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Part of what I try to do is looking at the ticket count before joining. Personally, if I see one team is losing by more than 200 tickets I look for another one. Otherwise there's really nothing to be done.
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What's the secret to not being on the losing team every single match?
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:
Swap to the winning team as often as possible instead of gutting it out/trying to win by yourself on a poo poo team. Or be like me/you and lose a bunch 
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Dec 2, 2013 06:45
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Naturally Selected posted:You're in luck. NFS Rivals is based off frostbite. Hadn't played it, and NFS hasn't been good since shift 2, but there you have it. The big brouhaha about FB lately has been that this version of it is actually pretty easy to work with, so EA will be moving a ton of their franchises to it. Hey hey hey Hot Pursuit was a really great game. Shame that Criterion blanded up Most Wanted and Rivals is apparently somewhere in between the two except even less interested with terrible multiplayer.
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Kibayasu posted:Part of what I try to do is looking at the ticket count before joining. Personally, if I see one team is losing by more than 200 tickets I look for another one. Otherwise there's really nothing to be done. And be sure to favorite servers that you'd experienced consistently close matches on. Also try the Kentucky Fried Server! You can even mumble with fellow goons and possibly coordinate! Or at the very least you'll laugh a bit more while you lose. It's also the server I've seen the most comebacks on. Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Dec 2, 2013 |
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Kibayasu posted:And while the MAA isn't as effective as the pre-nerf BF3 MAA, if you slap the 30mm cannon and Zuni rockets onto it it can still kill infantry right alongside the IFV's. I don't think I'll ever get used to using the 30mm as an AA cannon though, except against aircraft flying low and slow for some reason in which case you'll kill them nearly instantly, but otherwise its a pretty great anti-infantry tank. Really, even just Zuni rockets is enough for infantry and light AT work and you'll still be able to kill or force away any aircraft in your range with the 20mm. Active radar missiles still seem pretty overpowered so I can't justify using anything else. It more than makes up for the 30mm being slightly less effective vs. aircraft, and the 30mm is all you need against infantry.
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A MAA with Zuni and 20M is probably my favorite vehicle, really fun to mow down infantry and it feels like you got to be more on your toes to avoid blowing up.
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Totally TWISTED posted:Swap to the winning team as often as possible instead of gutting it out/trying to win by yourself on a poo poo team. Or be like me/you and lose a bunch Second, when you join a server, you get assigned to the team with fewer players, and usually the team with fewer players is the one that people are bailing out of because it's doing terribly, while the people on the winning team stick around for many rounds. Very few servers are running scramble mods right now. Eventually, the churn from new players coming in and people on the winning team getting bored will even things out, followed by a mass exodus of people on the formerly-winning team the first time it loses and people realize their win streak has ended, but that takes a while. If you see one loss, expect many more. Basically, if you hate being put on the losing team, then there are only really three options: Wait it out (for a long time), change servers, or do what everyone else is doing these days and make your own luck with the Switch Team button.
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folgore posted:Active radar missiles still seem pretty overpowered so I can't justify using anything else. It more than makes up for the 30mm being slightly less effective vs. aircraft, and the 30mm is all you need against infantry. Active radar are indeed pretty powerful (though DICE did reduce their damage a bit ago) but I started to really like roaming around with friendly tanks and infantry so Zuni's suit me better. The only thing the 20mm isn't effective against is a double engineer scout chopper, and if you're a good enough shot/close enough even then you'll be able to outpace the engineers when their repair tool cooldown hits. I still occasionally use the 30mm and active radar combo on maps like Dawnbreaker and Resort though, depending on how well the team I'm on is dealing with enemy armor; with Dawnbreaker's buildings you need to put as much hurt on choppers as quickly as possible and Resort is small enough that the 30mm's difficulty for hitting air targets doesn't matter.
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OneEightHundred posted:What happened is two things: First, DICE changed the threshold for switching teams, in previous installments the other team had to be down by 1 player, now you can switch if they're as much as up 1 player, AND team switches are silent, so people sneak over to the winning team constantly and clan-stack like crazy. There are actually a decent amount of conquest servers with team balance enabled. No reason to play without it if you're solo, really. e: unless team balance just balances numbers instead of scrambling every round, which it probably does. disregard this post
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Boogaleeboo posted:I remember thinking when they talked about adding two sights to the guns "This sounds like stupid tactilol bullshit, why would I ever do this?". I think I've killed more people within 50 feet using my canted iron sights on my sniper rifle than I ever have at 800 meters.
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Mutation posted:A MAA with Zuni and 20M is probably my favorite vehicle, really fun to mow down infantry and it feels like you got to be more on your toes to avoid blowing up. The 30mm cannon does so much more damage against infantry, though. It's incredible how easy it is to get 40+ kills in Zavod 311 with it.
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folgore posted:There are actually a decent amount of conquest servers with team balance enabled. No reason to play without it if you're solo, really. It does it even goes for the lower scoring people so it really does nothing in the end.
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socialsecurity posted:It does it even goes for the lower scoring people so it really does nothing in the end.
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Tensokuu posted:Ran into my first aimbot last night. Join a TDM at the start and about two minutes in I start hearing the "game is ending" music start to play. Oh cool we're about to win, drat that was fast.
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Dec 2, 2013 08:53
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Ugh, anyone else being plagued by DirectX errors lately? I had a few problems with them at release then they stopped until just the last few days. Now it seems to be the only type of crash I get, but it's happening once every 3 rounds or so.
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Gazaar posted:Windows 8.1 is fine and takes a week of adjusting to some differences, don't be a baby. It's relentlessly annoying. Do not buy Win8 for BF4. Naturally Selected posted:The big brouhaha about FB lately has been that this version of it is actually pretty easy to work with, so EA will be moving a ton of their franchises to it. OneEightHundred fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Dec 2, 2013 |
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OneEightHundred posted:I thought the same "I'll just stay away from Metro and get the more up-to-date OS, how bad can it be?" thing when I bought it over Win7, and I completely regret it. The Metro bullshit isn't content to stay to its little alternate universe because several things in the desktop space make it intrude (i.e. moving your mouse to the top edge or either of the right corners), a bunch of stock apps got moved to Metro apps that take over the entire screen (i.e. WMP, Word Viewer), and nothing improved UI-wise except the new Task Manager. You can turn off hot corners and charms and lol windows media player.
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Just got this in the sale - Haven't really tried online play yet, but the tech demo that is the single player looks nice. I wish the single player campaign's gameplay was a match for the production values...  It's just a shooting gallery of shooty mcshootmans pretty much - the AI in these drat things never even slightly behaves like a real player much less a soldier using some actual tactics; or if they do, it's really crude. I'm getting sick of 'consolitus' infecting every game, but then again, this IS a battlefield game, so the barfy single player gameplay shouldn't even exist and is inherently tacked-on to begin with. I miss the early days of games like ghost recon and the rainbow six series...granted, battlefield has always been a very arcade-y multiplayer-focused shooter, but c'mon - enough with the scripted bullshit and shooty mcshootmans shooting galleries. Let's see some attempt at putting together a 'serious' campaign for a challenging and engaging single player game that might actually improve one's multiplayer play ability instead of making them fall into terrible habits like standing in one area with tunnel vision. No bugs yet, thankfully - and the game looks great in 144hz 1080p. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Dec 2, 2013 |
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Kool MBT setup for slaughtering other ground vehicles: sabot, STAFF, autoloader You can fire the main cannon then switch to the STAFF and fire it off almost immediately. Other tanks and IFVs will lose really fast 1v1. Sabot can be replaced with HE, but it's so much easier to shoot down helicopters with the former.
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OneEightHundred posted:I thought the same "I'll just stay away from Metro and get the more up-to-date OS, how bad can it be?" thing when I bought it over Win7, and I completely regret it. The Metro bullshit isn't content to stay to its little alternate universe because several things in the desktop space make it intrude (i.e. moving your mouse to the top edge or either of the right corners), a bunch of stock apps got moved to Metro apps that take over the entire screen (i.e. WMP, Word Viewer), and nothing improved UI-wise except the new Task Manager. Was in that camp, then switched to 8.1 (NOT 8) and I can't be happier. Everything you've complained about gets turned off in about 5 seconds, there's a ton of little touches that required tons of fuckery to work in win7 (split wallpapers on multiple monitors. only took them 20 years to figure it out), and loving no one uses WMP except for you. My grandma that barely knows what a mouse is uses VLC/Plex because WMP is that bad. As for the engine, there's lots of good stuff in it that you can actually see, since, you know, BF4 and such. Also the fact that money-grubbing EA actually went to the effort to make it a flagship engine instead of keeping it a  only thing.
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Are there any tips for trying to fix (at least remedy) the crashing between every single map change? Really frustrating 
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I don't have any regular gaming buddies so I usually just try to be friends with random squads. Why don't they stick around for me to repair? 
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WastedJoker posted:I don't have any regular gaming buddies so I usually just try to be friends with random squads. Yeah, i've had that too. I don't think tank drivers realise they are getting reps when poo poo is going down. It needs to be made more obvious imo.
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WastedJoker posted:I don't have any regular gaming buddies so I usually just try to be friends with random squads. My main problem as engy is never finding ammo crates. It gets to the point that it is quicker to commit suicide and respawn than it is running around with my pistol out hoping to shoot an enemy engy. Having a good commander is a god send though.
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eKKo posted:Yeah, i've had that too. I don't think tank drivers realise they are getting reps when poo poo is going down. It needs to be made more obvious imo. I think its a combination of terrible players and the new critical hit system. In BF3 when you were disabled, you were also basically stuck until you reached 100% health again. In BF4, you're only disabled for a few seconds until you're at really, really low health. So terrible players see they can move at full speed again and drive off without a care in the world despite being at 30 health. A good system marred by bad players.
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So I was downloading BF4, which was taking about ~30 hours because I have a bad connection, and I suddenly lost power. When I turned my computer back on and checked Origin, it seemed as if all of the download progress had disappeared. Is there some way for me to make the game check for its local files like there is with Steam, or am I completely boned?
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ankle posted:So I was downloading BF4, which was taking about ~30 hours because I have a bad connection, and I suddenly lost power. When I turned my computer back on and checked Origin, it seemed as if all of the download progress had disappeared. Is there some way for me to make the game check for its local files like there is with Steam, or am I completely boned? If you click download again, it'll first check for what it already has acquired. Unless things get all whacked out, it should detect whatever you have.
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Naturally Selected posted:If you click download again, it'll first check for what it already has acquired. Unless things get all whacked out, it should detect whatever you have. Yeah I did, it's telling me I have 0/24.7 gigs.
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ankle posted:Yeah I did, it's telling me I have 0/24.7 gigs. Sounds like you're boned because :Origin:
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Wasn't the UN talking about making internet access a human right, or something? Having to live in conditions where you need 30+ hours to download battlefield obviously can't qualify as a crime against humanity, but it has to at least be a serious transgression
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ankle posted:So I was downloading BF4, which was taking about ~30 hours because I have a bad connection, and I suddenly lost power. When I turned my computer back on and checked Origin, it seemed as if all of the download progress had disappeared. Is there some way for me to make the game check for its local files like there is with Steam, or am I completely boned? Do you have friends in the neighbourhood who play BF4? 1. Go over to them with an external drive and copy their Origin/Battlefield 4 folder. 2. Go home, start the origin download. Wait 30 seconds, stop it and exit origin. 3. Go to your Origin installation, delete the folder Origin/Battlefield 4 (only the folder "Battelfield 4" not "Origin"). 4. Copy your friend's Battlefield 4 folder into your Origin folder. 5. Run Origin again and start the DL. It will check the files, then jumpt to 100% and start the installation. Pro Tip: Keep the files on the external drive as backup if your BF4 ever acts up.
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Oops, wrong thread gents.
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Well I contacted Origin support and they threw up their hands and told me to get better internet. Whelp. Thanks for all the advice anyway guys. vv Yeah that's what I did. ankle fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Dec 2, 2013 |
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ankle posted:Yeah I did, it's telling me I have 0/24.7 gigs. I have terrible internet and just ordered the hard copy from amazon. Someone got a refund a few pages back so you could try that.
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Anyone else lose their "save data" occasionally and have to reconfigure vehicle set ups? For some reason my "save data" doesn't affect my infantry weapons.
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I chuckle whenever someone joins the server I'm in and is promptly kicked with a global PB ban for hacking. I yell JUSTICE! at the top of my lungs.
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I used to think it was on my server as well but I think the message is broadcasted globally.
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Hopper posted:Do you have friends in the neighbourhood who play BF4?
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Ah ok I thought you had to start the download first. At least that's how I was told to do it with my own files when I had to reinstall due to PB issues.
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