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Battlefield 4 |OT| Prepare to Leave Beta... Nevermind
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In the few post patch rounds I played, there was less mutual killing. I was able to escape with 10-30 health in fights where you should win. Guys were not getting 50 damage worth of free hits on me, even when I had the drop on them. Not sure if they just sucked that hard, or if the netcode improved.
Another server update (R10) is going out now, so there's that.
A lot of holes to fill, lol
Sound bug is still there, same with client crashes. The 2 games I played felt a little better. I played domination and I didn't have a single kill where we both died. But that's just some short testing on one server.
One thing I did notice was how popular the ACE 23 is in domination and how incredibly OP it is right now.. It seriously feels like you are being 1-shotted constantly and it's only when dying from that gun.
There is a battleog thread that shouldn't be hard to find. Theoretically, all three were addressed in the patch, apparently an optimization pass went through as well.
Terbinator
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The same issue was in the BF3 DLC.
Woo-Fu
Banned
Netcode just as bad as it was. Get used to it, same problems as in BF3, isn't going to magically change unless they change their model---which isn't going to happen in BF4.
Servers crashing like crazy, think R10 stopped that, at least I just spent 5 rounds or so on the same 64p server, no server crashes.
No client crashes all morning which is either a really long string of good luck for me or evidence that they fixed my crashes. Fingers crossed!
Servers crashing like crazy, think R10 stopped that, at least I just spent 5 rounds or so on the same 64p server, no server crashes.
No client crashes all morning which is either a really long string of good luck for me or evidence that they fixed my crashes. Fingers crossed!
Felix Lighter
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I've been extremely lucky and I've only had 2 client crashes since launch. Now reading some of the patch feedback on their official forums and I'm afraid when I get home, my luck will suddenly run out.
TheThunder
Member
When it comes to Network smoothing its at 50 by default, should your average ping in servers matter when setting it lower or higher ?
Nooooo! I could always count on that map for great performance.
If you are on low-ping servers, then you can reduce the smoothing to 0-10%.
If on higher-ping servers then you can leave it where it is.
TheThunder
Member
Was hoping to get some solid numbers to adjust
Since there isn't any local servers here I play on German servers which get me ~100ms.
No, there's nothing you can 'base it on', it's entirely a personal preference. Network Smoothing is just another word for interpolation, which is an algorithm that draws a 'predicted' path of the other players based on the location which is registered by the server. However the server register locations too slow to make it look smooth. So setting it to zero would make people practically skip around because you are given the information which the server has. ( So on a low ping server you do get the information faster, which makes it looker smoother but it still won't be perfect ).
<Server Updates> Movement Skips <Server Updates> Movement Skips <Server Updates> Movement Skips
Increasing the smoothing bar makes movement of players look a lot smoother but it's based on an algorithm. So it may not be 100% accurate to their actual position of all times. He may be 1ft behind where you are actually seeing him;
<Server Updates> <Interpolation Algorithm> <Server Updates> <Interpolation Algorithm>
However there's still some lag compensation / hit-detection that is based from the algorithm. So it's not like they become completely invincible when between the location updates.
There's a lot going on but I suggest keeping it in the 40-60% ballpark personally.
( Hope that made any sense )
Woo-Fu
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I played one round today and didn't crash when the tower fell---I almost always do. Looking at the scoreboard each team was down about 5 players(64 player server). I didn't check right before the crash so can't be sure those were crash victims or people who weren't there to begin with. Oh wait, let me look at the report.
Looking at the report it appears only 2 people left the entire match, I'd say the tower crash is fixed. I hope so. I think Shanghai is the best map in the game and only one of two worth playing Attack Helicopter on.
Felix Lighter
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I played one round today and didn't crash when the tower fell---I almost always do. Looking at the scoreboard each team was down about 5 players(64 player server). I didn't check right before the crash so can't be sure those were crash victims or people who weren't there to begin with. Oh wait, let me look at the report.
Looking at the report it appears only 2 people left the entire match, I'd say the tower crash is fixed. I hope so. I think Shanghai is the best map in the game and only one of two worth playing Attack Helicopter on.
That's good news. I actually enjoy Shanghai quite a bit. I'd love to see it pop up more on servers.
I played one round today and didn't crash when the tower fell---I almost always do. Looking at the scoreboard each team was down about 5 players(64 player server). I didn't check right before the crash so can't be sure those were crash victims or people who weren't there to begin with. Oh wait, let me look at the report.
Looking at the report it appears only 2 people left the entire match, I'd say the tower crash is fixed. I hope so. I think Shanghai is the best map in the game and only one of two worth playing Attack Helicopter on.
Cool, thanks man. Will put it back into the rotation.
TheThunder
Member
It did and thanks for the explanation.
Gonna try out %20 next time I play and if I see a lot of skipping I'm going back to 50.
Same
Also, my performance has seemed to increase significantly. I seem to be getting a 40+ FPS increase. Maybe we were really playing a paid-beta.
It's only crashed twice there, hasn't happened again. I wouldn't count it out just yet, may just be unlucky in my case.
Felix Lighter
Member
Sever crashes or client crashes?
Soldier, no war was won in a day. We've won some key battles here today. We landed a vicious strike on server crashes. The fog of war has been lifted with other minor victories. True, the enemy has struck back and redoubled their efforts in other operating theaters that we didn't anticipate. However, we must stay true to the mission and keep our eyes on the horizon. Victory is close. One day our enemies will be vanquished and smooth, lag-free FPS bad assery will be available to all men, women, and children who inhabit this great rock called Earth.
Theyre focusing on stability first which is a good thing.
Give it some time, BF3 took a while to become awesome too.
Jackfrags just posted a video showing all the new weapons and gadgets from China Rising in action: http://youtu.be/Ox3g_8WF67s
Talk about "toy" warfare.
Talk about "toy" warfare.
No one is talking about a fix. I'm talking about an acknowledgement of the issue.
I don't understand people who play only Domination or Operation Locker. Vehicle warfare IS Battlefield, if you are not good @ Conquest, you ain't really a true BF soldier, to me anyway.
I really dislike Operation Locker.
'bout time someone said something sensible
Jackfrags just posted a video showing all the new weapons and gadgets from China Rising in action: http://youtu.be/Ox3g_8WF67s
Talk about "toy" warfare.
the thing that 1:35 sounds so funny.
Seems like server crashes to me. The Red bar comes up at the bottom and allows you to hit the Reconnect button. Then there are usually 20 people in queue to join right after. Seems to me like the servers are dumping everyone just before the next match loads.
I suppose its possible that the new server patches are rolling out and causing restarts after matches. But what are the odds if its happened 4 times in a row?
Felix Lighter
Member
Ok, that's what I've heard, while server crashes suck, I'll take them over increased client crashes everyday because it doesn't take 2+ weeks for server patches to go live.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
DICE... how is this so fucking hard? Couldn't you basically copy and paste a lot of the netcode from BF3 and fix it up a bit and BAM it works?
goldsoundz
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Unbelievable. DICE exceeding its own standards in launching busted video games. I'm really upset reading about this long awaited client update.
If SimCity got hammered by the press then I'm disappointed in anyone who gave this game more than a 5/10. Publishers don't give a fuck about their customers' backlash, but they do care about Metacritic averages. We are talking about a game that's been out for 16 days now and it still suffers from game breaking bugs and that's if you are even able to play at all.
If SimCity got hammered by the press then I'm disappointed in anyone who gave this game more than a 5/10. Publishers don't give a fuck about their customers' backlash, but they do care about Metacritic averages. We are talking about a game that's been out for 16 days now and it still suffers from game breaking bugs and that's if you are even able to play at all.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Well I finished a round.. then it crashed when it changed maps.
Fuck you DICE.
Fuck you DICE.
cripterion
Member
Getting some weird texture bugs after this patch. Didn't crash but the server did
Fuck! Trying to play here but servers still crashing, I just can't... gonna go grab a beer to fucking calm myself.
Fuck! Trying to play here but servers still crashing, I just can't... gonna go grab a beer to fucking calm myself.
TheThunder
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I don't understand people who play only Domination or Operation Locker. Vehicle warfare IS Battlefield, if you are not good @ Conquest, you ain't really a true BF soldier, to me anyway.
I really dislike Operation Locker.
I only play Conquest 64-48 players, Operation is just an auto quit server look for something else.
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