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

[Midwayman]

Had something similar the other night on Lancang Dam. I went 26-1. The lone death was from a simultaneous infantry RPG attack and the jet bombing me.

Are the other missiles viable compared to the Active Radars? I haven't touched them since I unlocked ARs but didn't know if I've missed a buff to the old ones?

I'm still using AR. They're a heck of a lot harder to connect with now. The other stuff.... easier to get a lock, but it takes awhile and the pilot gets so much warning that all you do is scare them off. Typically I only fire AR one at a time now. Both so I don't run out, and I can gauge how much lead I need. Most of the time I can at least force mobility hits. Sometimes they crash. Kills are rare unless I wait untill point blank. I get more kills with the gun. I'd only really use the other missiles as area denial. AR are much more the skill shot weapon now.

 

[CropDuster]

I'm still using AR. They're a heck of a lot harder to connect with now. The other stuff.... easier to get a lock, but it takes awhile and the pilot gets so much warning that all you do is scare them off. Typically I only fire AR one at a time now. Both so I don't run out, and I can gauge how much lead I need. Most of the time I can at least force mobility hits. Sometimes they crash. Kills are rare unless I wait untill point blank. I get more kills with the gun. I'd only really use the other missiles as area denial. AR are much more the skill shot weapon now.

Yeah the mobility hits are annoying, you end up with about half as many kills as you could have. I use the gun only whenever possible, but since Dice nerfed the range and time on it it is difficult to kill a jet that isn't flown by a complete moron.

I've always thought that jets complicate the balancing of the vehicles too much and should be taken out of the game. For AA to be effective against them it becomes completely OP'd against the helos which is pretty much how it's been in BF4. Or BF2 where air dominated because there basically was no AA.

 

[DeadFred]

Unless far away. They will limp off with like 1% health. You get the kill credit if someone else finishes them though.

Havent seen you on battlelog in a while, where have you been hiding?

 

[Midwayman]

I've always thought that jets complicate the balancing of the vehicles too much and should be taken out of the game. For AA to be effective against them it becomes completely OP'd against the helos which is pretty much how it's been in BF4. Or BF2 where air dominated because there basically was no AA.

Totally agree. Fixed wing craft have no business in the game. They should be something like a commander airstrike. Having jets hover over a battlefield like that in close support is just nuts.

 

[maevinj]

Totally agree. Fixed wing craft have no business in the game. They should be something like a commander airstrike. Having jets hover over a battlefield like that in close support is just nuts.

You would think they could code it so that it was tough against fixed wing craft and nerfed againsted choppers. I guess that would also cause a lot of people to complain that it wasn't realistic....

 

[Jeeebus]

I don't really have any issue taking down jets in the aa, especially with active radar. Whether it is jets or helos, a couple shots of active followed by a volley from the cannons right at impact and it's lights out more often than not.

I was accused of cheating the other day because some as what claimed I hit him with every shot from my cannons. Hey as what... maybe don't fly right at me while lining up your laser bomb.

 

[CRV]

Since coming from console to PC, I've notice that there are much more campers on PC. I wonder if anyone experience the same?

 

[n0x1ous]

Wondering what the conensus best balanced FOV is? Also does a wider FOV affect how much work the GPU has to render?

 

[Midwayman]

Wondering what the conensus best balanced FOV is? Also does a wider FOV affect how much work the GPU has to render?

I run 90. It varies depending on monitor size and how far you sit away.

 

[n0x1ous]

I run 90. It varies depending on monitor size and how far you sit away.

Sit at normal distance...probably 2-3 feet. Monitor is Asus VG248QE. Thats about what im feeling too. have been testing between 85-90. Thanks

 

[JTsyo]

Damn...I bought BF3 when it came out and played some. Think I got to level 16 (M249 was my favorite gun ). I had lots of fun with the game for the time I played (under 3 months).

Now, BF4 looks awesome and fun and i'm really tempted to get back in multiplayer FPS...

You might as well just keep playing BF3 as long as you can find games. BF4 isn't that much better and if you you're only lvl 16 you have alot of life left in BF3.

 

[CropDuster]

Well I got banned from a server last night for using the MAA on infantry. I guess after establishing a no fly zone I was just supposed to twiddle my thumbs the rest of the round. :whiste:

 

[Jeeebus]

finally unlocked c4 for support class and had a blast on a 3200 ticket Golmud conquest server this morning.

Had a perfect squad mate that spawned as engineer and the two of us just terrorized the other side's tanks and aa. At one point all flags were ours and half their team was just hunting us - they had the mcav up, recon guys running around, two tanks swirling us, etc. So much fun to play 'Allah Akbar' style and try to sneak up on armor.

In other news, I'm still very concerned that something is totally fucked up with battlelog for me. If I choose any filters whatsoever - let's say, "domination" - I get about 15 servers showing up for me. I have to assume there's more than 15 servers out there running a particular map mode at any given time. No idea what is going on, but I suspect I am not seeing near anywhere the number of servers out there.

 

[basslover1]

finally unlocked c4 for support class and had a blast on a 3200 ticket Golmud conquest server this morning.

Had a perfect squad mate that spawned as engineer and the two of us just terrorized the other side's tanks and aa. At one point all flags were ours and half their team was just hunting us - they had the mcav up, recon guys running around, two tanks swirling us, etc. So much fun to play 'Allah Akbar' style and try to sneak up on armor.

The Jihad Jeep was a personal favorite of mine in BF2, though I admit I haven't done it much in BF4. Always good for a laugh.

Someone tried to do it to me on Golmud Railway the other day, but he wasn't very good at judging the distance, and blew the C4 too soon. He got lit up with a Sabot shell after that.

 

[LtMikePowelll]

It is just me or BF4 vehicles are much harder to get kills compare to BF3 or BC2?

 

[VulgarDisplay]

My game is crashing like once every 30 minutes now. It was fine 3 days ago. Game just freezes. I"m not getting any error messages from my hardware. No idea what the hell is going on, but it's very annoying.

 

[balloonshark]

In other news, I'm still very concerned that something is totally fucked up with battlelog for me. If I choose any filters whatsoever - let's say, "domination" - I get about 15 servers showing up for me. I have to assume there's more than 15 servers out there running a particular map mode at any given time. No idea what is going on, but I suspect I am not seeing near anywhere the number of servers out there.

I'm not sure if battlelog is insufficient but there are much less people playing nowadays.

Maybe these two sites will help. Not much filtering though.
http://bf4db.com/
http://bf4stats.com/

On the same topic. Does anyone use the Better Battlelog plug-in?
http://getbblog.com/en/

I want to give it a try but I want to know if it is safe first.

 

[BrightCandle]

I don't know why everyone else stopped playing but I just finally lost patience with the netcode problems. When you have countless BF4 pro's all showing off the obvious problems with the current implementation that make gameplay kind of random and some of the insanely unbalancing bugs and stuttering and everything else. In the end this deluge of constant bugs that never get fixed just steal away from what should have been a great game. 7 months out they aren't ever going to fix it and we all know deep down its always going to be this way.

 

[Tim]

I feel that the net code problems are being severely overstated by the players that just can't get ahead. In all seriousness, the amount of times I die due to one of these "net code" issues has got to be less than 1 out of 100 times that I notice.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I feel that the net code problems are being severely overstated by the players that just can't get ahead. In all seriousness, the amount of times I die due to one of these "net code" issues has got to be less than 1 out of 100 times that I notice.

I have a 3 kdr and the netcode is utter trash.

 

[Tim]

So you notice it more than I do. It simply doesn't bother me then.

 

[Tim]

I have a 3 kdr and the netcode is utter trash.

Give specific examples

 

[Midwayman]

Give specific examples

I was having a ton of issues getting killed well after I was in cover last night. I think it has something to do with the quality of players you are up against as well. The guys we were playing against were better than our normal opponents for sure. I don't normally have that many issues. A couple times a night something weird happens, but it was constant last night.

 

[DeadFred]

I was having a ton of issues getting killed well after I was in cover last night. I think it has something to do with the quality of players you are up against as well. The guys we were playing against were better than our normal opponents for sure. I don't normally have that many issues. A couple times a night something weird happens, but it was constant last night.

They probably had 150ms+ pings. 99% of the time that's the only players I notice that kind of weirdness from. I personally dont think the "netcode" is any different from BF3, its the same crap when playing against high ping opponents in both games.

 

[chucky2]

Have they fixed the completely unrealistic bullet deviation and damage (in Hardcore) from BF3 in BF4?