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

[Zargon]

Beta is probably already being qa'd and was finalized a week or more ago. Its probably 2 months out of date at launch

 

[GullyFoyle]

PBBANS - BF4 GSP list update:

According to our sources, we now know which providers are "confirmed" and "set aside" that will host Battlefield 4 PC Game Servers.

The "confirmed" list is as follows, and may be subject to change without warning:

• NFO Servers
• I3D Servers
• Multiplay
• Gamed.de
• Gameservers

Here are the list of GSP's that were "set aside" for future debate:

• Gaming Deluxe
• Iberbit Servers
• Branzone
• Fragnet
• Hosters.at
• Rackage
• Low Ping Game Servers
• Art of War Central
• It is not known what the fate of these two providers are:
• EOReality Servers
• My Internet Services

There are currently two reddit articles about this:
http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield3/comments/1mftvu/how_will_your_bf3_community_be_impacted_by_denial/
http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1mbvh4/bf4_limiting_server_adminowners_options_on_where/
There is also a petition going on to get more GSP's in the confirmed list:
https://www.change.org/petitions/don-t-slim-the-battlefield-4-gsp-list
I hope the list gets bigger, but, who knows.

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION! - GULLY

 

[GullyFoyle]

Nrew Battlefield blog post - Ask DICE: Battlefield 4

09.15.13
[EA] LooooveCommander | 09.15.13
We’ve been seeing questions pouring in from fans who are excited for the launch of Battlefield 4 – now less than 2 months away!

In the spirit of keeping our fans informed and Prepared 4 Battle we’re continuing a new series called “Ask DICE,” featuring questions that we’ve received from Battlefield players with answers straight from the development team at DICE. Check back here at the Battlefield blog every other week for answers, exclusive info, and more.

Battlefield 4 Q&A
Today we’re answering your questions about weapons and vehicles, two pillars of the Battlefield series that we’re striving to improve every day. We’ll also answer other questions on the topics you’re interested in.

Bonethepwn asked, “Will the weapon modifications be better balanced than in BF3, where most people relied on a couple of very strong modifications and discarded the rest?”

We’ve always strived for great weapon balance and numerous customization possibilities over the years, and now you can expect an even greater amount of depth. Listening to our fans, we’ve worked with everything from perfecting that sense of “oomph” in our guns, to bringing back some favorite weapons to Battlefield 4 – all of which have been completely rebalanced.

To that end, we wanted to let players know how modifications affect their weapons right away, hopefully encouraging people to play around with them more instead of just settling on one combination because you know it works. Browsing through the accessories, you’ll notice a handy visual guide on the right part of your screen. Here, weapon stats such as damage, accuracy, hip fire accuracy, range, and stability are displayed in easy to read bars so you can immediately gauge what effect equipping a certain accessory has. Slap on the Laser Sight, for instance, and you’ll see the hip fire (accuracy) bar go up. Attach an Angled Grip on a rifle and you’ll notice an increase in the weapon’s stability. This interface is designed to encourage experimentation and make your Battlefield 4 experience even more rewarding.

Familysccrk asked, “What new vehicles will there be?”
We’ll have a ton of new vehicles in BF4, including attack boats, personal watercraft, jets, and more. We’ll keep you updated as we go along, but here’s a teaser list of some new vehicles in the Chinese forces we’ll be introducing.

→ Type 99 MBT
→ ZFB-05 Armored Car
→ Z-10W Attack Heli

More importantly, your vehicles will be customizable as Battlefield 4 introduces several new options for you to experiment with before reach round. Let’s say you want to customize the features of your main battle tanks. When picking your primary weapon you’re faced with the choice of a 120MM Armor Piercing Shell or a High Explosive Shell. The former is reasonably fast and deals a good amount of direct damage, but the latter spells heavy damage against armored targets at the cost of a slower flight speed of the shells. As always, it’s a matter of personal taste and what kind of resistance you expect on the Battlefield.

In Battlefield 3 there were three vehicle customization slots; Secondary Weapons, Gadgets and Upgrades. In Battlefield 4, we’ve added customization options for the primary weapon slot, and split gadgets up into two new slots, Optics and Countermeasures. Unlocks for Optics and Countermeasures shared the same customization slot in Battlefield 3, which wasn’t optimal when it came to tanks. When you had to choose between optics modes and a protective countermeasure, the countermeasure is sort of a no-brainer, which takes player’s control out of that choice. So adding dedicated countermeasure and optic slots removes that problem and adds more customization options. Now tanks have more countermeasure options and they can be used at the same time as any optics unlock.

AssassinPiggy12 asked, “How are you going to stop people from causing the big Levolution moments right off the bat in the beginning of the game?”

Many of the big Levolution moments take time to trigger. For example, the skyscraper in Siege of Shanghai requires four big pillars to be destroyed; a task that isn’t so easy if your or another squad makes it their personal goal to stop someone from knocking them down.

On Paracel Storm, you have to wait for the raging storm to roll in before you can really deal damage to it. Once lightning strikes the wind turbine, then players can work to take it down and free the destroyer next to it. And again, you’ll have to deal with other players getting in your way and trying to take you out while you destroy it.

NWI_AZTEC asked, “What game modes will be available for the Siege of Shanghai Beta?”

The Beta will feature the Conquest game mode.

You can get into the Beta starting early October 2013 by pre-ordering the Battlefield 4™ Digital Deluxe Edition on Origin.com, by being a Battlefield 3: Premium member, and by being a registered owner of Medal of Honor Warfighter Limited Edition or Digital Deluxe Edition.

The Beta will be exclusive to the aforementioned group for three days and then it will open up to all players on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

Excalibucreation stated, “System requirements would be nice so I can play the game.”

Check them out, are you prepared for battle?

Shams_123 asked, “Is the Commander Mode available for current-gen consoles?”

Commander Mode is definitely available on current-gen. As the Commander, you’ll have a birds-eye view of the battlefield, and you’ll be able to support your team with a variety of assets – cruise missile strikes, EMPs, map scans, a gunship, and more.

Players will also experience Levolution moments on current-gen including a damaged destroyer ramming a beach, bringing down a massive skyscraper, and much more. Frostbite 3 is the tech that will deliver this, in addition to battling enemies in an all-new type of naval warfare, experiencing changing weather and stormy seas and even being a Commander on the go with your tablet.

So don’t worry – you’ll still get the Battlefield 4 experience on current- gen consoles. We know a lot of our players will be playing on those systems, so we’re taking the time to make sure it’s just as great an experience as it will be on next-gen.

Until next time…

Check back here at the Battlefield blog every other Friday for answers, gameplay previews, and more.

Next time we’ll be answering questions about Battlelog and Current/Next-Gen, as well as any other burning questions. What questions do you have? Let us know in the comments below.

 

[Joeydubbs]

They are recommending 3GB of video memory? Many high end cards still ship with only 2GB... I'm guessing 2GB should be good nuff at 1200p but I guess we will have to wait and see

 

[pcslookout]

They are recommending 3GB of video memory? Many high end cards still ship with only 2GB... I'm guessing 2GB should be good nuff at 1200p but I guess we will have to wait and see

I have no problem with this.

Getting a new video card with at least 4 GB of video ram.

 

[taq8ojh]

Now that I think about it - does any form of AA increase VRAM usage? Or is it strictly about high/ultra+resolution used?

 

[pcslookout]

Now that I think about it - does any form of AA increase VRAM usage? Or is it strictly about high/ultra+resolution used?

Yes and high/ultra+resolution used too!

Why ?

 

[taq8ojh]

Because I don't really know how it works, and since AA is just a way to do something to existing textures which are already loaded, I thought maybe there was no reason why more memory would be needed after all.

 

[Ichigo]

Can you turn off the awful motion blur in this game.

 

[smackababy]

Probably not, because every developer knows how realistic it is when you turn your head real fast that everything blurs. =(

 

[QuantumPion]

Probably not, because every developer knows how realistic it is when you turn your head real fast that everything blurs. =(

It does, but only if you keep your eyes fixed while turning your head for some reason. Normally when you look, you just use your eyeballs which are much faster and thus don't induce blur. Hence why motion blur in FPS's is disorientating and stupid.

In real life there is motion blur with fast moving objects that you are not actively tracking. E.g. the background while looking out the side of a moving vehicle. But FPS's do not know what your eye is tracking and focusing on to make sharp. It's more realistic and practical to just render the scene normally and cause natural motion blur than to force fake motion blur everywhere that you can't focus on ever.

 

[taq8ojh]

Can you turn off the awful motion blur in this game.

What motion blur?

 

[smackababy]

It does, but only if you keep your eyes fixed while turning your head for some reason. Normally when you look, you just use your eyeballs which are much faster and thus don't induce blur. Hence why motion blur in FPS's is disorientating and stupid.

In real life there is motion blur with fast moving objects that you are not actively tracking. E.g. the background while looking out the side of a moving vehicle. But FPS's do not know what your eye is tracking and focusing on to make sharp. It's more realistic and practical to just render the scene normally and cause natural motion blur than to force fake motion blur everywhere that you can't focus on ever.

The problem is, I am focusing on the screen. And rather than make the motion blur at least slighting natural, they go all out and make it awful looking. It would be better looking to just not have it at all.

 

[SLU Aequitas]

You could turn off motion blur in BF3, why wouldn't you be able to in BF4?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

You could turn off motion blur in BF3, why wouldn't you be able to in BF4?

Because Dice wants their artistic vision to be seen by all players.

 

[DeadFred]

You could turn off motion blur in BF3, why wouldn't you be able to in BF4?

I would be very surprised if we couldnt.

 

[NoSoup4You]

The beta is open to everyone? What "exclusive access to the beta" does the Digital Deluxe version on Origin get you?

 

[raasco]

The beta is open to everyone? What "exclusive access to the beta" does the Digital Deluxe version on Origin get you?

3 days of extra access prior to everyone else?

 

[blackened23]

Now that I think about it - does any form of AA increase VRAM usage? Or is it strictly about high/ultra+resolution used?

MSAA does, by a lot. FXAA has a negligible effect on VRAM use, by contrast.

 

[GullyFoyle]

N4G - Battlefield 4 Gets a Brand New Trailer Showing Multiplayer Maps, Vehicles and a Lot More

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1SRxs5xYWuo

warning: ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough to watch this trailer.

 

[GullyFoyle]

ew Battlefield blog post - Battlefield 4 Beta Dates

[EA] LooooveCommander | 09.17.13
The Battlefield 4 Beta is coming soon. You’ll be able to play the Siege of Shanghai map in Conquest Mode or Domination Mode.

We’ve introduced a lot of new and exciting elements into Battlefield 4, like Levolution, Amphibious Assault, and much more. We can’t wait for everyone to try them out in the Beta!

Looking to get into the beta? Here’s how:

How to Join: Join the Beta on:
Pre-order the Battlefield 4 PC Digital Deluxe Edition (Available on Origin) October 1*
Battlefield 3 Premium member October 1*
Registered owner of Medal of Honor Warfighter Limited Edition or Digital Deluxe Edition October 1*
Open to all Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC players. Download from Xbox Live, PSN and Origin.com. October 4*
*Date subject to change.

For any other questions on the BF4 Beta, read up on our Beta FAQ.

Buy now, upgrade later - Get a head start on next-gen. Start your progress on current-gen, bring it with you when you upgrade to next-gen for as low as $9.99.

Battlefield 4 releases in North America on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on October 29; PlayStation 4 on November 12 and Xbox One on November 19. In Europe Battlefield 4 launches on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on October 31; PlayStation 4 on November 29 and Xbox One on November 22. Pre-order today. We’ll see you on the Battlefield!


Tags: Battlefield 4 | Beta

 

[videogames101]

when i look at bf4 i feel like we may finally have a true successor to bf2, and that gets me pumped =D

 

[pcslookout]

when i look at bf4 i feel like we may finally have a true successor to bf2, and that gets me pumped =D

Are you sure about that? What does it have that makes it better than BF3 ?

I still on the fence.

 

[chucky2]

"When picking your primary weapon you’re faced with the choice of a 120MM Armor Piercing Shell or a High Explosive Shell. The former is reasonably fast and deals a good amount of direct damage, but the latter spells heavy damage against armored targets at the cost of a slower flight speed of the shells. As always, it’s a matter of personal taste and what kind of resistance you expect on the Battlefield."

Oh boy, I hope this isn't indicative of DICE fixing BF3 issues in BF4...

 

[imaheadcase]

Are you sure about that? What does it have that makes it better than BF3 ?

I still on the fence.

I don't know if it will be better than BF3 gameplay wise, but the little things they fixed in BF4 is something to behold, it has lots of stuff BF3 was PROMISED from the start (commander mode, VOIP(?), easier layouts, better squads, etc). Also from the videos i've seen, the game just looks a lot better than BF3 was at start, not sure if all these people in youtube videos are on LAN or internet, but it smoother (remember the animation messed up, lag, etc).

The little things are impressive to me as well, random pickups on field, status bars, water looks fantastic, etc.

It just looks really polished vs BF3.

Now is it going to be better? Who knows, but I see more hype with this than BF3 did simply because of things I mentioned. They have been know to mess things up, promise things and never deliver, but i'm hoping its going to be funnsies. But this time around I'm holding off upgrading GPU and stuff just to make sure I enjoy it.