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[Rawket Lawnchair]

At first, yes. It took a week for DICE to fix the constant random crashes, but many people kept having memory leaks and "bf3.exe has stopped working" crashes until January/February of the following year.

Also, they kept breaking the game with every expansion launched, and we used to wait for a week or two for a new patch that would fix things.

At one point they somehow fucked up the damage the M26 Dart did (it did like, 120-150% damage or something) which became the weapon of choice for many people who could suddenly one-shot you with a shotgun from literally the other side of the map.

All in all, it was a pretty bad experience at first, by far the worst launch I have encountered, and that is why I refrained from pre-purchasing (or even purchasing) BF4 this time around.

 

[GlassCity]

My biggest complaints..



Lastly "instant magic death"
You have full health, BAM your dead..
No dog indications, you weren't headshots, it wasn't close range..
I often wonder if some of my kills on players who seem oblivious to my hitting them are having a "instant death" moment.

This happens A LOT when i'm shooting someone and it's like...is this guy gonna die ? And then bam, i'm dead instantly with a flash out of his gun. Many times he's not even looking at me. It's usually the same guys in a game that do it. It's obvious lag, but for me to shoot at someone for nearly a second and then get dropped instantly really makes me wonder how bad the lag is in this game.

 

[Rainy Dog]

Loss of hit markers!...Am I hitting the guy? Then they die and I get the kill?
Makes you question firing at someone and have no clue if your connecting shots or missing.

I agree with all your other points Pkm, but just wanted to elaborate on this one.

It's not only hitmarkers from my own shots not appearing but a regular problem that frustrates just as much is hitmarkers when I'm being shot at appearing at completing the wrong angle/direction from where I'm actually being shot from. I'm usually half decent at evading damage and returning fire when I'm getting shot at, but not when the game's telling me the bullet's are coming from the opposite direction that they're actually coming from!

So much wrong with this game yet I can't stop playing it :/

 

[Currygan]

I had this weird issue of not being able to connect at all....tried router reset, changing ALL the opions, static ip, static DNS...until I just updated the firmware and game suddenly started playing like a charm. So no major ones for me, but it was a bit annoying

 

[foogles]

BF3 wasn't as broken, but I also find that it wasn't nearly as fun. I'll take mildly broken and tons of fun over fully working and boring any day.

 

[SimpleGamer]

The only thing that made BF3 broken was the USAS-12 with explosive rounds. I literally stop playing that game until the weapon was nerfed. Bf4 on the other hand still feels undone and I have also had the hit detection lag, it's a real pain.

 

[Liha]

nope, the game had some problems but BF4 is a new dimension.

 

[Antialias]

BF3 would crash randomly every 20-30 minutes for me (on PC). Took them more than a year to fix that bug.

BF4 on the other hand has been great, only crashed a handful of times.

Somehow BF4 being unusually broken became a dominant narrative over Christmas, but in my experience it's been better than last time around.

 

[klier]

I play Battlefield 4 every day on PS4 and don't consider it half as broken as some here want us to believe...

 

[king picollo]

BF3 was unbalanced at the start but the underneath game worked.

BF4 seems ok balance wise so far as i can tell but the underneath game seems off.

My major gripe is that controlled burst fire seems less accurate than just pray and spray.

For me this was a skill gap that seems to be lost so i die more to average players who just spray everywhere.