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Randum

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The newer patch actually helped a lot for me, played a couple games last night with no crashing and no lag.

I played a really long match last night, over an hour and had no trouble, not to mention no lag/fps spikes and had a nice average FPS of just over 80 per Raptr when I stopped playing.

I had trouble earlier in the week, but I think I am just so enticed to play the BF franchise due to my previous love of the series...but now they are cranking out releases so fast, I should probably just restrain from buying for a few months or just skip it.
 

Anubis

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Aug 31, 2001
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I have not had any crashing or stuttering issues, when playing MP, first crash was last night when playing single player. and im not sure if that was BF4 or my comp. it was a total lockup
 

videogames101

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The recent server patches have cleared up quite a few of my crash problems. I still get crashes after longer games, and lag on 64-player servers, but I'm hopeful the next server update along with the first client update will nearly eliminate these crashes.
 

AznAnarchy99

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Dec 6, 2004
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Im playing rush now and I'm having so much more fun. No more getting killed from random spots in the map when I rush flags. Now the majority is actually an aim battle going for the mcomm.
 

smackababy

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Oct 30, 2008
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Im playing rush now and I'm having so much more fun. No more getting killed from random spots in the map when I rush flags. Now the majority is actually an aim battle going for the mcomm.

Play 10 or so games, and you'll learn Rush is code for "at least half of the attacking team are snipers so nothing really gets done". =(
 

pieguy

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BF4 has been surprisingly stable for me, I was expecting worse from all the QQ about it. I overclocked my 7950 last night and had a bad crash; complete freeze with looped sound. I hope it was coincidence and not a result of the overclock, because it was pretty mild and should have been fine, it would be super disappointing if my 7950 couldn't handle the oc.

To me, BF4 has the potential for the most gratifying PC gaming experiences I've ever had, and I've been gaming for a long time. But for me, the absolute worst part of BF4 that ruins most games is team balance. I think I've had one game that ended within 50 tickets. Almost every game ends with one team winning by 400-600 tickets. The other team, the one I usually get put on when I join, literally has no chance to win. I'll admit I'm bad at the game and probably will always be, but lots of people are, and even bad players should be able to have fun and enjoy the game.
 

lozina

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Sep 10, 2001
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To me, BF4 has the potential for the most gratifying PC gaming experiences I've ever had, and I've been gaming for a long time. But for me, the absolute worst part of BF4 that ruins most games is team balance. I think I've had one game that ended within 50 tickets. Almost every game ends with one team winning by 400-600 tickets. The other team, the one I usually get put on when I join, literally has no chance to win. I'll admit I'm bad at the game and probably will always be, but lots of people are, and even bad players should be able to have fun and enjoy the game.

The longer the server is up the worse it's balance is because once one side gets the upper hand the other team starts to quit or switch sides. It does ruin the gameplay experience, and is one reason I wish there was a Uptime stat on server browser so I can try to find servers that are relatively fresh.

Whatever happened to auto team balance that other BF games had?
 

Childs

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Jul 9, 2000
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BF4 has been surprisingly stable for me, I was expecting worse from all the QQ about it. I overclocked my 7950 last night and had a bad crash; complete freeze with looped sound. I hope it was coincidence and not a result of the overclock, because it was pretty mild and should have been fine, it would be super disappointing if my 7950 couldn't handle the oc.

To me, BF4 has the potential for the most gratifying PC gaming experiences I've ever had, and I've been gaming for a long time. But for me, the absolute worst part of BF4 that ruins most games is team balance. I think I've had one game that ended within 50 tickets. Almost every game ends with one team winning by 400-600 tickets. The other team, the one I usually get put on when I join, literally has no chance to win. I'll admit I'm bad at the game and probably will always be, but lots of people are, and even bad players should be able to have fun and enjoy the game.

I think quickmatch might be based on skill level. What they should do is allow server admins to cap the skill level or rank. Team balancing should also be based on the skill level. Parties shouldn't be split up, but just even out the teams, even if it means moving groups of friends to the other team at the same time. This has always been a problem with BF. Probably 6 out of 10 games, one team simply steamrolls the other.

Its funny, but I've been on servers where I was getting rolled for like 3-4 games in a row. Enough people on my team leave so that better people come in, and the tides turn. Then people on the other team leave and my team is now steamrolling for the next few games. What I cant stand is when people who were winning and getting high KDs bail when it gets tough. I think only on really popular servers do you get parity, because everyone is good.
 

videogames101

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Aug 24, 2005
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BF4 has been surprisingly stable for me, I was expecting worse from all the QQ about it. I overclocked my 7950 last night and had a bad crash; complete freeze with looped sound. I hope it was coincidence and not a result of the overclock, because it was pretty mild and should have been fine, it would be super disappointing if my 7950 couldn't handle the oc.

To me, BF4 has the potential for the most gratifying PC gaming experiences I've ever had, and I've been gaming for a long time. But for me, the absolute worst part of BF4 that ruins most games is team balance. I think I've had one game that ended within 50 tickets. Almost every game ends with one team winning by 400-600 tickets. The other team, the one I usually get put on when I join, literally has no chance to win. I'll admit I'm bad at the game and probably will always be, but lots of people are, and even bad players should be able to have fun and enjoy the game.

The best advice I can give is to find a few people to play with. When you've got 5 guys in vent really playing together you can usually do a good job of turning any tide. Plus it's more fun anyways!
 

satsau

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The longer the server is up the worse it's balance is because once one side gets the upper hand the other team starts to quit or switch sides. It does ruin the gameplay experience, and is one reason I wish there was a Uptime stat on server browser so I can try to find servers that are relatively fresh.

Whatever happened to auto team balance that other BF games had?

I know it balances after a match. I've been switch to the dominating teams before because I'm so bad :-(
 

lozina

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Sep 10, 2001
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I know it balances after a match. I've been switch to the dominating teams before because I'm so bad :-(

Odd, I have never seen it happen yet but I've only been playing for a week.

Is it possible the server I frequent has team balance turned off? How can I find out? I'll see matches on my server where there are 16 players one side and 10 on the other
 

RaulF

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The best advice I can give is to find a few people to play with. When you've got 5 guys in vent really playing together you can usually do a good job of turning any tide. Plus it's more fun anyways!

This big time.

This is a team based game guys, if you have decent players and stick together you will own, unless the other team is doing the same.
 

smackababy

Lifer
Oct 30, 2008
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This big time.

This is a team based game guys, if you have decent players and stick together you will own, unless the other team is doing the same.

I've had a round last night where I was like 17-10 or something and the rest of my 5 man squad had a combined score of like 2-25. I was baffled. =( Thankfully, we were playing Domination and I could pretty much win without them.
 

pieguy

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The best advice I can give is to find a few people to play with. When you've got 5 guys in vent really playing together you can usually do a good job of turning any tide. Plus it's more fun anyways!

This big time.

This is a team based game guys, if you have decent players and stick together you will own, unless the other team is doing the same.

I very much agree with both quotes. But IMHO this doesn't change the fact that the game absolutely needs to do a better job of team balancing so one team doesn't have 0% chance of winning, so very often. I'd rather deal with lag, crashes, etc. than this garbage that sucks all the fun out of playing.
 

Phoenix86

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May 21, 2003
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Play 10 or so games, and you'll learn Rush is code for "at least half of the attacking team are snipers so nothing really gets done". =(
Obliteration cures a lot of that from my experience. It has the rush feel minus the snipers.
 

raasco

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Feb 6, 2009
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Nothing pisses me off more than team jumping stat whores. "Yay! Check out my YouTube video of me going 103-12". Never mind that fact that you didn't do shit for your team. Go back to COD you bastard. /rant.

I really don't care if I'm 5-50 as long as I'm in a good squad. Team > individual. That is what Battlefield is all about.
 

Anteaus

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Oct 28, 2010
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Play 10 or so games, and you'll learn Rush is code for "at least half of the attacking team are snipers so nothing really gets done". =(

Lol so true. I think the problem is made worse right now because so many people are trying to level specific kits to unlock weapon classes. I just hope recon players realize that they can still contribute with flag capping by shifting to iron sights and actually level faster. My .02.
 

smackababy

Lifer
Oct 30, 2008
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Lol so true. I think the problem is made worse right now because so many people are trying to level specific kits to unlock weapon classes. I just hope recon players realize that they can still contribute with flag capping by shifting to iron sights and actually level faster. My .02.

I run around on recon with a Carbine. >_>
 

DeadFred

Platinum Member
Jun 4, 2011
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Servers have been stable and I have only experienced two game crashes in the past two days, and Ive played quite a bit today. Things are looking up, thats much better than before.
 

Cappuccino

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Does anyone know the population for online users that play BF4 everyday? (PC ofc)
Add me 'SlushyCoffee'
 
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uclaLabrat

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The best advice I can give is to find a few people to play with. When you've got 5 guys in vent really playing together you can usually do a good job of turning any tide. Plus it's more fun anyways!
I can't imagine gaming without being in a clan...I've gamed for years with the same crew of guys on various games (almost all of them the different battlefields) and it would suck to be pubbing all the time. Getting a few drinks and shooting some of your buds is one of the best times ever, especially when there's like 20 of you in the server and you get to talk shit, stab them, etc.
 

AznAnarchy99

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Dec 6, 2004
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I can't imagine gaming without being in a clan...I've gamed for years with the same crew of guys on various games (almost all of them the different battlefields) and it would suck to be pubbing all the time. Getting a few drinks and shooting some of your buds is one of the best times ever, especially when there's like 20 of you in the server and you get to talk shit, stab them, etc.

I did too. Eventually everyone stopped playing.
 
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