A message from Creative Director Lars Gustavsson

Hi there Mr Lars :smiley:
As an avid Batllefield player (Not a very good player) who participated in the Beta i was wondering, as you do on a Friday morning-ish, whether you have any of those old, new Origin Pc’s that are gathering dust in the depths of DICE HQ, somewhere…you would like rid of, i would like to offer a good and loving home for one of them.
Missus Fungus has allowed me a small corner of the living room, next to the telly, that i could use for said PC.
Many thanks.
Fungus.
It’s a good game BF4, well done.

still no acknowledgement of constant stutter / cpu spikes?

non-english win 8.1 user are getting error from DirectX.

It’s Unicode-related problem. they can solve the problem by changing system locale to english then they,however, get another error from another program.

My stuff:

Windows 7 64b UP-TO-DATE - 8GB DDR Corsair - Asus GTX 770 - SSD Samsung 840 pro 256GB - Corsair HX650W

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THOSE ASSHOLES HAVE DELETED MY PREVIOUS POST. THIS COMMENT HAS NO MORE SENSE.

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your problem is not my own. different one. our problem is messaged by “m_dxgiFactory->CreateSwapChain( m_device, &sd, &screen->swapChain”

that message comes on all OS’s.
I have windows 8.1
my other PC, windows 7
error.

Thank you, I really appreciate everyone at Dice working on fixes to resolve these issues that people are experiencing. Thus far I haven’t had many problems myself apart from the occasional crash on the Shanghai level, some sound issues and other than a bit of stuttering etc this game has lived up to my expectations and I feel once these issues are ironed out this game could be the best in the franchise. I really mean that.

Gameplay feedback: Squad play has definitely improved, some players just haven’t figured it out yet. As a suggestion perhaps have some sort of squad tutorial for new players which could help people to use this feature correctly, especially for the commo-rose as I find a lot of players just ignore it which can be frustrating. A tactical rose may also help.

As I play more I’ll see if I can find other issues that could be improved or fixed.

Attack helicopters need major improvements in all aspects

Scout choppers need balancing issues, repair teams are OP… 25 mm guns don’t do enough veh damage.

Netcode!! The AC130 needs some work. The minigunner seat (F3) is completely useless. All seats need splash damage range increased. Every shot from any seat needs to be darn near exact for it to be effective in the least. Right now its only a noisemaker and screenshaker, for those on the business end of its weaponry.

I’m pretty much flabberghasted.
I almost believe that our oppinions matter (sorry if I sound a bit jaded, but I hardly trust huge companies). Anyway, just for the initiative I’ll happily overlook the rough launch.

Hope you guys can find a fix for the shangai map crash :c..
I want to play that map but i cant right now.

Thanks for the contact.

One thing I would like to suggest that is of relevance to the post is doing more of the same in regards to the thread you highlighted. I for one have a bit of an attitude of “what’s the point posting on here as what I say will likely go unnoticed or snowed under a heap of other cr@p”. If DICE could pinpoint like they have done here from time to time some threads that have caught their eye or issues they are looking closely at than I think it would encourage people who may have some great ideas that otherwise remain quiet to make a post in the thought that it will be a good chance of being seen.

The main issue for me at the moment I would like to see resolved with the game is NETCODE and frame drops/spikes. The fact the netcode issues haven’t been fully officially acknowledged yet especially in this post by Vincent is of real concern…as it is a big problem, I would imagine the next biggest beyond the crashes.

I like the game, there is still issues and we know you are working on it.
I can deal with crashes on my client from time to time, but server crashes and the netcode is the biggest problem right now.
So that is what you need to focus most on.

Then i’ve got that said, i can just say i love BF and i always will UNLESS you get a company like Infinity ward to help you out.

Patch for PC on 29 november ? Day one next-gens?

First the netcode for the love of god lol it’s shite

WTF, you wanna tell me we need to suffer these crashes 18 more days till there’s a fix for PC?

One major problem is still around.
Mouse buttons 4 & 5 are not working for gadgets or for VOIP.
This had a fix in beta.

Oh and the first DLC is free to anyone who pre-ordered actually

Would suggest that in the battlelog server browser sorted by ping like in BF3.

I installed the newest audio driver, and my game is freeze with direct x error. I installed back the previous driver and the error is discontinued. I suggest dice can look after that.

Best Regards

Will PC client patches by delayed until the console patches pass certification?

Hi! Really enjoying this game so far. Just wish some of the bugs were smoothed out on the PC. Thanks for your hard work on the client patches, and looking forward to seeing what the future holds for BF4.