Battlefield 1 released!

[DeadFred]

You an use alt-F4 if it hangs when you press quit with that loading circle. I've only had that happen a hand full of times.

Yep, that does the trick. Thanks again!

 

[Regs]

What issues? I have had occasional stutters, but that is it.

Bad frame rate drops. Drawgraph shows my CPU spiking like crazy. FPS shows occasional drop in the red, but not a lot. Screen tares. Sometimes I see a loading symbol top right. Before I reset my nvidia control panel, I was getting DX hung device errors.

 

[Imp]

and forget horses. I can never hit anyone with the sword

I think trampling may be easier. Haven't tried it much.

 

[krumme]

If you have severe dips have a look at your ram speed.
I discovered my ram was set to low and it hurts in 64 man heavy fights.

Make sure you are running dual mode. Eg two sticks and its working.

Make sure its 1600 and up. Preferably at least 1866 and up.

Gamersnexus evaluated it and bf1 is comparably very ram bandwith dependant. Times is changing.

 

[DeadFred]

I cant get over how awful hardcore is, my favorite BF game style has been ruined.

 

[sze5003]

I cant get over how awful hardcore is, my favorite BF game style has been ruined.

What's so bad about it? That's all I've played since it came out, on regular mode you can barely kill anyone.

 

[Annisman*]

Killed a guy with the medic syringe the other day, it took about 4 stabs from behind, luckily the guy just sat there firing his LMG as I pumped his body full of morphine lol

 

[pontifex]

I played 1 game and called it quits tonight. Joined an already existing match on the (badly) losing side. Should have quit out and joined another server then and there. Then i died immediately on spawn 7 times in a row. Then continued to die within 10 seconds of spawn every other time. Went 17/17 in the end and we of course lost horribly.
I can't stand getting in games like that.

 

[DeadFred]

What's so bad about it? That's all I've played since it came out, on regular mode you can barely kill anyone.

Ive only tried HC in BF1 twice now and I just cant stand it, and HC was all I ever played in earlier BF's unless I joined friends who preferred snowball mode. Thankfully snowball mode on this game is far better than previous BF's in that the weapons at least do decent damage. If you cant kill people in BF1 on normal then for goodness sakes DO NOT try normal servers in BF4 or earlier, they will only make you pull all your hair out. LOL

The biggest problem with BF1's hardcore is the delayed friendly tag markers which leads to insane amounts of team kills. In all previous BFs friendly tags are instant or always on. What little Ive played in a vehicle there were no tags at all, and the uniforms arent distinctive enough, especially at longer ranges to tell who is who. Plus it makes it hard to stay with your squad, they are too easy to lose with all your other teammates with no markers.

I also don't like it not telling me when I get a kill and who it was I killed, not game breaking like the no tag deal, but annoying none the less. They need to bring back the kill feed in all modes, I could deal with just having that.

Server owners tell me the only health settings they have are 50%, 100%, and 200% when what we really need is 140 or 150%.

BF4's hardcore is epic, why they didnt just follow suit with this one is beyond me.

 

[DeadFred]

Speaking of servers from what I've read I don't see why anyone would even consider renting one when in reality you get no control of it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Battlefield/comments/5d4bxq/bf1_do_not_rent_a_server/

"I went ahead and bought a 7 day server to go ahead and test my suspicions about rent-a-server. I had my expectations a bit high, hoping DICE/EA would remember the success of rent-a-server in BF3 and would learn from their mistakes and bad implementation in BF4. Boy was I wrong, it's even worse now.

• You can only add up to 6 maps in a rotation. There should not be a limit (or at least one so high it would allow every map from every DLC to be played on it at least once).
• There is no ban list. You cannot ban players from your server, whether you're in the game or not. This is by far the most important feature of rent-a-server as means of removing the toxic players that constantly sabotage a team by driving vehicles right to the enemy spawn, battle taxi, or just outright destroy team vehicles. The people that stand in front of field guns and AAs because someone else got there first, that type of stuff.
• There is no in-game server menu. You cannot choose the next map, kick players, or balance teams in-game (or out, for that matter).
• You cannot disable "skill-based" autobalance.
• You cannot see a list of players in your own server unless you are in the game.
• Any edits made to the server as all such as reducing respawn times or increasing ticket count will label the server with a big "CUSTOM" sign. I could understand this for something so big as changing bullet damage, but respawn times are a bit excessive.
• In addition to that, you can only choose set values for these at 50%, 100%, and 200%. You cannot write in 500%, 0%, 750%, etc.
• There is no way to remove a specific weapon, only the type of weapon, and gadgets cannot be removed. This is necessary in case of any mishaps such as the previous M26 dart glitch in BF3, or the USAS-12 frag rounds being blatantly overpowered around the launch of BF3.
• "Land Vehicles" and "Air Vehicles" are the only options for removing vehicles. YOU CANNOT REMOVE THE BEHEMOTH OR CHANGE THE BEHEMOTH SPAWN RULES OR ANYTHING OF THAT SORT. In addition, you cannot disable a specific vehicle.
• You cannot reserve slots for yourself, admins, or VIPs.
• Not to mention you cannot set anyone as an admin.
• Not to mention you have no admin privileges even though you rented the server."

 

[sze5003]

Double post deleted.

Yea the friendly tags definitely need some work and I would also like to see the kill score and who I got as most times I just go by the sound it makes when you get someone.

 

[DeadFred]

Double post deleted.

Yea the friendly tags definitely need some work and I would also like to see the kill score and who I got as most times I just go by the sound it makes when you get someone.

By the end of my second game I was going by the sounds for kills too, but with all the other noise sometimes thats also hard to make out. Hopefully they will get the tag problem sorted soon. I just dont understand why they felt the need to tinker with something that wasnt broken from the last game. Seems like common sense, but Im no game developer so perhaps there's more to it than I realize.

I may be just getting old and grumpy, but Im also not happy with the ditching of Battlelog this go around or all of the new Origin updates either. Origin is getting to be as bad as Steam, it seems to update every few days now, and worst of all Im not seeing any improvements in any of them!

 

[quikah]

IMO friendly tags are fine in HC. The uniforms are distinctive enough for me. Mostly just look at the helmets, they are very different for each side.

 

[DeadFred]

Some uniforms are easy like the Turks in white vs British in brown, but maps like Ballroom Blitz are a real pain in the rear to distinguish between. Add in fog and smoke and it can turn into a charlie foxtrot real quick with all the team kills and the whining in chat that ensues. LOL

 

[sze5003]

Some uniforms are easy like the Turks in white vs British in brown, but maps like Ballroom Blitz are a real pain in the rear to distinguish between. Add in fog and smoke and it can turn into a charlie foxtrot real quick with all the team kills and the whining in chat that ensues. LOL

I've actually accidently killed my whole team at one domination point and retook the objective by myself while also getting some enemies too. But then I got kicked for team killing lol.

 

[pontifex]

Lol, joined another already started game and my team was losing as usual. It was st quentin scar. I spawned an AA truck and dominated the pilots on the other team. Went like 12/0. Got a few infantry as well. Was pretty fun getting revenge on the a-hole bombers. I swear the truck deals more damage than the stationary guns because i could never do that in stationary gun.

Another game i went 40/10 in argonne with support and flame trooper. I think that was mostly luck though.

Joined another losing team later on in suez and decided to putz around. I unlocked the huot for support which seems kinda lacklaster. I dont know why they insist on using low capacity lmgs? Then tried out some sniper rifles.

 

[DeadFred]

I've actually accidently killed my whole team at one domination point and retook the objective by myself while also getting some enemies too. But then I got kicked for team killing lol.

LOL

I have the most trouble when Im a side gunner in a heavy tank since there are no tags even when aiming. The driver pulls into a flag and you start getting naded from all directions so here I go blasting everyone I see because Im positiv they are the culprits only to find later out it's team mates who have spawned in my tank and jumped out to help cap. LOL

 

[Regs]

Not being able to police rented servers are a growing trend. It's a balance between having freedom of playing the game without being prohibited by others vs having the freedom to playing the game you paid for.

 

[JTsyo]

Killed a guy with the medic syringe the other day, it took about 4 stabs from behind, luckily the guy just sat there firing his LMG as I pumped his body full of morphine lol

You have to charge up the syringe for the one hit kill. It'll show the animation of the plunger pulling back.

 

[Imp]

Lol, joined another already started game and my team was losing as usual. It was st quentin scar. I spawned an AA truck and dominated the pilots on the other team. Went like 12/0. Got a few infantry as well. Was pretty fun getting revenge on the a-hole bombers. I swear the truck deals more damage than the stationary guns because i could never do that in stationary gun.

Okay, I've tried googling this before but didn't really come up with a definitive answer: how do you get different tanks/vehicles?

People are always spawning flame tanks, flak tanks, AA trucks... I only get the basic versions.

Is it just leveling up the tank/vehicle class? That's really hard to do for some reason.

 

[JTsyo]

Okay, I've tried googling this before but didn't really come up with a definitive answer: how do you get different tanks/vehicles?

People are always spawning flame tanks, flak tanks, AA trucks... I only get the basic versions.

Is it just leveling up the tank/vehicle class? That's really hard to do for some reason.

When you pick a tank to spawn, you have to pick customize, like you do for soldiers. There you can setup your tanker/pilot kit and what kind of vehicle you're pulling.

 

[TheNiceGuy]

Is there a way to check what's available for your aircraft otherwise? If I start fiddling around with options someone else will choose the vehicle before I can pick it up.

By the way, I went back to using the keyboard for aircraft with your trick. More accurate and not having to swap controllers.

 

[Imp]

When you pick a tank to spawn, you have to pick customize, like you do for soldiers. There you can setup your tanker/pilot kit and what kind of vehicle you're pulling.

Ffffffffffff.... really? Guess I missed it or I'm always in a hurry to spawn with the tank so I don't see it -- I think once you click on the tank icon, you get the "reservation," but I'm not sure.

Cool, thanks.

 

[pontifex]

yeah, it must reserve it somehow because i selected the tanks and spent a lot of time messing with the loadouts and it still let me spawn in it.

 

[chimaxi83]

Is there a way to check what's available for your aircraft otherwise? If I start fiddling around with options someone else will choose the vehicle before I can pick it up.

By the way, I went back to using the keyboard for aircraft with your trick. More accurate and not having to swap controllers.

Once you click on it, it gets "reserved" like the other guys said. You can then go in and customize it all you want, and then spawn into it.