The AT Battlefield 4 F.A.Q., News, and Discussion thread

[satsau]

I need to squad with ATers more often. Had a blast last night.

I think part of my problem is me always lone wolfing it. It's nice to have someone watching your 6.

Locker is quickly becoming my fav map especially when fighting for C.

 

[LtMikePowelll]

Isn't 100 the max rank?

Some guy was ranked 103 in one of the games yesterday.

110 is the max rank now http://battlefield.wikia.com/wiki/Battlefield_4_Online_Ranks

 

[LtMikePowelll]

I once posted in this thread about how I thought air assets, specifically jets were underwhelming but as of last night I recant that statement. I do believe DICE changed some of the rules besides the nerf on active radar which really should not be the ONLY way to neutralize a good jet pilot.

The way it is now the active radar missiles are the ONLY way to counter good jet pilots, and that's not good because just one vehicle has that and that vehicle is not as easy to get as jets are.

I was surprised when I fly any attack jets and out-turn a stealth. Also unlock 25mm chain gun for stealth but still suck as ever until the active radar unlock I guess.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I flat out suck. I need to find some noob servers and get better. It's fun, kinda, but my kd ratio is making it less fun than it could be.

 

[Paul98]

I am really liking the ACE 52 CQB, works great at all sorts of ranges plus can be used by any class.

I had been having a problem with hit registration and damage with the MTAR, but this one seems to work great.

If you want to join me I am usually on one of the IMA servers

 

[Fire&Blood]

I am really liking the ACE 52 CQB, works great at all sorts of ranges plus can be used by any class.

I had been having a problem with hit registration and damage with the MTAR, but this one seems to work great.

If you want to join me I am usually on one of the IMA servers

That's the only rifle I'm gunning for. I play engineer class exclusively ATM and with the carbines unlocked so far, really poor with targets more than 100 yards away.

 

[Anubis]

the SG553 works great for me even at long range, it was one of my fav guns from BF3

 

[Fire&Blood]

the SG553 works great for me even at long range, it was one of my fav guns from BF3

I heard it's great and I was rushing to unlock it but it didn't work out for me. Close range all the carbines worked ok for me but as soon as the target is more than 50 yards away thing get worse very fast.

 

[raasco]

For some stupid reason I feel the need to unlock all of the attachments for every weapon only because I did that in BF3. My KDR definitely suffers from it. On another note, I'm actually really liking the UMP-45. It bucks like a bronc, but it's got some serious knock down power. I just need to fully unlock it like this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FANfMHXZ5PQ

 

[KentState]

For some stupid reason I feel the need to unlock all of the attachments for every weapon only because I did that in BF3. My KDR definitely suffers from it. On another note, I'm actually really liking the UMP-45. It bucks like a bronc, but it's got some serious knock down power. I just need to fully unlock it like this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FANfMHXZ5PQ

These videos crack me up. I could never look at someone for more than .01 seconds without being flattened. He stood face to face with so many players and just had free reign to shoot.

 

[satsau]

uggghhhh.

I updated to IE11 and now I can't log into battlelog or install that stupid battlelog plugin.

 

[QuantumPion]

These videos crack me up. I could never look at someone for more than .01 seconds without being flattened. He stood face to face with so many players and just had free reign to shoot.

He plays 6 hours a day to get 5 minutes of footage.

 

[RaulF]

These videos crack me up. I could never look at someone for more than .01 seconds without being flattened. He stood face to face with so many players and just had free reign to shoot.

He plays 6 hours a day to get 5 minutes of footage.

This.

I have rounds that i just run thruh people like a hot knife on butter. And some that like you say i just get flabbergassed(sp) trying to figure out what just happen.

 

[moonbogg]

uggghhhh.

I updated to IE11 and now I can't log into battlelog or install that stupid battlelog plugin.

I had to use google chrome.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I was surprised when I fly any attack jets and out-turn a stealth. Also unlock 25mm chain gun for stealth but still suck as ever until the active radar unlock I guess.

I recant my statement about them being underwhelming but I still say jet play is not tide changing at all. Destroying ground armor with an attack jet is not as easy as it was in BF3.

I got used to flying a jet and unless the other person is flying an SU-50, I lag, or there's an mobile AA, I just don't die.

Stealth jets kinda suck until you unlock the 30mm gun though. The SU-50 is extremely better than all of the other jets. I can almost do a 30 degree turn with that thing.

 

[taq8ojh]

http://www.dealzon.com/deals/cheap-battlefield-4#bf4-premium-pc
Does this work for anyone? The link gives me 404 error, and adding the voucher manually on GMG gives me the finger with "unable to add" message

 

[Tim]

I had to use google chrome.

If you add battlelog to the trusted sites in ie11 settings, it works

 

[Jeraden]

I started using shotguns and found my k/d has quite substantially started to improve. My .72 is up to .86 or something now. Have everything unlocked for the qbs-09 starting shotgun and actually went 25-5 or something in a match. I think I play smarter, since I don't bother trying to engage long range enemies and try more to stick indoors, where I can get 2 quick blasts off around corners and kill people before they can shoot - basically doing to others what always pissed me off when it happened to me, heh.

 

[scooterlibby]

How do you issue commands on tablet? Is it just highlighting the flag you wnat to attack on Conquest?

PS - I love commander on tablet.

 

[scooterlibby]

Also, I am having trouble with squad promotion with Commander on my iPad.

Edit: Venvermind got it. Highlight squad leader.

 

[Zargon]

If you add battlelog to the trusted sites in ie11 settings, it works

awesome

I had to get some regfile hack from battlelog forums to get it to work

 

[KidNiki1]

I flat out suck. I need to find some noob servers and get better. It's fun, kinda, but my kd ratio is making it less fun than it could be.

meh, i suck too, but i play with friends and that's what makes it fun. cause the times when i actually do kill someone, i can laugh at them.


also, i used the slams under the bridge on paracel last night and took out a boat and two guys on it. it was glorious. they were on TS when it happened, and they were a bit annoyed, but it was still funny. :twisted:

 

[Childs]

I started using shotguns and found my k/d has quite substantially started to improve. My .72 is up to .86 or something now. Have everything unlocked for the qbs-09 starting shotgun and actually went 25-5 or something in a match. I think I play smarter, since I don't bother trying to engage long range enemies and try more to stick indoors, where I can get 2 quick blasts off around corners and kill people before they can shoot - basically doing to others what always pissed me off when it happened to me, heh.

I'm starting to play better by just giving up on gunfights. Maybe not give up, but use cover, heal up for a sec, flank, etc. I used to just run forward like a terminator and try to out twitch people, but I dont think I have the reflexes anymore.

 

[taq8ojh]

I started trying to play in vehicles and found myself ready to uninstall the game, kill my wife, slash my wrists, and destroy the house.

 

[GullyFoyle]

hardocp.com - Battlefield 4 Windows 7 vs. 8.1 Performance Review

Battlefield 4 Windows 7 vs. 8.1 Performance Review
Is in-game real world Battlefield 4 gaming performance better on the Windows 8.1 operating system or on Windows 7? We look at video card performance between Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 in this game and find out if upgrading to Windows 8.1 is worth it or not for the much rumored performance advantage.

Introduction
Battlefield 4 is a unique game, pushing PC gaming forward by challenging video card performance. It is also pushing PC gaming forward in other ways; in terms of API and OS. With AMD’s Mantle on the horizon, this game may shake up the industry even more.

We've recently evaluated BF4 video card performance in our gameplay performance and image quality review. We ran all of those video card tests under the new Windows 8.1 64-bit. The reason for this is that BF4 supposedly, from the Beta onward, was said to run better on the newer Windows 8/8.1 versus Windows 7.

DX11.1 can only be found in Windows 8. Windows 7, as of right now, is not getting this DirectX update. Windows 8 already has DX11.1 built in.

Reports abound about this game performing better in many aspects under Windows 8. We therefore made sure we did our Battlefield 4 Video Card Performance and IQ Review under Windows 8.1 so that we would be giving BF4 and all our video cards the best performance possible. The question remains though, "Is BF4 real world gameplay actually better under Windows 8.1 versus Windows 7?" We are going to find out today.

Windows 7 vs. Windows 8.1 in BF4

In the two above screenshots, you can see the two video cards we are using in this evaluation. The GeForce GTX 780 on the left side shows you the feature levels supported on the GTX 780 under Windows 8.1. You will find 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1, and 11.0. On the right side screenshot is the Radeon R9 290X, it supports 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1, 11.0, and 11.1. The DXDIAG tool shows you the 290X cards supported for the new DX 11.1 feature set. The GeForce GTX 780 does not support the 11.1 feature level in DirectX.

How we are testing is simple. We are going to run each video card under each OS in a few different scenarios. First, we are going to utilize BF4's "Test Range" to remove the randomness of Multiplayer gaming. This will allow precise run-throughs and only stress pure GPU performance. Second, we will then show you a real-time 64 player multiplayer 5 minute gaming session with real people on a real public server. This will show us how a real multiplayer game performs between the two operating systems. Of course we did more real world gaming to base our opinions on that are not shown in graphed charts.

On our test system, we are running the Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 operating systems on an SSD with 16GB of RAM. We've removed the system as a bottleneck as much as possible. We made sure to optimize the SSD on both operating systems before doing our run-throughs by running the TRIM command. We are using the latest drivers for both video cards at the time of testing. Our install of Windows 8.1 was from a pure 8.1 DVD, not an updated version from the Windows store.

We think the results on the next few pages will be very revealing. On the first page we'll show you the Radeon R9 290X, then on the second we will show you the GeForce GTX 780. Then on the third we will show you both cards together between the operating systems.

Battlefield 4 was running the latest patch released on November 14th. We are running the 64-bit version of BF4.

Much, much more on linked site