Noisepurge
Member
oh i wouldn't be so worried about that.
If the situation is heated, throw the medic bag on the ground and do a quick revive, they will quickly regenerate.
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Battlefield 4 |OT2| Is it fixed yet?
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oh i wouldn't be so worried about that.
If the situation is heated, throw the medic bag on the ground and do a quick revive, they will quickly regenerate.
That's why situational awareness is vital. Keep covered as much as possible, and listen for audio cues that you can check against your minimap to determine enemy presence. One useful tip: if you kill an enemy and there is another enemy nearby, that remaining enemy will call in the kill (something like "they got one of our guys!"), which can alert you to their presence and give you an idea of where they are located. Just be sure you know what language the other team is speaking.
I do think footsteps should be louder though, or at least more audible at a greater range. It's really annoying to have someone sneak up on you even though they're sprinting.
Of course a lot of situational awareness simply comes from learning the maps. It's always a little frustrating at first.
To be honest, I don't have a lot of trouble with snipers. The only time they really kill me is if I'm being an idiot and trying to outgun them from way out of my effective range.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Any Xbone players having issues staying in a game.
Ive been kicked like 3 times, and when i do a server search no results.
When i check my favorites its says like 4 players but when i join theres like 40-50?
Ive been kicked like 3 times, and when i do a server search no results.
When i check my favorites its says like 4 players but when i join theres like 40-50?
Seems to be working alright for me. Was playing a bit earlier
Went to try Battlefield 4 after months away from it and it freezes after a few minutes. This is on PC. Am I the only one with this issue?
Just so you guys know, I didn't have much problems with crashes and everything when the game launched and somehow, after all these updates, it's the first time I'm having this kind of issues.
Just so you guys know, I didn't have much problems with crashes and everything when the game launched and somehow, after all these updates, it's the first time I'm having this kind of issues.
mitchman
Gold Member
Updated drivers?
manually update punkbuster and make sure drivers are up to date.
You mean Crash to Desktop or actually freezes?
I think they are up to date. I installed drivers in the last month or so. I'm using Mantle, I should say, and it was never a problem. Running a 7970. I'm now checking and Catalyst says there is a new beta driver available. I'll try.
Doing that right now, even though it didn't give me any punkbuster error.
It just freezes.
Edit: It now gave me an error saying that I was running low on memory, so I tried launching the game using another browser instead of Chrome and it worked good. I read about people with the same problem.
Edit 2: Ok, the game froze again with the same low memory issue. I played almost 100 hours of the game without a single issue.
Well this is without a doubt the funniest death pose I've seen so far. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRG4F8SkjPk&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRG4F8SkjPk&feature=youtu.be
I haven't ever had it freeze like that since launch. It'll crash to Desktop though. I use Chrome as well, so it can't be the major factor there. Maybe your RAM is going bad?
mitchman
Gold Member
Quit Chrome after launching the game as it uses quite a bit of VRAM which might influence gaming.
Turns out (the diagnostic tool said) that there were hardware problems. I took one of the sticks out and now no errors were found. Oh well, looks like I'll need some new ram.
couch potato. ha! I hope he sent him the clip. Someone C4'd me the other day and sent me the clip (xbone). I liked it. I hope sending the victims their death footage is a trend, it made me laugh.
Rewrite
Not as deep as he thinks
:lol :lol :lol
The Faceless Master
Member
I'm relatively new to BF4 on Xbox. But does this happen often? Is it an issue on my end?
mitchman
Gold Member
It usually happens when all the textures haven't been loaded yet, typically at the beginning of matches.
That happens to me sometimes, but only on Naval strike maps at the start of a match (PS4). It's super annoying because it can sometimes take up to a minute to fix itself.
Happens pretty much every time at the start of Nansha Strike, and occasionally on other NS maps.
Woah. Consoles only? I don't think I've ever ran into that on the PC version.
man I hate the reduced suppression effect compared to BF3. shoot at a sniper with a machine gun, he can still easily put two shots in you. sniping has become so fucking easy, it's a joke. same with rockets, can't even drive a tank for a minute without that thing beeping. on the other hand I'm glad they reduced the drop and increased the speed of the RPG. it's the only rocket launcher I play with and dropping helis with it is a joy.
I'm also glad they created a seperate DMR weapons class. I just love my ACE, it's so good. Assault Rifles I either hate or find them boring. I also haven't played with any PDWs or carabines. I like to play more with unconventional weapons (except for MGs). DMRs for medic, shotgun for engineer (even on big maps) and again a silenced DMR for the sniper class. mortars are finally useful again and a lot of fun.
I'm also glad they created a seperate DMR weapons class. I just love my ACE, it's so good. Assault Rifles I either hate or find them boring. I also haven't played with any PDWs or carabines. I like to play more with unconventional weapons (except for MGs). DMRs for medic, shotgun for engineer (even on big maps) and again a silenced DMR for the sniper class. mortars are finally useful again and a lot of fun.
As I only play Naval Strike maps, I say it happens 95% of the time when booting up the game and entering your first server. And that's on PS4.
Yeah. Happened very often on the PS3 and every now and again (increasingly lately) on the PS4. It's the textures loading in: there's no real problem with some blurry grass but when your iron sights are a blocky mess they just don't work - the apertures are a solid black block, LOL. (NB: The illustration is my own.)
So, yeah, after some wicked off-roading and a sweet jump my Chinese FAV ended up vertical - like a fridge magnet - on the wall of the warehouse on Golmud Railway - and I got footage of it with the Share button! Sweet.
Servbot #42
Unconfirmed Member
So guys i did the full game trial thing for BF4 on PS3 and i really liked the game, it's just fun.The game is 30 bucks right now but i'm wondering if i should wait for a sale soon.
ErasureAcer
Banned
He's talking PC. Which does have a minor hacking problem.
You're thinking auto-aim, which would happen with/without spotting on consoles.
It'll probably be a rental on Playstation Rental Service in Janurary or March if you can wait that long. If you really want to play it, yes it's worth the $30. Coming from someone that paid $60 day-one for the broken mess that was the PC version (CTD CTD CTD FREEZE!).
The Faceless Master
Member
attack choppers are so stressful now. i feel like a kid in a halloween mask hiding everywhere and occasionally popping out to shout "BOOO!" in an effort to scare people to death, then running and hiding again when it doesn't work.
SharpAttorney
Neo Member
Compaired to bf3, absolutely. You are a bit on the conservative side on bf4 though. Not trying to sound like an a hole, but you lean to the side of staying alive to the point of being ineffective and not doing much to help the team. With the AH in this game, you really just need to attack with speed and do what you can do, accepting that you may die. Also, forget the jets, as an AH pilot, they should be targets of opportunity and not a target of prusuit.
Kane Zakharov
Banned
The game simply doesn't allow any success in playing the AH aggressively. A single Engineer points at you for 1 second and you're out of the game for almost half a minute, and if you don't have your countermeasures ready then you are as good as dead.
Noisepurge
Member
Yup, best used in one burst to capture a flag or take out a single/few vehicles that's giving your team a lot of headaches.
Longer use requires that you play with a buddy and both are engineers so you can retreat after every hit to repair it behind a mountain or something.
After nearly 10 months of having PS4+BF4, I am finally making my way through the SP campaign and liking it alot more than BF3's on PC.
I have many thoughts on where DICE should go next generation with SP. I don't mean the next BF after Hardline, I mean on Frostbite 4. They'll clearly want to put more distance between themselves and CoD as AW is starting to attempt to copy things like Levolution and pretty soon, we'll start seeing major games released that use Unreal Engine 4.
I'm mainly taking graphics. Others here can far better put into words what changes should take place with gameplay as well as avoiding the problems BF4 had early on.
Graphically, Frostbite in general is probably my favorite graphics engine. While I understand technically it is not the very best (CryEngine is more advanced), it does not disappoint and doesn't take monstrous hardware to run at 60fps.. Neither PS4 nor Xbox One GPUs are all that powerful, both are below 2 TFLOPs (~1.8 and ~1.3 respectively).
I love the sense of scale in BF3/BF4, the levolution and weather in BF4. I'd love to see another leap like BF3/FB2 brought with scale. BF4/FB3 was an improvement but not the leap BF3/FB2 was over their previous work.
I'm not gonna write too much more so, GAF, what would be your expectations for a Frostbite engine and BF game in the 2018+ timeframe on PC and future consoles ?
I have many thoughts on where DICE should go next generation with SP. I don't mean the next BF after Hardline, I mean on Frostbite 4. They'll clearly want to put more distance between themselves and CoD as AW is starting to attempt to copy things like Levolution and pretty soon, we'll start seeing major games released that use Unreal Engine 4.
I'm mainly taking graphics. Others here can far better put into words what changes should take place with gameplay as well as avoiding the problems BF4 had early on.
Graphically, Frostbite in general is probably my favorite graphics engine. While I understand technically it is not the very best (CryEngine is more advanced), it does not disappoint and doesn't take monstrous hardware to run at 60fps.. Neither PS4 nor Xbox One GPUs are all that powerful, both are below 2 TFLOPs (~1.8 and ~1.3 respectively).
I love the sense of scale in BF3/BF4, the levolution and weather in BF4. I'd love to see another leap like BF3/FB2 brought with scale. BF4/FB3 was an improvement but not the leap BF3/FB2 was over their previous work.
I'm not gonna write too much more so, GAF, what would be your expectations for a Frostbite engine and BF game in the 2018+ timeframe on PC and future consoles ?
McHuj
Member
Remember that even the console BF4 was a launch cross-gen (and not to mention horrifically buggy) game. There's a lot of room for improvement.
I think they could definitely go to 1080/60 (PS4) with better textures, physics, and environment density.
I haven't played the game on 360 or PS3, but I believe the only differences are player count (and graphics obviously), the levels are pretty much the same, no? That to me implies complete under utilization of the next gen consoles and even moreso the PC version.
I think they could definitely go to 1080/60 (PS4) with better textures, physics, and environment density.
I haven't played the game on 360 or PS3, but I believe the only differences are player count (and graphics obviously), the levels are pretty much the same, no? That to me implies complete under utilization of the next gen consoles and even moreso the PC version.
Final Stand revealed tomorrow:
Short teaser here https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/509119550818762752
Short teaser here https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/509119550818762752
Lots of 2142 vibes
Would be really weird to have future weapons in their "modern time" shooter, even for four maps/expansion. Double so when you can use those future weapons in the "modern time" maps. :/
I'm kinda hoping it's more rail-guns and the like and not a whole-sale nod toward 2142. Despite the fact they've been hinting at something 2142-related since BF3...
I'm kinda hoping it's more rail-guns and the like and not a whole-sale nod toward 2142. Despite the fact they've been hinting at something 2142-related since BF3...
It's totally going to be future warfare against Dinosaurs because DICE just loves to troll us all.
Kane Zakharov
Banned
Have to uninstall CTE once again for the next patch, I'm thinking it's probably well worth doing so though.
Should be fun to play final stand tomorrow.
Wha--?
CTE said:
Jesus Christ, DICE-LA... I thought you fixed this after the previous 40gig "update" redo...
Good thing my ISP doesn't give a shit about caps.
xKilltheMx
Member
This is for PC right...this cant be for consoles.
Noisepurge
Member
i recognize it
i just wish the Real Game would get patches, havent had any proper updates in YEARS