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scooterlibby

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Anyone getting this error? I can't play

"This program can't start because MSVCR100 is missing. Please try reinstalling to fix this problem."
 

imaheadcase

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May 9, 2005
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Holy crap counter stabbing people is awesome. I see the stabbing animation happening and like NOOOO! and press F to counter it and I grab his arm and slice his neck. rofl
 

taq8ojh

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Holy crap counter stabbing people is awesome. I see the stabbing animation happening and like NOOOO! and press F to counter it and I grab his arm and slice his neck. rofl
Supposedly the counter is only possible if you are getting slashed from the front.
 

DeadFred

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Played some rounds with AK and Death. Not bad, definitely different shooting mechanics than 3.

I really like the support default weapon with tap fires. The Assault with bursts and the engineer really needs to get in close.

Voip is really nice.

Assault and Engineer are all Ive tried so far. I really like the AK12, I was pulling off some pretty long kills with it during that round and unlocked the muzzle brake for it.


GAH! So much stuff to do and try with so little time today. :D
 

DeadFred

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Holy crap counter stabbing people is awesome. I see the stabbing animation happening and like NOOOO! and press F to counter it and I grab his arm and slice his neck. rofl
I havent gotten the pleasure of knifing anyone yet. I was about to get someone but he turned at the last instant and I had to shoot him. :(

Answer to a few questions Ive seen:

My cpu (i5 2500K @ 4.2) stays pegged at 97%.

Havent noticed any blue tint but the map is butt ugly after the building collapse, everything is coated in gray ash.

TTK feels good to me, so its probably too quick for the usual BF2 fanbois here.

Commo rose is a bit wonky sometimes and I always seem to get stuck as squad leader.....

I hadnt restarted my PC after installing the beta drivers yesterday and my frames were horrible the first part of a game I played. I restarted and I get a notification that my PC is SLI capable... well duh! I set that up and things were much faster and nicer, so SLI must be working at least a little. Im sure there lots of improvements ahead driver wise.

Tank splash damage is very weak. But the tanks are growing on me: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/battlereport/show/1/385079514278268800/305137962/
All of those different armor unlocks came from riding around in a tank.
 
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Spike

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Hmmm, based on the reports it looks like my 2500k @ 4.4 and 7979 (non ghz but at 1k core) should handle this just fine at 1920x1200. I'd love to enable eyefinity but I'm thinking my setup would die at 5760x1200 ;)

I'm going to give it a try tonight and see how things go, after installing the new drivers. I was also a sucker and preordered the game itself and the premium pack... ugh, I'm such a weakling for battlefield.
 

hondaf17

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Holy crap counter stabbing people is awesome. I see the stabbing animation happening and like NOOOO! and press F to counter it and I grab his arm and slice his neck. rofl

Agreed! The only time someone tried to knife me I counter stabbed him. Was awesome and my squad mates (dead, observing me from deploy screen) cheered. Pretty cool.

Played a full round over lunch and really liked it.

Hard to put my finger on it but so far it just "feels better" than BF3.

Who knows, might just be my excitement.
 

VulgarDisplay

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Hmmm, based on the reports it looks like my 2500k @ 4.4 and 7979 (non ghz but at 1k core) should handle this just fine at 1920x1200. I'd love to enable eyefinity but I'm thinking my setup would die at 5760x1200 ;)

I'm going to give it a try tonight and see how things go, after installing the new drivers. I was also a sucker and preordered the game itself and the premium pack... ugh, I'm such a weakling for battlefield.

I have a 2500k at 4.5 and a 7970 and it's running good. I've seen a few hitches here and there, but it's a beta.

I absolutely love fighting at the top of the tower. It's hilarious, you go up an elevator kill 3 guys, go back down. Go up again, kill them hit the button and run away. Last time, I went up killed a few, they tossed a grenade in the elevator. I sprinted out and into the other elevator and went down. I only had 1 hp left lol. Ninja's them. So i booked it over the other side of the building and went back up for more hahahah.
 

imaheadcase

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I work nightshift so i come home to play :D

I think this map is nice and all, but the closed quarter/island/jungle ones will really show off the game.
 

hondaf17

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I went home over lunch to let the dogs out....they need to run around you know. Then fired up a game.
 

Triglet

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Played a few rounds over lunch with the rig in my sig @ 1440p. Obviously not as smooth as BF3 where'd I'd get around 70-90 FPS on mostly high settings. At similar settings I was seeing 50-60 max, and saw plenty of dips into the 30's and the occasional dips/hiccups where I'd see 9 FPS. I dropped settings to medium and it had no effect.

GPU usage was pegged, VRAM was @ 1.9 GB which I assume is pegged. My 4670K @ stock (yes, I've been lazy) hovered around 90% during game play and would peg at 100% during load up. Hopefully performance improves as that's not going to cut it for me.
 

moonbogg

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This GPU thing has me pissed off. There isn't even a good enough upgrade option. Don't want to get 780's and spend $1,300 and not even be that much faster than where i'm at now. I don't like upgrading to the same architecture even if its 25% faster or whatever. I'll have to wait and see what the new AMD cards do or else wait for Maxwell.
 

smackababy

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This GPU thing has me pissed off. There isn't even a good enough upgrade option. Don't want to get 780's and spend $1,300 and not even be that much faster than where i'm at now. I don't like upgrading to the same architecture even if its 25% faster or whatever. I'll have to wait and see what the new AMD cards do or else wait for Maxwell.

I don't think we should really judge performance on a beta game with beta drivers.