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[Cudder]

My friend just told me that BF4 will melt faces. I wonder what he means by that..

flamethrower confirmed.

 

[RoKKeR]

Btw this is real:

They are giving this away at the event;


"BattlefieldHoe" was wrong once again.

Of course they were. They can be obnoxious as hell.

 

[OldAsUrSock]

I like suppression too and in my experiences have found it to be effective. In fact, suppression is one of the few things I can't fault BF3 for. The concept of suppressing a target in a modern arcade-shooter has never really been given a serious try. In that sense, DICE was ambitious and ambitious DICE is best DICE.

I liked suppression but it suppressed way to long. That is when it got annoying.

 

[riflen]

I loved suppression. Cool way of visually creating a psychological condition. But from the beginning, I knew people would dislike it. Certain gamers hate having control taken away from them or having a condition imposed on them that limits their abilities.

I think the suppression mechanic works fine as it stands in BF3, with two exceptions:

1) Shotguns using buckshot or flechette ammo need some work. Often your pellets/darts just suddenly disappear into thin air under suppression.
2) Bolt-action rifles are effectively immune to suppression when the player is static, as when suppressed the game simply increases your shot spread by a percentage of the weapon's base spread value. As the bolt action rifles have a base spread of 0.0 when stationary their spread is not increased and the player is not affected fairly by suppression.

I'd like to see these things and 'head-glitching' fixed in BF4, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[nhlducks35]

I think the suppression mechanic works fine as it stands in BF3, with two exceptions:

1) Shotguns using buckshot or flechette ammo need some work. Often your pellets/darts just suddenly disappear into thin air under suppression.
2) Bolt-action rifles are effectively immune to suppression when the player is static, as when suppressed the game simply increases your shot spread by a percentage of the weapon's base spread value. As the bolt action rifles have a base spread of 0.0 when stationary their spread is not increased and the player is not affected fairly by suppression.

I'd like to see these things and 'head-glitching' fixed in BF4, but I'm not holding my breath.

That explains why I kept getting headshotted when I tried to suppress Snipers with my LMG

 

[Randdalf]

Not only should they take away suppression, they should give an option to get rid of all the lens flare and screen shaking effects.

 

[JHall]

Suppression sucks.

 

[RoKKeR]

I believe the event in Sweeden has concluded.

I'd be surprised if something didn't spill before the embargo is up.

 

[BattleMonkey]

Suppression is great. Only other alternative would be to do it like americas army, in which the suppression effect of gun fire would affect your accuracy for a short while, it didn't affect your vision.

 

[derFeef]

Suppression is great.

Yup, but it should be fixed, like stated above.

 

[Portugeezer]

Suppression is good, it's not perfect in BF3 certainly and could be improved, but it's more a good thing than bad thing to have.

 

[Ghost_Protocol]

So where is this reveal trailer supposed to post?

 

[Nirolak]

So where is this reveal trailer supposed to post?

Presumably just about everywhere, but I imagine the Battlefield website will have it.

 

[Team Klimt]

Presumably just about everywhere, but I imagine the Battlefield website will have it.

The website says 27th. Did it change?

 

[Nirolak]

The website says 27th. Did it change?

11:00 PM PDT on the 26th is the 27th in the vast majority of the world, so I imagine that's what they're referring to.

 

[RibbedHero]

Fuck. I thought it was 11AM PDT.

 

[JWong]

See ya guys. Going 12 hours into the future.

 

[rakkadakka]

Not a fan of suppression here, at its core it's skill mitigation.

The problem is they have it so baked into the game with skills that giving servers the option to turn it off breaks part of the game.

What I'd like to see it changed to is a low multiplier when it's one person shooting at you but adds up quickly when multiple are. And make it a constant rather than a skill modified item.

 

[Dabanton]

Someone will leak it.

Hopefully...

 

[belvedere]

Fuck. I thought it was 11AM PDT.

Well fuck.

 

[Demon Ice]

Hated suppression. Rewarded the spray and pray-ers, and was WAY too heavy of an effect.

 

[Spazo]

Mikael Högström ‏@Royale68 34m ago

Just played #BF4 in front of 500 people!

 

[kaskade]

Fuck. I thought it was 11AM PDT.

Oh man me too. haha. I don't think I'm staying up until 2 am to see it though.

 

[B.O.O.M]

lol thought it's 11AM..guess not

 

[-COOLIO-]

and the award for the worst time to release a trailer for an US oriented action fps goes to...

 

[Spy]

Please bring back Air-Strikes from Bad Company 2.

 

[uncharted86]

Mikael Högström ‏@Royale68 34m ago

Just played #BF4 in front of 500 people!

Leak it now!

 

[KKRT00]

Please bring back Air-Strikes from Bad Company 2.

lol no, but please bring aggressive recon from BC 2. We need c4 and faster movement Dice!

 

[RibbedHero]

and the award for the worst time to release a trailer for an US oriented action fps goes to...

It's bad for the West Coast, East Coast and Europe. I guess the only place it's a convenient time in is Australia and Japan.

 

[derFeef]

Please bring back Air-Strikes from Bad Company 2.

Wat, hello now. Might as well ask for vanilla Medic-60.

 

[Spl1nter]

lol no, but please bring aggressive recon from BC 2. We need c4 and faster movement Dice!

Movement speed is significantly faster in BF3 compared to BC2, significantly.

Just heard BF4 is bringing back the BF Vietnam M60/LAW class and giving them shock paddles as well.

 

[JackEtc]

Dunno if this is old news or not, but Arthur Gies just tweeted this I'm guessing he's talking about BF4...

EDIT: Nevermind, Army of Two

 

[Iacobellis]

Dunno if this is old news or not, but Arthur Gies just tweeted this I'm guessing he's talking about BF4...

EDIT: Nevermind, Army of Two

You sure? How did you figure it out?

 

[Nirolak]

You sure? How did you figure it out?

Army of Two has people dismemberment tech. It's one of their major "features".

 

[Raven77]

Has anyone tweeted to any of those Battlefield PR / Internal guys about how stupid this reveal time is? They respond most of the time (I would but I don't have the Twitters).

No, its NOT just a bad time for people in the US...

 

[Makoto]

Has anyone tweeted to any of those Battlefield PR / Internal guys about how stupid this reveal time is?

No and you shouldn't do it.

 

[Vilam]

11:00 PM PDT on the 26th is the 27th in the vast majority of the world, so I imagine that's what they're referring to.

=/

 

[Noisepurge]

The website says 27th. Did it change?

 

[EagleBurnn]

Nothing has been leaked yet? You're slacking on me, Internet. You slackin'.

 

[derFeef]

Has anyone tweeted to any of those Battlefield PR / Internal guys about how stupid this reveal time is? They respond most of the time (I would but I don't have the Twitters).

No, its NOT just a bad time for people in the US...

Yeah, tweet them it should be couple hours later so 27th would be correct for most of the people, good idea!

 

[Noisepurge]

Nothing has been leaked yet? You're slacking on me, Internet. You slackin'.

yeah 500 people and no screeners, what the hell?

 

[SneakyStephan]

Surpression is only there to mask the horrible netcode to begin with, so you have something to blame for your shots not registering...

 

[Hip Hop]

Wiat, so we are only getting a trailer for all of this?

I though it was a press conference?

 

[rdrr gnr]

Somebody screen cap aegies' last tweet.

 

[JoshHood]

Somebody screen cap aegies' last tweet.

If its the Frostbite one, he's talking about Army of Two.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Fuck. I thought it was 11AM PDT.

Ugh; same. What a terrible time.

 

[derFeef]

Surpression is only there to mask the horrible netcode to begin with, so you have something to blame for your shots not registering...

In situations where the netcode is very, very important, surpression is not a key factor.

 

[EscoBlades]

yeah 500 people and no screeners, what the hell?

Haha, that's Ali-A from YT.

 

[Anton Sugar]

Surpression is only there to mask the horrible netcode to begin with, so you have something to blame for your shots not registering...

Now that is one hell of a conspiracy theory!

 

[sangreal]

and I need you now tonight, and I need you more than ever