I really can't believe after 11 patches and over nine months that things like this can still exist.
Somehow EA and DICE are getting away with the game, that deserves an award in itself.
Yesterday I happened to check out a stream on Twitch for some guy who says he's the #1 guy on the leaderboards with the AH-6 helicopter. He's playing on his own rented server. Guy gets wrecked twice in a row in the couple of minutes I'm watching by a guy with a SRAW. He gets salty and decides that he's gonna ban him so he goes to the server menu to find the guy's name, and his game crashes as he tries to ban him. This was on PS4 if I remember correctly. I closed the tab after that since I didn't care to watch a crybaby admin who brags about his chopper kills yet bans people for not letting him fly around all day. This all happened within a five minute time frame.
So for those that don't experience any of the glitches, I'm happy for you all, but nowadays, just one is enough to piss me off. All because in the amount of time I've played, I've seen all of the freezes, falling through the floor glitches, spawning inside solid buildings, server crashes, etc. that a customer should expect.
Trust me, I have better things to do than to hate on a game for no real reason. I actually spent money on BF4 because before it, the last BF game I bought was Bad Company 2, and BF3 didn't interest me at all during its beta. BF4's beta had some problems, but if (a HUGE IF) the beta's problems were fixed, I would have loved the game. Got it for 50% off so I bit the bullet and bought it 3 weeks after launch. Weapon choice and balance are great. Minor problems with the class setups, but I was still fine with the setups.
But nope, the game still to this day has so many little and big glitches. It's ridiculous, and I guess you're fortunate that not everyone experiences them as often as everyone else.
The glitch I got where everyone was invisible was just a point where I just had to vent it out here because that is a prime example of what you call game breaking. Especially since it wasn't for the usual start of the match, but the entire last half of the match I was in. I actually stayed in that match till the end to see if it would actually go away, but it never did.
Matter of fact, when the match ended, it never showed me the scoreboard, medals, ribbons, progression, etc., just the background of that screen. Then I got the endless loading loop, so I had to go back to the dashboard and start the game up again.
The XP boost glitch has the box where you can choose which XP boost you want darkened, and you can't even select it.
Again, on paper, BF4 on paper appeals to me far more than BF3 ever did, but I've experienced so much of those glitches that really are game breaking that I can not give this game any praise whatsoever. I actually give the game a chance every time a patch comes out only to get the same shit or some new shit every time. So no, it's not some irrational hate on my end, or else I would have tossed this game and never looked back.
I would figure that I've spent enough time on this board for anyone who's ever read my posts to know that I'm above lying even on an internet forum, let alone in general.
If you don't believe me, just look at the list of their own patch notes every patch of the things they "kinda" fixed for the past 11 patches. Not even mentioning the NEW glitches that every patch brings in. Better yet, there's apparently a complete list of bugs that BF4 still experiences from since day 1 all the way till now. I'm guessing that it's somewhere on the official forums somewhere.
Why would I even need to lie in the first place anyways? I don't even get anything out of it. You said you spent 400+ hours in the game, and I just checked and I have 385 hours, despite me having the game put away for so long within patches. I could just as easily say that you're just letting the glitches slide since you're enjoying the game that much, while I reached a point along time ago where the very first game freeze on Lancang Dam or server crash makes me switch to another game. When the game actually holds itself together, it can actually be fun, but the shit is unacceptable.
Since you wanted proof, I went to Youtube and simply searched for "Battlefield 4 invisible enemies" - watch the two videos and just pretend that they were me, and that it happened for the whole second half of a match on Rogue Transmission.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaIzPC0jlOI - PS4, on a Dragon's Teeth map, so it's with the latest patch. The enemies seemed to have loaded again after he died, I died multiple times without things ever going back to normal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPEDwCHrZk - PlayStation d-pad, no idea if PS3 or PS4. He's experiencing it for the duration of this short clip, and it wasn't at the start of a match so he possibly had it till the end of the match like I did as well too.
I keep waiting for the day EA actually gives some kind of compensation for this mess, but people seem to be satisfied with free bullshit Bronze and Silver Battlepacks, along with camo that has the same patterns as all the other camos in the game but with other colors. Good job EA & DICE.
