official Battlefield 4

[ToneKnee]

I've unlocked all weapons and gadgets with the exception of the two new drone gadgets. I'll try to unlock them when I come home but I haven't been able to kill anyone as a jet pilot. The airspace is too small for me to handle and still be able to shoot down anything.

Random crashes and silent quitting of the game is really annoying.

 

 

Slow down when turning to make sharp turns in small air spaces, but can be caught out if there is a pilot coming for you, but yeah, Air Space is too small, especially on Dawn Breaker.

[neoadorable]

LOC, was about to suggest you uninstall and reinstall it, as you don't lose stats, which are saved on their servers. But seems its ok for you now. Overall BF4 runs alright, I think the worst is over with the problems we had with it.

[ViperAFK]

Yeah my game hasn't crashed at all after the most recent patches, seems pretty stable now. Now we just need a big balance patch (cough active radar cough) and some more netcode fixes.

[psionicinversion]

has the mantle patch landed yet? tbh i cant expect much from it considering the state of the game, itll be like minimal increases.... thank EA another game you screw up whilst piling out the dlc. If Dice wasnt owned by EA i think theyd of held off from sale till january cus they know damn well it wasnt ready to be released. EA worst thing to happen to gaming in a long time

[ViperAFK]

has the mantle patch landed yet? tbh i cant expect much from it considering the state of the game, itll be like minimal increases.... thank EA another game you screw up whilst piling out the dlc. If Dice wasnt owned by EA i think theyd of held off from sale till january cus they know damn well it wasnt ready to be released. EA worst thing to happen to gaming in a long time

It was supposed to be released at the end of this month, but wouldn't surprise me if it got delayed. I'll reserve judgement for the mantle patch itself until it comes out and I try it.

[Dotdot]

Yay! More connection issues and soldiers being logged out or dialed back to a 0 level rank.

[firey]

Got this game for christmas on PS4.  I have only played the campaign (only a few missions in).  I haven't noticed much Frame Drop though it has happened (Actually seems to happen more in knack).  The graphics are awesome, much brighter than Killzone that's for sure.  Haven't played online yet, though I will probably wait till I complete the campaign.

[Dinggus]

I like BF4, definitely different from COD, only issue I have is when my buddies want to play we can only play at one at a time.

[REM2000]

i think BF4 is the first battlefield where i knew roughly what i am supposed to be doing and is generally fun to play. Every year i get the latest version and am disappointed as i always seem to get into matches where everyone is advanced meaning i get slaughtered, it's nice to get into games and have some fun. 

 

Other bonus is the amount of players on the Xbox1 version, definitely a step up (my PC is not powerful enough to play BF3/4) so I've always relied on the console versions. 

 

had a blast on conquest and the one where you have to set the bombs/arm the bombs. 

[mattmatik]

i think BF4 is the first battlefield where i knew roughly what i am supposed to be doing and is generally fun to play. Every year i get the latest version and am disappointed as i always seem to get into matches where everyone is advanced meaning i get slaughtered, it's nice to get into games and have some fun. 

 

Other bonus is the amount of players on the Xbox1 version, definitely a step up (my PC is not powerful enough to play BF3/4) so I've always relied on the console versions. 

 

had a blast on conquest and the one where you have to set the bombs/arm the bombs. 

 

Good to hear you are enjoying it :) When a match is competitive and you have good squad/teammates, Battlefield is just so damn good. I'm fortunate enough to have been playing since BF1942 days and the general feeling I had then still holds now. I rarely delve into a lot of multiplayer games but Unreal Tournament and Battlefield have just given me insane amounts of fun experiences. I really hope DICE can get things sorted out - this franchise is too good and too important to have it go down in EA purgatory. 

[philcruicks]

Deff feeling a lot more stable after the latest patch, having some really goond fun now, gonna try changing that network smoothing this weekend see what that does.

Just need a new GPU to get it running on anything other than low now, and an SSD for some nice fast loading.   :)

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Still a mess on X1 :no:

 

Matchmaking / quick match hardly works and even when it does, the server is a lag fest. Lucky if you ever see the end of a match.

[Alladaskill17]

Still a mess on X1 :no:

 

Matchmaking / quick match hardly works and even when it does, the server is a lag fest. Lucky if you ever see the end of a match.

Well I end every match I play on XB1 (with the occasional crash, but that's after 10+ matches). I do agree that it is ridiculous to see only 4 or 5 servers (Conquest in my preferred case) each with 20 - 40 in queue; certainly enough players to fill a new 2 or 3 servers of 64.

[Skiver Veteran]

I havent been able to play BF for nearly a week now. I have to admit I didn't try last night but the previous 3 or 4 nights was the same thing over and over. I did contact XB and EA support, XB pointed me at EA and EA said "they are aware of the issue and are investigating".

 

The game has been pretty unstable since release but now it's just unplayable, I don't want to touch campaign because everytime I do the save is lost and I can't get into a single MP match. If this was any other product I would have probably demanded my money back by now. Instead I will continue to pray they eventually fix it because I WAS having a lot of fun.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

I havent been able to play BF for nearly a week now. I have to admit I didn't try last night but the previous 3 or 4 nights was the same thing over and over. I did contact XB and EA support, XB pointed me at EA and EA said "they are aware of the issue and are investigating".

 

The game has been pretty unstable since release but now it's just unplayable, I don't want to touch campaign because everytime I do the save is lost and I can't get into a single MP match. If this was any other product I would have probably demanded my money back by now. Instead I will continue to pray they eventually fix it because I WAS having a lot of fun.

 

If you really want to get a refund, you should use this. It's taken much more seriously than just asking XBox Support.

 

And I agree, when BF4 works it is a lot of fun. Sadly, those times are far out weighed by the issues.

[Skiver Veteran]

Oh the contacting support was just to make sure there wasn't a fault on my end, I know I would miss the game too much so no point

[LOC Veteran]

I haven't been able to play for a couple of weeks now due to the "black screen of death" and it's really pissing me off now. I have to hard reboot everytime so, I haven't even tried in days as it is. Stupid game.

[Skiver Veteran]

I haven't been able to play for a couple of weeks now due to the "black screen of death" and it's really pissing me off now. I have to hard reboot everytime so, I haven't even tried in days as it is. Stupid game.

Out of curiosity, what platform are you on?

[LOC Veteran]

Out of curiosity, what platform are you on?

 

Windows 8.1

[Kriz]

Played this the other night on XB1..

Oh my days :| Incredible, story mode was awesome and the multiplayer was even better. ######ing chaos haha LOVED it!

 

Pisses all over COD.

[BillyJack]

Every time I think I've bought the most bug ridden game, I remind myself that I ****ed away good money on Modern Warfare 2 for PC and I suddenly like the game in question again.

 

As for not regenerating health, what are the chances you're on a Hardcore server? IMO, they aren't as clearly labeled as they were in BF3. Maybe it's me though.

It is not labeled with text. They display icons for that information which sucks. I do not know what the icons mean and there is no documentation. For example there is an icon for china rising expansion back. At first I was like, WTF does that mean. Hovering the mouse tells you. However, I don't think there are tool tips for the hardcore icon. Most servers say in the title if they are hardcore. I am not sure about XOne. I am talking about the web page for PC.

[BillyJack]

Id play it a lot more if I had a group of people to play with that actually wanted to play as a squad/team. it's so annoying having the squad spread all over the map, not following order, not issuing order not caring about anything at all except their own k/d which isn't what BF is about and a score that should be removed from the score screen. 

 

I agree. I play in a squad and well too. I love the game play when I have a good squad. When I come across good players that work as a team I friend them. Now I can almost always have someone playing, who is a good player. I can't remember if my player name is BillyJack or BillyJackMan. Add me and you have someone to play.

[BillyJack]

My main point is though that a real world soldier have so much more awareness that doesn't exist in a virtual game world.

 

I agree about having more things that make awareness better but since I have never been in real combat I wouldn't know what it really is like. I can only make assumptions although I am pretty sure they are realistic. Even if they improve the realness of the game it may never change the game to be more real like because of the way other people in the game play. For example, some people do not give a ###### that they die. They run around like Rambo. In real world no one would do that. Everyone would be careful and try to do real tactics. Until you improve the way people play or so that they play like it is real the realness does not exist. Personally, I try my hardest not to die and play like it is real combat but sometimes I have to play and not care otherwise I am not playing. I have to adjust differently every game depending on the way others are playing. Unfortunately they are running around like mad men with no goal.

[Anthony Tosie Veteran]

Still a mess on X1 :no:

 

Matchmaking / quick match hardly works and even when it does, the server is a lag fest. Lucky if you ever see the end of a match.

Quick match works pretty well for me, but the server browser is beyond horrible. Whenever I try to join a game it never works -- makes playing the DLC I paid $50 for almost worthless, since I never find matches for them in matchmaking.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Quick match works pretty well for me, but the server browser is beyond horrible. Whenever I try to join a game it never works -- makes playing the DLC I paid $50 for almost worthless, since I never find matches for them in matchmaking.

 

At first it worked for me too, but now I just get "server didn't respond" messages. Then at the end of last week the server browser wasn't working either. Didn't matter if there was a queue or not, I was placed in one and made to wait ages. Sometimes kicking me out of the queue for no reason at all. In the end the only way I could join matches was from Battlelog :no:

 

The lack of urgency to fix it is what ****** me off the most though.