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Is bf4 worth upgrading from bf3? I'm a casual player, and don't want to spend my free time troubleshooting bugs and system conflicts. Will it likely work ok with my system?
 
TheNiceGuy said:
Is bf4 worth upgrading from bf3? I'm a casual player, and don't want to spend my free time troubleshooting bugs and system conflicts. Will it likely work ok with my system?
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Eh, it's really hard to say... some people like myself are having very few problems while others are having a very frustrating experience. And I don't think there's a whole lot of troubleshooting bugs or system conflicts to be done, DICE just needs to fix their game and stop introducing new problems. Easy for me to say.

Anyways, as far as performance goes, I think your system would run the game fine as long as you are willing to dial the graphics settings down towards the lower end. I'm sure some would disagree but I think the game still looks great even if you aren't on ultra or even high with everything.
 
You know, some admins are real a-holes. My score was about mid-pack, as the game is fading to the results page, I get an admin post stating I was moved for balance. And did I mention I was moved to the team that lost the match? What kind of bullsh!t is that?
 
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That's generally autobalance kicking in, not an individual admin.
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This brings up my biggest gripe with the game - a lot of servers use some multibalance plugin which basically scrambles whole teams frequently. This makes playing with friends extremely frustrating.

And you cant filter out such servers from the server browser - its some plugin that is not one of the filter options (its not just regular team balancer)
 
The hacking is getting pretty rampant lately. If you suspect someone, observe them and %99 of the time they are. lol

Its funny because when observing them they will be looking at all the people around them behind walls, etc. This guy was just doing knife kills, so he would run around crates with people looking for him, but made it easy for him because he knew the location of them. pretty pathetic.
 
imaheadcase said:
The hacking is getting pretty rampant lately. If you suspect someone, observe them and %99 of the time they are. lol

Its funny because when observing them they will be looking at all the people around them behind walls, etc. This guy was just doing knife kills, so he would run around crates with people looking for him, but made it easy for him because he knew the location of them. pretty pathetic.
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Yeah I try to shy away from hackusations and try to give players the benefit of the doubt, mostly because I was a very good CS player back in the day and got my share of accusations and bans. But I've seen some blatant stuff in BF4 lol. A few times recently, dudes seemed to know just exactly where I was coming from and I found it extremely unlikely I had been spotted at that point.
 
pieguy said:
Yeah I try to shy away from hackusations and try to give players the benefit of the doubt, mostly because I was a very good CS player back in the day and got my share of accusations and bans. But I've seen some blatant stuff in BF4 lol. A few times recently, dudes seemed to know just exactly where I was coming from and I found it extremely unlikely I had been spotted at that point.
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The problem is it is really hard to tell if the commander has a UAV on you or something.
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
The problem is it is really hard to tell if the commander has a UAV on you or something.
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^this

Thats why I hate the commander position, I wish they would remove it.

I know they are out there because PB keeps banning away, but I havent seen any blatant hacking at all so far in BF4. PB and live admins are awesome compared to Steam's VAC, most of my friends that play CoD Ghosts have given it up because of the rampant hackers.
 
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Commander in this game is kinda broken with close to insta-spam UAV and ECM UAV (they need to make those tied to certain flag like cruise missile or infantry scan).
 
Am I imagining things or are there WAY more people playing right now than ever before? There is a list of servers a mile long all with ques. Don't remember this before. Maybe its the china rising thing being released to the general public.

EDIT: LOOOOOL!!!! The stupid browser shows the same server as duplicates for every time you played! AHAHAHAA DICE is fraking retarded ahahahha!

But yay though because the game runs really nice again with SLI.
 
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Ahhhh. What the shit EA?! Download an update then I get dropped from their servers and can't connect to anything despite restarting everything

Edit: Jesus Christ - apparently this update broke Adblocks ability to work with Battlelog....
 
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Exterous said:
Ahhhh. What the shit EA?! Download an update then I get dropped from their servers and can't connect to anything despite restarting everything

Edit: Jesus Christ - apparently this update broke Adblocks ability to work with Battlelog....
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My Adblocks work just fine with battlelog (on Chrome)
 
The above posts are what I'm talking about, in addition to any hardware issues. Spending 1/2 (or more) of the time cursing this feature and updating that before the game is stabilized after a time (couple of years?).
Nerds enjoy troubleshooting. I just wanna play and have fun. It's all the complaining about the game just because it's new and it's got more attention? Or is it buggy, frustrating, broken, and not worth upgrading for?
Edit: I don't care about graphics. Anything other than full servers that makes it worth upgrading for? Does the voice feature work automatically with squads, or do you still have to go through the convoluted never-to-use 'friending' feature to be able to use chat with a teammate?
 
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Commanders should enter a queue until an opposing commander joins. It's major bs when one team has a commander and the other one doesn't.
 
Playing after today's patch felt the best since the game has been released. No real problems and good hit registration. Now if this continues I will be very happy.
 
Played today after a week long break from the game. Still getting the sound loop crash, still getting the HMG ammo box bug. The only thing different is the unloading screen lasts a few seconds longer.
 
^^ I have been trying to add link to my steam and battleog in signature but I' m unable to find edit signature button 🙁

P.S. I have edited it a number of times but from last 2 days can't find optoin please help 😀
 
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