Battlefield 4

[Klaus]

Grrr I tried to delete a post and deleted the thread I guess....

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[Klaus]

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I like the game so far. Not too many things that seem way different. The graphics are clearly better which is, of course, going to cost me :) Game play is very similar but that's cool because I always liked BF3


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[Klaus]

From the CSM forum:
Make a file in the /BF4 Beta directory and call it 'user.cfg'.
Paste this in there, save, then enjoy a nearly constant 60fps.




RenderDevice.Dx11Enable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Dot1Enable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Dot1RuntimeEnable 0
perfoverlay.drawfps 1
worldrender.motionblurenable 0
worldrender.spotlightshadowmapresolution 256
worldrender.spotlightshadowmapenable 0
worldrender.lighttilecspathenable 0
renderdevice.forcerenderaheadlimit 1
gametime.maxvariablefps 60
renderdevice.triplebufferingenable 0
renderDevice.vsyncenable 0

[Klaus]

Only a couple days left of Open Beta.

My take on the Beta:


Game play is much like BF3 but the interface is much much better. The map/spawn point interface is very nice compared the BF3
I am not a big fan of C4 being moved to the scout (from the support class in BF3). The scout/sniper is already very vulnerable close in and it's just a lot harder to sneak up on a tank with a pistol. My beta kill death ratio is like .7 mostly due to kamikaze style attempts to C4 tanks.
There are too many tanks/vehicles. I like to be rewarded for destroying a tank with a bit of a time off and the re-spawns are too fast.
Like the addition of the elevators to the roofs to kill the annoying snipers.
I like the select able zoom on the sniper rifles. I do not like the vapor trail snipers leave (as a sniper its hard to see where you bullet went when looking down a vapor trail)
Teamwork is encouraged with the scout laser scope working with the default engineer RPG. When you have someone spotting tanks and helis its fairly easy to damage vehicles. When you don't have a spotter is impossible to shot down aircraft (and it takes a bit to unlock the stinger that is the same as BF3 and no one ever uses it)
When you damage an enemy and someone in your squad kills them you also get a kill. Another reward for working together.
Voice chat works well when used. So far not used a lot but was great when it did. Several people with open mics and I did hear a young annoying kid once
You only have 5 seconds to revive teammates..... I think in BF3 you had at least 10. I hope they change that in the release.

[Klaus]

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[Klaus]

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[Klaus]

Unlocked last night. Gameplay is much smoother compared to the beta. I have 1 crash to desktop during a map change but otherwise it played good.

I am trying to force myself to level Assault and Sniper first this time around. Boy did I take a beating last night in team death match trying to level up and get the defibrillator...I think I went 5-18 uggg.

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[Klaus]

Server patch went live today.... I was getting pretty annoyed with losing exp and unlocks due to my stats not being synced to EA.

[Jomama]

Yeah I was locking up/crashing over 50% of the time before I updated the Vid Card drivers with the ones released on 10/31... Now I'm only crashing about 25% of the time.

[Klaus]

I will update my drivers tonight I didn't know there were new ones. I have been getting the crash to desktop but the battlelog states I have been disconnected from the server. Not sure if that's client or server. I know a couple times it was definitely server side as I was rolled back and lost my unlocks and exp. I think I have unlocked the defibrillator 3 times now...

And BTW it's only 25pts to revive a teammate which is lame. Spotting tanks and aircraft is 100 now with the sniper so I do that a lot while waiting for targets.

[Klaus]

Updated to the beta drivers. Installed the new AMD game optimizer and set Bf4. Crashed twice but didn't lose stats. Better but not perfect.

[Jomama]

Whats the AMD Game optimizer?

I'm still locking-up and crashing way too much, pretty frustrating.

[Klaus]

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows%208.1%20-%2064

Install the new Beta driver and it includes the game optimizer. It will scan your system and find Bf4 etc. Then you can click a button to optimize for it.

I cant' wait for Mantle to be launched next month. I hope that fixes all this.

[Jomama]

Yeah I just install the driver, not the full Catalyst package bloatware, I've had problems with the Catalyst stuff before.

[Klaus]

New weapons in the China Rising expansion.

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[Jomama]

Yesterdays patch installed some awesome graphic bugs, I just randomly get the 3D-ish/Suppression affect when I'm just standing there, with no one firing at me. Repeats a few times a minute...

[Klaus]

I have the same thing.... Hope that gets fixed asap. (I was playing with some graphics settings and thought it was my fault until I heard you mention it)



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http://bf4central.com/2013/11/new-battlefield-4-patch-causes-new-problems/

[Jomama]

Its a "feature"....

[Klaus]

EA and their "features".....


On a side note I upgraded my "guest" computer with a $109 motherboard/CPU combo package... I am honestly surprised at how well the AMD FX6300 (6 core) processor does. With my recently RMA video card Nvidia 660 and the FX chip I can get 77 fps in BF4 on high settings.

[Klaus]

I love the list of bugs that were fixed in the last patch.

-Every time that a player exited a vehicle, there was a small chance that the server would crash. This has been fixed.

-Every time that a player exited a vehicle, there was a small chance that the server would crash. This has been fixed.




CRASHES & FREEZES
-Fixed a crash that would occur randomly during gameplay.
-Fixed a crash that would occur when an object is destroyed.
-Every time that a player exited a vehicle, there was a small chance that the server would crash. This has been fixed.
-Fixed an occasional crash during SP gameplay.
-Fixed a crash that would occur during level loading.
-Sometimes the game would attempt to load a model at the same time as it was being thrown out of memory. This has been fixed.
-Sometimes the game would crash after removing old bullet holes/scratch marks in the world. This has been fixed.
-Sometimes when a player or enemy was sitting in the jeep gunner entry and got killed, his body would rest on the vehicle in such a way that the physics simulation would require lots of CPU usage. This has been solved.
-Fixed a crash occurring on Flood Zone when playing Conquest Large.
-Fixed a common crash relating to surface shaders.
-Fixed a crash on Test Range that could occur when using sniper rifles.
-Fixed a common crash that occurred during map transition.
-Fixed a crash that occurred when bringing up Battlescreen in-game on the Test Range.
-Fixed a memory allocation bug that could lead to crashing.
-Fixed a single player crash that could sometimes occur when being killed by AI enemies.
-Fixed an issue where the game would get stuck in infinite loading if you got disconnected while trying to access online content.
-Fixed an issue in single player in the South China Sea mission where the game would crash when idle for more than 60 minutes.
-Fixed an issue where the game would get stuck in infinite loading if you used Win+L to lock your PC during loading.

[Klaus]

They finally fixed the Battle Log app on the Nexus 7. It's now formatted correctly to fit the high resolution screen. However, I still think it's too small of a screen to see the map on. I prefer my laptop.

FYI - if you log into battlelog on a 2nd computer (or the app) when you join a game the blue bar will pop up at the bottom. Click battle screen and you see a real-time map of the game. It's actually quite useful.

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[Klaus]

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[Klaus]

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[Klaus]

China rising was released yesterday to Premium members. I played one round on each of the 4 new maps. First impression - LARGE maps which are pretty cool. Lots of high ground and dirtbikes are back for quick transport.

[Klaus]

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[Klaus]

Update from last night... I kinda liked it before this change.



“Netcode” improvement
We’ve addressed the so-called “Kill trading”. This refers to when two players fire at each other and, seemingly, both die at the same time. The time window where a bullet could cause damage from an already dead player is now calculated as intended, decreasing the timeframe when players with high latency could get a kill, even though they should be dead according to the server.

[Jomama]

Ya prob not good for me, having a relatively high latency most the time.

[Klaus]

Great video that have gotten me TONS of kills.

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I really like the SRAW but it does low damage and you of course need to stay locked on and can't hide. How to use:

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Tip:
You can unlock C4 on both sniper and support.
You can unlock the Drone on sniper by killing one person with the bomber

My favorite guns for each class:

Assault: AEK-971 (25 Max Damage - takes 5.5 bullets to kill) 900RPM 31 Mag size. This gun take a bit to unlock but it's insane. Super fast fire rate.

Engineer: Whatever carbine you like or the MK11 Mod 0 Designated Marksmen Rifle....(Semi auto only)

Support: LSAT (Fast machine gun that is pretty steady but takes an extra hit to kill) or unlock M249 from single player.

Sniper: L96 Sniper Rifle - finish the assignment:


The assignment for this is called Need Only One. Get sniper ribbon three times, and then get one kill each with a shotgun, a DMR (Designated Marksman Rifle), and C4, again using each open in one round.

[Klaus]

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