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

[VulgarDisplay]

Died to someone you couldn't see is probably a bit of an overstatement. I mean at the time of death, the person didn't have LoS on you.

As in, you start shooting at someone and get a kill. 3rd person starts shooting at you, you get hit and dive for cover and to reload. You get behind cover (100%) but the last bullet they shot hits you anyways and you die. This was a daily occurrence in BF3 for me.

If you were a high pinger (~200ms) you could exploit this a bit more. Even in the BF3 thread people bitched about out of region players abusing high pings.

I mean I am dying and as I fall the person comes around the corner. It happens quite often.

 

[lozina]

I mean I am dying and as I fall the person comes around the corner. It happens quite often.

Thankfully it is quite rare that it gets this bad, but I have experienced this as well. I'd be running toward some corner and then suddenly I see the death screen where I then see someone come out of the corner through the death cam.

I dont remember ever hearing any gunfire either... it's just *WHAM* death screen.

When this happens I quickly abandon the server.

I have a feeling alot of problems are also due to the server hardware itself. If the server hosting the game is overtaxed or inadequate I think that could lead to these problems which may also explain why its so inconsistent. Just a hunch though...

 

[Fire&Blood]

This modern definition of infantry combat is not for me, I get my fix in CS. I play vehicles exclusively, ideally tank vs tank as I never got around to mastering flight.

My biggest gripe with the game is beyond bugs, it's where they are headed with the game, DICE has a fetish for RC vehicles and drones.

Knock on wood, it's been a while since I got the sound loop crash.

 

[QuantumPion]

Good video discussing some common bugs.

They spend the first few minutes discussing netcode and showing the different views from each player, and timing the difference. I think that's the biggest complaint people have - first few minutes worth a view for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Lhnex7EBo

That is everything I've been complaining about since the beta but no one listened to me and thought I was just a complainer lol. I got fed up and quit 2 months ago because those issues just make the game totally unplayable. Feels like trying to play with 350 ms ping because that is what is actually going on!

 

[taq8ojh]

[–]DarkLord7854Battlelog Developer 19 points 15 hours ago
The patches have been focused on stability. There'll be a patch with gameplay fixes/tweaks that have been accumulating since launch that we've held back in a different branch so as to not upset the stability efforts.


There is still hope.

 

[KentState]

Good video discussing some common bugs.

They spend the first few minutes discussing netcode and showing the different views from each player, and timing the difference. I think that's the biggest complaint people have - first few minutes worth a view for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Lhnex7EBo

I swear I die often to someone seeing me before I see them or that stupid black screen spawn issue. It's getting to the point where I avoid squad spawn or forward flags unless they are completely safe.

 

[BrightCandle]

One thing I did, which helped immensely, was to turn off network smoothing (well turn it to zero). People don't warp around the screen but more importantly they are more accurately represented and it improves my shot to hit ratio a few percentage points. People die quicker, or at least it shows them dead faster. It doesn't fix the lag issue, I still feel there is some inexplicable lag at work where my enemy seems to have the drop on me but its dramatically better than with the defaults.

The other thing that is annoying is the sound settings. I couldn't get it to behave properly at all with the ingame menu, you need to go and edit the config file and change the channels to 51 or 71 for simulated surround sound and turn off stereo sound.

 

[KidNiki1]

I mean I am dying and as I fall the person comes around the corner. It happens quite often.

this happens to me a ton as well.

 

[LtMikePowelll]

On conquest game except Locker I rarely died from corner, but Domination or TDM is another story with a full 64p players.

 

[TheSlamma]

this happens to me a ton as well.

What is your network smoothing set to?

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I set mine at 10%. I think it smooths out enemy movements on my screen. Its annoying at 0 because at times enemies move 3 feet at a time.

 

[sze5003]

I play on the ps4 and my smoothing is set to 20. I believe it was defaulted to 50. I'm not sure I noticed a difference. But I'll try turning it off to see if it improves anything.

I do notice lately I've been dying and having a hard time seeing people quickly. Or having my shots connect when I'm pretty sure I had dead on aim.

 

[TheSlamma]

I play on the ps4 and my smoothing is set to 20. I believe it was defaulted to 50. I'm not sure I noticed a difference. But I'll try turning it off to see if it improves anything.

I do notice lately I've been dying and having a hard time seeing people quickly. Or having my shots connect when I'm pretty sure I had dead on aim.

I also have mine at 20.. I tried zero for awhile but just had the skipping like vulgardisplay said

 

[sze5003]

Well I did get a new 42 inch led tv so I'm sure now I'll have to mess with the smoothing factor. I'll try 10 tonite and see how it goes. I dunno how it is on pc but on ps4 playing with random people sucks. None of them plug their Mic in and the system comes with a mic, I'm the only one reviving fallen team mates.

I had more fun playing with my buddy but he hasn't been online in forever.

 

[BrightCandle]

Well I did get a new 42 inch led tv so I'm sure now I'll have to mess with the smoothing factor. I'll try 10 tonite and see how it goes. I dunno how it is on pc but on ps4 playing with random people sucks. None of them plug their Mic in and the system comes with a mic, I'm the only one reviving fallen team mates.

Its the same on the PC. I would go as far to say that actually those using mics are usually doing it to annoy others, its not about communication its about trolling. You almost never get ressed and team work is more emergent than it is organised but its still there.

 

[TheSlamma]

Its the same on the PC. I would go as far to say that actually those using mics are usually doing it to annoy others, its not about communication its about trolling. You almost never get ressed and team work is more emergent than it is organised but its still there.

This is all I found.

TBH it's better to join the servers TS or Vent if it lists it and comm that way. The guys with pub comms are just trolling. The other day I connected to the commander mode on my ipad and first thing was asked if being the commander made me feel sexy. While I did feel pretty hot by it (or maybe it was my space heater) the team lost by over 500 tickets cause no one was PTFO

 

[balloonshark]

I really suck bad at this game. I've been playing TDM and slowly learning but I get slaughtered in 1 and 1 situations. About the only things I'm good at is spotting, reviving and tossing around health bags.

I think I saw my first hacked gamers last night. He was sniping with no scope and knew exactly where the other team was before they showed themselves.

I'm also realizing that many players run around the perimeter of the map, flank the enemy and tag them from behind. I let our team know about it as I'm not good enough to defend them. They still charged up the center of the map (sigh).

A couple of questions. Do the solid plus and ammo signs mean a teammate who is either assault or support? If they have a blinking plus sign or ammo that means then need health or ammo correct?

How do you use the airburst grenade launcher? I guess what I mean is how do you set the range?

If you all play in the early AM 3AM - noon (more like 6AM - noon) EST feel free to add me. I use headphones (ATH-M50s) with no mic at this point but I hear everything. My id is Dialed_In_13. I'm an adult who likes to have fun while gaming and I want to stick with the easier game modes for the time being.

 

[Teizo]

Yay. Lancang Dam crashed on me 3 times in a row again. Why am I not surprised. All other maps up to that point were fine. Something must be bugged with that map.

- edit -

4 times in a row. Going to try to break a record by rejoining server again.

 

[Paul98]

I just wish my ISP was better, during the night it is almost unplayable, during the day I have good connection speed and around a 40 ping for the servers I normally play. During the night my ping goes to between 100 and 200 and connection speed sucks. During the night my hit reg just goes to shit. It's rather obvious when my accuracy goes from ~20% to 10 or less.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Been playing the Xbox version a bit at my buddies house. God damn I can't hit shit. I see them miles away but I can't get my crosshairs on them.

Went back to PC for a round earlier and somehow I was headshotting people like crazy with the MTAR. MTAR really is the ACR on roids.

 

[LtMikePowelll]

Azn, which XBOX is it? If it is the Xbox one, did you play any of the second assault maps yet?

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Azn, which XBOX is it? If it is the Xbox one, did you play any of the second assault maps yet?

It was Xbox One but my friend doesn't have premium so I couldn't try it.

 

[taq8ojh]

Surprise buttseckspatch today:
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955064772343296656/

Looks like the memory leak lots of people were complaining about is fixed.

 

[DeadFred]

We’ve started rolling out a new Battlefield 4 update on PC. Find the patch notes below.

If the game udpate doesn't start automatically for you, you can trigger it by going into the Origin Client, right clicking Battlefield 4 and selecting "Check for updates".

Jan 13 PC Game Update Notes
-Various fixes for improving general stability
-Fixed a memory leak issue occurring after level shutdowns, which could result in a out-of-memory crash in longer play sessions
-Additional fix for the "sound loop" deadlock when running High/Ultra graphics settings
-Added a warning for using Legacy AMD drivers that were out of date
-Fixed a player feedback timing issue where blood was appearing before other damage indicators, and before damage was actually done
-Fixed a bug where players’ rank icons on the scoreboard would not be updated
-Fix for Asian users unable to start Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 on Windows 8.1
-Normalized repair rates across all vehicles.
-Fixed problem with killer health in kill card not being correctly updated (showing 100% health even though the soldier was hurt)
-Fix for friendly marker not always showing when needed to, resulting in players shooting team members
-Fixed a bug where a Main Battle Tank Coaxial HMG ammo box was occasionally blocking the driver’s camera
-Increased damage by 25% for the Stealth Jet 20mm cannons.
-Stealth Jets now have more similar handling attributes to each other. F35 & J-20 are slightly more agile, Su-50 is less agile.
-Attack Jets now have more similar handling attributes to each other, and all 3 are now slightly less agile than earlier
-Fixed camera glitch when switching weapons while moving in crouch
-Fixed an occasional bug where players could experience intermittent engine sound dropouts when driving wheeled IFVs
-Fix for player spawning under the map when deploying on Lancang Dam
-Fixed flickering in map and minimap on Rogue Transmission and Operation Locker

Yay for Bolded fix^

As a HC player that one was driving me insane!

 

[KidNiki1]

What is your network smoothing set to?

20