Battlefield 4 Thread ~ Server details in opening post ~

[Sasso]

True, this should be as it is!

Can you imagine in the Iraq War every vehicle would have an engineer attached, who needs ecm jammers or stealth when a blow torch does the job in mid flight!

oh god you just reminded me of the southpark film.... when they are preparing to go to war and have operation "get behind the darkies" (their words not mine! ) and the general says "and remember, protect our tanks and planes"....and it cuts to several shots of people pretty much duct taped to the side of planes and tanks xD oh dearrrrr.......

 

[V_R]

As for helis and engi. repairing constantly, what needs to be done imo:

- repair tool nerfed, same way as defib, limited + take a few seconds to charge it/turn on or whatever the right term is
- can't repair the helis whilst flying, only way to repair is to land and get out, just like you have to do with every other vehicle

Sounds good to me, the little bird with someone, or even two in it is like some kind of god mode.

Thinking about it, what if the repair tool ran out, like you do with your ammo. Its only a blow torch afterall. Off the top of my head isn't the RT the only thing thats basically got unlimited 'ammo' ?

It's EA/DICES new addition to give the impression of an EMP pulse via the commanders tool. It's awful but the good news is, it does look like it might be removed or an option to be turned off in another patch

Is that what its supposed to be!?

 

[1kiwi]

Sounds good to me, the little bird with someone, or even two in it is like some kind of god mode.

Thinking about it, what if the repair tool ran out, like you do with your ammo. Its only a blow torch afterall. Off the top of my head isn't the RT the only thing thats basically got unlimited 'ammo' ?




Is that what its supposed to be!?

You could extend the cool down on the repair tool as well.

 

[dodg3rman]

Sounds good to me, the little bird with someone, or even two in it is like some kind of god mode.

Did a good run yesterday on Hainan with MartyStonehouse and MarkPitchford doing the honours of repping me. Was pretty much invincible and at one point it seemed like the whole enemy team was using stingers on us , had the lock on tone for about 10 mins it seemed. Pop up ove the top of the hotel with your cannons drop back down , rinse and repeat for mucho kills.

 

[dmferrett]

Just played another hour after getting home from work. Still haven't had a "Battlefield 4 has stopped working" crash since the patch.

I don't want to jinx it but its looking good.

GPU usage has improved immensely as well on my sli 670's

Are you over 90% yet Jono?

 

[dmferrett]

This game is truely magnifico. (Well except hit detection and latency of course)..

 

[Sasso]

see...when you have 2 people repping a LB then you need to be tactical with your stingers/whatever. seen this style before in Ultima Online.

In the pvp when trying to kill another player can be pretty difficult as there are a few healing skills (bandages/magic) so the targeted player can spam heal and just keep running. However, if you are in a group then it's easy... a tactic called "Dumping". First some members of the group would precast a damage spell whilst one paralysed the target. Once he is paralysed then you all dump your damage at the same time, dealing more damage than their health pool in a tiny time frame making healing impossible.

can totally be used here and pretty sure some do already. Get one guy to pop off a stinger so the LB loses it's flares then he/she and how ever many others all target the lb and pretty much launch at the same time. probably need 3 stingers to be sure of insta death.

I always try and get a hard lock on an enemy, then deliberately semi lose the lock and relock in the attempt to make them panic and pop their flares/ecm. that leaves me to re aquire the lock, pop both heatseakers (if in air vehicles) or spam stingers with all of them hitting

 

[Allnamestaken]

As much as i find attack jets fun for removing ground targets from existance!
Stealth jets only come into there own once you have unlocked the 30mm canon.

My problem is with how redundant the aircraft are, I mean the one thing that is battleifeld is the vehicles.

You start off already flying when you load into a jet and while you can land if you come in slow to the ground there are no landing strips you dont start from the ground its like theyve removed the whole concept of that from the game.

I think landing to repair would be a good thing or just having aircraft on certain maps start from a ground spawn instead of air spawn -_- It seem so arcadey to me that they chose that option -_-

Removes such a nice aspect of oldschool battlefield.

Theyve taken a step in a bad direction with aircraft in bf4, the planes in bf3 were just as bad obviously worse but still.... it just irks me...

Everything else infrantry ground combat vehicles are great helos etc but the jets man one of the most loved things in the game they neglect so much >_>.

 

[V_R]

see...when you have 2 people repping a LB then you need to be tactical with your stingers/whatever. seen this style before in Ultima Online.

In the pvp when trying to kill another player can be pretty difficult as there are a few healing skills (bandages/magic) so the targeted player can spam heal and just keep running. However, if you are in a group then it's easy... a tactic called "Dumping". First some members of the group would precast a damage spell whilst one paralysed the target. Once he is paralysed then you all dump your damage at the same time, dealing more damage than their health pool in a tiny time frame making healing impossible.

can totally be used here and pretty sure some do already. Get one guy to pop off a stinger so the LB loses it's flares then he/she and how ever many others all target the lb and pretty much launch at the same time. probably need 3 stingers to be sure of insta death.

I always try and get a hard lock on an enemy, then deliberately semi lose the lock and relock in the attempt to make them panic and pop their flares/ecm. that leaves me to re aquire the lock, pop both heatseakers (if in air vehicles) or spam stingers with all of them hitting

Loving your thinking, but sadly can you imagine trying to get a group of randoms to co operate in such a fashion!?!

 

[Sasso]

Loving your thinking, but sadly can you imagine trying to get a group of randoms to co operate in such a fashion!?!

that's why ya play with buddies STRENGTH IN NUMBERS! and all that jazz....there is ingame voip (not that I use that ) or the chat but yea I know what ya mean

I quite like the idea with jets/helis if they took it back to the bf2 days where you have to fly along/land on a runway/helipad to repair/rearm. but then you'd probably have to make sea ports for the boats and what ever else xD


then again....repping was a bit nuts in bf2, two engineers, both in tanks...pull up along side and instant cross-repping....no need to even go outside...and you could rep from the supply crates too couldn't you?

 

[BillHicksRIP]

Whats the deal with the Awards in the Battlelog? Under Kits, for MediKit Medal it's showing I have acheived 1/50 Medikit Ribbons yet the graphic box to left shows I've had the ribbon x51 times? Is this a bug or am I mis-reading it? Similarly, the spotting medal shows as earnt 3/50 yet the ribbon count is x53?

 

[physichull]

Just trying this game for the first time now. First impressions are that it is just BF3.5. I enjoyed BF3 for the most part but really, very little, if anything has changed since BF3. Its just had re-skinned menus and new maps. It still lacks that zip, that bite, that extra something that BC2 had though.

It felt chaotic and it felt like a real test of skill with BC2, but it just doesn't have that same sense of presence. With BC2, each game was exciting and had its moments where the game just stepped up another level. With BF3 and BF4, after about 20 minutes of playing I am left feeling numb and run around each level like a machine, racking up more points, an emotionless droid.

This isn't a new game, its just BF3 with different maps. Are DICE now getting into that COD phase of releasing the same game over and over?

 

[fozzybear]

.... after about 20 minutes of playing I am left feeling numb and run around each level like a machine, racking up more points, an emotionless droid.

20 minutes of gameplay and you're judging the game already?

 

[theonejat]

Just trying this game for the first time now. First impressions are that it is just BF3.5. I enjoyed BF3 for the most part but really, very little, if anything has changed since BF3. Its just had re-skinned menus and new maps. It still lacks that zip, that bite, that extra something that BC2 had though.

It felt chaotic and it felt like a real test of skill with BC2, but it just doesn't have that same sense of presence. With BC2, each game was exciting and had its moments where the game just stepped up another level. With BF3 and BF4, after about 20 minutes of playing I am left feeling numb and run around each level like a machine, racking up more points, an emotionless droid.

This isn't a new game, its just BF3 with different maps. Are DICE now getting into that COD phase of releasing the same game over and over?

At least they are waiting 2 years

 

[physichull]

20 minutes of gameplay and you're judging the game already?

20 minutes into each session of gaming.

Either way, it only needed 10 minutes to realise that it was just BF3 retitled "BF4".

 

[Nexus18]

emmmmmmm

wtf.....

Supposedly I played a game 2 hours ago on siege, despite not even being on my pc.

wescar, eviljester and markpitchford were on too...... Can you guys confirm that you played siege of shanghai conquest 2 hours ago?

*changes origin password*

 

[Stonehouse]

Log out of BL and back in again.

Thanks man, its working now

 

[1kiwi]

This isn't a new game, its just BF3 with different maps. Are DICE now getting into that COD phase of releasing the same game over and over?

They are, mostly because they are a multi-million dollar company which needs to perform annually for their investors. The difference between COD and BF is that they are building on an modern engine which can be quite beautiful at times. I don't think you're going to see allot of major AAA studios abandoning their winning formulas or taking huge risks. It just doesn't make any sense given the amount of human capital which needs to be invested and the uncertainty involved in the media industry.

Why do you think we are seeing the all of the Marvel movies over the last few years? It's a winning formula.

Sadly what Activision have proved is if you offer up the same game with a lightly different story, characters and content people will pay loads for it year in, year out. Sad really but that's modern shooters these days. Very expensive to make and very difficult to get right.

 

[oddjob62]

Whats the deal with the Awards in the Battlelog? Under Kits, for MediKit Medal it's showing I have acheived 1/50 Medikit Ribbons yet the graphic box to left shows I've had the ribbon x51 times? Is this a bug or am I mis-reading it? Similarly, the spotting medal shows as earnt 3/50 yet the ribbon count is x53?

It means you've recently received the medals (at 50 ribbons). and you are 1/50 and 3/50 away from the next medal.

 

[fozzybear]

emmmmmmm

wtf.....

Supposedly I played a game 2 hours ago on siege, despite not even being on my pc.

wescar, eviljester and markpitchford were on too...... Can you guys confirm that you played siege of shanghai conquest 2 hours ago?

*changes origin password*

Will be a seriously delayed Battlelog report. I had the same happen to me a few days ago.