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

[Midwayman]

Played BF4 the other day after about @ 2/3 months away... It really seemed to me that the choppers are much more mobile, and as a result deadly, then previously, especially w/ the shoulder carried AA weapons nerfed a bit.

My new EVGA 980ti is incredible... on ultra settings w/ crazy frame rate, buttery smooth. ...Helps somewhat to make up for my poor to mediocre game skills.

The manpads do quite a bit of damage now, and will hit if you don't have CM. Still it feels kinda unfair with how long the lock on is and choppers can pretty much ignore the first shot. A competent helo will kill a single manpad user 9/10 times before they get off a shot, let alone two.

 

[looper]

The manpads do quite a bit of damage now, and will hit if you don't have CM. Still it feels kinda unfair with how long the lock on is and choppers can pretty much ignore the first shot. A competent helo will kill a single manpad user 9/10 times before they get off a shot, let alone two.

Sorry, but "manpads" and "CM".... huh?

 

[Midwayman]

Sorry, but "manpads" and "CM".... huh?

MAN Portable Air Defense. Stingers and IGLA. CM- countermeasures.

 

[UaVaj]

to all the bf4 experts (u know who you are) who thinks bf4 is not broken.





granted this pc is a niche. 4930k + 290x x4 + 1080p x3.

anyway for kicks and giggles.

ran linx, prime95, hci, and occt simultaneously over night. zero errors. :thumbsup:
ran furmark (1hr+), cry3, acs, wow, sc2 this morning. no hiccups whatsoever. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

lastly ran bf4 and it crashes within a few minutes.

btw. fresh install win 8.1 with nothing but bf4 and system is bone stock.





still think bf4 is not broken?

 

[maevinj]

to all the bf4 experts (u know who you are) who thinks bf4 is not broken.





granted this pc is a niche. 4930k + 290x x4 + 1080p x3.

anyway for kicks and giggles.

ran linx, prime95, hci, and occt simultaneously over night. zero errors. :thumbsup:
ran furmark (1hr+), cry3, acs, wow, sc2 this morning. no hiccups whatsoever. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

lastly ran bf4 and it crashes within a few minutes.

btw. fresh install win 8.1 with nothing but bf4 and system is bone stock.





still think bf4 is not broken?

Yes, it's not broken. Probably an AMD driver issue with Crossfire.

 

[skipsneeky2]

still think bf4 is not broken?

Only thing broken about it is the horrible TDM maps that make me want to play COD BO2 TDM.That and the 30Hz servers and out of region players who absorb bullets like the Hulk and can instant kill you half the time.

Yes i look for 40Hz+ servers but the option isn't always around.

 

[UaVaj]

Yes, it's not broken. Probably an AMD driver issue with Crossfire.

whatever u are on. like some too. :biggrin:

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Only thing broken about it is the horrible TDM maps that make me want to play COD BO2 TDM.That and the 30Hz servers and out of region players who absorb bullets like the Hulk and can instant kill you half the time.

Yes i look for 40Hz+ servers but the option isn't always around.

And the broken community that has not embraced Classic ruleset servers.

 

[Midwayman]

My favorite server (and only that one server) keeps giving me port 3659 UDP errors now. Nothing has changed in my setup. Done resets of all my equipment gateway on back, repaired the install, etc. Any ideas? Actually forwarding the port seems to have little to do with solving it from googling.

 

[UaVaj]

My favorite server (and only that one server) keeps giving me port 3659 UDP errors now. Nothing has changed in my setup. Done resets of all my equipment gateway on back, repaired the install, etc. Any ideas? Actually forwarding the port seems to have little to do with solving it from googling.

Probably an AMD driver issue with Crossfire. :biggrin:



back to reality. have u tried a complete reinstall (os + bf4).

forgot which particular server it was. did get that same error on only one of my other machine (3570k + 280x + 1080p). all pc are on the same local network. so it was only that particular pc on that particular server.

 

[DeadFred]

And the broken community that has not embraced Classic ruleset servers.

You mean the broken community that hasn't manned up and went all out hardcore.....from the beginning.

 

[DeadFred]

to all the bf4 experts (u know who you are) who thinks bf4 is not broken.





granted this pc is a niche. 4930k + 290x x4 + 1080p x3.

anyway for kicks and giggles.

ran linx, prime95, hci, and occt simultaneously over night. zero errors. :thumbsup:
ran furmark (1hr+), cry3, acs, wow, sc2 this morning. no hiccups whatsoever. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

lastly ran bf4 and it crashes within a few minutes.

btw. fresh install win 8.1 with nothing but bf4 and system is bone stock.





still think bf4 is not broken?

Look back and you will see that I've always said BF4 has some weird quirks. Fixed one patch broke the next! But that is also one weird set up, (you call it niche) I'd expect nothing less than major problems in BF4 with all that going on. LOL

 

[UaVaj]

Look back and you will see that I've always said BF4 has some weird quirks. Fixed one patch broke the next!

But that is also one weird set up, (you call it niche) I'd expect nothing less than major problems in BF4 with all that going on. LOL

even with such hardware configuration.

only and only bf4 has such issues.

no other games (in my library) nor benchmark nor stressor have any issues.

 

[DeadFred]

even with such hardware configuration.

only and only bf4 has such issues.

no other games (in my library) nor benchmark nor stressor have any issues.

Oh I dont doubt you at all, I know the game has issues, along with BF3.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

You mean the broken community that hasn't manned up and went all out hardcore.....from the beginning.

I love hardcore, but not being able to see vehicle health and the number of mags I have left makes me crazy. It'd also be nice if they left the minimap on there even if they don't show people on it.

 

[UaVaj]

speaking of game play for hard core. muzzle report should be eliminated. total ruin the element of surprise. and ruin the satisfaction of hunting down a solider under cover n knifing him.

in place of muzzle report. when u get shot and miss. simply show a white directional circle. similar to the locked on directional circle.



lastly for the sexist. add woman soldiers.

 

[DeadFred]

speaking of game play for hard core. muzzle report should be eliminated. total ruin the element of surprise. and ruin the satisfaction of hunting down a solider under cover n knifing him.

in place of muzzle report. when u get shot and miss. simply show a white directional circle. similar to the locked on directional circle.



lastly for the sexist. add woman soldiers.

Neither of those ideas make sense to me, since sounds are real and directional arrows are not. And women should not be placed into combat roles, even in a video game. There I said it, now let the sexist butthurt flow from all the feminists out there.

 

[DeadFred]

I love hardcore, but not being able to see vehicle health and the number of mags I have left makes me crazy. It'd also be nice if they left the minimap on there even if they don't show people on it.

Ive been playing HC for so long now that I dont even notice anymore. The lack of third person view in some of the vehicles bugged me the most when I first started though.

 

[Midwayman]

Neither of those ideas make sense to me, since sounds are real and directional arrows are not. And women should not be placed into combat roles, even in a video game. There I said it, now let the sexist butthurt flow from all the feminists out there.

I just want a compass.

 

[Phoenix86]

I love hardcore, but not being able to see vehicle health and the number of mags I have left makes me crazy. It'd also be nice if they left the minimap on there even if they don't show people on it.

I'd really love if the community went to a better hardcore settings like this. I'd also like an ability to check bullets in the current mag, not an always on number but something akin to a reload action to check.

Compass suggestion mentioned above would be good. Enemy sniper located west of you.

I'd also like reports to come in english regardless of faction, it's like they forgot on HC that the announcement doesn't mean nearly as much because it doesn't pop up on the minimap.

 

[DeadFred]

I just want a compass.

A compass makes sense, all soldiers should be carrying a compass!

 

[Midwayman]

I'd really love if the community went to a better hardcore settings like this. I'd also like an ability to check bullets in the current mag, not an always on number but something akin to a reload action to check.

Compass suggestion mentioned above would be good. Enemy sniper located west of you.

I'd also like reports to come in english regardless of faction, it's like they forgot on HC that the announcement doesn't mean nearly as much because it doesn't pop up on the minimap.

Yah, a button to check mag count even if it was vague like full/half/nearly empty would be great. Id also like to be able to hold down the reload key for awhile and get a reloading icon like you do for repairs. Do that and you get to keep the mag.

Compass would be great not just for the automated call outs, but I could finally give bearings. Instead of "right of the green crates, no more right" I could just say "contact, bearing 274"

The voice stuff in english really should be an options. I wish they had recorded the audio in english with an accent. When its the other team I'd still like to hear the native language. Actually they should have an option to have all that stuff in whatever language just for localization purposes.

 

[UaVaj]

knock on wood. bf4 has been stable for the last two days. what gives?

 

[DeadFred]

knock on wood. Bf4 has been stable for the last two days. What gives?

bahahahahaha!!!!

 

[hondaf17]

Compass would be good. Or, something so simple I can't believe it's not implemented. How about grid lines on the map? A-Z across the top, 1-20 vertically. Then you can concretely call out enemies via grid reference, like "hotel 6."

Back in the old ghost recon days we installed grid overlays so we could do this. Can't believe these games haven't implemented it from the start. Very annoying trying to describe where enemies are as is, for a "teamwork" focused game.