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[Battlefield] The BF4 Beta has concluded. Two weeks until full release! (new thread up)

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  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited October 2013
    I'm really happy that the XM25 exists as an anti-camper weapon. Really shitty at directly killing people, but really awesome at digging out snipers and roof bums. I'm still pretty sure that like 90% of people have no idea how to use the airburst.

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  • BookerBooker Registered User regular
    On that note, how am I supposed to use the airburst on it? I understand that I aim above the enemy's cover, but I don't know how to set the range.

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    Ok. In my sig is a donate button. If you are interested in getting a server for BF4, please put your money there. Once we have enough to pre-pay for 6 months, I will order the server. Pre-orders go live on the 14th and the game doesn't come out until the 30th. Right now we don't know how much they are going to cost, but BF3 servers were rather pricy early on. A 64 player server could be close to $100 a month.

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  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    Beta updated 96mb.

    Bless your heart.
  • Two Headed BoyTwo Headed Boy Registered User regular
    Which console? No update on PC.

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  • iRevertiRevert Tactical Martha Stewart Registered User regular
    Aaaaaaaand my snipers are bugged so I don't have a reticule.

    Also BF4 has already has a ESP/Aimbot/Multihack
    http://www.artificialaiming.net/forum/general-discussions/76586-battlefield-4-cheat-hack-bf4-cheats-hacks-aimbot.html

    Fucking greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    I had an update on PC when I manually checked.

    And.... now Im getting dirextX'd again.

    FUCKITY FUCK FUCK

    Bless your heart.
  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    I think they said that PB wasn't actually enabled in the beta, even though it's running and making it impossible for some people to play.

  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    I don't get why they're still using the RPG-7 as the de-facto rocket launcher, in essentially the same incarnation since the 1960s. There's literally dozens of other russian/european/nato stovepipes they couldve went with (which would be keeping up with all the shiney new-age gear in BF4), most of which would make way more sense to have guided warheads. I don't think any of the modernized countries in BF4 use what is essentially a step-up from a ww2 bazooka anymore.

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    I wish I could run the game so I can airburst.

  • TommattTommatt Registered User regular
    I am so bad at this game

  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    Stand next to flags.

    Get all the points.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited October 2013
    The peeking and prone stuff looks really nice. I'm butthurt about BF4 coming out so soon after I bought BF3 but it's looking like maybe I'm going to end up picking this up. Maybe...

    edit: oh the beta's open now. Hah. Installing!

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  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    edited October 2013
    iRevert wrote: »
    Aaaaaaaand my snipers are bugged so I don't have a reticule.

    Also BF4 has already has a ESP/Aimbot/Multihack

    Fucking greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
    Someone with nothing to lose really needs to figure out who runs AA and do horribly violent things to whoever runs it.

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  • GONG-00GONG-00 Registered User regular
    edited October 2013
    Warms my heart to see my Fruit Fucker emblem on the side of my shiny new AK 5C...

    Edit:
    which is not showing up on my battlelog as unlocked...lovely :(

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  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    Anyone else run into the bug where the LAV/IFV only spawns once? then never spawns again for the rest of the map?

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  • iRevertiRevert Tactical Martha Stewart Registered User regular
    It's an issue with the vehicle spawns, they fall through the map or fall in out of place areas the boat is a prime example of this.

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Is it me or the Ultimax sucks?

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  • McGibsMcGibs TorontoRegistered User regular
    It's pretty junky at close range because its RoF is so low and it has no hipfire accuracy, but it's alright mid/longmid range, especially when deployed. Only downside as an MG I feel is the low magazine, which I figure will be customizable in retail.

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  • DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
    Yay the stutter from BF3 carried over to BF4 to make it totally unplayable.

  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    Just played my first round with a bunch of you. I was on the other team but I didn't switch because:

    1) For the first 1/3rd of the round my guns kept firing on their own so I had to run around with the knife out and only switch to a gun to unload on someone.

    2) Our team was getting stomped and it wouldn't have been fair if I joined the rest of you for the ownage.

    I only played for, what, 15 minutes or something? But it was fun. I like the map - urban combat is fun, especially with some height differences. It feels like a more mobile Karkand because it's not afraid of more wide open, flat spaces, whereas a map like Sharqi fills what little non-building space it has with hills.

  • DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
    McGibs wrote: »
    Anyone else run into the bug where the LAV/IFV only spawns once? then never spawns again for the rest of the map?

    The LAV spawns at the bottom of the ocean lol. Also, the boats can randomly spawn on land.

  • BookerBooker Registered User regular
    Has anyone else had their QBS-09 consume shells at a completely ludicrous rate? It takes 5 or 6 spare shells to load one into the magazine. It's like my soldier is grabbing all six shells and fumbles most of them every time I reload!

  • GutterkisserGutterkisser Registered User regular
    My graphics card(s) seem cool with BF4 but I can't fix the high CPU usage and stuttering. I've tried a few fixes but for whatever reason I don't feel a strong desire to keep troubleshooting. Is it worth persisting?

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  • WolveSightWolveSight Registered User regular
    edited October 2013
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVt17hb9qOA

    the stuttering is pretty much normal right now. It's an issue that DICE is aware of, and have said this is an old version of the client (supposedly older than a few of the previous videos released prior to beta).

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  • Psychotic OnePsychotic One The Lord of No Pants Parts UnknownRegistered User regular
    The ammo reload glitch pretty much makes Shotguns not fun to play with when reloading a single shell costs an entire tube of ammo.

  • imperialparadoximperialparadox Houston, TXRegistered User regular
    Is there some trick to getting the PC download to work? Every time it's about to complete I get an error message and it resets to 88%. I tried disabling "Origin in Game," but now it just resets the download without the error message. :(

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  • MechanicalMechanical Registered User regular
    Is it me or the Ultimax sucks?

    The Ultimax is actually pretty good from deployed positions. From the hip, it performs like you might expect an LMG to: Badly.

  • 0Replace4Displace0Replace4Displace The best girls are ships and guns. Registered User regular
    edited October 2013
    Mechanical wrote: »
    Is it me or the Ultimax sucks?

    The Ultimax is actually pretty good from deployed positions. From the hip, it performs like you might expect an LMG to: Badly.

    It plays like the IAR did from BF3, and is the gun that replaced it in this iteration.

    So I "unlocked" the UMP-9 through the Engineer Master assignment (which was a COLOSSAL pain in the ass) and it doesn't even give it to me.

    Laziest limited beta demo ever.

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  • Cobalt60Cobalt60 regular Registered User regular
    By the by, if you want to see the list of assignments in Battlelog you can change http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/soldier/CobaltSixty/stats/351929495/pc/ to assignments.

    The actual tab to click on doesn't appear to be there. (For the PC at least)

  • heckelsheckels Registered User regular
    Is there some trick to getting the PC download to work? Every time it's about to complete I get an error message and it resets to 88%. I tried disabling "Origin in Game," but now it just resets the download without the error message. :(

    Mine was doing the same thing...

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  • 0Replace4Displace0Replace4Displace The best girls are ships and guns. Registered User regular
    edited October 2013
    JP from Redline winds up being a lot of my avatars, so I figured he should be my BF4 emblem as well.

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  • mr_michmr_mich Mmmmagic. MDRegistered User regular
    Went 27-7 as a chopper gunner, and most of those deaths were in between chopper spawns. Playing with some rando chopper pilot who was awesome (Lambda89 in that game). We're friends now.

  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    If I didn't know any better I would say that my computer is sentient and pissed off that I am replacing most of it tomorrow. My UPS died this morning and I have had 3 hard lockups so far today.

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    Emblems will be wiped after the beta, so make sure you back them up!

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    edited October 2013
    So my PC just refuses to play the beta. I just get the loading screen forever. I tried the beta on my ps3, and while it worked, I do not like the controls.

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  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    So my PC just refuses to play the beta. I just get the loading screen forever. I tried the beta on my ps3, and while it worked, I do not like the controls.

    this is a large percentage of people trying to play.
    apparently they know of two of the major reasons for this. according to their news thing they've fixed it but dunno when they'll release the fix.

    Bless your heart.
  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    So my PC just refuses to play the beta. I just get the loading screen forever. I tried the beta on my ps3, and while it worked, I do not like the controls.

    I get that sometimes, too. I have to restart my PC and then the game finally loads.

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  • mr_michmr_mich Mmmmagic. MDRegistered User regular
    I've suddenly started to get massive FPS dips. I hate that there may be stealth server updates (or a client update that I missed) because I have no idea what "changes". For all I know it's just a totally random thing that just started to happen after 16 hours of play.

    In any case, I'm having a ball with it. I'm likely going to buy this game twice; since a good number of friends will be playing on PS4 and it won't be (as) gimped as BF3 was on consoles. Also, I can't wait a couple weeks :P

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