***The Official Battlefield 4 Thread***

skullblits said:
Maybe EA are fed up with them releaseing buggy games, and having to old Dlc to fix it?
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don't get confused into thinking that EA care.

The whole EA press release telling DICE to stop working on DLC would have come about from a conversation with DICE that probably went like so

EA: What's the deal with BF4, we're getting **** from this because the game's buggy
DICE : Well what do you expect when you won't let us push the release date back and we're given deadlines to meet for DLC releases
EA: Would it help if we could push the release dates back of the DLC so you could put more staff into bug fixing
DICE : Yes
EA: Okay, hold back on the DLC and concentrate on the fixes
EA releases statement to the press acting as though they've told DICE to sort it out and it was all there idea.

Plus, lets not forget this new battlefield spinoff game is a replacement for the failed medal of honour series. EA had wanted a COD style alternating release cycle with two game companies each releasing a new game every 2 years on an alternating cycle. Medal of honour got canned as it got horrendously slated, so EA were always going to be on the lookout for a replacement developer and title. Its called a Battlefield Spinoff, but i doubt it will be Bad Company, it will be something completely new to fill the yearly void when theres no new BF game.
 
martin9887 said:
Does anyone know if you can fly the attack helicopters back to base and re-arm faster, like you could do with the gunships in Battlefield 2142?

I haven't tried but will next time I find myself in one, just wondering if anyone knows already :)
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nope. The ammo mechanism is designed to limit the ability of choppers to spam rockets everywhere and dominate the armour.

finite said:
I'd like to know if this is ever going to get onto MS own servers as mentioned in this Gamespot article. Maybe the "Not from day one.." was a bad choice of words because it seems they hardly have the capacity to sort the current implementation out.

Shame if it never happens though even it does nothing for the res on the XB1 it would be nice to see what local servers in Dublin and or enhanced servers could do for it.
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It won't do anything. All it will mean is a slightly different location.

Battlefield has always bucked the trend in console gaming by having dedicated servers. The only difference it would make would be who picks up the bill for the hosting.

The real difference comes in games that otherwise wouldn't have had dedicated server where it not for MS picking up the bill.
 
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I love the pump action shotguns on Battlefield. With full choke you direct all of the pellets into a very narrow band, great for range, but means you have to be very precise in your aiming.

Adding the tac light is just nasty though :D
 
Fr0dders said:
It won't do anything. All it will mean is a slightly different location.

Battlefield has always bucked the trend in console gaming by having dedicated servers. The only difference it would make would be who picks up the bill for the hosting.

The real difference comes in games that otherwise wouldn't have had dedicated server where it not for MS picking up the bill.
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I disagree with all, but the last part. It could potentially do a lot for BF4 as touched upon in that article. Also what's known about EA's servers? The infrastructure is certain to be older than in Dublin and it's further away.
 
Newer and more powerfull servers doesnt automatically translate into better expeirence for the players though.

I've ran battlefield servers before, and if you're running the hardware too close to the wire, you can easily tell as the servers start behaving oddly. Like they are now though..

But thats down to the server software they are running, not the underlying hosting. They just released Server patch 15. Remember that Release 3 of the server code came out on the 21st of november

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955064768684231947/

13 patches in less than 3 weeks tells you what shape the server code shipped in. I work in a hosting company that hosts 55% of the UK's medical records and hosts over 100 million patient records in it (due to dead patients, multiple records of the same patients journey through extended healthcare etc..) and there's no doubt in my mind the current **** shape of the battlefield servers is down to the software they are running on.

Running them in a MS data centre wouldn't help one jot.
 
I think its time to bite the bullet (per say) and order tonight, found it with China Rising for not a bad price and may offload Forza 5 as I'm just not feeling it anymore :(
 
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