Battlefield 4

[FishyFish]

I've had a look through my old posts, but can't see any screengrabs showing your profile as it was unfortunately.

[Kryptonian]

No worries. A manager should be calling me back but that's that I guess. At least it's only the Origin ID 'name' and not my gamertag or PSN ID. Totally bizarre though, who would want to pinch a name?

[FishyFish]

On the bright side you can re-experience the excitement of unlocking things afresh. I created a second soldier earlier this year to experience going back to basics and it didn't take too long to unlock all the stuff I needed. It's kinda fun when people think you're a lowly ranked n00b only for you to kick their ass because you've got the experience.

[Kryptonian]

It is a fair point and I'm less bothered about the unlocks and more so about someone nicking my account and getting away with it due to black & white rules in place (PSN also has these in abundance). I just feel a bit *insert less dramatic word like violated* here and I don't like the idea of some chump having my ID.

I emailed their COO anyway and he emailed me back copying in the CEO saying he would get their executive team on it so hopefully something might happen and they won't come back with the same 'computer says no' response.

I was hoping I could search through Origin IDs (like looking for friends) to find my previous ID but I can't see that facility online or via iOS.

[FishyFish]

I was hoping I could search through Origin IDs (like looking for friends) to find my previous ID but I can't see that facility online or via iOS.

I think you can look them up on Battlelog by clicking the magnifying glass icon at the top right of the screen (I'm assuming that those are Origin IDs).

[Kryptonian]

Turns out customer service guy 1 was wrong. My account wasn't nicked, some bozo in the contact centre misunderstood what someone wanted any just nuked my (completely unrelated) account in error. I have it back now but all my stats are still gone - they are looking into getting them back.

I can pick an EA game from their range but aren't sure what's around and I think I'm getting Dragon Age for Christmas.

[Dave White]

Big shoes to fill but I actually think those final stand maps are up there with the best in the series history.

[smithstock]

Big shoes to fill but I actually think those final stand maps are up there with the best in the series history.

You what?

I'm gunna fire it up tomorrow, challenge accepted.

[FishyFish]

Turns out customer service guy 1 was wrong. My account wasn't nicked, some bozo in the contact centre misunderstood what someone wanted any just nuked my (completely unrelated) account in error. I have it back now but all my stats are still gone - they are looking into getting them back.

According to Battlelog, you're back to rank 84 now.

[Kryptonian]

Sweet.

Fair play to EA in sorting it out too once they realised what happened. Although I did have to speak to Peter Moore as the customer service guys wouldn't take it further forward.

[KriessG]

Big shoes to fill but I actually think those final stand maps are up there with the best in the series history.

I may agree with you on this! I had a 2 hour session yesterday on them whilst road testing my 2014 Year Mix. I played Conquest Large, and spent the majority of the time flying choppers, planes, and running around with my sniper rifle and shorty shotty. It was bliss.

These maps are so superbly designed. They are big for vehicles, yet every base is its own little battlefield, I mean you could run around the hanger on Hanger 21 for the whole game, it's far bigger than most other arena FPS's entire maps!

I've only just started to play with the air vehicles, despite playing BBC2 / BF3 / BF4. I finally had my first games in the planes where I was proper dog fighting, tailing enemies, it felt immense! Its good enough to be its own flight game on its own. Also buzzing around flying low in a chopper, through the wintery forests, and hovering to cap bases and let the passengers fire off the mini guns, it's just These maps feel really wintery, they remind me of those BBC2 snow maps.

As for best map pack, it's hard, as I loved the previous map pack, but for CTF and Chainlink, as well as Rush. Trying to find full servers with those game modes now is impossible. That is such a shame. Really though, we don't need to pick between them, just enjoy this whole game for what it is: The best FPS out there. The scope of it is ridiculous, and the quality of the map design over all is just immense, the gunplay no matter what class or style you play is pretty much perfect, and the vehicles are all a joy.

I love you Battlefield 4

[Bonzai1888]

Not really played since Destiny, went on tonight, so weird adjusting to my preferred speed again and the fact it is so quick and smooth now.

Need to break myself back in on the original maps I think.

[koefoed]

Had the wierdest bug yesterday. My controller stopped working. I could not sprint and each time I jumped it fireda shot as I landed. Turned the controller off and on but that just stopped from working at all in BF4, worked just fine in the main menu though.

[KriessG]

Me and Kerraig have had some seriously awesome games recently! Chainlink, Carrier Assault, Rush, all with close wins, some superb tactics, the lot. Chopper flying, AC-130'ing, mortar-ing, LAV-ing, and of course some intense base caping. There really is nothing like it.

I played the Halo 5 beta tonight, but the 3rd round I was bored and turned it off. I think Battlefield has stopped me from enjoying arena shooters. They are just so.... simple. The problem I think is that apparently for them to keep improving, they get faster and faster (See: COD series), and then these past 12 months we've seen the jet boosting exo=suits become the in-thing. Meh.

[Yasawas]

I just bought this in the PSN sale, I know I'm going to get properly thraked online later but I think I'm braced for that having dabbled with it a few times about six months ago.

Play TDM at first to learn the maps, play the fucking objective once I experiment beyond that. Anything else I really need to know before I start?

[KriessG]

Don't bother with TDM, the maps are tiny, you won't learn anything. Just get stuck in to Rush and then Conquest, and focus on learning the bases one by one.

Oh, and add up the regulars in here and jump into their games when you see us

[FishyFish]

Yeah, as KriessG says, the TDM (and Domination) maps are just small cordoned off areas of the maps. All you'll learn are those tiny sections (plus there'll be no vehicles in play either, which will change the experience significantly when you do join another game mode).

If you want to get the lay of the land without getting murdered all the time, either join an empty server and just explore in safety, or join an ongoing Conquest or Rush game as a spectator (which lets you follow individual players in either first or third person view, or just fly around the map as a floating camera).

[kerraig UK]

I have SO MUCH amazing footage recorded now but share factory is a head fuck. It's gonna take me a whole day to edit this together

Kriess and me have been having some epic games

[Kryptonian]

Yeah, you need to be like a pro editor to get anywhere.

[FishyFish]

I have SO MUCH amazing footage recorded now but share factory is a head fuck. It's gonna take me a whole day to edit this together

Kriess and me have been having some epic games

The best way I've found to do anything is to cut the bits you want from the longer pieces of footage using the standard video editor on the PS4, and then just load those new smaller clips into Sharefactory.

[idiwa]

Started playing this again yesterday... christ I'm crap! Must have played around 70hrs on the 360 and stopped playing around June or so (went back to BF3). Now with the PS4 I can't hit a fuckin' barn door at 20m.

Going to piss about with the sensitivity. I even thought about buying the unlock weapons to get back in the game quicker but I just couldn't live with myself for doing that

Add me to your list bitches.... PSN: idiwa

[Yasawas]

Don't bother with TDM, the maps are tiny, you won't learn anything. Just get stuck in to Rush and then Conquest, and focus on learning the bases one by one.

Oh, and add up the regulars in here and jump into their games when you see us

Yeah, as KriessG says, the TDM (and Domination) maps are just small cordoned off areas of the maps. All you'll learn are those tiny sections (plus there'll be no vehicles in play either, which will change the experience significantly when you do join another game mode).

If you want to get the lay of the land without getting murdered all the time, either join an empty server and just explore in safety, or join an ongoing Conquest or Rush game as a spectator (which lets you follow individual players in either first or third person view, or just fly around the map as a floating camera).

I will take this on board, thanks!

I hope this clicks. It looks and sounds right good for those who get into it and I want a part of that.

[lankysanchez]

I just bought this in the PSN sale, I know I'm going to get properly thraked online later but I think I'm braced for that having dabbled with it a few times about six months ago.

Play TDM at first to learn the maps, play the fucking objective once I experiment beyond that. Anything else I really need to know before I start?

Added you and idiwa.

Might be controversial, but my advice would be to play Conquest on the smaller infantry-only maps like Metro, Locker and maybe the Dragon's Teeth ones first. Metro/Locker are quite linear and should help you get used to the gunplay & squads etc and should give you some easy opportunities for early kills to get some more guns unlocked. Once you're getting comfortable, head out to the bigger maps. The Naval Strike ones are good fun.

Play engineer for a bit to unlock the Carbines. The AK5C is a good all-rounder and I'm finding the SG553 to be a right little bastard at the moment too.

Dive straight in to Conquest, obvs. And Rush. I've only just started playing Rush. Rush is good.

[Yasawas]

PSN seemed to be eating friend requests tonight but I think I got a few of you added.

I thought the 40GB base game and updates I left it downloading while I was at work gave me the full thing, i.e. like it was one of those games where they put the DLC out in an update that everyone needs to download for compatibility reasons but only paid members get to use it but it seems like I need to get five separate packs of about 6.5GB each as well? Oh lord. PSN please stay strong tomorrow.

[FishyFish]

It's about 65Gb in total.

[KriessG]

Oh my Kerraig, our last 3 sessions have all been awesome, for some many reasons.

Today, despite us being on the worst Conquest team ever, was comedy gold. That plane and the tank! Watching the opposition drive around in a convoy of tanks was a thing of beauty too.

[Shimmyhill]

Kerraig needs to stop playing and get off his ass and get the videos uploaded!

[koefoed]

Weird bug. I can see a lot of servers in the ingame browser but can't connect to any of them. Just get a couldn't connect error message.

[FuntimeDave]

Added you and idiwa.

Might be controversial, but my advice would be to play Conquest on the smaller infantry-only maps like Metro, Locker and maybe the Dragon's Teeth ones first. Metro/Locker are quite linear and should help you get used to the gunplay & squads etc and should give you some easy opportunities for early kills to get some more guns unlocked. Once you're getting comfortable, head out to the bigger maps. The Naval Strike ones are good fun.

Play engineer for a bit to unlock the Carbines. The AK5C is a good all-rounder and I'm finding the SG553 to be a right little bastard at the moment too.

Dive straight in to Conquest, obvs. And Rush. I've only just started playing Rush. Rush is good.

Got back into this over the festive period - still such an amazing game. Pretty much only played the new map pack on my return and conquest - I don't know what they could do to improve it

The AK5C being the first carbine you unlock is the perfect weapon for engineer - have gone back to that even after having the rest unlocked. The morale being Idiwa don't pay for unlocks - if anything it will give you too much choice.

I still haven't got a clue of the difference between Accuracy and Stability on the stats - or changed any of my settings and still manage to do alright at the game. I would probably be world number 1 if I knew what to do and had any spatial awareness.

[idiwa]

Yeah Dave since I got the AK5C I'm doing better, just need to get that bitch supressed as soon as. Looking at my 360 stats on BattleLog I was mostly using the AK5C and the SCAR N or 416. Having pissed about with the sensitivity I'm getting on a hell of a lot better.

Never played big battle Conquest before (not available on last gen) but I'm loving it. Especially on Zavod or whatever the hell its called (the tank factory level). Still not played any new maps as all I bought on 360 was the BF3 map pack.

Is anyone up for some Conquest tonight? Friday 2nd.