Battlefield 4 Thread ~ Server details in opening post ~

nicnik · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:22

My epic moment was last night on obliberation, we had last bomb left and it was in a bunker at B (think it was that map with parked tanks and lots of tree's).

BAsically we bombed the last objective on foot with a group of ~10. one by one they all fell and one by one i rezzed them all until ~5 of us were left and managed to get inside the bunker, all kinds of explosions and sounds of tanks were surrounding us and the bomb carrier died at the door. popped out picked it up and planted it. Exploded and we won and all died from the explosion

ps~ im addicting to rezzing/healing

i think is an mmo/rpg habit.

Dave**** · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:23

Playing on hardcore servers with no hitreg-markers is ace! I actually seem to do better without them and I now prefer it like this.

Atlas23 · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:23

Mockingbird said:
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.

+1

Can't afford to miss out on those extra points from resupplying!

Rroff · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:29

Nexus18 said:
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)

Urgh having read this I realised what he was doing - he was always keeping his back to the flag we held and sitting in a position he could cover 2 flags the enemy had - all he was doing was farming their spawns for kills hence why he wasn't re-taking them and why he'd let me die any time I tried to take them

dunno why I didn't see it at the time. Pretty much a waste of a slot on the server even if he was a pretty skilled tank driver.

Besty · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:31

Nexus18 said:
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.

We should see infantry only servers pop up over time, now that BF4 supports it as a switchable server option.

Nexus18 · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:34

Rroff said:
Urgh having read this I realised what he was doing - he was always keeping his back to the flag we held and sitting in a position he could cover 2 flags the enemy had - all he was doing was farming their spawns for kills hence why he wasn't re-taking them and why he'd let me die any time I tried to take them dunno why I didn't see it at the time. Pretty much a waste of a slot on the server even if he was a pretty skilled tank driver.

Complete and utter waste of a tank + slot as you said!

Sasso · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:39

Dave**** said:
Playing on hardcore servers with no hitreg-markers is ace! I actually seem to do better without them and I now prefer it like this.

I've noticed on a few occasions in normal mode that sometimes my hit markers will glitch and not show up....for a good while at least anyway. I'll be taking shots at someone, certain that I'm hitting them but getting no markers, then wonder if they are actually friendly and just the triangle above them isn;t showing up...take a few more shots and I get the kill...still with no markers...then about 10 secs later I might get a random spam of markers x's come up on my screen xD

EvilFranky · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:42

Utter waste of time and money this game. DICE and EA should hold their heads in shame.

How in this day and age a game can be released in this state is beyond me.

Mockingbird · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:45

EvilFranky said:
Utter waste of time and money this game. DICE and EA should hold their heads in shame.

How in this day and age a game can be released in this state is beyond me.

I take it you're one of those encountering bugs then?

Muzy · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:45

MrMarvelous said:
Verdicts guys? Better or worse than BF3?

some good improvements nothing ground breaking, maps are crap.... maybe 1 or 2 maps are fun to play on.

most people waiting for china DLC, maps are quality from what i read.

Atlas23 · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:45

Amraam said:
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.

Yeh I've encountered that. Everytime I rank up it tells me a good 3 or 4 times, back to back. And yes also had it told me I have ranked up and then it turned out I actually hadn't..

MrMarvelous · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:47

Muzy said:
some good improvements nothing ground breaking, maps are crap.... maybe 1 or 2 maps are fun to play on.

most people waiting for china DLC, maps are quality from what i read.

Cheers. Doesn't sound too promising that the DLC has the better maps though. What about the graphics? Same or better than BF3?

youdsy · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:50

Muzy said:
some good improvements nothing ground breaking, maps are crap.... maybe 1 or 2 maps are fun to play on.

most people waiting for china DLC, maps are quality from what i read.

doubt it.

dice cant design decent maps.

will be open grass/fields with huts randomly placed.(or what seems like randomly placed)

and a cave.

korso · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:51

MrMarvelous said:
Cheers. Doesn't sound too promising that the DLC has the better maps though. What about the graphics? Same or better than BF3?

Maps are crap indeed. The graphics are amazing, but thats it. Majority of the good looking objectives are static piece of crap you cant interactive with.
The level changing events are dire at most... changes the area of one flag (Dam blowing up, boat crashing inland...)

scrivz69 · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:56

Some maps are so bad for spawn killing it's a joke, I doubt it will be sorted out any time soon.

Jaynos · 5 Nov 2013 at 15:58

Im enjoying it when I'm not stuttering, the levolution stuff is very underwhelming though and flood zone is one of the worst maps in any game ever.

Sasso · 5 Nov 2013 at 16:01

Jaynos said:
Im enjoying it when I'm not stuttering, the levolution stuff is very underwhelming though and flood zone is one of the worst maps in any game ever.

not sure of some of the names but that the city one with the flood wall you can destroy to submerge the city in water? i really quite like that map....mostly for the ninja swimming about the place hehehe xD

Nexus18 · 5 Nov 2013 at 16:01

I haven't played rush mode on any maps yet as from joining one accidentally, it just looked like a repeat of BF 3 i.e. spawn raping + poorly thought out + too many vehicles

I am liking the maps apart from golmud railway but a lot of them are ruined by the players i.e. roof top campers......

Although getting a bit bored of some of them.

The big levolution events could have been so much better and I am already having loads of matches were people just aren't bothering since it doesn't make much difference to the map overall.

~>Dg<~ · 5 Nov 2013 at 16:02

nicnik said:
My epic moment was last night on obliberation, we had last bomb left and it was in a bunker at B (think it was that map with parked tanks and lots of tree's).

BAsically we bombed the last objective on foot with a group of ~10. one by one they all fell and one by one i rezzed them all until ~5 of us were left and managed to get inside the bunker, all kinds of explosions and sounds of tanks were surrounding us and the bomb carrier died at the door. popped out picked it up and planted it. Exploded and we won and all died from the explosion

ps~ im addicting to rezzing/healing i think is an mmo/rpg habit.

think obliteration will become the fav mode for fun in this. i mainly love tdm and such but this is such a good mode with a decent team.

Chrisimo · 5 Nov 2013 at 16:03

Nexus18 said:
I haven't played rush mode on any maps yet as from joining one accidentally, it just looked like a repeat of BF 3 i.e. spawn raping + poorly thought out + too many vehicles

I am liking the maps apart from golmud railway but a lot of them are ruined by the players i.e. roof top campers......

Although getting a bit bored of some of them.

I thought you played rush a lot in BF3? Or was that only Aftermath?

~>Dg<~ said:
think obliteration will become the fav mode for fun in this. i mainly love tdm and such but this is such a good mode with a decent team.

Yeah, but you need a lot of time.