Judging by forums and You Tubers I’m guessing the update was a disaster. Is it worth downloading?
No. The game played better as an alpha, can we go back? I’m not being facetious it honestly did. 
I finally managed to get my game to actually load, because it kept freezing and I’ve noticed a few bugs:
- Frequent invisible enemies with only helmets and boots visible, sometimes they just re-materialize when they get close too
- Male Axis facepaints unavailable
- No Company Coin at the end of rounds, at least I haven’t gotten any. I’ve played at least 5 rounds and my CC hasn’t gone up at all
- Plane v Plane damage is broken
- Firestorm matchmaking broke so they just completely disabled the mode
There’s probably more.
IMO, #1 is severe enough to warrant an immediate patch or a rollback. Its far more prevalent and severe than the last time they screwed up one of the uniform customizations.
I get stuttering and lag after today’s update, haven’t had that problem before even though I read others have.
Its a mess on PC
How is it on xbox ?
Things are normally a bit rough on update day, but honestly this is the worst BFV has been so far since launch on PS4. It’s bad.
On the plus side though today I got the BF4 Premium pass for £3.99
I can’t believe Dice has finally cured me of my BF obsession. I literally have zero desire to play it now.
DICE caused me to have a mental breakdown I am now in therapy as they destroyed the franchise I loved. RIP BF
PS4 here.
Hit detection of tank v tank is off the charts worse than ever.
Maybe someone can explain…is the hit doing damage and just not showing up on my end? Or are the hits not doing damage?
Patch 8.2 just came for WoWarcraft so I might as well check it out while the dust settles in BFV
Yeah, it’s not good. The update took 50 minutes to install, and then it crashed to desktop after 20 minutes of gameplay. Oh, and they’ve pulled Firestorm down due to a matchmaking bug.
When the game is firing on all cylinders, I love it. Unfortunately, it’s rarely firing on all cylinders. 
I think it’s run out of oil and had an engine seize
Another GREAT hit from the "live service"
I’m halfway through the update and Origin doesn’t want to restart
Op to answer your question let me use a car analogy. Suppose you like Mercedes. You buy a Mercedes but realize it performs like a Dodge Charger for some reason, so disappointed you park it. When you eventually return to it somehow it’s now an 89 Toyota Corolla. Hope this answers your question.
Stay away. Run fast run far.
Hit detection as a whole is borked. Watching rounds hit the enemy.. blood flying off their bodies.. no hit registered..
Maybe its anecdotal, but ive BSOD 3 times in a plane on mercury flying somewhere over E and D flags since its release and never on any of the other base maps, maybe dice should check that first for causes of Al-sudan crashes on conquest large.
I can´t simply put my head around of how they work at Dice.
I work as a developer myself, and I dont get how new and even old bugs return all the time.
These reaccuring bugs just makes me feel like the devs dont test things, and they work fixes on different builds and old builds of the game where old code is lingering.
Do they even get the time they need to test things before release with this live service model?