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thepaqster

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I just got a refund. The constant crashes take me back to one of the early patches of battlefield 3 that made the game completely unplayable after I hit the rank of Col. 5. The only difference is this time I won't be going through the hellish time sink of trying to figure out why the game client is crashing and trying to fix it on my end.

I contacted an Origin rep, said I wanted a refund to buy the game on Xbox, and boom, got a refund. The whole conversation took about 10 minutes, so I must admit my customer service experience with EA support was actually pretty good.
 
AznAnarchy99

AznAnarchy99

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2is said:
I'm not looking forward to the campaign but I also want the unlocks so I may suffer through it. How long is it?
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Pretty quick. I made through half of it in about an hour or two. Im playing it on hard though. Should of put it on easy to blow by it.
 
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2is

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That's probably what I'll do, set it on easy and run through it just to get the unlocks.
 
Spike

Spike

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Ok, got a few questions regarding the unlocks and stuff.

1) I bought premium early (I know I know) and one of the perks is a monthly gold battlepack. Today was the day the pack for November was released and while playing I saw my battlelog screen (second monitor) showing something about a battlepack. Well, I get out to check and no battlepack... anyone else seeing this?

2) Leveling up a kit. There are these bonuses so for engineering the first is "offensive" and it's unlock number 5. It talks about your bonus at level 1, 2, 3, and 4... how do you get higher levels in that? Or is that based on how many service stars you have for that particular kit?

3) Points. Anyone else notice that your overall point level is sometimes less after a round in battlelog then it showed after all the points are totaled at the end of the round?

4) XP bonuses... do these apply to your next time in game? Or as soon as you get them do you need to play to get the full bonus?

Thanks!
 
Snock514

Snock514

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Spike said:
Ok, got a few questions regarding the unlocks and stuff.

1) I bought premium early (I know I know) and one of the perks is a monthly gold battlepack. Today was the day the pack for November was released and while playing I saw my battlelog screen (second monitor) showing something about a battlepack. Well, I get out to check and no battlepack... anyone else seeing this?

2) Leveling up a kit. There are these bonuses so for engineering the first is "offensive" and it's unlock number 5. It talks about your bonus at level 1, 2, 3, and 4... how do you get higher levels in that? Or is that based on how many service stars you have for that particular kit?

3) Points. Anyone else notice that your overall point level is sometimes less after a round in battlelog then it showed after all the points are totaled at the end of the round?

4) XP bonuses... do these apply to your next time in game? Or as soon as you get them do you need to play to get the full bonus?

Thanks!
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1) no clue dont have premium

2) those are your squad bonuses, as your squad gets points while alive you get increasing perks, once your squad is dead you lose your perks and the bar starts empty again

3) no

4) its actual ingame playtime, you can change server/takes breaks and it won't effect your xp bonus.
 
Snock514

Snock514

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One thing I just noticed was that I unlocked a battlepack for my gun! After 170 kills with the starting sniper rifle I got a battlepack for it and I got 3 more attachments for it! Pretty cool I thought I was going to be disappointing with the battlepack system as it seemed like micro-transaction shit but it's turning out lovely.

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Upon further inspection it looks like there's 7 battle packs for each primary gun and 3 for sidearms, the kill requirement per case is different depending on each gun, cool stuff. Looks like you would get all the unlocks for each gun if you got all the kill requirde battle packs. I wonder what would happen if you got max kills on a gun and then opened a level unlocked battlecase... Just an XP boost? hmm someone will find out someday.
 
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Spike

Spike

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Snock514 said:
1) no clue dont have premium

2) those are your squad bonuses, as your squad gets points while alive you get increasing perks, once your squad is dead you lose your perks and the bar starts empty again

3) no

4) its actual ingame playtime, you can change server/takes breaks and it won't effect your xp bonus.
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Thanks dude, number 2 makes a lot more sense now. I assume thats what the "something something something lost" message means that pops up on the screen while playing.

I checked earlier today and it said gold premium battlepack in 5 hours, after that time was up I saw the message but no pack. Now when I check it says 11/4 as award date though I don't know what timezone they are referring to.

Thanks again!
 
GoodRevrnd

GoodRevrnd

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They really need to improve chopper guns. BF3 chopper gun damage was mediocre but totally serviceable. BF4 chopper gun damage is just a joke. 7.62, chaingun, 25mm, 30mm. All bad.
 
Spike

Spike

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GoodRevrnd said:
They really need to improve chopper guns. BF3 chopper gun damage was mediocre but totally serviceable. BF4 chopper gun damage is just a joke. 7.62, chaingun, 25mm, 30mm. All bad.
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To me the damage seems ok but the splash damage is quite... odd. I can have someone bracketed and get no kill but if I see the round actually hit them they go down in a second. I don't know if thats good or bad but it's certainly different.
 
AznAnarchy99

AznAnarchy99

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Dec 6, 2004
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GoodRevrnd said:
They really need to improve chopper guns. BF3 chopper gun damage was mediocre but totally serviceable. BF4 chopper gun damage is just a joke. 7.62, chaingun, 25mm, 30mm. All bad.
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God the minigun on the little bird is sooo bad on infantry.

Just played a few rounds of commander. At first I didnt like it but I got into it as people were listening to me. Ended a round with a cruise missile taking out a full enemy attack boat. I wish I had a tablet just so I could play this lol.
 
moonbogg

moonbogg

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Hoooooly crap folks. I was on win 7 and having performance issues. For instance, looking at the main building in Zavod I was getting about 50fps, dips into high 40's even. After installing win 8.1 that same spot gets 80-90, dips to 75 lowest ive seen. OK there, back to gaming.
 
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suklee

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moonbogg said:
Hoooooly crap folks. I was on win 7 and having performance issues. For instance, looking at the main building in Zavod I was getting about 50fps, dips into high 40's even. After installing win 8.1 that same spot gets 80-90, dips to 75 lowest ive seen. OK there, back to gaming.
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Damn, I may finally need to upgrade from Vista
 
LtMikePowelll

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Anyone use the 25mm on the AC-130? God, that thing is so weak and inaccurate that I can't kill anyone with it.
 
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DeadFred

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GoodRevrnd said:
They really need to improve chopper guns. BF3 chopper gun damage was mediocre but totally serviceable. BF4 chopper gun damage is just a joke. 7.62, chaingun, 25mm, 30mm. All bad.
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The chain guns in the transport chopper are horribly weak. The attack choppers gun (gunners seat) is also in need of a buff, takes forever to take out armor compared to BF3, but the 25mm cannons on the scout helo are freaking awesome. I never in a million years would have thought I would ever be in the #1 division of the world with a flying machine, but I am with the scout helo. :eek:

I love tearing up those punks in attack boats that think they are invincible with a scout.
 
TeknoBug

TeknoBug

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Having to unlock weapons for MP through SP is a very very very silly idea, I rarely ever play SP in shooter games, the last one I completed was Bad Company 2 because of those 4 goofballs. I didn't get far in ANY of the Call of Duty ones except United Offense.
 
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dougp

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nine_dragon said:
Anyone use the 25mm on the AC-130? God, that thing is so weak and inaccurate that I can't kill anyone with it.
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All of the AC-130 weapons are weak IMO.

I'm really getting frustrated with air and tank vehicles - TTK is way too long on them. Look, I get that they should be able to kill me quickly if I'm on foot - but I have to use 3-4 stingers to take down an air vehicle, AND if they go over 400 range away from me, I CAN'T LOCK! What kind of shit is that? I'm getting better against ground vehicles but the damn LAW takes your full inventory to destroy something.

Meanwhile, I get in my scout chopper and I constantly hear the lock sound and I get shot down easy-peasy. I really don't get it.
 
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darkewaffle

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Really liking pretty much all the new maps, Paracel Storm/Island (whatever it's called) looks incredible when the storm starts rolling in. Haven't gotten to play all that much yet but man do I hate not having anything I can do against vehicles as support without C4 yet, can't get there soon enough lol.
 
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