Mechanized
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Do you guys like the changes to the way guns handle? It seems like to me all the guns are way more accurate with much less recoil and muzzle climb.
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Battlefield 4 Beta Thread: Prepare 4 Battle (Update to beta drivers)
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kevcampbell
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Before DICE come in and nerf everything with a patch that nobody wants haha
I do not like LMGs. Staying still and shooting or moving and shooting has too much side to side recoil while vertical recoil is easily controlled. With the damage and fire rate of LMGs this causes you to have to keep on a target for quite awhile whereas a assault rifle, carbine, or PDW can eliminate you in a fraction of the time. Sometimes the stars will align and the horizontal recoil will give you a kill but that seems rare. The classes' weapons don't seem adaptable to being able to push up with the squad, instead forcing you to hang back, prone in a corner and await targets rather than actively seeking them out. The change to suppression (which is good, don't get me wrong) also makes it so that suppressing enemies doesn't actually affect their accuracy, it just blurs their vision, so you can't rely as much on their bullets straight up missing to be the determining factor in a gunfight. Maybe with better attachments in the full game this is better but... I dunno. It seems like they would have to have a big affect, and you would be forced to use them rather than tailor your gun how you want.
They have about the exact same recoil. In some cases more with the acw-r. Only reason it feels like less is because we are only able to use the lowest rof weapons. As well no heavy barrel to increase recoil.
I think what is different is spread, slight decreases in base spread and increase in spread reduction. However we don't have any numbers to prove that yet.
Nocturno999
Member
I think I'm going to pre-order it. Horrible performance so far but the end product will be amazing.
Man, that Jack Frags video was amazing. This is like a completely different game on PC than the 360 version. My computer keeps hanging at the loading screen so I haven't been able to try the PC version.
I do plan on getting this for PS4 though, I assume that since it's 64 players we'll get all the fun stuff like boats and big maps as well? I hope so, because the 360 version doesn't have half of the stuff I saw in that video.
I do plan on getting this for PS4 though, I assume that since it's 64 players we'll get all the fun stuff like boats and big maps as well? I hope so, because the 360 version doesn't have half of the stuff I saw in that video.
Reckless Onion
Member
Also a reason why there seems to be less recoil is because when you aim down sights, you zoom in way less then in bf3 resulting in way recoil.
jim2point0
Banned
My FOV is 75. That comes to about 102 horizontal FOV, which is plenty high for me.
Fisheye at higher FOVs is too distracting for me.
Fisheye at higher FOVs is too distracting for me.
After trying every tweak I've read about on the net, I can't get my stuttering to stop. The fact that they say the stuttering doesn't exist in Win8 makes me think DICE is just never really going to address it.
I think I'm just going to throw in the towel and get the game for PS4. Comfy couch, decent visuals, 5.1, everyone has the exact same specs and controller so the playfield is level and no hacks.
I think I'm just going to throw in the towel and get the game for PS4. Comfy couch, decent visuals, 5.1, everyone has the exact same specs and controller so the playfield is level and no hacks.
Anything lower than 90 isn't preferable for me, I need to see more!!! 70 is doable but given the option I would always go higher.
Enordash
Member
They are really saying that Win7 is causing stuttering then? There's no excuse for how bad this thing runs on my machine. BF3 runs upwards of 90 FPS and this is stuttering down to single digits. I'm really trying hard to enjoy the game, but it's impossible like this.
jim2point0
Banned
Vertical
He're's a calculator for you to convert: http://www.rjdown.co.uk/projects/bfbc2/fovcalculator.php
IchigoSharingan
Member
It's beta. let's roll with the punches until full release. They just gotta know whatever the hell they're trying to patch isn't working yet.
This is incredible. I kind of wish BF4 multi had music in multiplayer.
The ultra-high rate of fire along with the very small amount of recoil make it an absolute beast. You burn through your clip really quickly, but even that doesn't matter because the reload speed is great.
Support + ACR = this
It feels like the UMP did back in BF3 beta. Jack of all trades, king of every distance.
PoweredBySoy
Banned
The mounted 50 CALS in this game need some lovin'. For starters, how about they don't overheat after 10 shots.
RobbieNick
Junior Member
Tried the beta on 360. Played nice, but looked like crap. First match, half the textures would not pop in. Second match, light grey is the new brown Ugly, ugly looking game on 360. Will try again on next-gen systems..
The Faceless Master
Member
i got to level 10 and i can't level any more
Yes you can! Level 11 is only 166,000,000 points away!
Reckless Onion
Member
Anyone else getting a lot of instant deaths?
I'm getting 60fps. Some drops to 56+ and, while I'm in an helicopter it dropped to 40+. Haswell i5 and 7970 twin frozr. I didn't install any beta drivers. Is that going to make the performance even better?
edit: nevermind. I checked again and I have the beta drivers already installed
edit: nevermind. I checked again and I have the beta drivers already installed
On domination. Not really on Conquest unless I spawn myself in the wrong place.
Looks like Amazon.com is offering a $5 credit on the digital download version,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BXONG7G
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BXONG7G
Gen.Grievous
Member
Very few compared to BF3 actually. Might be the fact that it's a beta and the servers are plagued by latency issues but the time to kill seems higher.
Reckless Onion
Member
Yes, all the time.
Oh my bad. I was thinking more spawn death. But yeah, that happens to me too. Frustrating.
Headshot?
Where did he get that theme? The only themes I can find are ripped from trailers (so you get the gunfight sounds)
Lots of instant deaths and mutual deaths actually.
grandwizard
Member
Does anyone know if there is a way to remove the sensitivity lowering when you zoom in? Or what the ratio is so I can macro it away?
Headshots in BF4, assuming it works like BF3, do double the damage of a single bullet. According to Symthic the Scar-H maxes out at 34 damage at 11 meters or less, so a single bullet would only do 68. You'd need at least another body shot to finish a person off. I have had some near instant kills on me but what I get a lot more is mutual deaths.
would need at least two "hit sounds" still.
But I have this in every BF now and then, I just blame netcode/lag.
Yeah I think it might be lag related as it has happened mostly on servers with people that have >150 ping or servers that are jittery (I also heard that the server jitterness is punkbuster related from a DICE source)
Well arent we in the know. Mr. Fancy pants with his insider sources.
BattleMonkey
Member
So I can't play, any server I join I get to launch and it goes to infinite loading screen. I can hear players talking and game sounds, but it just says loading and never goes away. Looking on the forums for help and theres just pages of people with similar or other problems with this beta and no real cure. All my drivers are up to date too
Have you tried updating punkbuster?
Dunno? Ammo boxes give you explosives on PC
Smushroomed
Banned
Last patch actually made the game enjoyable
I'm on the top half, rather than the bottom half of the scoreboard now
I'm on the top half, rather than the bottom half of the scoreboard now
Lostconfused
Member
Did they just remove bullet drop from the game after the latest update? I am certain it was there a few days ago, but now the bullets don't seem to drop at all from the bolt action sniper.