Battlefield 4 [aaaarrrghhh bitching and moaning]

logik wrote: »

There has been no console client patch yet... Everything is SERVER side which will not fix the issues seen. Word on the street is that the consoles are getting a patch next Thurs/Fri for the release of the X1.

I played about 8 maps last night on the 360 and 2 crashed, I got 4 in a row without a crash which was great.

Ah yeah, you're right, just venting some frustration
Seems better this morning, but the last two days have been unplayable with disconnects, lag and atrocious hit detection.
Think console patches have to be vetted by sony/microsoft so I don't think dice have any say is when they're actually released unfortunately.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

As engineer, I will fecking shove my ratchet up to next Tank/BTR drivers arse and take it out out of their mouth if they will just drive away, while I repair then and trying to keep them alive.

this happens constantly. Very frustrating. Or people driving past you after you asked to me picked up.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

As engineer, I will fecking shove my ratchet up to next Tank/BTR drivers arse and take it out out of their mouth if they will just drive away, while I repair then and trying to keep them alive.

Yeah. Playing a game that's designed to be played as a team but without any teamwork or comms. Apparently there is a me in team if you're just ass-backward and messed up...

They did some much talk about levelution or however its spelled, they forgot all the small things.
Setting up a squad from the main menu gone
server browser filter system is fooked
Every time i spawn in a tank i freeze
Certain maps -freeze
Domination points for capturing flags are a joke
Queuing for games is gone and you cant even look to see who's the server or the map rotation.
The jets hud is tiny,you cant even see the altitude meter
Rubber banding constantly even though when i switch to BF3 its perfect.

need to set squad join in game settings for the drop zone to work.

what operation locker looks like at times haha

Amazon lost my order so I still havent got a copy but I played over at my mates gaff last night. What's the story with not being able to see who is on your team until you actually aim at them? No player names or team symbols appeared over player heads until I was just about to shoot at them.

This is in hardcore by the way, but it was the same with the demo. Is this a bug or a new feature? Terrible!

Lancam Dam.
AA tank camps in the spawn or at E.
Nobody can even take off in a helo.
Wonderful map design. FFS...

Sparks wrote: »

Lancam Dam.
AA tank camps in the spawn or at E.
Nobody can even take off in a helo.
Wonderful map design. FFS...

Is it not an automatic AA no?

Also on the same map , don't linger around in the boat at spawn , guys can take you out from the other spawn in their boat with the TV missile .

mozattack wrote: »

Also I am onto my second Support Class Service Start but can't pick Perimeter Defence of the other second last perk (Anti-Air I think) despite having more than the required points... WTF?

They were responsible for a lot of crashes, so DICE have turned them off until they figure out a permanent solution.

Client patch can't come soon enough.

Edit: Don't hold your breath for the patch is seems. According to dice they're currently working on patches for PC, PS4 and Xbox 360. It seems ps3 has dropped to the bottom of the pile, maybe we'll get something with the release of china rising, who knows.

I turned my network smoothing factor up to 100 and it fixed my problem. Didn't rubber band or freeze out all weekend. Wasn't on tonight though.

So, on Celts, [MIKU]AKARI233 loves sitting in the do-not-go area, attacking helos in the other spawn. Can a Celts admin ban the ****er please?

Sparks wrote: »

Most of the time I refuse revives anyway because the plonker doing the revive is doing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ECcMUdzw8

:pac:

That made me laugh out loud on tea break in work and people are looking at me funny!

Sparks wrote: »

There are three whole seasons of that for you to dive into so

I only came across that last week it funnyccause it's so true haha

Tazzimus wrote: »

Have it on the 360,

Last night seems to be the worst so far, no hit markers at all so never sure if I was hitting a moving target that wasn't right in front of me.

Counted 70 bullets to kill someone last night from the M249 (I think this may be due to the servers not being region locked so people with high ping rates are dominating)

Having to level up twice constantly so losing out on lots of points.

Players vanishing right in front of me, only to reappear a few seconds later beside me knife in hand.


Oh and my saved game data has corrupted twice now. First time was the Monday after it came out.


All in all very frustrating, the game is just about half finished, thats being generous.

The losing points is related to the Ribbons only. At the end of the game it does not add them to your score so you go backwards. Its a known bug.

I was having some fun with 5 other guys on an otherwise empty server last night which turned into knife only.
I think the "press F to counter-knife" is a bit broken as it's ridiculously easy to perform.

Battlelog be down and crashed in a pile of plunder this very morn maties

fergus1001 wrote: »

Battlelog be down and crashed in a pile of plunder this very morn maties

"Normal"? Er... you mean crashing every two to three rounds?

battser wrote: »

My pc is well able there is no way it would be a root cause

I'm not saying it won't run it specifically - I'm just saying the crashes are hardware dependent in that people with specific hardware crash more frequently that people with other hardware - whether that hardware is newer or more powerful is irrelevant. This is just a theory though - don't think there has been any proof that crashes are linked to hardware.

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I wish there was some restriction on chopper use. Even if you had to complete a basic 30 minute tutorial before being qualified to fly one in multiplayer. The amount of times I've spawned into, or gotten into a helicopter piloted by someone who appears to have stumbled home after 10 pints down at the local for a game of BF4.....IF YOU CAN'T FLY IT, DON'T EVEN TRY IT! It's one of the worst teamwork offences out there.

And having a "licence" would alleviate it but wouldn't stop the instances where the pilot:

• Actually has had ten pints and is playing anyway
• Takes a full transport helo up over a roof in Zavod311 then bails out without warning leaving a full helo turn into a slowly descending coffin that lands right in front of two MBTs and a LAV... (and of course, the general case )
• Takes a stray tank round that throws the helo into a solid object
• And so on...

I mean, last night, I spawn into a transport helo on Shanghai only to find that the pilot had just vanished out the door and I was now sitting in seat 4 with two other surprised-looking folks, the helo was at 12% health thanks to an attack helo pass and everyone was jumping for it. I whip out the repair tool, get us back to 80% health, find I'm alone in the helo and now about 50' off the water, hop into the pilot's seat, stabilise and recover with about 2' to spare, leg it off down past C on the left hand side and arc up and over a roof or two towards B, someone spawns in and we clear a roof of snipers, then someone else spawns in right as we take an ilga round and it throws us into an A/C unit on a rooftop, the chopper flips over and it's falling into an alley so there's no way to recover, the two of us bail out but the new gunner's only just coming out of the spawn blackout and never has a chance.

Now to me, that was a reasonable session as pilot, we saved the helo when the original pilot had thought it unsavable and got three snipers (four if you count the poor surprised sod on the rooftop who had a helo bounce off the roof in front of him and then two chaps with MX-4s riddle him before he got his breath back); but from the point of view of that second gunner, he spawned into a helo that suddenly hit a roof and exploded. NOOB PILOT! was the resounding chat call.

Point is, the licence idea's neat (put a giant flaming hoop on the test range and you have to fly through it three times in a row without crashing to unlock helos) but won't stop the moaning or all the bad experiences.

Now, you fix that stupid spawn blackout and bring back a second or two (at the most) of spawn invulnerability to fix that gameplay bug and you'd do a lot more.

Also, create some way to let transport helos gain XP for pilots. It's been suggested before, to get XP for dropping off people at capture points or the like, and to have unlocks other than paint (countermeasures, for the love of all that's shiny!), and it could be done in a patch...