It will get better at lauch since this also happend with BF3. Then it worked flawless. Since everyone is using a VPN to unlock it.
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Battlefield 4 |OT| Prepare to Leave Beta... Nevermind
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It will get better at lauch since this also happend with BF3. Then it worked flawless. Since everyone is using a VPN to unlock it.
Wait, is there controller support?
IcyBlueStrawberry
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I don't think I've ever seen a game on Origin download as slowly as BF4 is right now.
It's like the system knows I'm excited and wants to mess with me.
It's like the system knows I'm excited and wants to mess with me.
legacyzero
Banned
Textbook EA/DICE release day. Happens every fucking time.
Anton Sugar
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jacksepticeye
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Some damn fine texture work on that door (not sarcasm)
Geforce experience is recommending these settings:
SSAO
Deferred AA: None
Post-AA: High
Effects: Low
Lighting: High
Mesh: Low
Post-processing: Ultra
Res: 900p
hahaTerrain Dec: Low
Terrian Quality: Low
Texture Filtering: Off
Texture Quality: Low
Eeek
The maps are all quite pretty and first impressions are much better than BF3 maps. But the open maps are populated with so many fucking snipers that it makes me want to cry.
therealminime
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Finished the campaign, couldn`t have been much more than 5 or 6 hours on normal. It is a substantial improvement over 3`s campaign. The levels are a lot more open and they bring a small bit of the freedom of the multiplayer into it decently. Don`t have a single clue as to what happened storywise, it might as well be 7 completely disconnected levels. Wasn`t as aggressively boring as 3`s, but it`s pretty standard, albeit very pretty, stuff. Oh and the AI is still pretty crummy and the enemies spam grenades like crazy.
That second shot... mother of god.
Played through the campaign and did some MP. Some off-the-cuff impressions!
The campaign is what you'd expect if you've played basically any big-name shooter over the last several years. Nothing new here, but it's gorgeous, the gunplay's good, and there aren't any QTEs. I'd call it a good improvement over BF3's campaign, though it probably won't blow anyone away.
For multiplayer, the maps I've seen so far seem pretty nice. Particularly worth note is that Operation Locker is actually pretty solid. When I first saw it, I had it pegged as Damavand or Metro 2.0, but it isn't. It's still pretty crazy with 64 people, but it's pretty large and there are lots of different paths to take. On my round there, the enemy team beat us to the center and set up shop, but then a bunch of us just snaked around and back-capped em. The rest of the match was a constant, crazy, run-and-gun affair. Haven't seen them all yet, but so far I'd say the map design is leagues better than vanilla BF3.
Performance is good, too. I haven't gotten around to Siege yet so I guess my comparison isn't quite 1:1, but so far the game's running great on high on my old i7-860 (3.25ghz) and GTX 570. I'm now officially in no rush to upgrade.
Bug-wise, there's unfortunately still something causing crashes (though it only CTD'd once on me so far). There also seems to be an issue that causes certain sounds to drop out sporadically on Golmud Railway and Lancang Dam.
The campaign is what you'd expect if you've played basically any big-name shooter over the last several years. Nothing new here, but it's gorgeous, the gunplay's good, and there aren't any QTEs. I'd call it a good improvement over BF3's campaign, though it probably won't blow anyone away.
For multiplayer, the maps I've seen so far seem pretty nice. Particularly worth note is that Operation Locker is actually pretty solid. When I first saw it, I had it pegged as Damavand or Metro 2.0, but it isn't. It's still pretty crazy with 64 people, but it's pretty large and there are lots of different paths to take. On my round there, the enemy team beat us to the center and set up shop, but then a bunch of us just snaked around and back-capped em. The rest of the match was a constant, crazy, run-and-gun affair. Haven't seen them all yet, but so far I'd say the map design is leagues better than vanilla BF3.
Performance is good, too. I haven't gotten around to Siege yet so I guess my comparison isn't quite 1:1, but so far the game's running great on high on my old i7-860 (3.25ghz) and GTX 570. I'm now officially in no rush to upgrade.
Bug-wise, there's unfortunately still something causing crashes (though it only CTD'd once on me so far). There also seems to be an issue that causes certain sounds to drop out sporadically on Golmud Railway and Lancang Dam.
Terbinator
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Ugh. They never sorted the sound drops on BF3.
Guess I don't need to worry as much with m u i7920 oc at 3.8 and 6970
cobragt4001
Banned
How's your single 670 holding up at 1080p?
That's the best looking fucking video game door I've ever seen.
TheChewyWaffles
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Did I just read this right...no gamepad support on PC??
Im so ready!
legacyzero
Banned
I see the same brick 3 times in this shot.
IMMERSION BROKEN.
Not bad, actually. Between 40 and 60, ultra settings with 2MSAA.
JustProgress
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So GMG is beyond fucked for me, tried about 10 times with my credit card, debit card, and PayPal. Fuck that site.
Any other sites selling this below $60?
Any other sites selling this below $60?
It supports controller.
cobragt4001
Banned
Good to know. You should really consider getting another 670; the 670s should become cheaper and if you could get one for 250 that's be a good hold over for Maxwell when it hits later next year.
Anton Sugar
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I'm wondering this, too. At first I was surprised we haven't seen any, but then again, it would be hard to do the levolution on the three maps we know without first being told by DICE.
legacyzero
Banned
I considered it heavily. I'm holding off until Teams Green/Red stop it with the slap fight and the dust settles. And when that happens, I'll be able to decide.
Don't think I'm getting another 670. I'm a single GPU kind of guy because I hear two cards can be a pain in the ass a lot more than what it's worth. So I'm looking at either a 290X (gigabyte version with better cooling) or a 780.
Up in the air, yet.
The ones I know
Siege of Shanghai - Tower
Paracel Storm - The ship
Operation Locker - ?
Flood Zone - The dam
Golmud Railway - ?
Dawnbreaker - ?
Hainan Resort - ?
Rogue Transmission - The antenna
Lancang Dam - ?
Zavod 311 - ?
truestatic
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Didn't die til the third level on hard. It's not that challenging but I've started to play a little more aggressively and I'm dying more now.
Anyone else think there's so much visual clutter in the form of map decoration, effects, and debris that it makes it hard to see anything? I feel like people just navigate maps and fights with HUD markers (which themselves are big enough to limit vision).. It's why I never played BF3 as much as I wanted to. :/
AstroZombie
Banned
I see that the good ol' days of getting bombed by a jet in BF have returned!
Hainan Resort has the central Hotel, just played on it. I didn't actually get back to it after it went down but a lot of confusion in the game chat so I presume it is a levolution thing?
Golmud Railway has the train which is a pretty cool tug-of-war CP!
cobragt4001
Banned
Much respect. Can't mess up with either the 780 or 290x.
ebullientprism
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This is pretty unlikely since its early days but any Gaffers playing this on a shitty computer?
My pile of junk PC can do BF3 @ 720p on medium and be playable. Can I expect BF4 to do the same or should I just hold off till I can upgrade?
My pile of junk PC can do BF3 @ 720p on medium and be playable. Can I expect BF4 to do the same or should I just hold off till I can upgrade?
ZeroEchoOne
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to those that have already played MP, what are the starting weapons per class?
Now imagine how difficult it will be to discern targets in 720p.
Hah, it's bad enough at 1080p. The rooftops of Floodzone are especially terrible.
I will never understand this..there is a reason there isn't a gamepad support because well on PC you can't like in MP do it with a gamepad against kb/m setup. Third person shooter yeah i can think of that but FPS no.
cobragt4001
Banned
So I have been looking at the unlocks on BF4's battlelog and I wonder if Stealth Jets and Attack Jets will share the same map, like 2 Stealth Jets and one Attack Jet for each side. The Attack Jets have the JDAMs and I want to drop bombs on fools on every map I can.
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