-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Battlefield 4 |OT| Prepare to Leave Beta... Nevermind
- Thread starter Overdoziz
- Start date
- Status
Anton Sugar
Member
Still have no idea how they picked Firestorm.
DiddyInAHellcat
Member
64 player conquest working on ps4 now
Hurricane43
Member
Updates galore for PS4 with a Hot fix. Three most common issues found and resolved it seems.
Commander mode now online also.
Bring on the weekend and prepare to leave Beta
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955065219650959667/
Commander mode now online also.
Bring on the weekend and prepare to leave Beta
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955065219650959667/
Rogue Transmission?
Agreed. I miss huge maps
OK, maybe that one. Maybe.
Fuck yes! I'm not leaving the couch all weekend
I'm fine with "lazy" Oman. It already was the best map in BF3 by a good green country mile.
And honestly, I'd rather have Firestorm over Kharg (with helicopter droppers onto an inaccessible from the ground roof campers) and Norshal (that cheese mobile). But I'd rather have Sharqi over all of them.
Oman->Sharqi->anything else is gravy from BF3.
Shanhai
Rouge
Paracel
That's about it. And it depends on the mode. All the others seem to be built for 32 players in mind, and expect that with Second Assault. China Rising is the one that'll be the first true test of 64-players in mind. Which, I'm leaning toward a "no."
Not really, at best Golmud Railway could be decent as a 64 player map ( oh and Shangai I guess ). Thought it really lack cover for infantry ( thought less than Transmission ).
xclaw
Member
Basically this, is double XP still happening too? I'm ready to just leave work with a sudden flu.
Booted the game up on my PC last night after giving up on it for over a week due to crashing and other issues.
Tried to join a game on Battlelog, when it notified me that I needed to update my browser plug in. Whatever, fine. I download and install the thing, then click continue like it tells me to, only to have the notification pop up again telling me I need go update my plug in. I end up downloading and installing the damn thing like 5 times in Chrome to no avail. I open up Firefox and it just works. The fuck.
Get into a game, play for about 20 minutes and crash.
Glad to see nothing has changed. God damn game should be called Hasslefield. I honestly just wish I could get my money back.
Tried to join a game on Battlelog, when it notified me that I needed to update my browser plug in. Whatever, fine. I download and install the thing, then click continue like it tells me to, only to have the notification pop up again telling me I need go update my plug in. I end up downloading and installing the damn thing like 5 times in Chrome to no avail. I open up Firefox and it just works. The fuck.
Get into a game, play for about 20 minutes and crash.
Glad to see nothing has changed. God damn game should be called Hasslefield. I honestly just wish I could get my money back.
Anton Sugar
Member
I've had a lot of success just joining onto a friend and getting the "balancing so you can join your friend" thing.
Gareth Bale
Member
Golmund Railway isn't a 64 player map? It's definitely too big for 32 players.
Gareth Bale
Member
.
It's 33gigs, took me quite a fair bit of time to download to the extent of being able to play multiplayer.
Man, I don't remember the last game that had this amount of crashing. I was only able to finish maybe 5 rounds from 3 pm to Midnight. This is getting beyond frustrating, especially since BF4 fixed a lot of what I didn't like in 3 and I actually want to play!
The Planetside 2 Alpha crashed less than this.
The Planetside 2 Alpha crashed less than this.
MiniBossBattle
Member
Can someone please show a list of which gameplay modes have what vehicles? I really want to fly the attack helicopter but I don't know what map or mode it is in. Same goes with Scout Copters and Planes.
Finally fixed it, but it only works in IE for some reason, not Chrome. I had to make several registry edits to get the plugins to be allowed. Absolutely ridiculous.
I find rogue transmission works great in 64 players one of my favourite maps. Hainan resort is great as well. Although I think it would be even better with two more additional points placed on the map.
The only maps that dont work well are Lancing Dam, Zavod, Dawnbreaker and Locker. Locker obviously wasnt designed for that many players and the other three have design flaws. Zavod is too linear, flat and close. Dawnbreaker is too small and all points are easily accessible and Dam has poor flag layout and vehicle selection.
Also dont understand the lack of cover for infantry on Shanghai. Infantry dominate vehicles on the map with so many angles of attack possible.
Extremely lazy. I really expect Sharqi, Wake, and Karkand to be available at some point for free with Premium.
I'm in three closed alphas/betas right now and they are far more stable than this.
I meant for Galmud, I find Galmud and transmission to mostly be grinder because you always have to move without cover ( heck I can't even like Transmission at 48player because you are only meat for tank and sniper in that map ).
As for which map work at 64 player I guess it depend what level of action people want, for me 64 player server isn't about having even more action, it's should be about having bigger map while still having decent action. I already consider most map far busy enough at 48 players ( as in you almost never can ninja capture a flag ). With 64 players on most bf4 maps I feel like I'm playing soccer match on a tennis court.
To give a good comparison point, I found tha Alborz Mountains and maybe Bandar desert where the only actually good 64 player map in bf3 ( with Oman from bf2 ).
2 hours total now and its only at 53%. 2k installed in about 30 minutes and its >40gb. Is it a battlefield issue or is it my ps4? This is just the install, I had it download last night.
Baconsaurus Rex
Member
This explains a lot
Ha! That would explain a couple of things...
SolidSnakeUS
Member
That is just fucking insanely stupid...
I saw that vid tweeted by a DICE dev so im sure they're gonna fix it.
Could be hitboxes, server sync, weapon config. A bunch of stuff.
How? It doesnt look like an easy to spot bug.
Could be hitboxes, server sync, weapon config. A bunch of stuff.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
More the idea of even being allowed to happen.
Pop
Member
I can't play...period
I played 4 matches earlier and two of those crashed me back to the home screen for error reporting on Ps4. Now I just tried again and when I went to open Battlelog it crashed again. This is ridiculous.
And in those two matches that worked by some miracle, all I was doing was rubberbanding everywhere. Sound would only work half the time if I was lucky. Wtf is this shit
I played 4 matches earlier and two of those crashed me back to the home screen for error reporting on Ps4. Now I just tried again and when I went to open Battlelog it crashed again. This is ridiculous.
And in those two matches that worked by some miracle, all I was doing was rubberbanding everywhere. Sound would only work half the time if I was lucky. Wtf is this shit
Just the fact that it shipped with that atrocious sound bug that cuts out during certain maps at a near 100% chance is something that should absolutely have failed submission. The crashes (and more frustrating, the low fps dips and macro-stuttering that almost result in a crash) are just terrible on top of awful.
F-- would fail 1st party submission under normal conditions. Really unprofessional work.
There is now a Control Center section on the Battlelog forums with subsections for each version of the game : PC, PS3/360 and PS4/Xbone. Each contains updates on what the devs are doing/working on.
From the PC section :
So PC update went from "next week" to "when it's ready". They probably cancelled it once Jackfrag's video came up.
Edit : And on the topic of stability, apart from the sound bug on conquest versions of Railway and Dam, there's no more problems to report on my side.
From the PC section :
So PC update went from "next week" to "when it's ready". They probably cancelled it once Jackfrag's video came up.
Edit : And on the topic of stability, apart from the sound bug on conquest versions of Railway and Dam, there's no more problems to report on my side.
mugoldeneagle03
Member
Haven't been able to check all morning but how are Xbox One users experiences?
Is there a Party system?
Does Conquest work?
How does it run?
Is there a Party system?
Does Conquest work?
How does it run?
Haven't checked the party system yet, conquest runs fine just played a match and haven't had it on long enough to know how it really runs. It is quite though.
At least they acknowledge the 1-hit kill problem and don't go all "its a feature!" on us.
BabeSlayer
Member
Alright Gaf I know a lot of you are having issues and whatever but my limited time spent with BF4 on my X1 last night was glorious. I'm seriously considering Premium...is it worth it?
When I did it, single player was downloaded and installed fairly quickly, however the multiplayer download took many hours. Are you sure you have the full file downloaded? You can check in settings -> storage management, it'll say the current download progress in there (even though notifications can show downloaded and installed, the multiplayer download didn't show up in there for me).
If it is fully downloaded and is just an install issue, then I'm afraid I've got no idea.
If you plan on playing a lot, then without a doubt.
I highly doubt they did a QA pass at all on the current build.
The PC numbers are very impressive. When BF3 was launched it was tough to actually prove that the PC version had more sales.
We essentially had to take off-hand comments from the quarterly-calls and extrapolate from that.
The PS3 version is also very impressive as well, I heard that the controller wasn't perfect for FPS games due to the triggers I believe. Generally multiplatform games seem to sell better on 360.
As for the length of time, it may get better as Sony implements more infrastructure.
But the size of the downloads will only increase as next-gen goes on, and thankfully so.
- Status