The AT Battlefield 4 F.A.Q., News, and Discussion thread

[Anubis]

Does anyone have any tips for leveling up very quickly? I am at 6 and need to be at 10 by Wednesday night so I can play as Commander on vacation with my iPad. May pull an all nighter tomorrow. I have Premiuim edition, if that makes any difference.

just join a high ticket conquest map and cap as much as you can, use an EXP boost

 

[taq8ojh]

Does anyone have any tips for leveling up very quickly? I am at 6 and need to be at 10 by Wednesday night so I can play as Commander on vacation with my iPad. May pull an all nighter tomorrow. I have Premiuim edition, if that makes any difference.

Going from 6 to 10 probably doesn't take more than... five or so rounds of conquest or something.

 

[imaheadcase]

how the F does the M2 Slam work? it says it works like a mine you can stick on stuff. i stick it on vehicles and nothing seems to happen

Slams = mines. Here is the best part of M2 Slams.
1. You can place on enemy vehicles, when they start moving they blow up like C4.
2. You can use as mines (not as much damage though, have to use them all)
3. You can place on walls, and any vehicle that passes next to them blows up.
4. You can place in shallow water, destroys any boat passing over it! HUGE on parcel storm.
5. If the ground is deformed from explosions, place those suckers on the side of hole, blows up armor going over the hole.

My FAVORITE thing is on Shanghi map, is parachute next to buildings and put them on it. Helicopters blow up when they fly around buildings.

 

[Zargon]

you should have a ton of XP boosts

if you are decent at twitchiness activate some boosts and hit a mid-large TDM server

 

[Zargon]

Slams = mines. Here is the best part of M2 Slams.
1. You can place on enemy vehicles, when they start moving they blow up like C4.
2. You can use as mines (not as much damage though, have to use them all)
3. You can place on walls, and any vehicle that passes next to them blows up.
4. You can place in shallow water, destroys any boat passing over it! HUGE on parcel storm.
5. If the ground is deformed from explosions, place those suckers on the side of hole, blows up armor going over the hole.

My FAVORITE thing is on Shanghi map, is parachute next to buildings and put them on it. Helicopters blow up when they fly around buildings.

I have to start using these

 

[raasco]

Yeah I never understood that either. Im not using any tag atm, but will go along with whatever anyone wants to use so we can recognize each other in game easier. I saw Raasco using the ATOT tag yesterday.

As previously stated in this thread, "ATOT" was the tag used in Battlefield 3 for the Anandtech Platoon. That's why a few of us use it. "AT" was possibly taken at the time? I started using it in BF4 because I noticed Phoenix86 was.

 

[scooterlibby]

just join a high ticket conquest map and cap as much as you can, use an EXP boost

Going from 6 to 10 probably doesn't take more than... five or so rounds of conquest or something.

you should have a ton of XP boosts

if you are decent at twitchiness activate some boosts and hit a mid-large TDM server

Thanks!

 

[lozina]

Slams are fun indeed, but I use them mostly like mines placing on road surfaces.

I am not too confident with placing them on vehicles - people say when the vehicle moves it should blow up but I have personally placed slams on an APC and watch the APC move around with my slam on it so I dont know

Also I always group 3 slams together because if its any armored vehicle I wont get a kill ffrom 1 or 2.

 

[moonbogg]

Slams = mines. Here is the best part of M2 Slams.
1. You can place on enemy vehicles, when they start moving they blow up like C4.
2. You can use as mines (not as much damage though, have to use them all)
3. You can place on walls, and any vehicle that passes next to them blows up.
4. You can place in shallow water, destroys any boat passing over it! HUGE on parcel storm.
5. If the ground is deformed from explosions, place those suckers on the side of hole, blows up armor going over the hole.

My FAVORITE thing is on Shanghi map, is parachute next to buildings and put them on it. Helicopters blow up when they fly around buildings.

Lol really? I am def going on a slam rampage. Are they engineer class? Need to be unlocked? Sounds like too much fun.

Also, anyone get lag sometimes when zooming in and out with a rifle scope? I had a lot of that last night where zooming in and out stutters like crazy. Really annoying.

 

[Childs]

Slams are fun indeed, but I use them mostly like mines placing on road surfaces.

I am not too confident with placing them on vehicles - people say when the vehicle moves it should blow up but I have personally placed slams on an APC and watch the APC move around with my slam on it so I dont know

Also I always group 3 slams together because if its any armored vehicle I wont get a kill ffrom 1 or 2.

The good thing about placing them on vehicles is if someone else hits them they will trigger. I rushed and put some on a tank got killed. Then something happened and I got a multikill. They also carry over after you die. On Zavoid this squad kept backcapping A, so I threw some slams on the side road. So some time after another death I was in the middle of the map and I got another multi kill. Totally forgot I put those down, but got those bastards. They are fairly useful.

 

[Zargon]

Lol really? I am def going on a slam rampage. Are they engineer class? Need to be unlocked? Sounds like too much fun.

yes engineer yes unlock

Also, anyone get lag sometimes when zooming in and out with a rifle scope? I had a lot of that last night where zooming in and out stutters like crazy. Really annoying.

yes.

I love it when it flakes and you are left zoomed in and not ADS'd

 

[lozina]

The good thing about placing them on vehicles is if someone else hits them they will trigger. I rushed and put some on a tank got killed. Then something happened and I got a multikill. They also carry over after you die. On Zavoid this squad kept backcapping A, so I threw some slams on the side road. So some time after another death I was in the middle of the map and I got another multi kill. Totally forgot I put those down, but got those bastards. They are fairly useful.

Yeah your slams stay alive after you die and respawn but as soon as you place new slams the old ones disappear

 

[Kev]

The good thing about placing them on vehicles is if someone else hits them they will trigger. I rushed and put some on a tank got killed. Then something happened and I got a multikill. They also carry over after you die. On Zavoid this squad kept backcapping A, so I threw some slams on the side road. So some time after another death I was in the middle of the map and I got another multi kill. Totally forgot I put those down, but got those bastards. They are fairly useful.

how many slams does it take to kill a tank?

 

[Zargon]

how many slams does it take to kill a tank?

3......

 

[Anubis]

Slams are fun indeed, but I use them mostly like mines placing on road surfaces.

I am not too confident with placing them on vehicles - people say when the vehicle moves it should blow up but I have personally placed slams on an APC and watch the APC move around with my slam on it so I dont know

Also I always group 3 slams together because if its any armored vehicle I wont get a kill ffrom 1 or 2.

trhis was my understanding as well, seems they would randomly go off when put on a vehicle and it moved, was not consistant yesterday

def gonna do the water thing on PStorm.

also yesterday i ran up behind a tank and tossed down 3 mines and naded them and it did nothing to the tank,. in BF3 the radius on that was massive

 

[akahoovy]

trhis was my understanding as well, seems they would randomly go off when put on a vehicle and it moved, was not consistant yesterday

def gonna do the water thing on PStorm.

also yesterday i ran up behind a tank and tossed down 3 mines and naded them and it did nothing to the tank,. in BF3 the radius on that was massive

I've noticed the radius on quite a few explosives went down from BC2 to BF3.

 

[moonbogg]

yes engineer yes unlock


yes.

I love it when it flakes and you are left zoomed in and not ADS'd

What does this secret code stand for? What is ADS? Like the keys on the keyboard?

ALSO, When is second assault coming to PC?!!

 

[96Firebird]

What does this secret code stand for? What is ADS? Like the keys on the keyboard?

ADS = aim down sight

 

[lozina]

I once posted in this thread about how I thought air assets, specifically jets were underwhelming but as of last night I recant that statement. I do believe DICE changed some of the rules besides the nerf on active radar which really should not be the ONLY way to neutralize a good jet pilot.

The way it is now the active radar missiles are the ONLY way to counter good jet pilots, and that's not good because just one vehicle has that and that vehicle is not as easy to get as jets are.

 

[moonbogg]

ADS = aim down sight

Ah, thanks!

 

[Fire&Blood]

Apparently crashes count as quits, my quit rate is a whopping 40% and I definitely left less than 20 battles ever since I bought the game. Yesterday was really bad, crashed in all but one game I played.

 

[GullyFoyle]

ALSO, When is second assault coming to PC?!!

Second Assault is available now as a timed exclusive for Xbox One users with BF4 Premium Membership, and on December 3 for non-BF4 Premium Xbox One owners.

I guess "non-BF4 Premium Xbox One owners." covers everybody else.

Source

 

[lozina]

Wait so BF4 PC Premium owners dont get a special pre-release preview into it? Wasn't that one of the list of perks for getting premium?

 

[moonbogg]

Wait so BF4 PC Premium owners dont get a special pre-release preview into it? Wasn't that one of the list of perks for getting premium?

Yup. Maybe we get our own preview of it before "non bf4 premium xbox one owners, non bf4 premium PS4 owners, and non bf4 premium PC owners" get their turn? Was that confusing? Because I am.

Also, thanks Gully for the info.

 

[satsau]

Isn't 100 the max rank?

Some guy was ranked 103 in one of the games yesterday.