Five Tips for Battlefield 4

Hello everyone,

I am here today to give you a few simple tips in surviving Battlefield 4. If you play in Hard Core mode this especially applies to you (and Hard Core mode is the only mode I play these days)

Tip #1 - Communicate with your team!

I don't mean to your whole team, but at least your Teamspeak friends and no I don't mean just general banter talking about how much alcohol you drank on Friday night either. Work together in spotting enemies and giving good descriptions of there whereabouts, what their kit is, any scope glints in the distance etc. You hear a chopper or vehicle nearby, report it to your squad! this will ensure your survival percentage goes up by at least %20... well... maybe...

Tip #2 - Have a plan!

In Battlefield 4 Conquest mode, decide before hand what squad is controlling which capture points. There is no point in running back and fourth to points that are spread from arse hole to breakfast, you become easy cannon fodder for the enemy by making these long distance hikes. Just control two or three points nearby and cap them as they become uncapped or defend them if they are all capped and remain vigilante , your enemy will become discouraged and move on to the next point in which you follow them and mow them down as they move on.

Tip #3 - Don't be a hemorrhoid!

You're moving on to the next objective, don't bunch together like dingle berries! fan out but not so far you find yourself on your own and in the sights of an enemy sniper. e.g. one person take the high road, the other the low road. One to go around a building whilst the other goes inside and refer to Tip #1 and communicate! This way you have more eyes spread over the objective and have a better chance of catching your enemy off guard even if your team mate catches some bullets in the process and dies. You'll then have the chance to cap your mates killers whilst they reload or tea bag your dead friend. Vengeance is sweet!


Tip #4 - Play your role!

Playing Assualt? Throw your medic kits out often!
Playing Support? Throw your ammo bags out often!
Playing Engineer? Work in with the Support player in your squad and be a human death conjurer!
Playing Recon? Scout out, report, actually do recon work! not just camp and annoy the shit out of everyone!

Tip#5 - KDR is not everything!

This one is simple... PLAY THE OBJECTIVE! Your kill death ratio means nothing to no one except your self, in other words no one else gives a shit how many times you've lived and not died.
Max it out too far on the Kill count side and you could end being wrongfully associated with using hacks.
Play the objective and reap the rewards of top scoring, top squad and actually winning the round on occasion.

Battlefield 4 you never cease to amaze

So, Battlefield 4 Naval Strike dlc was supposed to drop in our Origin accounts today for the Premium players, I said 'was'... meaning that it's gone to shit... again.

Far out brussel sprout!, you shell out over $100.00 AUD for a bloody game and you virtually get a virtual cluster fuck of non sense. Below is the excerpt from the article posted on the battlelog forum.

However, we are delaying the launch of Battlefield 4 Naval Strike on PC. We’ve detected an issue and it needs to be solved. Quality is our number one priority and we will not release Battlefield 4 Naval Strike on PC until we feel it meets the highest quality level possible. We are also working on a larger update to release alongside Battlefield 4 Naval Strike on PC that will address the issue of Tablet Commander not working correctly. Once we have a confirmed date for PC, we’ll be sure to update those players on our official channels. We appreciate your patience and look forward to seeing everyone on the Battlefield.

Here is the original post on Battleog forum.


Lets dissect this shall we?

• we are delaying the launch of Battlefield 4 Naval Strike on PC. We’ve detected an issue and it needs to be solved.
  Are you serious? you've detected an issue right before its about to be released, what does this actually mean? You were putting the final touches on Naval Strike and thought 'you know what, I might actually play test this to see if it's actually fit for purpose'.  Explain this to me.

• Quality is our number one priority and we will not release Battlefield Naval Strike on PC until we feel it meets the highest quality level possible.
  This is getting very hard to believe, as maybe this should have been the announcement right before Battlefield 4 was about to release last year.  It's like you're putting a band aid over a severed artery, you make it look like you're doing something, but the blood will just keep pumping til you drown, the body dies or you actually get serious and fix it properly.
  So far the 'body dying' scenario is winning out on this one.

• We are also working on a larger update to release alongside Battlefield 4 Naval Strike on PC that will address the issue of Tablet Commander not working correctly.
  Fuck the Tablet Commander!, scrap the Commander Mode altogether, it's woeful and does nothing but detract from the experience.  Yeah!, yeeha!, lets play Battlfield 4 on my fucking tablet!... maybe I will since the actual First Person Shooter element on Battlefield is a jarring experience to begin with.  Seriously, get rid of the Commander Mode, problem solved and more time can be spent fixing the actual game.

• Once we have a confirmed date for PC, we’ll be sure to update those players on our official channels. We appreciate your patience and look forward to seeing everyone on the Battlefield.
  You're losing me Dice, EA, whoever is calling the shots... you're losing me.  Battlefield 3 was my go to game the last couple of years just because it's scale was epic and captured something very special from when I was young lad growing up thinking how awesome games would be in the future.  Now, we've got a game with a broken back and hasn't recovered you are effectively putting your fingers in the holes of a sinking ship and it's filling fast...
  
  I was at least a little excited about this dropping tonight, but utter lunacy of the reasons given to why Naval Strike is delayed is beyond ludicrous and has annoyed me enough to blog about it rather than roll my eyes and play something else.
  
  DICE, EA, PULL YOUR HEAD IN!
  
  

Pre-ordering video games, should we do it?

Hello everyone,

I am writing this on the basis of most AAA titles these days exclaiming that you should preorder there great new game and not miss out. Not sure what you're going to miss out on apart from playing the game earlier than if you bought it later, perhaps miss out on playing it with your friends on day one launch?... meh. What am I getting at here?, Battlefield 4. I rarely preorder anything as sometimes it's just not worth it, unless you're a collector and have to have a special boxed edition to grace your shelves, I'll happily wait til after the fact to get the game.

Battlefield 4 had me so excited like a 10 year old boy going to a friends birthday party, I could hear all the banter between friends, smell all the party pies, sausage rolls, tomato sauce, cold coke, sweets and cake... especially cake... only to be taken back of the mower shed and molested by said friends shady uncle on the proviso of even better sweets that were somehow back behind the shed. And like Battlefield 4 and its botched launch and numerous patches of "closing one door, opening three hundred others" it has left me feeling the same way... confused, angry and cold.

All the signs of an epic title were there, its predecessor Battlfield 3 absolutely rocked even though it had its relatively small problems, gimmicky as hell Levelution, FrostFUGGINbite3!, new weapons, assignments and the list goes on... say no more, you had my money upon announcement of the new game. It certainly seemed like EA had such a hard-on for money that all of the blood literally left there brain to pump up a voracious cash boner to get this game out as soon as possible and poor old DICE just had to follow suit or as the saying goes "shape up, or ship out". This has hurt gamers no doubt, I surmise this has hurt EA/DICES' bottom line (speculation of course, compared to say a fully functioning release they would've had to make more money right? good vs bad publicity and all that.) and just going by apparent court cases that EA are facing, they have not been fully upfront with the true on the state of the game to investors which can only really point to them not being truthful across the board on anything, but we knew that already didn't we?.

So, is it really worth preordering anything? If there is going to be day one DLC packaged as some wanky special edition with a tin case that you'll never look at again. Then comes the premium content which includes all the expansions and you get them 2 weeks earlier plus priority queuing for servers just to get you in for the hard sell. By the end of the day you've shelled out $120.00 plus bucks for a broken game and promises of it getting better... so no, it's not really worth it.

What does it mean? It all means drek if the spine of the game is broken which Battlefield 4 currently is and it's sad... it doesn't stop me from playing it, it just stops me from playing the absolute fucking hell out of it and enjoying it immensely. Rather, I play a few sessions and get the shits with it and do something else.

This brings me to Titanfall dropping very soon, did I play the beta? yes. Did I enjoy the beta? yes. Have I pre ordered it? No.

Because once bitten, twice shy.

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