BF4 finally enters closed beta

[Necromancer]

Maybe someone will raise the issue of empty vehicles not showing on the (big) map and commander.

[Ash2Dust]

Got in as well.

It does seem almost too little too late for some of the people who have been shouting for them to "fix the game." If it means a better game for all though I'm willing to help out. Especially if they actually go through with this increase in tick rate. Honestly, I think that's the single biggest reason for the "netcode" problems everyone has.

EA appears to be doing well with Titanfall, yet this does sound like they're giving lip service for the battlefield series as I don't think they want to lose it and some BF4 fans have been pissed off enough to not pre-order anymore. I'm in that camp, I think BF4 is a real gem, but unfortuntately its all about selling more DLC and ignoring problems. Its a great sales plan to hype pre-order and undeliver after getting paid.

[Jokerle]

CTE seems open again.

[Gwynzer]

EA appears to be doing well with Titanfall, yet this does sound like they're giving lip service for the battlefield series as I don't think they want to lose it and some BF4 fans have been pissed off enough to not pre-order anymore. I'm in that camp, I think BF4 is a real gem, but unfortuntately its all about selling more DLC and ignoring problems. Its a great sales plan to hype pre-order and undeliver after getting paid.

I think the reason for this is AFAIK Titanfall isn't an EA game. It's EA published, yer, but not owned. Tbh I'm kinda surprised that Respawn went the EA/Origin publishing route, especially given that Titanfall is a Source engine game (if it was EA they'd use some form of Frostbite). I think Titanfall is the only non-Valve produced commerical game. I'd have thought given they are using Source they'd bundle it in with Steamworks. At the same time, Respawn is old CoD4MW devs, they want to go the Micropayments and DLC map packs route. Using Steamworks wouldn't really fit in with that model when using an engine like Source, too many people are familiar with it and would be generating their own (a fair bit possibly better) content.

[Kismet]

Forgive me for TL;DR, but yeah, I'm kind of giving up on gaming in the near term because ... there's a huge influx of bullshit. Broken games litter the landscape, and I'm pretty tired of it. The original post here is just a fantastically great example of how screwed up the game industry is, and I just don't have the patience or interest.

My prediction - games will get far more annoying until they annoy consolers, and then a couple years after that the industry will start shaping up.

Until then... sad days, my friends.

That said, play Speedrunners with Disco and I (and Fields) - I don't feel so bad paying $5 for a pretty fun (but occasionally completely messed up) game. More fun than BF4 in less time.

[matsif]

so I signed up and got in and was about to download the client for it, decided to check my account.

definitely am not grinding through all the unlocks again. starting everyone at level 0 with nothing is ridiculous, even if every server is running 5x xp boosts. how are you supposed to tell how they are changing netcodey stuff if you got used to your [weapon] with [grip y] and [attachments y and z] in regular play, and now have to grind through it again? can't make apples to apples comparisons, can't scientifically tell the differences, can't report any fixes.

so this literally is dice just putting out a refresh of grinding through unlocks for players at a slightly faster rate to say "hey you might have tested something at some point eventually somewhere"

[Jokerle]

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definitely am not grinding through all the unlocks again. starting everyone at level 0 with nothing is ridiculous, even if every server is running 5x xp boosts. "

Not ideal, but okay. You also have tons of battlepacks to open at the start. They planned to make all unlocks available ''later''

[Jokerle]

There is a patch incoming, bringing some goodies from the CTE... Rejoice!

[Tea-Assault]

MRW they finally fix BF4

Spoiler: show

MRW they frak it up again through crap patches

Spoiler: show

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