So I’ve been playing battlefield for years. I started with bad company 2, played the hell out of BF3. And then I had to take college seriously, so I stopped playing videogames for a while.
But now I’m back. Just last month I purchased the alienware alpha “Steam Machine” per my brother’s recommendation and immediately bought Battlefield 4 Premium. I was so excited to get back into the multiplayer with more player capacity than I had experienced on my xbox 360.
I got my ass kicked.
No seriously. Utterly decimated. Nearly every match I’m getting killed 5 to 6 times as many kills I get. Now I know BF4 isn’t all ratio and there’s strategy but I sincerely couldn’t survive longer than a minute at a time.
I thought I had just gotten rusty after not playing for nearly a year and a half, but I played BF4 at my friend’s house on his PS4 after telling him about my frustration and did WAY better! Getting almost 20 kills every TDM with positive ratios. This was consistent even late into the night.
Then I go back and get butt-raped on PC. What the fuck
I use the Xbox controller that came with my Steam Machine so it’s not a matter of controller transition or anything
I get killed before I have time to even pull the trigger. Spawn. Die. Spawn. Die.
It’s not the game I used to love…
Any suggestions or ideas to improve?
Unless you are flying jets or helos you have a definite disadvantage with the Xbox controller on pc. This could be the problem.
Without Aim-assist, controllers are very difficult to aim with in shooters, i would recommend using a keyboard and mouse for all shooters on PC. Find one that you like and i’d strongly recommend also using LOW sensitivity whenever possible for more accurate shots (i firmly believe having better accuracy overall is well worth having to turn around slower.)
Also, i’d recommend joining 48 or 32 person servers because 64 persons can get very crowded and “clusterfucky” very fast.
i hope i helped.
That actually makes a lot of sense.
Any recommendations for a decent mouse and keyboard? All I have is a generic logitech wireless mouse & keyboard.
I’m not experienced with playing on console but I heard there was aim assist or something like that. If you are used to those types of mechanics then I can see where a decent player with a mouse and keyboard could out shoot you fairly easy. The precision is much better.
Like I said though, I never played console so I might be full of shit. Maybe someone who has done both can back me up or correct me.
i always recommend the CM Storm combo since it’s cheap and has LED’s so you can see the keys in the dark, a perfect starter kit i would say
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Later on you can invest into something more high quality. i personally love my current mechanical keyboard and optical mouse
My Keyboard
My Mouse
I just received a PM from a different user saying the same thing about Aim-Assist. This must be it.
I’ve seen a lot of talk about mechanical keyboards on reddit. What is so special about them? Is it the weight of the keys or something? I’m genuinely interested in the higher quality range.
Honestly, nothing. I have 3 mechanical keyboards sitting here all over $100 and they play no differently than a membrain. It’s just a durability thing and personal preference, and even then I would have to wonder. My ducky shine 3 got trashed in 6 months, and I was pissed. Sure, its nice having a mech keyboard, but it is far from as necessary as a good mouse is. Your mouse and monitor are two things that will make or break you in an fps game(that and proper frames per second). I would recommend either a death adder, Logitech g502, zowie fk1 or some mouse that uses the same sensor that those do. A good mouse and high refresh rate monitor can seriously improve the your game. As far as a keyboard, I could use a netbook keyboard and it wouldn’t affect my gameplay at all. But I love my backlit tkl cherry brown mech 
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What’s the sensor you’re referring to called?
Well, normal keyboards are referred to as “membrane keyboards” because underneath the keys is a simple membrane with rubber domes.
Mechanical keyboards are special in a sense that they have a special switch under every single key. Instead of “pressing” down on mushy rubber domes, typing and gaming on a high end mechanical keyboard is much more ergonomic as your fingers pretty much glide along clicking the keys. typing is much easier on the fingers this way so you’re less prone to carpal tunnel and the experience is pretty much godlike in my experience when compared to trying to use a membrane keyboard
Membrane
different mechanical switches
Intuitively, you’d think a “mushy membrane” would be softer than mechanical switches.
But I understand what you’re saying. Thanks, I’m going to go purchase one now.
its the players, they are all try hards. i changed from PC to PS4 for this exact reason
There are different types of color-coded “cherry mx” switches i suggest you read up on each one and choose which one sounds the best
http://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2012/12/an-introduction-to-cherry-mx-mechanical-switches/
Brown: mechanical switches with a tactile bump at the bottom of the key press when the key activates
Red: is a linear switch meaning there is no bump and will feel the same from the top of the press to bottoming out
Blue: similar feeling to Brown with a bump but with a loud, satisfying “click” on the bump.
you might not even notice the difference between the switches, all 3 of these colors are pretty great from my experience anyway. so have fun
Well that’s not happening
try joining a newbee server? there’s loads of them, they only let people up to level 30 (i think) in, lower kind of skill level, gets you used to the play style of the community
The g502 uses a custom “flawless” optical infrared combo sensor. But here is a list
A3090 (examples: G400s, M40),
PMW3310H (examples: M45, Rival, Naos 7000),
PMW3366DM (example: G502) and
S3988 (example: DeathAdder2013)
Just avoid laser really, or better yet browse the csgo Reddit as those guys take this shit very seriously. I like the 502 as it has zero acceleration (amazing sensor with no software kinks) and still has plenty of buttons and flexible software. The death adder 2013 is also very hard to beat. Zowie is all about no software and a perfect sensor. Final mouse is another example of this minimalistic approach. Pretty much any mouse a pro csgo player uses is good. Just find mouse that fits your grip with a good sensor.
Interesting. Thanks for the list, man.