Battlefield 4 [aaaarrrghhh bitching and moaning]

miju · 30-06-2014 4:27pm

Sounds like something is causing the router to get "flooded" then hang and restart itself really cant see it being BF4 this one but you never know

The Red · 01-07-2014 12:56am

The Freeman wrote: »

True story.

I do feel that bad company 2 was better than both and had the best maps overall. Won't be getting good hardline that's for sure.

Ive just been getting back into BF3 lately and shunning 4 but I have been dipping in and out of BC2 too and its damn good. I feel like a kid in some kind of store with all these new maps and whatnot with BC2 and to a lesser extent BF3. Some of the BF3 maps, I havent even played yet..

And a LOT of the BC2 ones I havent seen too.

Long months and years more to go with these two games I think. Oh and 2142!... jesus I think I may quit the job..

the_syco · 01-07-2014 1:13am

Still playing BF4. Find I play on the one server, as there's usually admins online who kick & ban those who deserve it. Have found other servers destroyed by one eejit, so I tend to stay on the one server.

Martin Walker · 01-07-2014 9:46am

miju wrote: »

Sounds like something is causing the router to get "flooded" then hang and restart itself really cant see it being BF4 this one but you never know

This is what Sky have suggested to him. They said they will monitor his line for a few days and see when i cuts out.
Next up hes gona call microsoft.

miju · 01-07-2014 9:49am

Martin Walker wrote: »

Next up hes gona call microsoft.

Sounds obvious but is there any thing else on the network that could be the root cause?

On topic, there was a brief but glorious return of a squad of us on BF4 last night.It played alot better than the weekend so it's obviously at the BF3 stage of deciding when it wants to work or not.

Progress for sure

the_syco · 01-07-2014 12:48pm

Martin Walker wrote: »

He can log onto live nobother, joins our live chat and loads up BF4. however when he tries to join our game things go well until the map appears. His internet connection cuts out and hes gone. Now i mean his actual router stops and resets. Other games work no problem. This only happens in BF4.

Can ye have a BF4 console LAN? May be worth checking ruling out the game. Also, can he play single player okay?

Martin Walker · 02-07-2014 9:51am

Right so he got the problem resolved with the aid of Microsoft support.

They said in such games as BF4 there is a massive, continuous flow of data that can sometimes get backed up and congested resulting in a disconnect from the network. Not only BF4 but in this instance it was BF4.

In the end all he had to do was disconnect from live, restore the xbox 360 network settings to default and then reconnect to the wireless connection as if from new.

We got him back in our squad last night and the 5 of us decimated a 200% tickets conquest on Golmud Railway. Good times. When this game actually works it is very good.

Just thought id pop this in incase anyone ever has the same problem.

miju · 02-07-2014 10:25am

Its strange though that its just BF4 setting it off and not other games

Timmyctc · 02-07-2014 10:39am

miju wrote: »

Its strange though that its just BF4 setting it off and not other games

Happens with loads of unfinished games. DayZ was doing it flat out to older routers when it had a memory leak. Mind you that game is in Alpha and got rid of those issues. Just lucky its not an overly common issue with BF4 because clearly it wouldn't have been fixed :P

Stone Deaf 4evr · 02-07-2014 10:39am

miju wrote: »

Its strange though that its just BF4 setting it off and not other games

in fairness, if it involves making a balls of something in new and surprising ways, battlefield 4 has excelled in this area. :pac:

miju · 02-07-2014 10:49am

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

in fairness, if it involves making a balls of something in new and surprising ways, battlefield 4 has excelled in this area. :pac:

Oh most definitely if theres one game that can do it its BF4. I imagine they will patch out the last patch to fix what they patched out shortly :pac::pac:

EyeSight · 02-07-2014 6:54pm

I was considering getting this game to play online. I stayed away cause of all the issues i heard of. But someone told me they have all been fixed now. Is this true? Or should i save myself the 30 bucks?

Stone Deaf 4evr · 02-07-2014 7:48pm

EyeSight wrote: »

I was considering getting this game to play online. I stayed away cause of all the issues i heard of. But someone told me they have all been fixed now. Is this true? Or should i save myself the 30 bucks?

what platform?

Mad_Dave · 02-07-2014 7:54pm

It hasn't been fixed totally, but there have been major improvements, with more in the pipeline for not too distant release.
If you're on PC it's 15euro on amazon right now, more than worth it at that price.

EyeSight · 02-07-2014 8:02pm

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

what platform?

Xbox One. Sorry I should have specified

miju · 02-07-2014 9:45pm

EyeSight wrote: »

Xbox One. Sorry I should have specified

It's better, not fixed by far just better than it was

Stone Deaf 4evr · 02-07-2014 11:30pm

EyeSight wrote: »

Xbox One. Sorry I should have specified

Try picking it up secondhand if you can. As miju said it's getting better. For 30 quid I'd say it's worth a gamble

The Freeman · 03-07-2014 4:05pm

22000 Pc players online currently. Massive player fall rate in the last couple of months

The Red · 03-07-2014 4:06pm

How about BF3 on PC?

Mad_Dave · 03-07-2014 4:08pm

Big upswing in BF3 numbers since they gave it away for free on origin a few weeks back.
About 30k PC players on line right now.

The Red · 03-07-2014 4:12pm

I wonder did I mention how much I love BF3 before? I love BF3.

SouthTippBass · 03-07-2014 7:01pm

The Red wrote: »

How about BF3 on PC?

Well, its the best Battlefield IMO, and PC is the correct platform. So I say yes.

5uspect · 05-07-2014 1:21pm

I've been trying to give the CTE a go. It's a lot better than vanilla but the game is still just horrible to play. So much random ****e going on that it's just a cluster**** each time.

IMO it's broken beyond repair.

jonski · 05-07-2014 1:37pm

Four of us meet up most nights around 9:30 and play until 11:30 ish and while all four of us have had some issue at one stage or another none of these lasted long and none of us have had any problems since that last patch .

5uspect · 05-07-2014 1:58pm

Technically it's mostly fine, I still get killed around corners and the usual crap, but that's not going to change.

The game just isn't fun for me. The non existent TTK, sluggish movement, still excessive screen shake, the horrid killcam, the IMHO ugly art style and terrible maps just continually piss me off.

The game encourages camping and discourages even attempting to PTFO. It's like they took everything that annoyed me about BF3 and distilled it down into this mess.

miralize · 05-07-2014 2:01pm

I miss the bf3 maps. Siene Crossing, Ziba Towers, ScrapMetal, Grand Bazaar & Noshahr Canals were just fun maps. Regret selling my 360 now

5uspect · 06-07-2014 8:27pm

So today I uninstalled BF4 (think the CTE is still there) and reinstalled BC2.
It's like chalk and cheese. I've had sooo much fun today!

The Red · 07-07-2014 1:47pm

I did the same but with BF3 and BC2 over the weekend. Dumped them both onto the HDD and put BF4 onto the ssd. Played a few rounds, got agitated and swapped them back. BF3 and BC2 back on ssd.

Ill wait for Dragons Teef.

Kimbot · 08-07-2014 12:31pm

A weird one on BF4 last night, everytime i aimed down the sight the auto aim kept moving just left or right of the person, it was annoying as hell but I got used to it. I was playing on ps4 and a few people mentioned it while playing.

TireeTerror · 08-07-2014 12:47pm

autoaim?? Euuuch why on earth would anyone want to play with something like that, I want full control, anything less is hacky!

Kimbot · 08-07-2014 1:13pm

TireeTerror wrote: »

autoaim?? Euuuch why on earth would anyone want to play with something like that, I want full control, anything less is hacky!

i keep forgetting to turn it off tbh

Riesen_Meal · 08-07-2014 2:57pm

TireeTerror wrote: »

autoaim?? Euuuch why on earth would anyone want to play with something like that, I want full control, anything less is hacky!

Its a console thang man, you wouldn't need it on PC as M/KB is so accurate...

the_syco · 10-07-2014 1:26am

Fieldog wrote: »

Its a console thang man, you wouldn't need it on PC as M/KB is so accurate...

Off-topic, but this is why I'm going to wait for GTA on the PC. Auto-aim just seems so wrong, esp after going from a BF4 hardcore server to console GTA :P

Akrasia · 10-07-2014 9:57am

the_syco wrote: »

Off-topic, but this is why I'm going to wait for GTA on the PC. Auto-aim just seems so wrong, esp after going from a BF4 hardcore server to console GTA :P

I always have it turned off.. That explains my kill death ratio

paul_booth_fan · 10-07-2014 10:59am

TireeTerror wrote: »

autoaim?? Euuuch why on earth would anyone want to play with something like that, I want full control, anything less is hacky!

I'm on console and I despise the concept of autoaim. Shouldn't even be a function in a FPS to be honest. Simply saying 'well everyone has the option to use it' doesn't really justify it either.
DICE are currently looking into the idea of making aim assist a server side option so I'm really hopeful it gets the go ahead

Akrasia · 10-07-2014 12:59pm

paul_booth_fan wrote: »

I'm on console and I despise the concept of autoaim. Shouldn't even be a function in a FOS to be honest. Simply saying 'well everyone has the option to use it' doesn't really justify it either.
DICE are currently looking into the idea of making aim assist a server side option so I'm really hopeful it gets the go ahead

It definitely shouldn't be allowed on hardcore mode on any servers.

Joeface · 11-07-2014 3:25pm

So tell me gamers of Boards , its been more than 2 months without actually turning on my PC to play BF4(or any game for that matter), I actually haven't even read a post or article about gaming either, I am sure there was some withdrawals symptoms and they must have been bad as I would say it blocked out the memories .

Have I actually missed anything ?, Has the game been fixed and improved or dumped and abandoned . And should I continue with my new found freedom or return to the Drug that is killing ppl online

jonski · 11-07-2014 3:36pm

It's working fine for me but then I didn't have the problems that some of the other did . There was a patch recently that fixed issues for people but my suggestion would be ..... take the rest of the summer off.............line and enjoy yourself , we will all still be here in September .

DeWinterZero · 11-07-2014 6:00pm

Joeface wrote: »

Have I actually missed anything ?, Has the game been fixed and improved or dumped and abandoned . And should I continue with my new found freedom or return to the Drug that is killing ppl online

No recent problems for me, getting bored of the maps but at 600hrs you'd expect that. I'd wait until Tuesday before updating because the Dragons Teeth DLC (yay, new maps) is out then and there'll probably be a patch for the base game then also.

Return to the drug, it's been ages since I've killed you

DeWinterZero · 12-07-2014 10:57am

Numbers are dropping off in the CTE since their patching it every Tuesday & Friday. If I'd installed the patch released on Tuesday that would have been a 15gb download. Another patch last night now makes its 30gb of a patch to be downloaded. :mad:

Akrasia · 12-07-2014 11:30am

DeWinterZero wrote: »

Numbers are dropping off in the CTE since their patching it every Tuesday & Friday. If I'd installed the patch released on Tuesday that would have been a 15gb download. Another patch last night now makes its 30gb of a patch to be downloaded. :mad:

I don't think it works like that. You don't need to have all the patches installed just the latest one. Each patch contains all the fixes from the previous patches so you can delete the previous downloaded patches. This doesn't apply to the DLC which includes the maps and weapons packs.

DeWinterZero · 12-07-2014 1:51pm

Typical Origin. Tried updating earlier and it wanted to download the 30gb that I was complaining about.

Turn on the PC a couple of hours later and it only wants to dowload 13gb. Knowing Origin it would have downloaded all 30gb first and then decided it was a bad install and downloaded the 13gb afterwards.

The Red · 12-07-2014 1:53pm

DeWinterZero wrote: »

Typical Origin. Tried updating earlier and it wanted to download the 30gb that I was complaining about.

Turn on the PC a couple of hours later and it only wants to dowload 13gb. Knowing Origin it would have downloaded all 30gb first and then decided it was a bad install and downloaded the 13gb afterwards.

.

I think that's what I've done ...

Joeface · 14-07-2014 8:57am

Seriously 13GB update , yer not really inviting me back.

Fiber has been turned on @ my exchanged but not for sale , So I think I shall wait till that it installed before going back to BF.

The Red · 14-07-2014 9:17am

Im kinda not using CTE... I know its the best experience of BF4 atm but I see it as time I should be using to advance my rank and that isn't relevant in CTE. I might just wait and play bf3 until the (really good) features of CTE are patched into the main game. Hopefully now with Dragons Teeth.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 16-07-2014 1:44pm

Joeface wrote: »

So tell me gamers of Boards , its been more than 2 months without actually turning on my PC to play BF4(or any game for that matter), I actually haven't even read a post or article about gaming either, I am sure there was some withdrawals symptoms and they must have been bad as I would say it blocked out the memories .

Have I actually missed anything ?, Has the game been fixed and improved or dumped and abandoned . And should I continue with my new found freedom or return to the Drug that is killing ppl online

:eek: What is wrong with you???

Joeface · 16-07-2014 2:06pm

Eleanor Calm Cooking wrote: »

:eek: What is wrong with you???

There is nothing wrong me , I am perfectly fine . How are you ?

The Red · 16-07-2014 2:26pm

Sometimes people dont play games... they do other things.

Sometimes i wish ... no... nevermind...

SouthTippBass · 05-09-2014 11:36pm

So frustrating. Was coming first on my team points wise, doing really well and I get kicked by an admin. Fupping blastards.

Battlefield 4 [aaaarrrghhh bitching and moaning]

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