Battlefield 4 Chat

Joeseph Balls

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Can you not find them pretty easily in the server searches - set game type to rush?

I'll see can I figure that out later cheers. But would that not mean all the games should be empty?

IvoryTower

Just set it to rush and it will tell you how many are in each server

Stone Deaf 4evr

Played a good bit tonight. It was night ops on zavod, I reckon it was one of the most fun rounds I've had with bf4 since I got it. Really adds to the tension seeing laser sights and flashlights bobbing around. I did wreck with my lmg and flir scope. Really really good fun.

Hal1

Try flir, bipod, heavy barrel, yea you will spend you're time mostly prone but will put up a good defense. Especially on a map like zavod. My best lmg is the type 95b1.

Stone Deaf 4evr

I dont know whether it was the break that did it or what, but to me the game feels great at the moment, had some great rounds of conquest over the weekend and looking forward to playing more and more of it, not bad going for a 2 year old game.

Lord Nikon

BFBC2 Arica Harbor - Rush mode

Mr Blobby

Lord Nikon wrote: »

BFBC2 Arica Harbor - Rush mode

Amazing map!

Lord Nikon

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Amazing map!

Could play it all day.

Nedved85

Lord Nikon wrote: »

Could play it all day.

I remember that one, large containers?

Approaching from a height down to the dock?

Spear

Nedved85 wrote: »

I remember that one, large containers?

Approaching from a height down to the dock?

That's the one. Nice variety in terrain, and a believable progression as the attack moved from the approach road through the town to the railhead.

Lord Nikon

Tried installing Bad Company2 last night, looks like update files are unavailable. Turned of my pc when, went to bed. Have the makers removed update files from the Net?

Akrasia

Lord Nikon wrote: »

Tried installing Bad Company2 last night, looks like update files are unavailable. Turned of my pc when, went to bed. Have the makers removed update files from the Net?

It's on steam. You can activate your game on steam https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5414-TFBN-1352
And it will automatically update to the latest version

dreamers75

Lord Nikon wrote: »

Tried installing Bad Company2 last night, looks like update files are unavailable. Turned of my pc when, went to bed. Have the makers removed update files from the Net?

The CD key on it should activate in origin.

Akrasia

Lord Nikon wrote: »

Tried installing Bad Company2 last night, looks like update files are unavailable. Turned of my pc when, went to bed. Have the makers removed update files from the Net?

Hope you got it working. It's such a fantastic game.

I've noticed that the pc game will let you play Vietnam even if you haven't bought it. Just select a Vietnam map from the server browser and it works fine

Stone Deaf 4evr

Akrasia wrote: »

Hope you got it working. It's such a fantastic game.

I've noticed that the pc game will let you play Vietnam even if you haven't bought it. Just select a Vietnam map from the server browser and it works fine

There must have been some multiplayer update in the Vietnam add on, bc2 was free on Xbox games with gold a while back and you had to download the Vietnam add on to play online. Maybe they've made it free to all

One welcome change from the last patch has been the pilot helicopter rockets efficiency.

I swear I couldn't kill infantry at all with either of the rockets.
I seemed to suffer more than most in that regard but the rockets are so much better now that it wasn't just me entirely.

I like how they reversed the grenade resupply time, was too long and upping the respawn rate of C4 makes spamming it harder.

The gunner incendiary is a massive addition now.
Had to switch it back on myself seeing others use it.
It was pretty useless before, though it seems if the guy gets right up on the tank you cant hit him with it.

Finally capped out last week.

Didn't even know there was a cap until i reached it.

920 hours or so of gameplay and still playing it regularly.

tigger123

Have been going back to BF4 in the last few days after a few months away and really enjoying it.

The only problem though is that whenever I want to find a full server I end up going to the Year 1 Maps ... kinda begs the question of why I shelled out 50 quid for the Premium experience???

Not sure I'd bother with the Premium/Season Pass stuff in the future.

Thoughts?

IvoryTower

We've given up trying to play anything other than the day 1 maps, I'd say I got my monies worth but it's a pity everyone can't access them

There's always one or two in group who doesn't have premium so it's pointless

nathan99

Hey, is there any one here on xbox one that would squad up in the attack chopper with me? it can be pretty effective and fun to fly if any one is interested.

Dcully

Still thousands of servers running both vanilla and DLC maps on PC, you guys on console or what that you kind find dlc games?

ShakerMaker91

been playing a lot of Battlefield 4 since I got it last week currently at level 15 it's nice to be back playing it had it for the 360... one thing I would say is its been a bit tough coming off the newbie servers on PS4 as I've been put into conquest servers with lads nearly all level 100+ most of the time which can be a bit challenging!

paul_booth_fan

ShakerMaker91 wrote: »

been playing a lot of Battlefield 4 since I got it last week currently at level 15 it's nice to be back playing it had it for the 360... one thing I would say is its been a bit tough coming off the newbie servers on PS4 as I've been put into conquest servers with lads nearly all level 100+ most of the time which can be a bit challenging!

What's your PSN id? There's a few of us that'd be on regularly enough, you can always hop into a squad with us if you want.
I honestly wouldn't worry about other guys levels though, I've seen plenty of 140s that are useless. The game has been out for over 2 years so a lot of players are Level 140 through sheer attrition, not ability.

paul_booth_fan

paul_booth_fan wrote: »

What's your PSN id? There's a few of us that'd be on regularly enough, you can always hop into a squad with us if you want.
I honestly wouldn't worry about other guys levels though, I've seen plenty of 140s that are useless. The game has been out for over 2 years so a lot of players are Level 140 through sheer attrition, not ability.

True.

Like I'm usually challenging for MVP but I always seem to lose those quick draw shoot outs in CQC.
Everyone has their weaknesses and this is compounded by the load out options ie my 4x scope on a DMR is going to lose in CQC but I can pick people off over distance.

paul_booth_fan

gilberto_eire wrote: »

True.

Like I'm usually challenging for MVP but I always seem to lose those quick draw shoot outs in CQC.
Everyone has their weaknesses and this is compounded by the load out options ie my 4x scope on a DMR is going to lose in CQC but I can pick people off over distance.

I'd be much more worried about an organised Squad of lvl 30s than the odd 140 guy running around. From the 3 or 4 of us that'd play regularly, we'd normally have at least 1 of us pushing for MVP and it's fairly common to pick up the Ace Squad Ribbon. Sounds obvious, but even basic communication can have a huge effect on the outcome of the whole round. Far too many players stay quiet unfortunately.

Yeah I tend to be a touch too aggressive around the flags, stupidly aggressive at times. Depends on the situation though, there's no point pushing needlessly and getting squad wiped, only to let the enemy team push through and re-establish themselves. If we're losing however, I'll just constantly throw myself at the flag, get in their faces and cause panic. Try take as many as I can before they drop me. Could be something as simple as killing 1 guy and stopping his squad respawning that causes the whole flank to collapse and let you in.

ShakerMaker91

anyone hear anything about some form of an announcement from EA or Dice about Battlefield 5 this week or next week??

paul_booth_fan

ShakerMaker91 wrote: »

anyone hear anything about some form of an announcement from EA or Dice about Battlefield 5 this week or next week??

Lots of rumours and speculation but nothing concrete as far as I know. A February/March announcement would keep with their schedule of late(BF3 & BF4) but bear in mind that DICE won't be at E3 this year so that could delay the need to put out any info. Again, all speculation.

Hal1

Can they hold off for another few months while the community settles down a bit. We can't afford another mass migration like with the hardline saga that was a flop mostly though. So the numbers didn't suffer too much. I hope bf5 is ****e after all the work gone into bf4 to make it what it is. It's not perfect and still has it minor bugs but it's as good as it's gonna be. I think most people are satisfied with it at the moment.

EoinHef

BF5 would have to be a fairly big change in direction from DICE for me at this point. I think the games have got worse since Bad Company 2. 3 was good but 4 was just such as disaster with the launch state,bugs,bad map design for certain game modes etc,i mean they destroyed rush as a game mode ffs. While they have undoubtedly made it better all that came too late for me and i had already moved on after nearly 300hrs in the first few months of the game.

So yeah if that change doesnt happen and its more of the same with just better "netcode" im out. Ill be sticking to Arma for tactical shooter. I really hope they can pull something out of the bag but i just cant see it happening.

IvoryTower

Can't wait for bf5, bf4 is incredible! I hope it doesn't take too long for it to be fully working. No game seems to be finished ok launch these days, load if ****e

paul_booth_fan

I'm actually pretty optimistic for BF5. Considering how catastrophically bad the BF4 launch was, you'd like to think they'll go outta their way to prevent it this time round. I don't think DICE LA get enough credit for what they've done. Maybe it's too easy to say, but the CTE program saved this game and has made huge strides in improving the franchise overall. Weapon balance is pretty good, even with over 100 guns to pick. Despite 64 players and vehicles on large maps, the BF4 'netcode' is now one of the best on the market and even trumps COD. The creation of the Competitive Gaming division would suggest that they're invested in the next release. Sure the single fact that BF5 won't be on the old gen consoles means it can, and will, be more ambitious. DICE admitted the hardware limitations of the PS3 & XBox caused problems during the development of BF4, so this is their chance to implement all those ideas that have been on the back burner for over 2 years.

To me, the past 2 years were almost like a large beta test for the next game. Endured some horrendous teething problems but as far as I'm concerned, the end product made it worthwhile. DICE have a reputation to somewhat rebuild while EA have a game they need to be successful. I'm willing to get my hopes up that we won't be disappointed this time.........that being said, if it's futuristic, I won't be going near it :pac:

Noxin

Any Virgin Media people having problems with pings on PC servers? Specifically those based in Germany?
Getting rank pings to servers I have been playing on for months since Sunday.

This one for examplehttp://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/servers/show/pc/96147719-0d55-4d62-a047-46a74b54d1b4/1-24-7-Rock-n-Roll-All-Maps-No-Rules-Fast-XP/

Hal1

I'm getting 40ms to that one. I can't say I found any issues with any of them.

jamo2oo9

Yeah, used to be able to play fine over wifi before Christmas and now, I can't even play a game without the ping going over 100ms via ethernet connection... Virgin also throttled our speeds massively. Was on 100mb down and 40-45 up. Down to 17 down and 0.019 up

Dcully

Noxin wrote: »

Any Virgin Media people having problems with pings on PC servers? Specifically those based in Germany?
Getting rank pings to servers I have been playing on for months since Sunday.

This one for examplehttp://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/servers/show/pc/96147719-0d55-4d62-a047-46a74b54d1b4/1-24-7-Rock-n-Roll-All-Maps-No-Rules-Fast-XP/

28ms for me on eir fibre

Noxin

I found that quite often, BL would show me with around 30ms but when I connected in it would be 200+.

Did a trace to the server and came up with:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.192.1
2 15 ms 9 ms 12 ms 089-100-142001.ntlworld.ie [89.100.142.1]
3 11 ms 11 ms 14 ms 089-100-142001.ntlworld.ie [89.100.142.1]
4 13 ms 9 ms 9 ms 188-141-127-1.dynamic.upc.ie [188.141.127.1]
5 78 ms 74 ms 74 ms ie-dub01a-ra4-ae34-0.aorta.net [84.116.238.54]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 78 ms 72 ms 89 ms de-fra04a-rc1-ae26-0.aorta.net [84.116.132.18]
8 72 ms 72 ms 71 ms de-fra01b-ri2-ae32-0.aorta.net [84.116.134.190]
9 74 ms 74 ms 74 ms 213.46.177.34
10 276 ms 282 ms 289 ms link11.ociris.com [80.95.152.210]
11 303 ms 294 ms 287 ms 176.57.170.58

A clear problem after it left the UPC network. Also that IP address on 10 has shown problems in the past for people playing from a quick google search.

That said, it stabilized yesterday at around 10pm and I managed to get a few games in. Will test again later this evening and see what it's like.

Spear

Noxin wrote: »

I found that quite often, BL would show me with around 30ms but when I connected in it would be 200+.

Did a trace to the server and came up with:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.192.1
2 15 ms 9 ms 12 ms 089-100-142001.ntlworld.ie [89.100.142.1]
3 11 ms 11 ms 14 ms 089-100-142001.ntlworld.ie [89.100.142.1]
4 13 ms 9 ms 9 ms 188-141-127-1.dynamic.upc.ie [188.141.127.1]
5 78 ms 74 ms 74 ms ie-dub01a-ra4-ae34-0.aorta.net [84.116.238.54]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 78 ms 72 ms 89 ms de-fra04a-rc1-ae26-0.aorta.net [84.116.132.18]
8 72 ms 72 ms 71 ms de-fra01b-ri2-ae32-0.aorta.net [84.116.134.190]
9 74 ms 74 ms 74 ms 213.46.177.34
10 276 ms 282 ms 289 ms link11.ociris.com [80.95.152.210]
11 303 ms 294 ms 287 ms 176.57.170.58

A clear problem after it left the UPC network. Also that IP address on 10 has shown problems in the past for people playing from a quick google search.

That said, it stabilized yesterday at around 10pm and I managed to get a few games in. Will test again later this evening and see what it's like.

That's the tell tale sign of a saturated link.

Noxin

Spear wrote: »

That's the tell tale sign of a saturated link.

Funny enough the whole thing has stabilized again now after Wed evening. Had been rubbish for days.
The Virgin Media forums for UK had tonnes of complaints about it from last year for different games and they had been working with whatever ISP looks after it.

Anyway, working again now so happy enough.

Has anyone on xbox one noticed a drop in frame rate lately to really bad levels or is it just me(my non fully HD TV, playing wireless the past few months possible issues on my end)...... I don't know is it just I'm playing games like The Division and going back to BF, but it looks worse over the past few weeks than I remembered even two months ago.

Game looks atrocious when I scope in the distance and even up close its so blocky looking.

For graphical reasons alone I cant wait for 5, I'm being put off by the frame rate lately I have to say.

Liamalone

Quadruple XP this weekend

Hal1

There's a bit of a que for locker and metro servers .

miralize

I almost want to reset my rank

Hal1

162,000 boost points playing a round there as commander. I was using one of my 200xp's though.

Hal1

This guy just tweeted about something shootery. Some think a reveal of bf5.
https://twitter.com/shinobi602

shinobi602
‏@shinobi602

Pumped for next Friday.

Shootery things abound.

Spear

Hal1 wrote: »

This guy just tweeted about something shootery. Some think a reveal of bf5.
https://twitter.com/shinobi602

I'm not seeing anything there that means BF related though, could just be the CoD Remaster release that's starting to seep out.

Shlippery

http://www.battlefield.com/en-gb/news/road-to-battlefield

Dragons teeth free from May 3-10...I figure the rest will follow in the coming weeks!

Damien360

Shlippery wrote: »

http://www.battlefield.com/en-gb/news/road-to-battlefield

Dragons teeth free from May 3-10...I figure the rest will follow in the coming weeks!

Won't make a blind bit of difference. Most people seem to play Metro all day long (myself included even though I have premium sub)

markcahill1985

Hi Guys, never played a battlefield before but thinking of grabbing the premium version of this for 15 quid on PSN, is there still a big enough online community for MP games? Is it hard to pick up and get used to?

Kimbot

markcahill1985 wrote: »

Hi Guys, never played a battlefield before but thinking of grabbing the premium version of this for 15 quid on PSN, is there still a big enough online community for MP games? Is it hard to pick up and get used to?

Buy it, its brilliant and still plenty of people playing it everyday.

Stone Deaf 4evr

jonnycivic wrote: »

Buy it, its brilliant and still plenty of people playing it everyday.

The DLC is being released for free over the next few weeks as well, so Its never been a better time to jump in.