Battlefield 4 (Winter Patch)

[TEEEPO]

i've already invested 50 hours into this game  :'(

[MyNameIsMethodis]

I knew this would happen. Can't play as much as I'd like, and now I'm getting dropped into games with level 60+ dudes who know the maps like the back of their hands and have most of the good unlocks. I'm just getting wrecked at every turn. When I first started playing I was mid-level, now I'm sitting around the bottom of the list almost every time. Happens with every multiplayer game for me. Fun slowly draining away 

yeah this sucks. i was having a blast at first bgut now it's a drudge. literally cna't do shit unless im a repair bitch in a heli

[tehjaybo]

I have the most fun on this game (and do the best) when I'm in a group that's on comms and working together.  Perhaps we should organize a [BORE]squad for each console and play sometime? 

Sign me up for the PS4 squad.

[Eel O'Brian]

I felt like apologizing to my squad tonight. "I am sorry for dragging you guys down, but I am only level 12. I have nothing." I feel like the unlocks in this game exist to sell battlepacks and "unlock everything" DLC. Maybe when they start renting servers I can find some games around my level of skill/playtime.

[Eel O'Brian]

Sure, I'd love to play with people who actually talk. I think I've said five words since I started playing. I hear it's needlessly hard to group up with friends, though.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

ya im down to play with u guys also, i like to play engineer or recon

its not that hard u just gotta find a emptyish squad and join it in the same match. its a pain not hard.

[TEEEPO]

PC

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/user/TEEEPO/

add me if you'd like

[tehjaybo]

I don't know if it's client or server, but I'm lagging so badly I can barely play...

[Eel O'Brian]

Yeah, I've been rubber-banding pretty regularly tonight

[Eel O'Brian]

Hadn't played obliteration before, had a good time with jaybo and groogrux and crew!

[Stoney Mason]

Yeah I honestly feel like if you're not playing battlefield with at least two other people and preferably an entire squad on comms you are doing it wrong. In a game with squad spawning and different classes, its just no fun and you will get wrecked most of the time and just get frustrated. Just playing with a group of people you will eventually notice will also improve your scores and your performance. It's why I joined a clan (It's called a clan but we don't take it seriously, we're just a small community of guys who enjoy the game) and whenever I play BF on PC and console I'm generally with people.

When I play by myself I generally stick to just TDM and domination which are more chaotic and team work isn't as big a deal so the lone wolf thing is okay there.

[patrickula]

Pretty rough night for me tonight  Will you be playing on PC this weekend Stoney?

[Stoney Mason]

I'm certain I will be. You can join me anytime.

We should try to setup a date one day for the PC guys. I know the bore. If we don't actively setup a date and try to play together it will never happen.

[Groogrux]

Hadn't played obliteration before, had a good time with jaybo and groogrux and crew!

Add me on the PS4.  I'm playing at least every other night right now so you're very likely to run into me.  Always happy to have a squad mate.

[tehjaybo]

Yeah I honestly feel like if you're not playing battlefield with at least two other people and preferably an entire squad on comms you are doing it wrong. In a game with squad spawning and different classes, its just no fun and you will get wrecked most of the time and just get frustrated. Just playing with a group of people you will eventually notice will also improve your scores and your performance. It's why I joined a clan (It's called a clan but we don't take it seriously, we're just a small community of guys who enjoy the game) and whenever I play BF on PC and console I'm generally with people.

Yeah, that's pretty much what Sierra Four Six is.  Some friends and I all just get together and play games.  It makes the game way more enjoyable.  I was getting destroyed all night, and then when we all started playing together, every single one of us was top half of the team every time.

Hadn't played obliteration before, had a good time with jaybo and groogrux and crew!

Any time man!  We'll have some good times playing.  Just hit one of us up, like Andy said.  We play a fair bit.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

any of u guys wanna play tonight

[TEEEPO]

we need to construct a list broken down by platform since everybody seems to be playing on a variety of systems

[Eel O'Brian]

Getting ready to play some, Methodis.

I'm on PS4, username EelOBrian

[tehjaybo]

Starting up a console list:

PS4 MASTER RACE:
tehjaybo (tehjaybo)
Gr0oGrux85 (Groogrux)
EelOBrian (Eel O Brian)
BostonCollegeFan (MyNameIsMethodis)
Viscen (AdmiralViscen)

Xboners:
Stoney Mason (Stoney Mason)
supaflysoccerma  (Mupepe)

PC Hipsters:
Stoney_Mason_PC (Stoney Mason)
TEEEPO (TEEEPO)
Rahxephon91 (Rahxephon91)
teeage_caveman (Eric P)
Patrickula (patrickula)
fistfulofmetal (fistfulofmetal)

PS Triple Sec:

Xbox 360 Degrees and walk away:
Wynona Forever (The Business)

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[patrickula]

Thanks for putting together a list tehjaybo. I'm Patrickula on PC.

[fistfulofmetal]

pc taco here. fistfulofmetal on origin

[Stoney Mason]

Starting up a console list:

PS4 MASTER RACE:
tehjaybo (tehjaybo)
Gr0oGrux85 (Groogrux)
EelOBrian (Eel O Brian)
BostonCollegeFan (MyNameIsMethodis)

Xboners:

PC Hipsters:
Stoney_Mason_PC (Stoney Mason)
TEEPO (TEEPO)
Rahxephon91 (Rahxephon91)

PS Triple Sec:

Xbox 360 Degrees and walk away:

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Went through two pages of thread, everyone else can PM me or post it here.  I'll update when I see a new post.

I'll add the list to the opening post.

Add an xbox one section also as I play on that platform also. GamerTag:Stoney Mason

[TEEEPO]

three E's for this TEEPO

[TEEEPO]

and thanks for making the list!

[Eric P]

I can't type so i'm currently on PC

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/user/teeage_caveman/

I've only dicked around with the campaign stuff thus far.  Haven't really had time to do any MP.

[tehjaybo]

There is a XB1 section, it was just empty.  Updating

[patrickula]

I'm playing on what appears to be a furry server now if anyone wants to join me.

[Stoney Mason]

There is a XB1 section, it was just empty.  Updating

Yeah I noticed later when I added it to the op.


 

[Stoney Mason]

I'm playing on what appears to be a furry server now if anyone wants to join me.

I'll hop on now on the PC side. Can't speak today though because there is company over and lots of loud noises and such so just chat for today.

[AdmiralViscen]

Viscen

PS4

[Stoney Mason]

I'll add the new names to the op this evening when I get a sec.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

sorry I didnt hop on last night ugys i went and got laid, but ill be up for some BF tonight if u guys are in like a hour or 2

[tehjaybo]

Some of my friends got together and got me Premium tonight. 

So I'll be on later, after I finish up my birthday festivities here.



Also, I wish that my game didn't crash so much earlier today, I would have loved to have had the video capture.  I was flying a transport chopper all match two matches in a row, just being a mobile spawn point while my friend rolled repairs.  It was amazing.  We only went down a couple of times, and I did some maneuvers that I didn't think I'd make it out of.  There were a few times where my friend and I just started yelling because we thought we were dead, but we ended up making it.  I got away from a missile by going behind a building to make it hit the building instead of me.  I outran AA fire at 1HP.  I dodged RPGs left and right.  I swung the chopper through the trees and so close to buildings that you could have cleaned the windows.  We made a transport chopper an Air to Air missile battery and took out four other choppers.   

Shit was so cash.

[Eric P]

decided to try multiplayer this weekend and the first two games i tried crashed on connection.  it was like "whelp"

[Stoney Mason]

PC got another update today.

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955065670201033581/



Still waiting on Xbox One patch. 

[TEEEPO]

Dec 9 PC Game Update Notes
Shot behind cover when changing stance
Sometimes the character stance could get into a multiple frame desync and be part of the problem where you got shot even though your character was actually behind cover. This would mostly affect players doing transitions into crouch and prone as well as moving when crouched. The impact was smaller in a standing stance. This bug fix eliminates this particular desync issue.

i fucking knew it!

[fistfulofmetal]

the jungle map in the dlc runs like fucking garbage

[Mupepe]

I just got this for xb1. GT is supaflysoccerma 

woot woot

[patrickula]

I ran out of layers making this emblem so I HAD to join Premium:

[fistfulofmetal]

[Stoney Mason]

I just got this for xb1. GT is supaflysoccerma 

woot woot

You're welcome to join my party anytime. I generally play with a small group of guys.

[Stoney Mason]

Tonight was one of those nights where everything clicked. The party was working really well together. I was kicking ass and on with my game. I didn't crash too much. Not much lag. Was incredibly fun.


If only every night of playing the game went like that.

[Mupepe]

I just got this for xb1. GT is supaflysoccerma 

woot woot

You're welcome to join my party anytime. I generally play with a small group of guys.

Cool!  I'll look for you online tonight then.

I played for a few hours last night and the only issue I ran into was coming from sleep mode and resuming my game I couldn't connect to any multiplayer games.  So I had to quit the game from the dashboard and restart it.

I hadn't played the 360 version for a couple of weeks because I was waiting for my X1 version and man everyone is so far past me at this point.  But I'm slowly chugging through and getting my upgrades

[Mupepe]

Well I had to uninstall and now reinstall on my x1. I couldn't join any matches. I kept getting a lost connection to ea servers and failed to join error. I think its a cache issue or something because even though I started other games or did a hard reset bf4 would still boot up like it was in standby or something. So I am turning off the easy resume option for now. Ugh.

[Mupepe]

Fucking Christ. Still not working after reinstalling it. Right after reinstalling it loads straight into the multiplayer menu like it was resuming and gives the same errors. I can connect to empty servers though apparently.

[Stoney Mason]

Fucking Christ. Still not working after reinstalling it. Right after reinstalling it loads straight into the multiplayer menu like it was resuming and gives the same errors. I can connect to empty servers though apparently.

Someone on my friends list was having this same issue. He wasn't able to play for the last two days.

I did some googling and came across this. My 360 and Xbox one have always been in a dmz and have never had the issue.

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-4/quot-Lost-connection-to-the-session-quot-A-self-help-and-router/td-p/1959399

[Stoney Mason]

sigh. Oh dice.

[Mupepe]

Shit. Ill go through my router settings tomorrow then. I've never had any NAT issues before but it's worth a shot. This started for me last night but I was somehow able to get around it. I got into 2 games tonight by constantly trying to join matches. Now i know how others have felt. This is ridiculous

[G The Resurrected]

Shit. Ill go through my router settings tomorrow then. I've never had any NAT issues before but it's worth a shot. This started for me last night but I was somehow able to get around it. I got into 2 games tonight by constantly trying to join matches. Now i know how others have felt. This is ridiculous

I tried that fix and it didn't work for me. It's EA crappy servers they just suck or BF4 does I don't know which is at fault but its not our Xbox ones or our routers.

I finally got in a few hours tonight and got to enjoy some crazy shit. I was playing rush and trying to deactivate the M-com but nothing was working. I was getting points for messing with the M-com but it wasn't deactivating. So it of course blows up, but here's the strange thing I got 400 points for it blowing up... Come on DICE!!!

[Stoney Mason]

Xbox One update

We are now rolling out a new game update on Xbox One, and are already working on the next update based on your feedback. This update includes a number of stability improvements that should fix some of the most common crashes.

Dec 13 Xbox One Game Update Notes
-Fixed three common crashes that could occur during map transitions
-Fixed a common crash that could occur when using the in-game Battlelog in the "end of round" screen
-Fixed two crashes related to destroying vehicles
-Fixed a crash that could occur when the player lost connection to a server
-Fixed a crash that could occur when using the scoreboard
-Fixed a crash that could occur when players were using the voice chat
-Optimized performance when shooting destroyed Levolution objects on some levels
-Removed the blur effect on soldiers that appeared when Commanders were using EMP attacks
-Fixed the "one-hit kill" bug where damage from a single bullet sometimes was applied multiple times. This could lead to firefights where normal rifles sometimes dealt one-shot kills, which is not as designed
-Fixed a memory leak that could lead to crashes at certain points
-Further reduced the probability of getting a corrupt save file in the single player campaign
-Fixed the audio drop outs that could occur when playing on large maps. Typical map affected was Golmud Railway in Conquest with 64 players. Ambient sound would sometimes cut out, like foley sounds from player running, vehicle engine sounds, vehicle movement sounds, and map ambient sounds
-Fixed an issue with going online after resuming your Xbox One from suspended mode
-Fixed some issues with the handling of Xbox One parties
-Made the icons used to signal voice chat status more reliable

[Stoney Mason]

 

After unplugging my console and plugging it back in Battlefield 4 decided to randomly reinstall itself from scratch.

[Mupepe]

"-Fixed an issue with going online after resuming your Xbox One from suspended mode "

YES!!! 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Almost every problem Nintendo is facing now started with the N64 era, they managed to stay alive during gcn but and the wii was a fluke that masked how far behind they have really fallen in the last 12 years.

Nintendo doesnt have any modern games for one, everything seems set in that n64 mindframe still. Give the masses some aaa hollywood gaming next to your traditional fare. Make online normal. Etc.

What nintendo needs to do is to change into a modern company fast or go 3rd party.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I really, really, want to like this game. But right now I don't.....considering returning it.

[Stoney Mason]

I really, really, want to like this game. But right now I don't.....considering returning it.

It's a terrible launch and an uneven experience. Some nights its great. Some nights it horrible. That probably isn't going to change for at least another month or 2 at minimum.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I really, really, want to like this game. But right now I don't.....considering returning it.

It's a terrible launch and an uneven experience. Some nights its great. Some nights it horrible. That probably isn't going to change for at least another month or 2 at minimum.

I mean I'm a console veteran BF guy, suffered through BC2's launch, cried during the BF3 troubles, but this one takes the cake. Somebody needs to tell EA to fucking wait if the game isn't ready....fuck matching COD's release month.

Also....no squad ups pre-match.....how the fuck did that get through?

[Stoney Mason]

Also....no squad ups pre-match.....how the fuck did that get through?

Like everything though it's bug upon bug that complicates things. The squad up pre game thing wouldn't be a big deal to me because I didn't use it in Bf3.

But then the server queue is broken in the console versions of the game currently. And the squad join on feature is also broken in the console versions of the game currently. So the two features that are supposed to make up for no squads ups pre-match don't freaking work. There are just literally dozens and dozens of bugs like this.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Also....no squad ups pre-match.....how the fuck did that get through?

Like everything though it's bug upon bug that complicates things. The squad up pre game thing wouldn't be a big deal to me because I didn't use it in Bf3.

But then the server queue is broken in the console versions of the game currently. And the squad join on feature is also broken in the console versions of the game currently. So the two features that are supposed to make up for no squads ups pre-match don't freaking work. There are just literally dozens and dozens of bugs like this.

I concur. It's a sad state of affairs.

[tehjaybo]

My group and I used the squad up thing in  like crazy.  I was wondering why I was having such issues getting into games with friends, I had forgotten all about that.

[Mupepe]

Alright. This shit still doesn't work after the patch. I'm trying the router shit but I doubt it will work considering the game worked fine for a week. If it doesn't I'm returning this fucking piece of shit.