Incoming BF4 PS4 patch enables audio for video captures & fixes another crash bug

I just bought this today. No issues yet, but no party system?

You're a fucking joke, Dice. Lazy pieces of shit. God forbid you put effort into making your game better.
 
No party system is an absolute shocker. Spent half an hour trying to buddy up on Saturday. Gave up, played multiplayer Killzone, had much fun.

I know. What an absolute joke. Their reasoning is essentially covering up laziness because god forbid they attempt to improve their product.

"Welp, we have it "functional" now. No more improvements."

This is going to be the last BF I buy then. Wouldn't have gotten it today had I read this before.
 
I like how you have to check to see what server number the friend you want to join is playing on in the main menu. If you don't, after hitting multiplayer it just shows a list of servers that your friends are playing on without differentiating which person is on which server.
 
I know. What an absolute joke. Their reasoning is essentially covering up laziness because god forbid they attempt to improve their product.

"Welp, we have it "functional" now. No more improvements."

This is going to be the last BF I buy then. Wouldn't have gotten it today had I read this before.

Same. No way would I have dropped cash on a game that sells itself on squad based teamwork yet makes you work hard to simply play with a couple of friends.

Maybe I should have done my research but surely a squad party system is a fair assumption in ANY first person shooter, let alone one with BF4's budget.
 

dark10x

Digital Foundry pixel pusher
So it's still not safe to start a single player campaign? For fuck's sake.
I know, right?

From playing the first four missions, I actually thought it was a decent campaign too. I went in with really low expectations but I actually quite like what I've played. It's much less narrow than BF3 and the scenarios you take part in are more varied and interesting than expected. I like it more than any other recent Call of Duty campaign, to be honest.
 

Nokterian

Member
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http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955064768779926920/1/

A gigantic team cannot even add a friends system. Goddamn dice. Well it shows how mutch there lacking in patches and being hold under the thumb by EA.
 

demolitio

Member
even after I went and finished all SP trophies I still had my MP unlocks after my save game corrupted.

here are the MP weapons that unlock from SP.

I know, but you need to do the last one 3 times to get them all which like I said, I didn't get to do before it corrupted. That's why I said I was mad I got the shitty unlock first.
 

hesido

Member
The hell? I thought something like that would an OS controlled.

Devs can apparently control what aspects of the game can be captured, I think they forgot to flip a switch somewhere.


Speculation: when they are licensing music, maybe they'll choose to leave the music out of the mix for streaming, so that would require some programming on their side, if PS4 doesn't provide an easy way to mark tracks as recordable / streamable etc.
 
I know. What an absolute joke. Their reasoning is essentially covering up laziness because god forbid they attempt to improve their product.

"Welp, we have it "functional" now. No more improvements."

This is going to be the last BF I buy then. Wouldn't have gotten it today had I read this before.
We should bitch up a storm. We did initially bought a broken game. Dice, you owe us!
 

Cartman86

Banned
Might want to fix different sound effects glitching out while just playing multiplayer. Also wow there are 4 people on my friends list playing BF4. I can click on these servers to join them? Cool... but which server is which friend. Not gonna tell me? Yeah that's smart.
 

madmackem

Member
Might want to fix different sound effects glitching out while just playing multiplayer. Also wow there are 4 people on my friends list playing BF4. I can click on these servers to join them? Cool... but which server is which friend. Not gonna tell me? Yeah that's smart.

Yeah thats fun, i can imagine how bad that is if your psn list is full hahaha.
 

CozMick

Banned
So no fix for the blue screen of death?

Way to go Dice, way to go. Seriously is this company run by a bunch of clowns?

Game audio in captures fix, no actual audio fix for in-game :/
 

dmg04

#DEADWRONG

So, In a game that's marketed as "Play with up to four other FRIENDS in a 5 man SQUAD", they don't include a feature that actually lets you assemble a squad before matchmaking?

This is one of the dumbest things I've heard of in a multiplayer game since, well, many of the decisions made about Halo 4. Get your shit together, DICE. Even if BF3's party system wasn't "up to par" in your eyes, that doesn't mean you should have cut the feature from your fucking game. It means you should have worked on it, as well as shipped a game that was actually completed.
 

Tekku

Member
I'm waiting for the full patch notes. PC gets fixes for the sound bugs and some other things. I hope they make it to PS4 as well.
 

CozMick

Banned
I'm waiting for the full patch notes. PC gets fixes for the sound bugs and some other things. I hope they make it to PS4 as well.

Arent full patch notes available?

PC gets the emp commander fix. apart from that its exactly the same as ps4.
 
So no fix for the blue screen of death?

Way to go Dice, way to go. Seriously is this company run by a bunch of clowns?

Game audio in captures fix, no actual audio fix for in-game :/

Yes they are.

So, In a game that's marketed as "Play with up to four other FRIENDS in a 5 man SQUAD", they don't include a feature that actually lets you assemble a squad before matchmaking?

This is one of the dumbest things I've heard of in a multiplayer game since, well, many of the decisions made about Halo 4. Get your shit together, DICE. Even if BF3's party system wasn't "up to par" in your eyes, that doesn't mean you should have cut the feature from your fucking game. It means you should have worked on it, as well as shipped a game that was actually completed.

False marketing among other things.

We should bitch up a storm. We did initially bought a broken game. Dice, you owe us!

We absolutely should. But the internet won't and DICE will continue being lazy shitheads.
 
EVERYONE CALM DOWN!

you will be able to party up with all of your friends on the console versions in the near future...

but only after you peasants decide to ante up and pay more money to your overlords at DICE/EA for the privilege of "renting" your own servers like they so graciously offered you in BF3
 
EVERYONE CALM DOWN!

you will be able to party up with all of your friends on the console versions in the near future...

but only after you peasants decide to ante up and pay more money to your overlords at DICE/EA for the privilege of "renting" your own servers like they so graciously offered you in BF3

I can't imagine that it's so difficult from them to add the damn squad system from bf3 in. God knows the game is barely any different as per usual.
 
OHK fix? Thank the gods! The only other issues for me are the rubberbanding, some people taking obscene amounts of damage (probably a lag issue) and lack of audio I get on some conquest maps.

I swear I was getting one-hit killed about 50% of the time in domination and 25% in conquest regardless of server. This patch will be good for my blood pressure!
 

LiquidMetal14

hide your water-based mammals
I sure do expect this to revolve whatever that crash bug is. If it wasn't for that and the lazy lack of proper party in-game then I would have no complaints. I mean you can see friends playing online in the MP screen but it doesn't show their name. Only the server they are playing on.
 

Varth

Member
So it's still not safe to start a single player campaign? For fuck's sake.

Aside from enemies disappearing under the scenario a couple times when killed or right after a firefight is over (this one is maybe intentional?), I didn't have a single sp crash (prison on hard right now). I thought it was addressed with 1.51 "stability patch" on Sony side. Online, on the other side, is pretty much a mess. Managed to play only a couple rounds of bomb.

Also, the patch notes don't exactly strike me as the top-of-the-list things to fix.
 

Goreomedy

Console Market Analyst
Look what just released like a silent fart on the BF4 "Control Room":

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955064769617349290/

The PS4 game update that was originally meant to go live Dec 3 is undergoing some additional testing and will be rescheduled for a later date. We will get back with final details as soon as we have verification that the update is good to go.

Any bets on getting China Rising today? Or that it'll work, at all?
 

Samus4145

Member
Everyone knows that you can join a friend's server straight from the friends list on PS4 right?

Its no replacement for a proper party system, but it has worked everytime so far.
 
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