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Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 01, 2013, 09:27:28 pm
Terrible performance.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: .osiRiS on October 01, 2013, 09:45:23 pm
Another alpha in disguise?
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 01, 2013, 09:53:36 pm
I'm probably struggling to get 20fps on low with a 660OC and X4 955

voip is nice though.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mycoolcar on October 01, 2013, 10:15:53 pm
Feels sluggish. Like bf4 with worse textures, the same sounds and mouse sensitivity dropped down/moving through marshmallow.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: SmiLinSniPeR on October 01, 2013, 10:25:30 pm
Completely unplayable in its current state for me.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: bigROBOTbill on October 01, 2013, 10:42:21 pm
Getting 15 - 20 fps, doesn't seem to make much difference fps wise between ultra and low. Sure looks better on ultra though.



Seeing all sorts of names popping out of the woodwork though, nice!
Title: First Impressions
Post by: BeNZene on October 01, 2013, 10:59:02 pm
* Getting 50-60FPS on High @ 1920x1200 with the Battlescreen off.  With it on, drops to 25-30FPS.  (GTX670, i5 2500k@4ghz)
* Textures in some places are fugly.  I wonder if they've used low textures to save space in Beta?
* CPU usage seems a lot higher than BF3 - 90% utilisation
* Lots of lag, a few crashes, but better than I remember the BF3 beta.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: kongkiwi on October 02, 2013, 01:09:58 am
game is good
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mycoolcar on October 02, 2013, 01:20:17 am
Meh. Its ok. Not super awesome, but not super bad, just ok.

Shooting wise, guns do more damage (so take less hits to kill), but are harder to get hits with (more recoil).
Movement is a bit stuffed though, feels like moving through mud.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 02, 2013, 02:04:52 am
I'm stuck working late so fuck you all and all your BF4's.

Looks nice on my mate's 4770k and titan though...
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Dr. Acula on October 02, 2013, 04:25:44 am
Everything on ultra with resolution scaling at 100, I get a constant 60fps with an i5 3570K @4.5GHz and a 7970 @1100/1475. If I turn the resolution scaling up to 200 though, the fps drops down to 15-20.

So far I'm rather liking it, feels different, but in a good way. Don't regret pre-ordering(thank-fuck)


Quote from: mycoolcar;1532333

Shooting wise, guns do more damage (so take less hits to kill), but are harder to get hits with (more recoil).
Movement is a bit stuffed though, feels like moving through mud.


Imo I find the weapons(only used the AK-12 and MX4) have next to no recoil whatsoever. Even at long range I can go full-auto and get a headshot and sustain hits.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Lyesalot on October 02, 2013, 06:39:20 am
I didn't like it very much to begin with but am enjoying it very much now after 6+ hours
Title: First Impressions
Post by: BeNZene on October 02, 2013, 07:11:03 am
First set of benchmarking information for anyone that is interested:
http://gamegpu.ru/action-/-fps-/-tps/battlefield-4-beta-test-gpu.html (http://gamegpu.ru/action-/-fps-/-tps/battlefield-4-beta-test-gpu.html)
Title: First Impressions
Post by: The Demon Lord on October 02, 2013, 07:51:52 am
I like it, the Weapons feel more solid - the first shot goes where I want it to but the RoF feels good. The Heli's cannon felt a bit weak Vs Inf (took bout 5-10 shots to kill an inf) and the reload seemed to take forever.

The hummers and the tanks turret gun feels better - more in line with BC2 - the turret guns in Bf3 have always felt weak and underpowered IMO, whereas in BC2 they felt just right. I have a few issues to work out with setup, etc. but overall it feels good.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Benji77 on October 02, 2013, 07:58:49 am
I enjoyed it. First rounds of beef I've had in ages.

Not running very well on my pc. Putting that down to the beta (hopefully its just the beta).
Title: First Impressions
Post by: bLuNt on October 02, 2013, 08:23:01 am
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Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 02, 2013, 08:40:48 am
Ran better then BF3 beta for me that's for sure. No major lags unless it was server based. Game generally ran pretty smooth for me on a 2500k @ 4.4 and 6950 @ 6970.

More polished than BF3 was, I like how they have included rooftops etc as part of the game/objective.

5 man squads!, easier to see objectives!

So far I am pretty happy :D

Oh and I am so gonna go on noob toob rampages :D
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Speakman on October 02, 2013, 09:08:41 am
I definitely felt I was CPU limited more than GFX limited (Phenomomom II x4 955 @ 3.6GHz, 8GB ram, HD6970 2GB)

The cover system is a bit shit, when I didn't want to use it it kicked in automatically, when I decided to try it it wouldn't work. Bring back lean.


The Levolution thing is kinda cool.

Planning on spending a bit more than an hour and a bit on it tonight after work. Had 2x 30min each conq rounds which was nice
Title: First Impressions
Post by: LeadCollector on October 02, 2013, 09:18:11 am
Not bad at all, death comes easy :)
Love the extra details the BF games are known for and spent a lot of the night opening and closing shutters and riding the lifts up and down. I want to unlock C4 so I can do jihad lifts! I wonder if you could throw a claymore in the lift?
Title: First Impressions
Post by: bLuNt on October 02, 2013, 09:22:59 am
Quote from: LeadCollector;1532352
I want to unlock C4 so I can do jihad lifts!


Last night I was at the wrong end of a number of m320's as the lift doors opened, was fun.  Hopefully we don't have the c4 spam on objectives like we did in BF3.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mycoolcar on October 02, 2013, 09:23:24 am
Quote from: Lyesalot;1532339
I didn't like it very much to begin with but am enjoying it very much now after 6+ hours

Shit mang. Did you play all night?
Title: First Impressions
Post by: bLuNt on October 02, 2013, 09:24:05 am
Quote from: mycoolcar;1532354
Shit mang. Did you play all night?


LOL he was still on this morning when I woke up to go to work.  Rank 5.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 02, 2013, 10:45:26 am
Quote from: BeNZene;1532330
* Getting 50-60FPS on High @ 1920x1200 with the Battlescreen off.  With it on, drops to 25-30FPS.  (GTX670, i5 2500k@4ghz)
* Textures in some places are fugly.  I wonder if they've used low textures to save space in Beta?
* CPU usage seems a lot higher than BF3 - 90% utilisation
* Lots of lag, a few crashes, but better than I remember the BF3 beta.


How does one turn off 'battlescreen'?
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Slingshot on October 02, 2013, 01:00:24 pm
It's so difficult. Even Leadcollector was beating me.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: BeNZene on October 02, 2013, 02:06:49 pm
Quote from: mattnz;1532365
How does one turn off 'battlescreen'?

When in game, look at battlelog, there is a blue bar towards the bottom of the screen which has three buttons: loadout, servers and battlescreen.  Clicking on the battlescreen button turns it on and off.  Its off by default.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 02, 2013, 02:10:39 pm
Quote from: mycoolcar;1532354
Shit mang. Did you play all night?

You've racked up over 6 hours?
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mycoolcar on October 02, 2013, 03:46:30 pm
Day off to play. Pew pew.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Krekor on October 02, 2013, 04:04:13 pm
Quote from: LeadCollector;1532352
I want to unlock C4 so I can do jihad lifts! I wonder if you could throw a claymore in the lift?
Recon has C4 by default now
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 02, 2013, 04:14:01 pm
wait so I cant get C4 with my ammo pack?
Title: First Impressions
Post by: The Demon Lord on October 02, 2013, 04:18:28 pm
Quote from: Krekor;1532473
Recon has C4 by default now

hopefully Recon can throw C4 again - like BC2 Assault snipering fun times (I really didn't have fun with C4 in BF3)
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Nostargate on October 03, 2013, 10:28:35 am
Quote from: Growler;1532348

Oh and I am so gonna go on noob toob rampages :D

You have me here, miss our CG bromance
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 03, 2013, 12:34:39 pm
Quote from: Nostargate;1532531
You have me here, miss our CG bromance

Come, we can make it blossom again.... the rage will be large, the lols will be fun and the crying will be worth it.

We need to find a dedicated bitch to be out C4/Ammo whore. They will also have the glorious title of the beep beep leader for Jihad Jeep Noob Toob Adventures
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Kopfjaeger on October 03, 2013, 01:24:47 pm
armor seems twitchy although turret speed seems ok, ballistic arc with Tank Ap rounds is similar to BF3 but no ranging hashes ?  had several Jav's lobbed at me but defeated all with IR smoke.  drove MBT off 2nd story landing and landed right side up with no damage ...WTF ? 2 x AP rounds to set a jeep on fire - pathetic

very laggy on Aus servers, not impressed
Title: First Impressions
Post by: frankytanky on October 03, 2013, 04:33:02 pm
need to be bluer and MOAR LENZ FLAIR!
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 03, 2013, 05:23:45 pm
I rolled back my drivers to try and sort out the fps issues and now it's just stuck on the loading screen :/
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 03, 2013, 05:38:27 pm
It is now inexplicably working :|
Title: First Impressions
Post by: AvatarFACE on October 03, 2013, 09:35:56 pm
I finally got some spare time, played a few rounds had a few crashes and so far no stats have been added on to my character since I played one round earlier in the week. But I like the feel, getting some low fps with explosions and stuff I may need to upgrade my 6950 2gb, for some more video memory, or maybe try out crossfire?
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 03, 2013, 10:10:23 pm
you running the beta driver avatar? I have 6950 and fps is pretty solid (acceptable)
Title: First Impressions
Post by: EnjoyTheSauce on October 03, 2013, 10:17:28 pm
Quote from: Growler;1532577
you running the beta driver avatar? I have 6950 and fps is pretty solid (acceptable)

What are you getting? I'm only getting around 30 and lag out often. Although it probs my cpu bottlenecking (i5 760)

Edit: Same graphics card btw.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: =C= on October 03, 2013, 10:31:36 pm
First impressions:  60 fps but constant stutter and rubber banding.  Lost the count how many times it's crashed so far.

Sniping is next to impossible with the stutter but hey, it's a beta.

no commander mode yet ;/


+ VOIP that works.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Lyesalot on October 03, 2013, 11:15:48 pm
Battlepacks are pretty gay.! I should be able to work towards attachments I want not rely on battlepacks.

I got 4 xp boosts for my gold battlepack at lvl 10. useless!
Title: First Impressions
Post by: The Demon Lord on October 04, 2013, 07:44:32 am
I can now take out Helis with RPGs

I has a happy
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 04, 2013, 10:04:31 am
Yep, RPGs are a lot quicker now. Tanks shells are crazy slow though.

Also that tower is way to easy to take down. Pillars should be in a basement, or somewhere defensible.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: The Demon Lord on October 04, 2013, 10:55:39 am
Quote from: mattnz;1532599
Yep, RPGs are a lot quicker now. Tanks shells are crazy slow though.

Also that tower is way to easy to take down. Pillars should be in a basement, or somewhere defensible.

Also the hit reg with the RPG seems to be better and the flight path is flatter/more predictable

in BF3 I couldn't hit a chopper with an RPG to save my life due to the funny flight path (the big drop in the first 50 metres and then slow drop always used to mess with my aim)
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Matt on October 04, 2013, 11:14:34 am
unplayable for me on stock i5 2500k/570gtx, cpu bottleneck and < 10fps
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 04, 2013, 11:53:42 am
Quote from: Matt;1532604
unplayable for me on stock i5 2500k/570gtx, cpu bottleneck and < 10fps


I have 2500k @ 4.3 and 6950 and no issues.

Are you running latest beta drivers?
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955065670085977700/


Also try this to make sure DX 11 is uptodate
-Run and install DirectX from this location: Battlefield 4 Beta\__Installer\directx\redist


Also, delete your setting and start the game as a virgin again. remove everything from the folder! Certain sound settings have caused issues as they are not implemented.
C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Battlefield 4\settings
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 04, 2013, 12:00:02 pm
People also reporting significant gains in WIN 8!
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Speakman on October 04, 2013, 12:25:51 pm
Quote from: Growler;1532608
People also reporting significant gains in WIN 8!

fuck that
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Matt on October 04, 2013, 12:51:17 pm
I'm not having luck with it, might try deleting the settings contents later but since it's an acknowledged issue there's a potential they push a fix before beta ends so I can have a crack.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 04, 2013, 01:55:52 pm
Quote from: Matt;1532612
I'm not having luck with it, might try deleting the settings contents later but since it's an acknowledged issue there's a potential they push a fix before beta ends so I can have a crack.

Yeah running like arse for me too. (i5 2500k @ 4.4 + 670FTW + latest drivers etc). I can get 100fps on Med / Low but it drops to ~ 10 Fps here and there, usually when I least need it to.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: deadmeatwalking on October 04, 2013, 02:31:00 pm
amd x6 @4ghz and a 6850 @900mhz @ 60 fps ... could be worse
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mycoolcar on October 04, 2013, 04:36:57 pm
Quote from: The Demon Lord;1532603
Also the hit reg with the RPG seems to be better and the flight path is flatter/more predictable

in BF3 I couldn't hit a chopper with an RPG to save my life due to the funny flight path (the big drop in the first 50 metres and then slow drop always used to mess with my aim)

IMO its like the hit box for RPG to chopper is HUGGEE. Much easier to hit flying things, almost too easy.

Tank Vs. chopper is reasonably easy too, issue in Shanghai is choppers fly a little higher with all the buildings, so tank turret does not get high enough to hit them. 50cal on top does lots of damage though, and is easy to use.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: The Demon Lord on October 04, 2013, 04:41:17 pm
Quote from: mycoolcar;1532617
IMO its like the hit box for RPG to chopper is HUGGEE. Much easier to hit flying things, almost too easy.

Tank Vs. chopper is reasonably easy too, issue in Shanghai is choppers fly a little higher with all the buildings, so tank turret does not get high enough to hit them. 50cal on top does lots of damage though, and is easy to use.

yeah - I was thinking that it was a bit too easy, but then with the amount of buildings, its quite easy for the chopper to play hide and seek
Title: First Impressions
Post by: AvatarFACE on October 04, 2013, 04:59:02 pm
Quote from: Growler;1532577
you running the beta driver avatar? I have 6950 and fps is pretty solid (acceptable)


Yea I'm running the beta.
Specific setup:
 HIS IceQ X Turbo H695QNT2G2M Radeon HD 6950 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
Intel Core i5 2500K Unlocked Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz 6MB Cache Quad-Core Processor
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Sandy Bridge Optimized F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL
GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Antec High Current Gamer Series HCG-620 620W ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.91 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Latest Beta AMD Drivers
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Title: First Impressions
Post by: SmiLinSniPeR on October 04, 2013, 05:43:30 pm
I was unable to play above 12 fps at most on Win 7 pro x64.

Installed Win 8.1 x64 preview on a spare drive i had to try it out installed beta etc and now get ~ 30-40 fps and 0 lag / stutter.

I never thought i would move to win 8 but here i am and its starting to grow on me....

EDIT: Specs i have AM3 6100 , 8 gig ram, 7850 2 gig , 1TB Seagate.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: monpepe on October 04, 2013, 06:15:13 pm
Dont run the beta drivers if you have win 7

Roll back to Nvidia 320.something. Its a known issue with those drivers. I have 2500k and 580 and had major issues. Now a bit better.

Also, manually update punkbuster.

Alt tab and close battlelog when playing.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: swindle on October 04, 2013, 06:36:37 pm
My Origin is downloading at about 100Kbs.

Ropable.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 04, 2013, 06:50:50 pm
Quote from: monpepe;1532621
Dont run the beta drivers if you have win 7

Roll back to Nvidia 320.something. Its a known issue with those drivers. I have 2500k and 580 and had major issues. Now a bit better.

Also, manually update punkbuster.

Alt tab and close battlelog when playing.

Oh nice. Thanks. Will try.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Baldesto on October 04, 2013, 06:54:13 pm
only team work i have seen is from sila and oga so far .  same as most of these games , team work will win it . half these nubbies couldn't organise a fuck in a whore house
Title: First Impressions
Post by: BeNZene on October 04, 2013, 07:12:25 pm
Quote from: Emrico1;1532613
Yeah running like arse for me too. (i5 2500k @ 4.4 + 670FTW + latest drivers etc). I can get 100fps on Med / Low but it drops to ~ 10 Fps here and there, usually when I least need it to.

i5 2500k @ 4 + 670GTX + Latest drivers and I'm getting 60ish on High, but with drops to 25-30 when shit hits the fan.  CPU is at 90%+ most of the time on all 4 cores.  Sounds like this game wants more cores and/or hyperthreading.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mycoolcar on October 04, 2013, 07:15:15 pm
Quote from: monpepe;1532621
Dont run the beta drivers if you have win 7

Roll back to Nvidia 320.something. Its a known issue with those drivers. I have 2500k and 580 and had major issues. Now a bit better.

Also, manually update punkbuster.

Alt tab and close battlelog when playing.

i7 920, sli 580s. Latest driver, works fine. Decent frames too.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 04, 2013, 07:19:46 pm
Rolled back the driver, seems a little more stable but the general frame rate took a hit. better though.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: monpepe on October 04, 2013, 08:22:45 pm
Quote from: mycoolcar;1532626
i7 920, sli 580s.

 
of course with that monster
Title: First Impressions
Post by: ~SoL1D_Sn4Ke~ on October 05, 2013, 12:34:44 am
not much fun so far only 30 fps and rubber banding badly, no difference in fps with gfx ultra or low...running latest amd drivers win7 64, i7 930, amd 6970 2gb, 6gb ram

might revert back to old drivers and see.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 05, 2013, 01:47:52 am
Nah, still fucked.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Fubar on October 05, 2013, 09:20:37 am
i5 2300, 6850, latest released drivers (not beta) using basic sata drive, Win 7 64 bit. No OC on anything

Game runs smooth at either medium or high settings. First night I would get lag spikes but now game runs fine. My only complaint is my load times blow, by the time I get in top players have 5+ kills :(
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mycoolcar on October 05, 2013, 10:59:42 am
Load time is still pretty slow with an SSD. Maybe it will be better in the full release?
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Baldesto on October 05, 2013, 12:10:38 pm
i7 haswell 4770k @4.6 and 6970 latest amd drivers , samsung ssd , load times are shit , lag is still pretty awesome . please get some local servers soon .
Title: First Impressions
Post by: O-L-W-A-G on October 05, 2013, 11:39:36 pm
i7 860 @ 3.6 HT on
2x 7850 @ 1050/1450
Win 8

All ultra
No masa
Max post
HDAO

I'm never dipping under 60FPS, hovering around 80, the load tines are fine.

Gameplay wise it feels like BF3, just a tad faster and smoother with some small gameplay updates. Missing that addictiveness though completely.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: CSfaith on October 06, 2013, 10:20:55 am
Need someone in CHCH to sell me some hardware, my rig is still in Palmerston North ! FUUUUUUU want to play this ! Growler, I might have to do a fly by and have a squiz !
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 06, 2013, 04:03:10 pm
From trying to fix my game and reading up on fixes, it seems to me that Sandy Bridge non-hyper-threading CPU's (i5 2500k etc) are problematic, along with the very popular six series nVidia cards (660, 670 etc).

Unfortunately, I have both.

There is news of a potential update to beta coming.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mycoolcar on October 06, 2013, 04:12:04 pm
I'm thinking the "update" will be another map for the last weekend of the beta. As with the bf3 beta and caspian on the last weekend.

Lets crash a destroyer into an island.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Mayhem_Lee on October 06, 2013, 04:20:43 pm
Quote from: Emrico1;1532683
From trying to fix my game and reading up on fixes, it seems to me that Sandy Bridge non-hyper-threading CPU's (i5 2500k etc) are problematic, along with the very popular six series nVidia cards (660, 670 etc).

Unfortunately, I have both.

There is news of a potential update to beta coming.

So them hyperthreads is a bonus to have currently? Downloading beta now will give it a shot on 3770k with 680
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Spork on October 06, 2013, 04:37:07 pm
Game seems very fun so far.

Running very well on It 4770k (stock speeds so far) with 7970 and 16gb ram.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 06, 2013, 06:16:43 pm
Quote from: Mayhem_Lee;1532685
So them hyperthreads is a bonus to have currently? Downloading beta now will give it a shot on 3770k with 680

Not sure if the hyperthreading is a bonus but I haven't seen many complaints from 2600k's so I'm just guessing.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Mayhem_Lee on October 06, 2013, 11:00:42 pm
Quote from: Emrico1;1532688
Not sure if the hyperthreading is a bonus but I haven't seen many complaints from 2600k's so I'm just guessing.

Mine was running a bit like a dog... not sure if it was server issues or what was going on, was getting direct x errors/game crashes
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 07, 2013, 03:30:20 am
Quote from: Mayhem_Lee;1532693
Mine was running a bit like a dog... not sure if it was server issues or what was going on, was getting direct x errors/game crashes

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

I'm running 1680 res all on low... Still fun, just takes a bit of getting into.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 07, 2013, 09:06:56 am
Quote from: mycoolcar;1532684
I'm thinking the "update" will be another map for the last weekend of the beta. As with the bf3 beta and caspian on the last weekend.

Lets crash a destroyer into an island.

Hopefully it's a bit less inevitable than the skyscraper collapse.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: EnjoyTheSauce on October 07, 2013, 09:55:10 am
Quote from: Mayhem_Lee;1532693
Mine was running a bit like a dog... not sure if it was server issues or what was going on, was getting direct x errors/game crashes
More often than not, direct x errors are caused by overlays, so try closing xfire and the likes.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Spork on October 07, 2013, 01:02:51 pm
It's good to see quite a few GetSomeers hitting this up, is everyone who has played it planning on purchasing it so far? Would love to be able to play with some of ye, it has been too long since I last played a BF game hard out.

Was fun playing with Growler, Swindle, RHO and OLWAG yesterday.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Kopfjaeger on October 07, 2013, 01:07:18 pm
based on the beta so far this is the first BF game i'm seriously considering not purchasing however i expect my attitude to shift when a decent map is released
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Matt on October 07, 2013, 01:42:58 pm
I will purchase regardless, it is a beta after all and the majority of the bugs/performance issues won't be in the initial release. Think how solid the other 7 maps were in BF3 despite no public testing
Title: First Impressions
Post by: AvatarFACE on October 07, 2013, 01:43:57 pm
Quote from: Spork;1532715
It's good to see quite a few GetSomeers hitting this up, is everyone who has played it planning on purchasing it so far? Would love to be able to play with some of ye, it has been too long since I last played a BF game hard out.

Was fun playing with Growler, Swindle, RHO and OLWAG yesterday.


Yea I got it pre-ordered, I will have to try and find more time to play, I also enjoy seeing usernames I recognize playing, I usually try and team up if on my team, or target them specifically if on the opposite team.

Going to try and get on this afternoon.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 07, 2013, 02:33:01 pm
Quote from: Kopfjaeger;1532716
based on the beta so far this is the first BF game i'm seriously considering not purchasing however i expect my attitude to shift when a decent map is released

What is wrong with the map?

I really like it. I think it's different to any map I have ever played. The altitude of the buildings gives it a vertical element that I have not experienced.
Jumping off the roof and sailing in behind a target makes me feel like batman. I also like flying in and around the buildings.
It's a little easily roof camped but it's fun getting a chopper up there to send them back to earth.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 07, 2013, 04:01:35 pm
Yeah I like it, apart from when you are on a team whose only goal is to camp C roof.... dropping C as quick as possible if you dont have it first is almost a must.

Every cap can be defended from cover so it takes the roofers out of it. They are only any good if they are spotting and nuking air and ground armour, but so few of them do that anyway.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: SteddieEddie on October 07, 2013, 05:20:19 pm
Just played half an hour and so far I like it.

Didn't enjoy bf3 so didn't have much hopes for this.

Dinner and back into it. See you on the battlefield.

My tag is Shpongled
Title: First Impressions
Post by: swindle on October 07, 2013, 06:16:14 pm
Quote from: Emrico1;1532728
What is wrong with the map?

I really like it. I think it's different to any map I have ever played. The altitude of the buildings gives it a vertical element that I have not experienced.

The map does lend itself to much cooler firefights with the scale being increased the way it is.

Streets are much wider. Much nicer.

I rather like the map.

I fucking hate the state of this BETA though. Its like 5 lines of code in notepad I fucking swear.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Kopfjaeger on October 08, 2013, 09:05:55 am
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Title: First Impressions
Post by: The Demon Lord on October 08, 2013, 09:41:45 am
Quote from: Kopfjaeger;1532777
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just wait till there is a map with Jets

I dare you to camp on the roofs now bitches
Title: First Impressions
Post by: private_hell on October 08, 2013, 10:45:38 am
everyone seen the elevator glitch - its pretty funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-FP-rVIvHM
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 08, 2013, 01:03:15 pm
one of the BW lads got significant FPS gains going to win 8.

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Ok ready to install. Just finished benching on an empty 32ppl server with fraps.


Win 7 64bit. Medium preset, motion blur off, 1920x1080, window mode.


Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
  4477,     60000,  48,  99, 74.617


Wow... Same settings/install just now on windows 8. Results;


Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
  5308,     60000,  73, 106, 88.467


Edit: Deleted user prefs and re entered same settings but enabling fullscreen mode, results;


Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
  6125,     60000,  76, 129, 102.083
Title: First Impressions
Post by: kongkiwi on October 08, 2013, 04:42:09 pm
do I really want WIN 8 just to get frame rate in a game I will play for a short amount of time?
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 08, 2013, 04:47:14 pm
From the sounds of things you might be just as likely to get gains reinstalling Windows 7.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 08, 2013, 04:54:36 pm
win 8 = dx 11.1/2 which 7 wont support.

Also I should mention those results were achieved installing 8 over the top as an upgrade keeping all setting apps etc so not a CLEAN install as such
Title: First Impressions
Post by: kongkiwi on October 08, 2013, 04:58:59 pm
So what gpu and cpu?
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 08, 2013, 05:33:49 pm
Quote from: Growler;1532822
win 8 = dx 11.1/2 which 7 wont support.

Also I should mention those results were achieved installing 8 over the top as an upgrade keeping all setting apps etc so not a CLEAN install as such

There's no way I'm downgrading to windohs 8, let alone paying money for it. Dice just needs to get their shit together.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: kongkiwi on October 08, 2013, 05:50:51 pm
Quote from: The Demon Lord;1532779
just wait till there is a map with Jets

I dare you to camp on the roofs now bitches

I would encourage a mortar attack on the roofers
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 09, 2013, 11:44:02 am
Wow that lock on ohk from rpgs on the helis is ridiculous.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: SLAYER!@# on October 09, 2013, 12:15:43 pm
Quote from: Growler;1532822
win 8 = dx 11.1/2 which 7 wont support.

Also I should mention those results were achieved installing 8 over the top as an upgrade keeping all setting apps etc so not a CLEAN install as such

I ended up doing a clean install of Win 8 and my previous install of Win 7 well maintained. So the gains mentioned above were purely from a different OS. I did keep BF4 settings and install file though.

Quote from: kongkiwi;1532825
So what gpu and cpu?

i7 950 @ 3.69, GTX 570 SLI. :)
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 09, 2013, 01:44:28 pm
I upgraded to 8 last night, over the top install. Was pretty pain free, but CCC Manager is giving me issues but my actual drivers are installed. Other than that you wouldn't really know it was windows 8 other than the boot logo.

BF4 seemed smoother, perfectly playable on auto (will SS settings tonight). but one thing that I did notice is it was much prettier and the dust issues were not there (though this could have been the game update). The shadows cast by the buildings through the dust clouds etc was amazing and didnt seem to be taxing on my now average rig (2500k @ 4.3 and 6970)
Title: First Impressions
Post by: bigROBOTbill on October 09, 2013, 05:58:27 pm
I was wondering how that would go Growler as I'm very sad how the Beta is running for me at the moment. And somehow playing BF3 isn't the same anymore. I know I am hoping for a miracle by going to win8, but I have read that it does run it better.
I get 20-30 on medium
I have Q6600 @2.9 and GtX460 SLi
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 09, 2013, 06:18:49 pm
Quote from: bigROBOTbill;1532915
I was wondering how that would go Growler as I'm very sad how the Beta is running for me at the moment. And somehow playing BF3 isn't the same anymore. I know I am hoping for a miracle by going to win8, but I have read that it does run it better.
I get 20-30 on medium
I have Q6600 @2.9 and GtX460 SLi

The beta isn't really a good measure of performance right now.
My system runs BF3 on high @ 120fps but BF4 is almost unplayable at any setting.
Drop the resolution and put everything on low until release then wait and see.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: EnjoyTheSauce on October 11, 2013, 01:57:58 am
New patch, no more lag spikes, woot.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Kopfjaeger on October 11, 2013, 06:52:43 am
Quote from: EnjoyTheSauce;1532994
New patch, no more lag spikes, woot.

New patch, armour bounces all over the place and gets stuck on random rubbish ? Are there certain Aussie servers that are lag free ? 32 p only ? The lag seems even worse now
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 11, 2013, 08:29:10 am
todays patch.

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Updates in Beta Patch #2 for PC (Oct 10)
-Two fixes for the long/permanent loading times
-Various improvements in performance for users running quad core or six core CPU's
-Fixed a crash that happened for some dual core CPU users after loading
-Fixed a crash relating to DirectX10 graphics cards
-Various stability fixes
-Various crash fixes
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 11, 2013, 09:52:04 am
Still runs like aids for me :/
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Growler on October 11, 2013, 10:56:12 am
havent had an issue....

I think you might need to try a sacrifice to the Bacon gods....

Send me 10kg of Canadian streaky maple bacon and all your worries will go away!
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 11, 2013, 11:00:54 am
Haha, I dunno. I'm running an X4 955 (with GTX660, 12GB, and SSD), which is below recommended, but I still feel like I should be getting more than a terribly unstable 30fps.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: SmiLinSniPeR on October 11, 2013, 11:25:36 am
I have installed it on my kids pc for the older boys and they are getting smooth frames ( ~40) on there X4 630 4 gig ram and 1 tb hdd 6850 1 gig @ 1440x960 all settings medium.

Oh and Win 7 x64 pro
Title: First Impressions
Post by: SteddieEddie on October 11, 2013, 11:30:14 am
Quote from: Kopfjaeger;1532997
New patch, armour bounces all over the place and gets stuck on random rubbish ? Are there certain Aussie servers that are lag free ? 32 p only ? The lag seems even worse now

yep it seems much worse for me now after the patch.

had a kid free arvo yesterday, got all set for some serious time and the f ing thing was shite
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 11, 2013, 12:43:32 pm
Seems OK for me now after a quick blat.
(2500k + 670ftw windows 7)
Title: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on October 11, 2013, 01:00:01 pm
Well mine just updated (again?) and now it's a solid 40-50, so hmmmm.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on October 11, 2013, 01:09:49 pm
Quote from: mattnz;1533023
Well mine just updated (again?) and now it's a solid 40-50, so hmmmm.

Woot
Title: First Impressions
Post by: ~SoL1D_Sn4Ke~ on October 11, 2013, 04:49:25 pm
still at 30fps at new update..when knifing it feels like playing tetris fps goes down terribly like 1 animation per second, but game feels much smoother only managed to get 10~ kills with the lag now can manage 40+ a round.
Title: First Impressions
Post by: swindle on October 12, 2013, 09:33:54 am
Will have to fire it up tonight and see.
Title: Re: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on February 04, 2014, 03:32:32 pm
Will have to fire it up tonight and see.

No no no. You, my friend will have to come and play RUST with us. We need a HC headshotter desperately. And get that lazy SOB Laz off his dot and come play too. Wellfpeeeek rewl
Title: Re: First Impressions
Post by: swindle on February 04, 2014, 04:18:50 pm
Will have to fire it up tonight and see.

No no no. You, my friend will have to come and play RUST with us. We need a HC headshotter desperately. And get that lazy SOB Laz off his dot and come play too. Wellfpeeeek rewl

Rust, huh? Well well well. Teamspeak tonight?
Title: Re: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on February 05, 2014, 01:52:19 pm
Will have to fire it up tonight and see.

No no no. You, my friend will have to come and play RUST with us. We need a HC headshotter desperately. And get that lazy SOB Laz off his dot and come play too. Wellfpeeeek rewl

Rust, huh? Well well well. Teamspeak tonight?

Yeah man. Highly addictive. More casual that DayZ but it's got Source engine so it's a lot lot smoother. Good fun.
Title: Re: First Impressions
Post by: swindle on February 07, 2014, 01:57:38 pm
Lets do this.
Title: Re: First Impressions
Post by: Emrico1 on February 08, 2014, 02:51:06 pm
Lets do this.

Such win.

We get attacked and spawn back in our freshly minted 4x4 box with a metal door. six or seven Attackers come back and tell us if we give them our boots, they will let us live.
OK, open door. Shotgun attack, damn pricks. I get out and commence the rock assault.
One guy runs in, swindle closes the door on him. Hahah. Imprisoned the arsehole and the only way in or out is death.

Keep playing for 13 hours straight.
Title: Re: First Impressions
Post by: Dr. Acula on February 08, 2014, 06:15:21 pm
Such win.

We get attacked and spawn back in our freshly minted 4x4 box with a metal door. six or seven Attackers come back and tell us if we give them our boots, they will let us live.
OK, open door. Shotgun attack, damn pricks. I get out and commence the rock assault.
One guy runs in, swindle closes the door on him. Hahah. Imprisoned the arsehole and the only way in or out is death.

Keep playing for 13 hours straight.

Must get in on some of this action!
Title: Re: First Impressions
Post by: mattnz on February 08, 2014, 10:00:58 pm
Rust Interviews (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_qTqZaMkn8#ws)

How do I embedded youtube?

Oh, easy.
Title: Re: First Impressions
Post by: bigROBOTbill on February 10, 2014, 12:57:15 pm
Well that certainly looks much better that BF4, such amazing gameplay and everythingl.