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Battlefield 4 [Sunshine & Lollipops]
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Richie6904 wrote: »I told you soo many times to turn off them hax ya gypo btw what settings are you playin on
I play on low settings on everything. More FPS == better. I get anywhere from 60-100 FPS, depending on the map. (Windforce 7950)
Like I said, the squad is everything. I had so few deaths because I got revived at least 5-6 times.0 -
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Up to now, I was playing with a cheap pair of Logitech 120s for a headset because it has a mic, even though it seems nobody uses theirs on any server I've been on so far (neither for VOIP in-game nor teamspeak outside the game). Cheap and cheerful. But I had these Sennheiser HD280s that I use in the office for listening to music and I brought them home for the vacation, so I tried them out today.
Holy poop on a stick Batman.
It's like night and day. Before, a tank shell landed nearby, it was bang, ow, little shake, on we go. Now, it's more
**** YOU, KA AND BOOM!, the world shakes, my ears start to bleed and it's a lot more immersive!
(I turned down the volume a bit after the ears thing, but it's still a whole world better than it was before).
No microphone though, but thirteen euros on ebay got this puppy which everyone says does fine, and shy of splurging forty or fifty euro on a desktop or after-market boom mic, seems like a solid option for something that nobody seems to be using anyway
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If on a console, I can't help ye, but if on the PC, try the 1PARA server (2 hardcore, 1 dom) or the GaelLords server (2 normal); both have a TS channel that you can join and have a laugh with.No microphone though, but thirteen euros on ebay got this puppy which everyone says does fine, and shy of splurging forty or fifty euro on a desktop or after-market boom mic, seems like a solid option for something that nobody seems to be using anyway
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I loled at China bans Battlefield 4, calls it threat to national security.0 -
Lol'd at that as well.
I will say this - sniper rifles as done normally suck ass (who wants to be a mile away and getting one kill per round?) but stick a red dot sight, a silencer and a straight bolt on there, and you can have a bit of fun from 10m away (Working on unlocking the CR guns at the moment). It might just be xmas noob season though 0 -
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Finally got this today, was so looking forward to playing it on the 360. Got home and my live expired today Ordered another email gold card and it still hasn't come through so been playing the single player. So far so good..
Hopefully it comes through tomorrow so i can get online...
Its only 36.99 in xtravision btw0 -
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Everyone hating on the DMRs but each time I use them I actually do really well as long as I stay back 40 metres or so from the targets. I run with the MK11 with suppressor and the SKS with flashlight and have great fun.
If they buffed these guns a good player would be unstopable so I think they should leave well enough alone.
Also, good news in that the PS4 version is working spot on now. No problems in a long time really.
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I've been playing with the DMRs on and off over the last week or two (had to use them for one of the china rising unlocks and thought I'd see if it was just not enough hours in BF4 the first time I tried them). They still suck. In terms of what's best for what range, the list still goes (from "in your face" to "miles away", but the ranges overlap at the dividing lines and where those lines are is open to some debate and probably varies from person to person according to playstyle and proficiency):
- Shotguns
- PDWs
- Carbines
- Assault rifles
- Sniper rifles
There just isn't any range at which the DMRs excel, ever. And there isn't a playstyle that they excel at either - the whole "stay 50m back and cover assault players" is something that you can do much better with a silenced sniper rifle with a straight-pull and an RDS or one of the low mag scopes like the prisma or M145 (I've been mucking about with this as well over the last fortnight or so, I call it the sneaky bastard loadout ).
You can sometimes get okayish play on Zavod or Silk Road with a silenced DMR and an RDS (or a lowmag scope and the canted iron sight), but only in certain parts of the maps and I'm pretty sure I'm only getting that because of the christmas newbie season. And mostly it consists of working outside lanes and doing some close-ish sneaky bastard stuff on the high traffic paths, and you almost always lose if there's more than one target and you don't have exactly the right approach.
In fact, it was the multiple-target engagements that showed me the sneaky sting in the tail of the DMRs: you have a really low effective rate of fire on the DMRs, far lower than the maximum possible rate of fire. You can happily tap that fire key at anything up to 260RPM, but you're only going to hit the target with the first shot. The rest just bounce all over the place and the sights don't make that immediately obvious in a firefight. Try it on a wall somewhere and you notice that even if you're holding on a target point against the recoil, unless you're inside 5m or so, you can't tap that fire button at more than around 100RPM and keep all the shots inside the target - and if you want to get those headshots that the DMR's damage model requires, you can't even get that high, you're looking at somewhere under 90RPM. Just look at the symthic stats, the DMRs have a horrible combination of first-shot multiplier and recoil figures. The spreads on the DMRs are tiny but you're thrown off so much by the recoil that you can't take advantage of that, while some of the ARs, carbines and PDWs come in with lower recoils and/or lower FSMs. Look at the AK5C vs RFB for example - the only thing the RFB has going for it is that it has longer range than the AK and in every other recoil/FSB category it loses to the carbine (the carbine recovers from recoil 200% faster for crying out loud) and to take advantage of the RFB's higher damage per shot, you have to keep your rate of fire under 90 or so RPM.
For a quick comparison, that's less than a pump-action shotgun, and the pump-action at that range will be a one-shot kill with far less accuracy required, while the DMRs can't ever one-shot kill unless you get the headshot glitch and that's a game bug
So no, you can have fun with them, but they're not effective (and really, a lot of that fun comes from knowing someone's sitting in their living room somewhere else on the planet going "he got me with the RFB? What the hell? Stupid game...." and that's not really fun so much as it is advanced taunting ). Your teammates, for example, won't be having fun while you're having fun that way because they'll be effectively one teammate down against the other team...
Even toddlers aren't impressed with the DMRs 0 -
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For fits and giggles, I ran the RFB through Symplot to see how close you have to be to the target for all five rounds in a panic-spam-the-fire-button burst to hit the target. All the gridlines are at 1m seperation at the target range, btw.
50m?
Nope. Closer, maybe 10m?
Nope. How close do you have to be to be sure?
4m. Ah lads...0 -
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