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The beta had all the problems of the release and then some. It crashed repeatedly, as bad as the netcode issues have been since release they were much worse during the beta. We had serious balance issues and just a lot of bugs. The game wasn't finished in beta, and in release it was actually in beta. The problem then was they reduced the development resources dramatically and chose to ignore the community complaining about the problems for half a year before CTE and all that jazz finally started to fix the most glaring and obvious problems.

I just can't get behind the idea that the Beta was anything but a disaster, I remember the game being almost unplayable.
 
BrightCandle said:
The beta had all the problems of the release and then some. It crashed repeatedly, as bad as the netcode issues have been since release they were much worse during the beta. We had serious balance issues and just a lot of bugs. The game wasn't finished in beta, and in release it was actually in beta. The problem then was they reduced the development resources dramatically and chose to ignore the community complaining about the problems for half a year before CTE and all that jazz finally started to fix the most glaring and obvious problems.

I just can't get behind the idea that the Beta was anything but a disaster, I remember the game being almost unplayable.
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See, I never had any of those issues during the beta. It ran perfectly fine for me, and while there were some balance issues with weapons, a lot of other things were fine. I don't know why it felt like the netcode changed, but I didn't have the same issues during the beta that I did at launch and up until recently. To be honest, it's really dependent on servers. Some nights I'm doing well, and people are dying in an "expected" TTK but if I change over to another server, everything just seems to shift. I haven't had that happen with the new patch yet, but I also haven't had much time to play.
 
I understand people complaining about broken net code, but if you complain about weapons and items based on real life, you're just a whiney bitch. "Wah I'm getting noob tubed." Do yourself a favor and just uninstall.
 
Uh-oh! Just now experienced my first crash since sometime last fall, game was broken with last patch, must uninstall. 😛
 
Never had that much of a issue ever crashing, biggest issue was connecting without getting a error from ea online. Rig wise once i connect its pretty gravy but till recently performance was all over for me.

Could be most rigs crashing in this game are cause of bad overclocks? This game is the only thing to make a 1241/1875 oc on my 770 hardlock my computer,every other game and program shows complete stability and a decent gain in fps lol.
 
theplaidfad said:
I understand people complaining about broken net code, but if you complain about weapons and items based on real life, you're just a whiney bitch. "Wah I'm getting noob tubed." Do yourself a favor and just uninstall.
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Why? I love those people, so much more fun to troll. I make it a rule to switch to said weapon ASAP when I see someone complaining about it.
 
SLU Aequitas said:
Why? I love those people, so much more fun to troll. I make it a rule to switch to said weapon ASAP when I see someone complaining about it.
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Agreed. But my post was meant to be pointed towards the people in this thread complaining.
 
I knew there were huge issues on release when my flares/ECM took a 1-2 second delay to deploy when they felt perfectly fine in beta. There were times where I would hear the lock on and have CMs available, I would spam it and it'll literally deploy right before I get hit and I would actually get hit.
Pre-ordered BF3 + premium, I actually loved BF3 beta including all the bugs. Played it for over a year.
Pre-ordered BF4 + premium, I was okay with the BF4 beta and decided to give it a chance. I mean it wasn't bad but it was playable and expected glitches. But when release came? I stopped playing it after a week and only went back for a few days for DLCs.
EA isn't getting my money anymore. They'd have to convince me at BF7 because I'm definitely skipping 5 and 6.
 
p0rkguy said:
I knew there were huge issues on release when my flares/ECM took a 1-2 second delay to deploy when they felt perfectly fine in beta. There were times where I would hear the lock on and have CMs available, I would spam it and it'll literally deploy right before I get hit and I would actually get hit.
Pre-ordered BF3 + premium, I actually loved BF3 beta including all the bugs. Played it for over a year.
Pre-ordered BF4 + premium, I was okay with the BF4 beta and decided to give it a chance. I mean it wasn't bad but it was playable and expected glitches. But when release came? I stopped playing it after a week and only went back for a few days for DLCs.
EA isn't getting my money anymore. They'd have to convince me at BF7 because I'm definitely skipping 5 and 6.
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Just stop. Name a combat shooter out better than BF4. You can't. "EA is never going to get my money again... well, unless they convince me." Again, just stop.
 
If your best comeback is to question on a better combat shooter than BF4 then you clearly don't understand. If that's the best **** an FPS game can offer, I'd rather not play FPS games at all. Levolution? Lol... The sad part is BF3 had more destruction than BF4. Here comes levolution and the best destruction it has to offer is the same old destruction. Do you know what's even sadder? It doesn't even offer levolution on every map. Let alone the pathetic levolution most of them have to offer. They didn't remake the game for BF4, they removed a ton of destruction from BF3 to account for one big destruction. Yet they've managed to **** up the whole game on release? It took 1 step forward and 7 steps backward. What a joke. You defending it with the best FPS available is a joke.

You're not a BF player, you're a COD player who wants to seem different and superior.
 
So hard to understand what you're saying with all of those butt-hurt words. Here's what I read from all of that. "You're right, I can't name a better combat fps. Rabble rabble rabble."

For the record, I don't play COD. Two swings and two misses. I'm ready for your next whiff so you can go back to the bench.

Last edit: I've played BF since BF1942. You're barking up the wrong tree.
 
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Porky you should just uninstall and go rage somewhere else. If you don't like it, don't play it. Don't buy the next one. We won't be sad to see you go. Even with all the issues BF4 has had there isn't really anything else like it.
 
Had some guy raging at me because I was using a shotgun on Silk Road. My bad for getting my ass from point to point asap so that I can play the CQC game instead of letting you catch me out in the open with a weapon that is utterly useless?
 
Only placed once or twice since most recent patch (due to work), but it feels like the aa has been massively nerfed. This makes baby Jeeebus sad.
 
theplaidfad said:
Just stop. Name a combat shooter out better than BF4. You can't. "EA is never going to get my money again... well, unless they convince me." Again, just stop.
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Name a combat shooter better than BF4? I think I can help out here.

BF3, BFBC2, BF2, BF1942, BF2142, Delta Force 1/2/Land Warrior/Black Hawk Down, Joint Operations:Typhoon Rising, Red Orchestra 1, Red Orchestra 2, Operation Flashpoint, every Medal of Honor until Warfighter, Day of Defeat, Day of Defeat:Source, WWII Online, CoD 1/2/3/4/World at War, and every Counter-Strike.

And those are just large multiplayer military shooters. There are countless other types of first person shooters better than BF4.

What boggles me about BF4 is the sheer amount of things they got wrong. The animations, the gunplay mechanics, the sounds, the netcode, the map design....the list goes on and on. I've never seen a tripe A first person shooter fail on so many levels before. BF4 is the video game equivalent of a Uwe Boll movie.
 
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Name a current combat shooter better than bf4. You can't. You can go play all of your old stuff and live in the past. Delta Force, "Is that pixel an enemy? I can't tell." So many things wrong with what you posted that I won't be bothered going any further.
 
I started playing again since the netcode fix. The game is much much better and pretty playable now. I played for a few rounds on a 64 Metro no explosives server. I wish there were 32 player servers around because it was frustrating in the same way it sucked in BF3 because 64 players is too much for that map. But it was still fun for the most part.

I then tried a 64 conquest map on Golmud to unlock the AS-VAL and AWS. Had lots of fun picking off enemy aircraft using a stinger and repairing from a little bird. Also managed to get into some good battles and C4 hilarity defending the main flags.

For the first time since beta I actually had fun in BF4. It's not perfect by any means and I still liked BF3 better but at least it's something.
 
Yeah, well now that the game is out of beta... 😉

If you dropped it due to the bugs you guys should really get back on the bus.
 
The netcode fix really has made the game more enjoyable, its better. I think its still too chaotic, there are still far to many apparently random explosions going off but it is at least playing more like they intended. The screen shake I feel still needs work, its still too much in many circumstances but the game is certainly improved.

I don't still have that nice feeling I had in BF2 however, its just a much faster game than that was and I think its to the games detriment.
 
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