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EightySix Four

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Why in the world is BF4 so bad at letting you party up and join as a squad? It's an awful experience...
 
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Doppel

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Checked some XB1's on ebay today. Looks like, as with the PS4, it's become a real bear to resell. People were not making that much money on them. This is a good thing overall, though (unless you bought a bunch to try and make money).
 

cmdrdredd

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I tried that also the center channel gets no sound and the sound quality is weak. I am sure this is a common problem

It's like I said, there are problems with certain cable or satellite boxes which is why it says beta. It's actually not as common as you may think. Remember things get blown up larger than they are on the internet.
 

cmdrdredd

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Why in the world is BF4 so bad at letting you party up and join as a squad? It's an awful experience...

Origin is terrible, battlelog is terrible, the whole thing is just bad. On PC it's not doing a whole lot better. Crashes a lot and fails to connect.
 

dagamer34

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What we are clearly seeing is that not everything can be "finished" on day one, heck I'm honestly still surprised the OS and apps don't randomly crash on themselves constantly. One thing I keep reminding myself though is that the Xbox 360 on day one compared to how it is 8 years later, we are in store for some good things.
 

purbeast0

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am i the only one who is having NAT issues with the xbox one? 9/10 times it's strict for me, then i'll like change the ip and it may change or may not, sometimes to open sometimes to moderate. then if i reboot, and get the same ip, it will be strict again. it's really annoying.

i've set it to a static ip with dmz and opened those ports that they tell you to open with UDP when your NAT is strict, and i'm still getting issues. really really annoying i couldn't even play online tonight because of it.
 

purbeast0

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Why in the world is BF4 so bad at letting you party up and join as a squad? It's an awful experience...

wonder if you are having the same type of NAT issues that i'm having, but i'm having issues in killer instinct. when doing random matches, and when trying to invite friends or start a party to bring to it.
 

sze5003

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Some people with broken xb1 systems are getting a free game for their trouble and MS has been shipping replacement systems to customers first before the customer sends theirs. Not a bad deal. Seems they want to win over the minds of consumers.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11...ctioning-xbox-ones-compensated-with-free-game

That's what Dell did when I had a broken laptop a few years back. They would send you a new or refurbished system with a box. You placed your system in the empty box with the provided shipping label and sent it back. No need for waiting. That's good MS is doing this. Sony should do the same because their wait times I hear are atrocious on the phone. That and they seem to ship you out a system for next day delivery after they confirm yours is broke.

I like this system better, you get the system as soon as they send it and no waiting. Sony should do this but it doesn't look like they do.
 

EightySix Four

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wonder if you are having the same type of NAT issues that i'm having, but i'm having issues in killer instinct. when doing random matches, and when trying to invite friends or start a party to bring to it.

Wasn't the NAT issue. It's an issue between XBL/EA Origina/Dice Battlelog. If I create an XBL party and go into BF4, it breaks the party and we can't join games together. If I created a party in BF4, it occasionally put us in the same game, but generally on opposite teams.

I just want to squad up with my friends and play. Why is that so hard?
 

Arkaign

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That's what Dell did when I had a broken laptop a few years back. They would send you a new or refurbished system with a box. You placed your system in the empty box with the provided shipping label and sent it back. No need for waiting. That's good MS is doing this. Sony should do the same because their wait times I hear are atrocious on the phone. That and they seem to ship you out a system for next day delivery after they confirm yours is broke.

I like this system better, you get the system as soon as they send it and no waiting. Sony should do this but it doesn't look like they do.

I've been following both.

Sony is doing express replacement shipments for BLOD PS4 owners :

http://blog.gsmarena.com/sony-will-replace-your-faulty-playstation-4/

Microsoft's initial response was 'return your XB1 to vendor', but thank god they did a quick 180 on that, and have now stepped up wonderfully.

The key with either MS or Sony on this is that you have to call their support number, talk to support, and get them to start the RMA process (requiring address, S/N, etc). That's it, boom you get your new XB1 or PS4 on the way, and when it gets there you can send back the old one with the provided box. Sony took a couple of days to get this system really organized, Microsoft appears to have done roughly the same.

Anyone trying to say anything else is spreading FUD at this time, or they didn't follow proper channels, in which it's really hard to blame MS or Sony for it. After all, how can they know to send it out to you if they don't have your complete info?
 

Arkaign

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Origin is terrible, battlelog is terrible, the whole thing is just bad. On PC it's not doing a whole lot better. Crashes a lot and fails to connect.

I thought I'd share my experience with this.

I was running W7 Pro x64 SP1. BF3 worked beautifully. Got BF4 and it was terribad. Just choppy, rubber bandy mess. Updated all drivers, waited for couple rounds of patches, ran unparker for my i7, tried disabling HT, tried removing one of my GPUs, nothing worked.

Installed 8.1 + latest drivers and nothing else = boom, BF4 works 100% flawlessly. Zero crashes, can play for hours without the slightest hiccup.

I really dislike 8.1 UI, but man BF4 works awesome on it. I feel like they must have done this on purpose for some reason. No other game is like this.
 

cmdrdredd

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Dec 12, 2001
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I thought I'd share my experience with this.

I was running W7 Pro x64 SP1. BF3 worked beautifully. Got BF4 and it was terribad. Just choppy, rubber bandy mess. Updated all drivers, waited for couple rounds of patches, ran unparker for my i7, tried disabling HT, tried removing one of my GPUs, nothing worked.

Installed 8.1 + latest drivers and nothing else = boom, BF4 works 100% flawlessly. Zero crashes, can play for hours without the slightest hiccup.

I really dislike 8.1 UI, but man BF4 works awesome on it. I feel like they must have done this on purpose for some reason. No other game is like this.

I run win 8.1 and it sometimes fails to connect to a server or crashes out after a round is over. So I just am gonna sit on it until a few months later and it should be ok.
 

cmdrdredd

Lifer
Dec 12, 2001
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I've been following both.

Sony is doing express replacement shipments for BLOD PS4 owners :

http://blog.gsmarena.com/sony-will-replace-your-faulty-playstation-4/

Microsoft's initial response was 'return your XB1 to vendor', but thank god they did a quick 180 on that, and have now stepped up wonderfully.

The key with either MS or Sony on this is that you have to call their support number, talk to support, and get them to start the RMA process (requiring address, S/N, etc). That's it, boom you get your new XB1 or PS4 on the way, and when it gets there you can send back the old one with the provided box. Sony took a couple of days to get this system really organized, Microsoft appears to have done roughly the same.

Anyone trying to say anything else is spreading FUD at this time, or they didn't follow proper channels, in which it's really hard to blame MS or Sony for it. After all, how can they know to send it out to you if they don't have your complete info?

Yeah neither one wants to look bad here. They both remember the RROD and other console issues going back to the ps2 and original Xbox days. They want to be the good guy in the eyes of the consumers.
 

smackababy

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Oct 30, 2008
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It's because "Xbox Off" isn't the command, it's "Xbox turn off". I had this problem a lot at first.

Which is stupid. I don't have to say "Xbox turn on"... I also am having trouble playing games. "Xbox play Fifa 14" opens the music app 100% of the time. I never want to use the music app, ever. In fact, even with it uninstalled, if goes to the "download music app" page in the store. That is stupid.
 
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The general consensus (i.e. guess) is that "Xbox, on" and "Xbox, off" sound too similar, so "turn" was put in to better differentiate the two.
 
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