Battlefield 4 Thread ~ Server details in opening post ~

[esoteric]

Fed up messing about with cdkeys.com, ordered the £60 package from simplycdkeys. On this occasion I didn't want to risk buying through VPN.

 

[Sampsy]

FOV doesn't seem to want to change in the campaign so far.

 

[Gerard]

Yeah test range puts you on a small map with drones etc to shoot down, can use aircraft tanks lav's etc. My gfx options are all set to low and its not letting me change them for some reason.

 

[tidusjar]

Are people going to be playing MP with the VPN?

 

[PapaLazaru]

Fed up messing about with cdkeys.com, ordered the £60 package from simplycdkeys. On this occasion I didn't want to risk buying through VPN.

I was going to order from cdkeys tonight. What problems have you had?

 

[MBennett]

Appears that you do not to vpn for multiplayer

 

[dhill]

They was test's about showing Windows 8 having 50% better CPU performance over Windows 7.

Here
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2346906

Well that's answered that question for me then, that's one hell of a perfomance increase!

Had no really inclination to upgrade my home PC to Windows 8 (running Windows 8 on my work laptop), but that has just sold it to me..especially since I have a copy of Windows 8.1 waiting to be installed on a PC. Guess what I'll be doing tonight/ tomorrow

 

[~>Dg<~]

id go for 8.0 not 8.1 !

 

[MBennett]

On a Uk server with some like minded individuals everyone has a ping sub 60, so to reiterate, the vpn is only needed to unlock the game

 

[Nexus18]

Wait for final version first (talking a matter of a few hours or a day ), beta was very poorly optimised and one patch made the game run much better on w7.

 

[dhill]

id go for 8.0 not 8.1 !

Any particular reason to go for 8.0 and not 8.1? (I have both available to me, and will be running Start8)

 

[fozzybear]

Well that's answered that question for me then, that's one hell of a perfomance increase!

D

Those tests are flawed as they were likely done before all the BF4 Beta patches were out.

There are definitely + points for having W8 though.

 

[Sampsy]

Another bug: pressing b is supposed to toggle minimap, it instead opens the console. Where did they find their testers?

 

[~>Dg<~]

Any particular reason to go for 8.0 and not 8.1? (I have both available to me, and will be running Start8)

few bugs to do with 8.1 not solved. 8.0 is as smooth and no bugs.

im going to try win7 tomorrow then probably go win8.0 after trying seven to see the difference.

 

[Gerard]

The waves actually do make quite a difference when using boats, makes aiming that bit harder and its easy for a boat to get behind a wave and out of your sight line.

 

[VincentHanna]

On a Uk server with some like minded individuals everyone has a ping sub 60, so to reiterate, the vpn is only needed to unlock the game

Yay.

Do you need to go through VPN every time you start Origin til November 1st though?

Or, once it's unlocked, that's it?

 

[Nexus18]

Another bug: pressing b is supposed to toggle minimap, it instead opens the console. Where did they find their testers?

TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more serious bugs than that with the game atm, typical with DICE/EA and BF games (and pretty much every other game these days)

We will probably see a patch within the week to fix any problems.

 

[shankly1985]

few bugs to do with 8.1 not solved. 8.0 is as smooth and no bugs.

im going to try win7 tomorrow then probably go win8.0 after trying seven to see the difference.

No issues here with 8.1... Dont just tell people not to use 8.1 because you had issues.. Let them test there hardware for themselves

 

[PapaLazaru]

Another bug: pressing b is supposed to toggle minimap, it instead opens the console. Where did they find their testers?

That was a bug in the beta as well and is a massive pain as I have always used it for my voip key.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Yay.

Do you need to go through VPN every time you start Origin til November 1st though?

Or, once it's unlocked, that's it?

Ive just VPN'd loaded origin started SP and MP, closed origin and VPN.
Relogged into origin without VPN and game is locked again so yup looks liek VPN needed each time