Battlefield 4 Thread ~ Server details in opening post ~

[Sasso]

+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?
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yea not so sure about the rubbing defibs to revive someone with more health....it's a good idea but... you have so little time to revive someone that i've tried to give a cheeky rub (wayheyy ) of the paddles to give them more of a fighting chance only to have them depsawn when I release my charge (hahahha oh dear).

but yea with the icons, if you request ammo/medic then I'm sure you flash up to them on the mini map and an icon above your head just like the medics appear on your minimap/above their heads so you know who to run to. damn ignorance xD

also it's not so much about these "non-diehard" players not having the gear... you start with a small med/ammo pack so it's in their interest to spam them like mad for alllllll da points!

badboy can testify to this how much we love the points.... to the extent of shooting other peoples ammo/med packs and putting down our own... those are MY POINTS! xD

 

[Mockingbird]

Is there any way to 'steal' commander drops from the other team? Had one come down near me yesterday. couldn't interact/loot it, grenading it seemed to have no effect.

 

[Nexus18]

Hopefully all the "selfish" players will move back to the new COD now that it is out

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.

Can't stand players like that!

I do the same but once the area is clear, I will move and get the point.

When dodger and I are in the tank, we are pretty much always on a flag either capturing or defending it. It all depends on the maps though as for some you have to be very careful i.e. zavod, I try to avoid C and D area due to how many areas there are that you can get hit from and not know where from especially since people camp on the roof top

Also it is stupid of that tank driver to not capture the flags behind him as it means people can shoot him from behind (two hits straight to the back from a rpg and you are a goner) or even worse, get c4'd.....since they can spawn there, that is why I always try to make sure that we have the flags behind us i.e. on siege, keep hold of A & B or D & E (depending on which team you are on)

Having great time playing "mind games" (what xfactor likes to call to it ) with other tanks in this game. Soooooooooo many people aren't aware of the angles and positioning strategy in this (was also present in bf 3)

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

Flags captured 230
Flags defended 68

SPM = Score Per Minute

+1!

Flags captured - 697
flags defended - 574

edit:

Also, SPM isn't really that great/accurate anymore due to all the xp boosts.

 

[~>Dg<~]

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

massive difference on loading in on a ssd in bf3 and bf4 to a mechanical drive i got a ssd just for bf for that

 

[Amraam]

Is there anywhere that explains what all the new features are? All the new unlock suggestion stuff etc is new and I've no idea what it does.
EDIT: found this - http://battlefieldinformer.com/f191/battlefield-4-battlelog-features-2261/


Anyone else having problem with promotions? When I get promoted, the "YOU HAVE BEEN PROMOTED" thing pops up 3 times. Next game however, I'm back to the rank I was before. Then I get promoted again, and then next game I'm down a rank. This happened 3 times in a row going from 4 to 5, then twice going to 6. All servers were ranked.

 

[Robinhood]

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).

It's not an issue,more to do with the kind of server you are playing in.Try looking for slow vehicle spawn servers.

 

[wnb]

I like domination for a quick blast but the last two maps I have played were Shanghai. Does there really need to be 10+ people camping on the roof? I mean really I am getting slaughtered trying to cap points and the rest of my squad are sitting pretty on the roof. Thank god the game crashed.

 

[Nexus18]

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).

Agree (for some maps)

Too many servers have instant spawn for vehicles which is pointless especially with aircraft as you just spend your time dealing with the enemy aircraft non stop

There are just too many vehicles for the smallish/compact maps. But when you say in the game something like "map too vehicle orientated" you get your "elite BF veterans" saying something like BF is all about the vehicles go and play COD

Was pretty funny last night on flood zone though, we were trying to get e (the park area) and there were 4 vehicles at e and all of our team/squad were medics so couldn't do anything other than hide and throw a few grenades Eventually engineers came.

 

[Tealc]

massive difference on loading in on a ssd in bf3 and bf4 to a mechanical drive i got a ssd just for bf for that

A big difference. Haven't measured the difference but is certainly noticeable. It's probably better than half the time and that's despite my SATA 2 motherboard potentially slowing things down.

I just moved the BF4 game folder to my SSD and used a symbolic folder link in the old location. I used a free program to create the link because I couldn't be bothered with all that DOS stuff.

 

[wnb]

As a sniper it really annoys me that everyone moans about them. In BF3 I was rocking the M98B with a RDS and I was regularly top of the team as I was capturing points, spotting etc. Half the time I couldn't use my sniper rifle due to there being a pathetic sniper limit in place - seriously, why? It's my game I will use what gun I want to and how I want to.
Just because most players were too useless to handle the fact I was out gunning them with a bolt action rifle when they had M16s I get penalised. Sure if the whole team is sat with sniper rifles then it becomes silly but I RARELY ever see that, usually perhaps 3 or 4 but out of 40+ players it's not exactly an issue!

Rant over!

I hear what you are saying, snipers rarely go toe to toe and good snipers can help a team out big style. On 40 man server two a side is too strict look medics noob tubing everyone that moves. No limit on them beggars.

 

[Dougsnake]

Is there anyway to stop weapon unlocks attaching them selves automatically? was ok while I had no unlocks/scopes etc etc but now its getting annoying.... get used to a certain setup then after 10 kills something different surprise me when I aim down the scope

 

[Ian Jones]

if anyone wants to add me (pc)
ianjones80

thanks
ian

 

[dmcg]

anyone else finding it annoying that hit collision boxes are too large on some objects? like sometimes shooting behind a pillar you'd be shoot at the sides of it but you still hit the collision box and can't even shoot through some stairs even though they have gaps between the steps

 

[Ian Jones]

ref the crashes, are people running it in the 64 bit or 32 bit?

i find it hardly crashes at all in the 32bit

 

[Spektor]

anyone else finding it annoying that hit collision boxes are too large on some objects? like sometimes shooting behind a pillar you'd be shoot at the sides of it but you still hit the collision box and can't even shoot through some stairs even though they have gaps between the steps

I've noticed certain railings that you can't shoot through the bars of - between that and the invisible walls I'm pretty sure at some point in the future there is going to be a 10-20gb patch where we end up downloading the fixed versions of these maps again.

 

[larryddd]

Jeez just spent all my game chasing guys who were obliviously short of ammo but did they want it, did they hell. people complain about supply not dropping ammo but a lot of people don't stop and pick it up ?

 

[anything I don't mind]

I played 4 maps in a row of domination last night, a new non crash record.

I think if they increased the ticket amount on the domination too something higher than 300, it would allow for less map changes and probably reduce crash frequency.

 

[Sasso]

Is there anyway to stop weapon unlocks attaching them selves automatically? was ok while I had no unlocks/scopes etc etc but now its getting annoying.... get used to a certain setup then after 10 kills something different surprise me when I aim down the scope

they auto attach? o.O I don;t think I've had a single unlock auto apply itself to any of my weapons....more the case of I go about 4 spawns completely forgetting to put them on until after I've hit deploy and think ahhh ****!!!!!

 

[matty114]

ive found if you shut down origin and battlelog it instantly stops

Just happened again, closing them did nothing. The only thing open on my computer at the moment is Steam and this forum

Had to alt + f4 the game because it was super slow.

 

[MrMarvelous]

Verdicts guys? Better or worse than BF3?