basically what these mega companies cant seem to grasp is fps is pretty much dead. no original ideas just big bangs and a movie like content.
thats why one week after buying most new games they already on the never to play again pile.
if you take away the shiny newness what is there ? there is nothing over any other fps and its actually worse. with the team EA/Dice has behind this it actually mind***** me as how its possible
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the stability for me has actually got worse with the more patches they introduce
thats not uncommon in testing in alpha or beta but not full release. that alone shows you they dont give two ***** about who plays it.
i personally cant see the game doing aswell or living as long as bf3 which wasnt much better either. plagued with a lot of the same issues and now even more added on top. with the amount of resources money and dev team behind this project i dont know what the **** they do but they shouldnt be paid or hired again.
single player is just a movie press e and sit back watch poorly scripted scenes with terribad ai.
mp is a mess and even if it plays right and doesnt crash after a couple of rounds its boring. you played it before in many other variations. same ol same ol fps.
sooner or later it will catch up with EA and hopefully its sooner rather than later.
For once, I agree with everything DG has just said. What is the world coming to?! Yes, this game is just dull and lifeless.
The maps are the biggest problem I have, they are rubbish. Someone pointed out the other day that some maps seem more polished than others and since then I can;t help but notice that. When you step back and look at some of the maps it just screams "Nobody spent any time making me. I was an afterthought to make up the numbers".
For big BF-esque battles and a decent shooter experience I'd rather have bland, rocky, blown apart deserts, jungles, frozen tundra, mountain passes, war torn ghettoes etc. Something abit more realistic and gritty, maybe even some blood and guts for a change. I don't want posh 21st century cities, holiday resorts or James Bond sets. The whole series has just become a parody of itself.
Look at Golmud, Locker, Dawnbreaker and Lancang. They are dreadful. Dawnbreaker may look pretty, but it's all just flashing lights and bright textures. When you actually spend a minute to look at it, it's just a mess composed of overly flat orthoganl surfaces, very bland, with parts of the map that are essentially useless.
Locker and Lancang must be the least imaginative maps conceivable. A big lake blocked in on one side by a dam and 3 flags in a row separated by about 100m each. Jesus wept, was that the job of a summer student?
At least Kubra dam had 2 sides, a huge moutain ridge down one side. and a vertical battlefield up the face and top of the dam.
BF4 has been one big disappointment. I just can't be arsed to play it with all the problems, and wtf is a battlebriefcase or whater it is. I don't want battlebriefcases with random stuff in it, I'm not a 5 year old collecting football stickers. What a joke, too much time spent on flashy guff, not enough substance. I can only suppose the development team live by the mantra "you can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter".
I am thinking about trying to get my money back as a matter of principle. The product is not as marketed, and not fit for purpose. I can't remain in game for more than about half an hour without crashing. I get one-shotted regularly, and do the same to others and the sound randomly drops out.
The bonus would be that if I did get my money back I am not obliged to return the product in accordance with the Sale of Goods Act, 1974. So in the event that they ever did manage to polish this huge steaming turd, I might actually be able to glean some precious hours of enjoyment out of it.
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