Battlefield 4 Thread ~ Server details in opening post ~

[~Divine~Wind~]

Well onboard sound was absolutely horrendous also seemed to cause more crashes!
Have removed my 2nd 6950 and gone back to a single one with my Xonar DG.
Gonne need to trade my PCI one for a PCIe version.

 

[Mockingbird]

tell you what is more annoying that the snipers.... are the other classes when they don't do their role.... for instance...... running low on ammo.... request ammo, see a group of support soldiers, run over spamming "gimmie some ammo" and not a single **** was given....dunno if it's just complete lack of awareness or what but it really grinds my gears! same with medics who don't revive (ok many might not have defibs yet) or even drop health when you are clearly coughing up blood next to them. I just want to live! it's what sets the meh players out from the good players tbh, you could be a terrible aim but if you're rocking up with all the revives and med packs, helping the team then you are a king and on behalf of the BF community I thank you but just don't revive when there's a tank clearly waiting to shoot me again

I really don't understand this - if I'm a medic or a support dude I spend my time spazzing out medpacks, revives and ammo restocks like they're going out of style. It seems such an obvious thing to do. I have even found myself having to chase down engineers just so I can restock them, so they can finish taking out a tank, and they won't stand still! It does make me wonder if a lot of assault people have a setup of grenade launcher and defib or something, with no health packs?

If anything, I tend to do it too much. On more than one occasion I've been caught out defibbing a fallen comrade only to realise the attacker I killed off had two mates coming round the corner, and THEY still have their guns out. This is not a good situation.

 

[Nexus18]

The majority of recons are snipers who just sit way at the back or on top of a building just to try and get their pro k/d (and the funny thing is, they generally are always at the bottom with a poor k/d ).

How often do you see a sniper defending a point? Not very often.

How often do they spot people/vehicles? Not very often (although this applies to a lot of other players too)

How often do snipers soflam targets? Not very often and the only times they seem to do something about a tank is when the tank is becoming a problem for "them"

How often do they plant their spawn beacons somewhere that isn't at the top of a building or/and somewhere at the very edge of the map away from the flags? Not very often.

How often do you see a sniper moving from their fortified position to capture/defend a flag, even if it is right below/beside them? Not very often.

etc. etc.

A good "recon" player is someone like wes who runs around capturing/defending flags, taking tanks out with c4, throwing motion balls etc.



And yes the support guys are just as annoying! I am having to swap kits non stop purely because people don't supply ammo

It is hard to do revives in this game due to:

- still quite a short window to get there and takes a bit longer to bring them out + revive someone with a decent amount of health
- you don't want to run out in the open if you haven't killed/spotted the guy who killed your team mate and a lot of the times you can't revive as the enemy will still be firing at you/other people nearby i.e. last night dodger got killed by a tank and I was going to go and revive but couldn't as the tank was still there watching the area so was no point myself getting killed as well and losing another ticket + a good spawn location.

 

[Sasso]

Well onboard sound was absolutely horrendous also seemed to cause more crashes!
Have removed my 2nd 6950 and gone back to a single one with my Xonar DG.
Gonne need to trade my PCI one for a PCIe version.

are you using eset antivirus or the sort? I found back in bf3 when I was using onboard sound the firewall from eset was conflicting with the sound at a low level causing bsods and sound loop crashes. found that out after some googling and getting a bsod reader which directed me straight to the problem.

might not be the case here but thought it could be worth mentioning

 

[Xire]

When the game crashes (-_-) do you keep your unlocks/XP? just had a 20,000 round and error'd out...

 

[Nexus18]

When the game crashes (-_-) do you keep your unlocks/XP? just had a 20,000 round and error'd out...

server crash = stats gone
crash on your end = they keep as long as you don't rejoin the server whilst the same round is in process, have to wait for the round to end first.

 

[Rroff]

The majority of recons are snipers who just sit way at the back or on top of a building just to try and get their pro k/d (and the funny thing is, they generally are always at the bottom with a poor k/d ).

Had a horrible experience last night where the other guy in my squad just jumped in a tank and would hover just outside of a flag in a "safe" zone as he could maneuver out of trouble and never commit, even when a flag was cleared he wouldn't go in and take it just hovering out there where he could kill incoming stuff. (Was in a fairly clever middle position to cover incoming enemy on 2 flags while reducing the danger to being killed himself a lot).

I thought for a bit he was playing clever and once a flag was cleared I'd jump out the tank and go and take it but he'd just leave me and wander off to the next lot of kills and never watch my back even when requested.

End of the map he had the highest Kills, KDR and score on the team but we lost, if he'd even made half an effort to take flags as well as hold the ground or cover people taking the flags we'd have won by a mile.

 

[Sasso]

When the game crashes (-_-) do you keep your unlocks/XP? just had a 20,000 round and error'd out...

if you crashed you should get the points (i think if it's like bf3 maybe just don't join the same server) , if it was the server.... unlucky welcome to battlefield

 

[BaDBoY_uK]

tell you what is more annoying that the snipers.... are the other classes when they don't do their role.... for instance...... running low on ammo.... request ammo, see a group of support soldiers, run over spamming "gimmie some ammo" and not a single **** was given....dunno if it's just complete lack of awareness or what but it really grinds my gears! same with medics who don't revive (ok many might not have defibs yet) or even drop health when you are clearly coughing up blood next to them. I just want to live! it's what sets the meh players out from the good players tbh, you could be a terrible aim but if you're rocking up with all the revives and med packs, helping the team then you are a king and on behalf of the BF community I thank you but just don't revive when there's a tank clearly waiting to shoot me again

+1. Even when I run to a medic/support and spam Q, they just run away. Idiots. Some are really cool though and do their job. Reviving is a lot more difficult now with the whole "rubbing your defibs" time lapse... more realistic?

Am I right in thinking there is a little icon above my head showing that I need meds or ammo? If so, why the **** don't people see it?

When the game crashes (-_-) do you keep your unlocks/XP? just had a 20,000 round and error'd out...

You crash = yes, as long as you don't rejoin the svr
Server crashes = no

EDIT: Bit late

 

[kissenger]

My battlepack bonus XP doesn't seem to be taking effect. Do you have to do something to 'redeem' the XP bonus?

 

[GhostWKD]

It's like BF3 where everyone and their dog used the M16a3 because it was uber easy

I had a good laugh when I first picked up BF3 with the humble bundle (had just built my own rig after using friends spare for so long) and got abuse for using the M16A3 despite me being level 1 or 2 with nothing else unlocked

For battlepack bonus' you need to press esc ingame and activate it in the bottom right of the screen

 

[NeoReloaded]

Is there any way to fix the annoying sound bub in single player? The closer I get to people talking the quieter they get

 

[Metallifux]

I have no idea what SPM is mine is 334, I think this is a more important stat.

Flags captured 230
Flags defended 68

 

[Rroff]

Am I right in thinking there is a little icon above my head showing that I need meds or ammo? If so, why the **** don't people see it?

Its a made for Battlefield players game IMO - a lot of basic mechanics are quite inaccessible at first if your not a hardcore BF player - theres just too much to take in and deal with thats not presented in a particularly intuitive or easy to pickup on way.

 

[nitram100]

crash crash crash, seriously are Dice even doing anything about this? ****ing shambles.

 

[WiZZyWiGG]

MP loading times seem to be looooong, or is this just me?

Seriously considering moving the game to me SSD, I have about 40GB free I think... Would Steam mover work OK with BF4? Sounds like it might.

 

[Metallifux]

MP loading times seem to be looooong, or is this just me?

Seriously considering moving the game to me SSD, I have about 40GB free I think... Would Steam mover work OK with BF4? Sounds like it might.

Steam mover worked fine with BF3 don't see why it should be any different.

 

[kissenger]

MP loading times seem to be looooong, or is this just me?

Seriously considering moving the game to me SSD, I have about 40GB free I think... Would Steam mover work OK with BF4? Sounds like it might.

They are very long. I had to check that I hadn't mistakenly installed it on my HDD rather than my SSD.

 

[WiZZyWiGG]

Ok cool, might give it a go then and see if it makes much of a difference.

 

[Gazb]

So I think my biggest issue with this game is that there are too many vehicles or that they just respawn far to quickly. Which combined with the 'relatively' small maps make it mainly soldier vs vehicle all the time rather than soldier vs soldier and support coming from vehicles (if that makes sense).