Battlefield 4 Chat

ktulu123

mozattack wrote: »

Hey guys, in 17 days I will be able to try my first 64 man game... YES!

So to the PC guys here are all maps great on 64 player conquest on BF4. It seems to me that they are apart from O. Locker possibly?

What are the top three conquest large maps?

- Paracel?
- Zavod?
- Flood Zone?

Yeah Locker can be a bit of a madhouse with 64 players. The rest are great with 64 players. The only map I don't like is Langcam Dam, not mad on the layout & play on it & most of all the god damn AA ALWAYS just sits in the base out of danger & rapes on the map. No interest in game play like that

Sparks

You've gotten used to dying. Well, the wellerism was right after all...

KERSPLAT!

ktulu123 wrote: »

I did when I was **** when it first came out, well not rage but just WTF kinda thing. I don't care now, I just get on & enjoy the game

BF4 is my first battlefield and I'm really enjoying it. Much better when on with a few others but even on your own it's good

Sparks

ktulu123 wrote: »

Yeah Locker can be a bit of a madhouse with 64 players.

That's a good thing It's so small, it damn near forces the teams into cohesive groups (If you won't work together, I'll just fecking staple you miserable lot together!).

The only map I don't like is Langcam Dam

Yeah, that one's a bit of a drag. You're either sniped while running to buildings or you're killed by vehicles. You can sometimes get a bit of fun counter-sniping, but not a whole lot and your "team" invariably scatters to the four winds to complain from various places that there's no backup or cover... :rolleyes:

NTMK

mozattack wrote: »

Hey guys, in 17 days I will be able to try my first 64 man game... YES!

So to the PC guys here are all maps great on 64 player conquest on BF4. It seems to me that they are apart from O. Locker possibly?

What are the top three conquest large maps?

- Paracel?
- Zavod?
- Flood Zone?

its probably those

Locker is a cluster**** with explosive spam akin to Metro (its better than metro tbf)

Dawnbreaker is meh
Dam is ok but fairly bland
Shanghai is grand
the train one is average imo

cant recall the other two so cant comment

Theres not a terrible map to be fair some average ones but its to be expected*

*I only play CQ and TDM so i cant comment on rush/etc. on those but 64 man rush is a cluster**** as the mode isnt design for massive amounts of players

Nologogo

Most of the maps seem to have a sweet spot for 48 slot servers.

Paracel, Golmud, and maybe Rogue transmission would be best on 64. The rest are too small (in my opinion of course).

battser

I'd say console players going onto next gen are in for a serious wake up call with 64 man games!!

cdb

Obliteration is the bomb!

Mad_Dave

cdb wrote: »

Obliteration is the bomb!

Ba dum tss

cdb

Mad_Dave wrote: »

Ba dum tss

I'll get my coat...

Sparks

NTMK wrote: »

Locker is a cluster**** with explosive spam akin to Metro (its better than metro tbf)

Pah. Just don't go where they throw the grenades. Watch the traffic and step off to the side.

Dawnbreaker is meh

Dawnbreaker is worse than meh, it's a complete mess of a map. It's like an unfinished draft of Shanghai. And it's completely possible - I know because I've been in this - for unbalanced servers to lead to ten people in the CN spawn getting hammered by forty-odd people in E on the rooftops and strafing with the helos pretty much continuously, which is a complete drag because there's no way out and you can't really fight your way out with those odds. It's completely spawncamping of course, but it was an official server so nobody could do anything about it (which says something about the "official" tag if you ask me...).

Cuddlesworth

MajesticDonkey wrote: »

The fact that so many people are having these issues is generally enough to say that it's not on the users' end.

Some examples: http://bf4central.com/2013/11/new-videos-show-just-bad-battlefield-4-net-code/

I saw that article the other day. Looks like packet loss from the tx on the client end or the rx on the server. In other games you would be reset back to last known location by the server, in CS Source that involved models on the ground resetting as well. Was quite funny to happen to you. Battlefield seems to compensate for that slightly. If you notice in most of those videos, the target isn't actually doing anything. I'm basing this on the fact that I actually haven't seen the typical warping players that you would normally see in online FPS games with bad connections, unless the server was about to tank. Which has peaked my interest.

Btw, packet loss isn't exactly unusual in modern networks. The only thing that saves games in the small amount of bandwidth needed(in relative terms).

Sparks

Actually, for anyone who's interested in the topic, there's an only-slightly-techie article on the concepts involved here that's a pretty good read.

fergus1001

I'll be on bf 4 for the evening if anyone is up for a game FERGUSpain is my origin name

Update my video card driver and installed direct x that came with bf4 so see if that does anything :0

ktulu123

fergus1001 wrote: »

I'll be on bf 4 for the evening if anyone is up for a game FERGUSpain is my origin name

Ah that's who FERUSpain was, you added me on Battlelog & I hadn't accepted yet as I had not seen the name. I'll add you now

Dave147

Just got 45 minutes crash and lag free, managed to get about 15000 points and 20 ribbons on TDM, great fun

Drexel

Drexel_1

add me if ya want. im on most nights! Had loads of people from boards added from last year for 3 but only one or two seem to still play

mozattack

Love it!

http://bf4central.com/2013/11/one-bizarre-battlefield-4-kills-ever/

Sparks

That's hilarious

battser

Loving the 32 man Gael server. Its a great mix of maps and modes and nothing drags on.

Completed a round with 40k Points which is my first so that was nice

Sparks

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I made this myself.

Hey, did I kill you the other night? That combination of boards logo and Irish flag is a bit distinctive, I keep feeling like I'll have to come on here and apologise for knifing a boardsie every time I manage it and then see the logo in the emblem

Logical Fallacy

This is my new Emblem, designed by the Slengineer (aka Cayin). I asked for a drunken potato with as many racist stereotypes as possible. lol

Sparks

Nice work, but it doesn't so much look drunk as much as it looks like it's in the middle of a terribly taxing bowel movement...

game4it70

Sparks wrote: »

Hey, did I kill you the other night? That combination of boards logo and Irish flag is a bit distinctive, I keep feeling like I'll have to come on here and apologise for knifing a boardsie every time I manage it and then see the logo in the emblem

I'm using the sam emblem (i borrowed it ) so it may have been me too

Mad_Dave

Some needs to make an "Only in Battlefield :rolleyes:" video.

A compilation of all those moments that just defy logic in a 'team' game. Like tonight, I've just picked up the bomb and I'm heading towards a tank with an open seat, when one of my 'team mates' decides to hop in instead and the two of them drive of leaving me to get killed...only in battlefield :rolleyes:

Sparks

Go to youtube, search for "Battlefield friends", watch all three seasons, sorted

ShadowHearth

Sparks wrote: »

Hey, did I kill you the other night? That combination of boards logo and Irish flag is a bit distinctive, I keep feeling like I'll have to come on here and apologise for knifing a boardsie every time I manage it and then see the logo in the emblem

A lot of people killed me! If you see that emblem its me or Game4it ( game4it70 on boards here ). The little weasel stole it of me!

Playing on server with all Irish lads is a lot more fun. You learn to hate them not just in games, but in boards.ie too!

James74

1GB patch downloading, please please please let the crashes now be a thing of the past.

Sparks

"1Gb" and "patch" used in the same sentence like that without a hint of irony.
The coder in me weeps...

rd1izb7lvpuksx

Sparks wrote: »

"1Gb" and "patch" used in the same sentence like that without a hint of irony.
The coder in me weeps...

They must be replacing assets, too.

James74

Well as an auld codger about to enter his 5th decade (feck me!) and since the height of my coding ability is being able to click the "make-internets-happen-now" icon, I beg forgiveness for a my lack of irony. Kay? Kay.

I have been used to the Arma 3 Dev version and its daily 400MB+ updates, but I'm hoping that the 1GB size here means that they will be hitting loads of issues (without creating too many new **** ups).

Dcully

According to the forums on battlelog people are reporting new issues and even more crashing lol.

jumbobreakfast

Crashing might have a lot to do with clients being updated but servers still running R8. Shanghai doesnt seem to be dumping players on levolution event but people are seeing a weird red/green 3d-effect type texture glitch though. Sound bug still there on golmud railway

MajesticDonkey

Sparks wrote: »

"1Gb" and "patch" used in the same sentence like that without a hint of irony.
The coder in me weeps...

Hey, it's bloody fine compared to the 4GB BF3 patches that we had. I'll take a 1GB patch any day on my 2 Mb connection.

dreamers75

The old 4gb patches contained the expanision packs whether you owned them or not.

Wasnt many patches for Bf3.

Wonda-Boy

Sure dont you know the next patch fixes the crashes and the patch after that fixes the damage done by the 1st patch. Thats ALWAYS the way EA/DICE worked.....****in numpties the lot of them.

I would take the crashes ten times over the terrible hit detection, its absolutely laughable the **** going on in my games.

Wonda-Boy

Dont forget to update Punkbuster aswell lads.....there was an update for me anyway

BlitzKrieg

*sigh*

my normally quite good internet connection has been absolutely woeful pretty much all of today with no explanation (hovers between 0.5 and 0.3 mb per second ) no patch for me yet or anything else on the internet beyond boards.ie *grr*

Wonda-Boy

Well I personally found a huge difference last night in both crashes and hit detection, had 2 round mostly on foot and had a K:D of 4. One round had a K:D of 42-8 on the prison cell level what ever its called. So its vastly improved.....

fergus1001

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Dont forget to update Punkbuster aswell lads.....there was an update for me anyway

Is that manual update or is it automatic ?

Spear

fergus1001 wrote: »

Is that manual update or is it automatic ?

Both, but automatic can be a bit crappy.

Wonda-Boy

fergus1001 wrote: »

Is that manual update or is it automatic ?

Well I always manually do the update so I know its current, dont know how the automatic works or how frequent it is m8

Dave147

Myself and the brother having the best game of Conquest ever on GaelLords. 27-16 for me with 34000 points at end of round. Some laugh.

Dcully

Task one for me in BF4 was to unlock all sniper rifles, always do in BF games didnt take too long.
SO task one lastnight had to be to unlock the China Rising sniper L96A1

Sniper ribbon x3
Get a kill with a shotgun in a round
Get a kill with a DMR in a round
Get a kill with C4 in a round

Its not too hard but needs to be done in one round so the C4 was always goign to be dodgy once i got everythign else done , but i managed to kill 6 guys with one C4 detonation in operation locker
They were taking a flag below me down the stairs ,a glorious opportunity i wasnt going to ignore ,up pops the lovely L96A1 gun unlock to my screen with a tonne of kill and bonus messages - was pretty epic

Logical Fallacy

I have to confess, its been very difficult to run around maps with my MTAR due to the massive erection I have had since unlocking it.

game4it70

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

I have to confess, its been very difficult to run around maps with my MTAR due to the massive erection I have had since unlocking it.

Way to much info :eek:

Mad_Dave

Not sure I'll be able to use that gun now with that image associated with it !

Drexel

Favourite maps so far??

Operation locker for me and zavod. Don't like the railway one at all

dreamers75

Assume the Mtar can only be equipped in game and not on battlelog?

Cos i have it and its not in my loadout screen.

Sparks

Only in game, it's a glitch in the client patch that you have it at all apparently (it was meant to be in the China Rising DLC it seems).

Don't like the unlocking crap though. It's fine for people who can spend twelve hours a day in the game, but us few who can just about squeak in two to four hours on a good day are left out in the cold being murdered by the people who unlock these things.

I guess EA's marketing guys are drooling over that segment of the demographic (and contemplating how to sell us shortcut kits). :mad: One of these days, they're going to sell us an option to buy the entire game in one go so we can use every weapon in there from the start, like, oh, I don't know, all the fecking games we started playing online in the first place used to. :mad: Until then, it's basic game, basic game with deluxe content, basic game with deluxe content and premium membership, and then shortcut kits on top of that, and probably now micropurchases for battlepacks...