Verno wrote on Dec 5, 2013, 10:22:
I am finding that people downplayed the issues the PC version of this game has. While not as disastrous as the console releases the PC version still has a lot of problems. I've had many servers bomb out, the client crash dozens of times, sound loop hardlocking, sound literally disappearing mid-round in some maps and other oddities. When you can play its fun and I think the default maps are better than BF3 ones pre-B2K. There are some glaring issues they should have cleared up before releasing any fucking expansions and no I don't care whether they were in development before or after release.
Creston wrote on Dec 4, 2013, 19:41:not moving onto future projects or expansions until we sort out all the issues with Battlefield 4
You know, apart from that one we just released. Other than though, we're gonna fix everything! Until we decide to do another expansion pack.
"We know many of our players are frustrated, and we feel your pain," EA says. "We will not stop until we can sell you more broken shit."
Verno wrote on Dec 5, 2013, 10:22:
The real issue with this crap is that it begs the question why we needed BF4 at all. BF3 really just hit its content maturity point this year. Why does BF need a 2 year cycle? This doesn't seem to be helping the product.
TychoCelchuuu wrote on Dec 5, 2013, 00:51:Frags4Fun wrote on Dec 5, 2013, 00:01:I think it's interesting that you'd describe your best game as the one where you got a lot of XP, and get mad over losing the XP, rather than describe your best game as the one where you had the most fun (and no server crash can take that from you). I think it's sad that gamers these days play Battlefield games to unlock guns and earn XP instead of to do the thing that has made the series great since BF 1942, which didn't have any unlocks.
I lost over 70k in a single game. That was the last straw for me. It was my best game yet in bf4. Game over for me.
Verno wrote on Dec 5, 2013, 10:22:
The real issue with this crap is that it begs the question why we needed BF4 at all. BF3 really just hit its content maturity point this year. Why does BF need a 2 year cycle? This doesn't seem to be helping the product.
Julio wrote on Dec 5, 2013, 04:07:Yeah, comments like this is obviously just marketing speech. It's not as if the entire company grinds to a halt while a small team of programmers scratch their heads. At most, a couple of extra programmers got retasked/assigned to the BF4 team, though depending on the issues they're facing, there could very well be only 1-2 people at all of DICE with enough in-depth engine knowledge of the specific problem areas to actually do anything useful within a reasonable time-frame. Any delayed content releases will probably mostly be for appearance's sake, as work on content/assets continues uninterrupted..
I'm positive there's two people at Dice (i.e. a team) working on the fixes while everyone else works on BF5. The DLC is probably already mostly done already anyways. BF4 will drop to $5 soon enough, just like BF3 did.
atomicfro wrote on Dec 4, 2013, 21:40:
The bots would run as quickly as possible to grab all the helicopters, but AI was incapable of flying them.