Don’t know anything about this game aside from seeing a few twitch streams. Otherwise I don’t know anything. What should I do for the 1 week??
If you have never played a BF game before you will most likely get stomped, that is the harsh truth.
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Find your favourite class to play by trying them all. Most servers you join will be Conquest Large so engineer can be good to take out vehicles, however most of the enemies will have every upgrade leaving you at a heavy disadvantage in these situations.
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Learn the maps. In a week you arent really going to be able to achieve this (Unless you play the same maps a lot) but you need to know where the heavily contested areas are and the levelution on some maps e.g. Shangai and how the tower can be destroyed. By learning where people usually are you can know where they will come from and where to position yourself best.
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Avoid flying anything unless you are willing to put a lot of time into them. Some people will only play using jets/attack helis and will not play anything infantry wise and this means they are VERY good at using jets etc. This will usually lead to you being killed very quickly as you are going against experienced players.
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If you want to level up quick I would suggest playing a high ticket server on lockers since this is only infantry combat and has a lot of high combat areas, meaning you can get a lot of kills/points. Kills are not the only way to get points and using medkits/ammo bags on this map can also rack up a huge amount of points (More so the ammo bags since very few people play support) and since you are new this may be the way to go.
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Always stay in vehicles when capping a point in conquest. The XP earned from this will also be applied towards the vehicle progression, meaning you can unlock upgrades for them without really doing anything in them.
All these years playing BF3 and 4 and I just learned the vehicle earns XP, too -_-
If you played bf3, note that bullets travel a lot faster and with very little bullet drop compared to bf3. I play for a week now and struggled quite a few days until I noticed this. Now I click heads like crazy, so ez. Locker=Metro+.
Commander is back, also game changing, uav OP as fuck. Dont waste tank/helo ammo on unlikely shots, preserve ammo. They have limited and slowly regenarating shells. DMRs are nerfed but available to every class now. Defibs need a second of charge up time. C4 now on recon. Use your xp boosters in the bottom right on the pause screen if you have any. PTFO for high scores. Bullpup built rifles have higher movespeed while aiming.
Scout helos now also can equip rocket pods. I feel like there is lots more versatility on vehicles now. Use your environment. From pre built explosive traps on the map to activatable urban anti vehicle pillars, which block out tanks from certain areas, over to hatches which limit ladder access to rooftops and of course levolution. Always keep in mind that you might be a red dot on enemy radars. Engage groups of enemies intelligently, flank, ambush, spot people, dont face 3 guys without backup (plan) or with bad cover. Sometimes its better to spare one dude and let him pass to flank 6 dudes and mow them from behind.
AN94 still very good, but they forced a delay between bursts, so its now a real disadvantage in cqb. Pistols are kinda better than before. You can zero high magnification scopes to make long range sniping better. Snipers still mostly useless tho.
Watch battle(non)sense’s videos for more info.
You never looked at your soldier stats page or the load out screen for vehicles?
Uninstall
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Haha, I consider myself an experienced players now but wow did it take me long to find that little “Vehicle” tab 
Is there a way to practice flying the jets/helicopters in a custom game or something? I’m also new to Battlefield and just bought it on sale.
Only way will be to join an empty server which has 1 player start and then do it that way.
Alternatively, you can go to the firing range/test range and fly there I suppose, however that will not help you to learn any maps so I wouldn’t recommend this.
There is no private game mode option/custom game mode in BF4.
Thanks. I’ll give that a shot then. I just kind of wanted to mess around and figure out the controls and how to fly a little bit before I even attempted to in an actual game.
Sorry to bug you again. Just one more question. I got in the test range, but I can’t find a jet. There are helicopters, but I don’t see any jets. Are they not in the test range?
Jets are there, I think they might be in a different location to the helicopters though. I think they are flying about already so you need to just find them basically.
I think they are usually found in one of the corners of the map. There will be 2 types of jet also.
Alright. I’ll take a closer look then. Thanks for your help! 
I think he is referring to the gaining XP for your vehicle when capping points. Not just vehicle XP in general. I didnt know that this was the case either!