilarious too.

3:00 : left and rice rofl

I just watched because title said soundtrack, but it's the ost of china rising... rip off from sunshine ost. 1:1 copy

Brett : i think you might have played with a buddy of mine, when people come over, they want to play

Also, I have my new mic, so my squad play should improve.

So Jack and Frankie finally found Trex 👍

 

[Need4Speed685]

Please let this be real.

Looks like we are getting close.





There's been a dinosaur and the search for the megalodon, but now add a yeti to the hunt.



DICE... I WANT A DRAGON EASTER EGG.

And here's a Plants vs. Zombies easter egg.



An article explaining some more easter eggs.

http://www.ibtimes.com/battlefield-...ures-discovered-paracel-storm-megalodon-still

 

[Brett]

I have continued messing around on Pistol only servers. Of the secondaries, I only lack unlocking the .44 Magnum and Compact 45. I just gave the 93R a whirl. The thing is very good in close quarters. There is typically very little pause between bursts. I have not used the laser sight for very long, but I would expect it to be a very good attachment for the weapon. The iron sights could certainly use some work. Of the three sidearms I have used, it is the only one I used the ghost ring sight on for more than a kill or two before going back to the stock iron sights. The ghost ring sight was a nice upgrade to the stock iron sights and I could actually pick up the front post. However, the mini red dot was a welcome addition and what will be staying on the weapon now that I have unlocked it.

The biggest downsides I see to the 93R are the magazine capacity and the number of magazines that the weapon comes with. Twenty one rounds go very quickly when each burst uses three rounds. With only two spare magazines, the pistol is very quick to expend all of the available ammunition.

 

[Ddrizle]

EA hit with class action lawsuit over BF4

We’d heard that a law firm was investigating EA and the Battlefield 4 situation on behalf of one of EA’s investors. Now it appears that a class action suit has been levied against the publisher. The basis of the lawsuit is as follows:

"The complaint alleges that during the Class Period, defendants issued materially false and misleading statements highlighting the purported strength of the Company’s rollout of version 4 of its all-important Battlefield video game series,"

In addition to the alleged overall misrepresentation, an additional segment of the complaint,

"further alleges that, on November 15, 2013, the day Sony released its new Play Station 4 (“PS4”) console, it was disclosed that players of Electronic Arts’ games were being subjected to multiple glitches and significant crashes when attempting to play Electronic Arts’ titles on PS4."​

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[Brett]

I have finished unlocking all of the Sidearms. The Compact 45 is a very good pistol. Eleven hard hitting .45 ACP rounds is fantastic. I occasionally notice hitting the fire rate limit, at least compared to the 93R, P226, or MP433. However, I would be better off not approaching that limit and doing a better job of aiming. When I took a slight bit of time to aim better and slow down my shots just a hair, I did better job of landing shots and more precise shots at that. The Compact 45 is likely to be my sidearm of choice.

 

[Caz]

Im taking a break from.bf4.
Every 3 -4 rounds it hard locks my ps3 ( both of them).
I have completely restored the system ( only my main one, i wont do my daughters) but that did not help. I thought maybe it was time to redo the thermal paste bu i have ZERO lock up issues with any other games.
Maybe is a good thing as now i will play some of the games ive been meaning to. Thoroughly enjoying borderlands 2 right now.

 

[Carlos]

Im taking a break from.bf4.
Every 3 -4 rounds it hard locks my ps3 ( both of them).
I have completely restored the system ( only my main one, i wont do my daughters) but that did not help. I thought maybe it was time to redo the thermal paste bu i have ZERO lock up issues with any other games.
Maybe is a good thing as now i will play some of the games ive been meaning to. Thoroughly enjoying borderlands 2 right now.

I am experiencing exactly the same. As pissed off I was at first I was pleasantly surprised it did saved my game after checking Battlelog after a few minutes.

And I see no reason why that should let you stop playing the game. I know it's irritating but most of the time I can play 3 to 4 rounds too and that's around an hour of playing. Just restart, get a drink, and get back in there soldier!

 

[Caz]

Its more a.concern with keeping my ps3 safe. Having to hard restart and.run the system check so often. It also runs very hot with bf4
Getting ba k into servers with friends after is quite annoying and sometimes near impossible.

 

[Speedy Samurai]

I am experiencing exactly the same. As pissed off I was at first I was pleasantly surprised it did saved my game after checking Battlelog after a few minutes.

And I see no reason why that should let you stop playing the game. I know it's irritating but most of the time I can play 3 to 4 rounds too and that's around an hour of playing. Just restart, get a drink, and get back in there soldier!

Hard locks to your ps3 from a game can't be good for it. Why risk the well-being of my console for one video game? It happens at such a ridiculous rate that its not worth playing. I had two hard locks per three matches. Ridiculous. It's apparent this game wasn't meant for the ps3 (or ready for ps4...or Xbox one... Or PC)

 

[Carlos]

You both might be right on that. But I have to say in the last 8 hours of playing I experienced one hard lock and that was in the last hour. It's getting better..

 

[White & Nerdy]

It's getting a bit better for me too, but I'd like to stop them if at all possible. In NFS Most Wanted 2012, I lost my game data twice in one year (note that I haven't played recently, so that might be a bit inflated) due to game freezing when leaving online. In BF4, I've lost my game data twice in about a month due to game freezes in the middle of online play.

Also, general tips to not suck at this game. I need them.