Dude bf is not the kd or score, it’s the fun,the enjoyment & the movie like play ..
Finding others to play with is probably the best. A good place to start is on /r/battlefield_4’s Find a Friend Fridays. Not only is that sub far more popular, there’s tons of people who’ve posted in those threads from every platform looking for people to play with. For me on console I just enter their name and make the message “from reddit” so they know that I found them on one of those posts. I also take the opportunity to add anyone who actually plays well if I’ve ended up playing matches without someone from my friends list.
This just happened last night actually. But I didn’t add them in time last night. Thankfully I had hit the “Share Battle Report” option at the endgame score board for some of the matches I played, and their names were there for me to add today! I wish I had thought of checking my reports sooner because there’s a few cases where I’ve met someone, but their name was drowned out on the players met list by everyone else who had been in the matches.
By having a good person or two to play with, you’ll likely find things a bit easier (though even then it does take some time to learn how to play your best). That way you can do stuff like repair the helicopter while they fly it, using a stinger on other heli’s or something like an rpg/sraw to try and hit land vehicles. Or on land vehicle being the gunner and trying to check the area around you often (and most often checking the direction the main turret isn’t facing, this is indicated on the bottom of the gunner screen, large line for main turret, small line for the gunner turret) and taking out and infantry who gets too close.
If your squad has lots of engineers consider spawning as support and tossing down some ammo for them. The LMG’s are pretty good for laying down suppressing fire. Most of them (except the first and a handful of others) have huge mags around 100 rounds, but the smaller mags reload much faster and are still quite effective.
If your squad team is getting mowed down, consider spawning as assault and tossing down some med kits, and work the defib paddles to revive (charge the paddles until they beep to revive someone with 100% health. Anything before the beep will revive the player with a minimum of 20 health (for the quick tap) to 99 (for longer charge without beep). What you chose to do depends on the situation. But if you have time try to charge the paddles at least a little, and throw down a medkit if there’s not time for a full charge revive.
Everyone starts as a noob! Even though I was pretty good at BF 3 it took me time to get good at BF 4.
Lastly I would suggest spending some time in the test range. There’s now a million settings for sensitivity while aiming through various scopes of different ranges (close, medium, long and very long range, I have mine set lower as the magnification increases) and for the size and colour of your hip fire and third person vehicle view reticles (I like the largest size and prefer yellow). Especially if you’re on console, as you’ll need those setting to get the best control of your weapons.
These options are under the “control” and “gameplay” option tabs, under “Advanced Options” located at the bottom of each of those lists. You’ll also find options for everything from your minimap size/opacity to how you want in world friendly, objective and enemy icons to behave, and colours/glow for your vehicle HUD’s and scopes.
Aside from the test range being great for fiddling with those settings, it’s also a good place to learn which weapons you prefer for your kit loadouts. The firing range portion gives you a palce to test out how well your sensitivity settings are working with each gun, and which ones you like best in regards to your accuracy with them and stuff like reload time or accessories. It’s also a great place to try your hand at flying choppers or jets, as there may be settings you want to change to make flying them more intuitive (and in a match usually isn’t the best time for that) and to just get used to how to fly and drive vehicles in general.
Hopefully that wasn’t too much of an information overload! But once you get the game and controls working the way you want it can be that much easier to do well and help your team when you’re playing with others who use good teamwork. If you’re playing alone, don’t be afraid to skip around squads or switch team to find a good one, it makes all the difference. The rest of it is just to practice by playing, but some of the things I’ve mentioned here can help you along your way.
If you’re on PS3 feel free to add me! I really don’t mind “noobs”. As long as they’re trying to work with us that’s often more than enough for me to enjoy playing with them. So find squads who are doing well, try to stick with them and you’ll likely learn a bit and start doing better. And as long as you’re helping your team you’re probably much more useful than the lone wolves/rambos out there.
Battlefield is a much slower game than what you’re used to. Where Halo and Titanfall are more twitch/arena shooters, Battlefield is a tactical shooter. Don’t just charge into the action, take your time. Assess a situation and act accordingly. Check your corners. Use cover. And remember this is a teamwork oriented game. The lone wolf style isn’t going to do you much good unless you really know what you’re doing. Try to find people to play with and work together. If you ha e a Mic, USE IT. If you don’t, try to get in the habit of at least using the quick comm controls.
Another important thing will be to find the proper gun. Something that’s fairly unique to BF is the recoil system. LevelCapGaming on YT does pretty extensive weapon reviews. Look through them and find a weapon that fits your style, ideally something that has even side to side recoil. Stick with this gun until you’ve found your foothold and then start branching out.
Get hacks. They’re cheap and make the game a whole lot more fun. Don’t rage and ruin people’s game. Just use the Jet Aimbot to fkin rule the skies.
Try different classes, you might be better with a sniper rifle than a shotgun
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