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Hoping my GTX 590 will still be able to max out the game...but I have a feeling VRam may be holding me back this time around. :(

Hoping my GTX 590 will still be able to max out the game...but I have a feeling VRam may be holding me back this time around. :(

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I can see teamwork being better but not as good as it was in BC2. it's still gonna be a lone wolf type of game like BF3 was where you COULD do teamwork if you wanted. Especially evident by the fact they didn't switch classes towards teamwork, they switched them towards mobility and solo play.

Assault still has med packs, support has a mobile mortar, recon now have C4 as well as support. I'm not sure how the class balance is gonna work yet but I don't see the game having more teamwork. The only thing they did towards team work is field upgrades which are kinda confusing and hard explain.

What I do like is having a small and large med pack that heal at different rates as well as quick revives not yielding 100% health but you have to charge the paddles to get 100%

wis3boi

You don't think having a commander will help with teamwork? I know that a lot of BF players probably just want to run around and kill things but I'd hope having a commander giving out orders to squads might at least add some cohesion to the battle. 

 I found it profoundly frustrating playing BF3 and playing to win the game while everyone else was trying to improve their K/D ratio or get a specific ribbon. I fear it will be even more of a problem for me coming from Rising Storm where teamwork is pretty common and you are doing things with purpose rather than just running around looking for action. I find that style of multiplayer to be a special blend of boring and irritating. 

commander is gonna be great, especially since the commander, unlike BF2, is not on the field with everyone else.  BF2/2142 commanders often chose the role to help themselves in battle, not the army

hopefully built in VOIP will help teamwork or at least squad team work. And yeah I know BF3 had teamspeak/mumble/ventrilo, but i feel like having built in VOIP means people will be more likely to use it

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Hoping my GTX 590 will still be able to max out the game...but I have a feeling VRam may be holding me back this time around. :(

mitu123

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Hoping my GTX 590 will still be able to max out the game...but I have a feeling VRam may be holding me back this time around. :(

commander is gonna be great, especially since the commander, unlike BF2, is not on the field with everyone else.  BF2/2142 commanders often chose the role to help themselves in battle, not the army

wis3boi

How much you wanna bet the commander will be OP at first and everyone will ask for it to be toned down?

Also it says I can't play the game until 9AM :( I thought it was gonna be 1AM (in 40 mins). Someone lied to me

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Hoping my GTX 590 will still be able to max out the game...but I have a feeling VRam may be holding me back this time around. :(

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AMD owners download this to even use Crossfire for the beta.

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commander is gonna be great, especially since the commander, unlike BF2, is not on the field with everyone else.  BF2/2142 commanders often chose the role to help themselves in battle, not the army

seanmcloughlin

How much you wanna bet the commander will be OP at first and everyone will ask for it to be toned down?

Also it says I can't play the game until 9AM :( I thought it was gonna be 1AM (in 40 mins). Someone lied to me

well it says 1am here...in California

AMD owners download this to even use Crossfire for the beta.

mitu123

Would that only improve SLI performance or performance for all AMD cards?

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commander is gonna be great, especially since the commander, unlike BF2, is not on the field with everyone else.  BF2/2142 commanders often chose the role to help themselves in battle, not the army

lostrib

How much you wanna bet the commander will be OP at first and everyone will ask for it to be toned down?

Also it says I can't play the game until 9AM :( I thought it was gonna be 1AM (in 40 mins). Someone lied to me

well it says 1am here...in California

Which is apparently 9Am my time. You Americans mess everything up!! 

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[QUOTE="mitu123"]What's your res?mitu123

I'mma be rockin all low anyway. Gotta get those frames to kill guys better, I'll play maxed at first just to see what it looks like though

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AMD owners download this to even use Crossfire for the beta.

klusps

Would that only improve SLI performance or performance for all AMD cards?

[QUOTE="mitu123"][QUOTE="EXLINK"] 1080p, but the GTX 590 theoretically only has 1.5GB VRam available.

seanmcloughlin

I'mma be rockin all low anyway. Gotta get those frames to kill guys better, I'll play maxed at first just to see what it looks like though

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[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

How much you wanna bet the commander will be OP at first and everyone will ask for it to be toned down?

Also it says I can't play the game until 9AM :( I thought it was gonna be 1AM (in 40 mins). Someone lied to me

seanmcloughlin

well it says 1am here...in California

Which is apparently 9Am my time. You Americans mess everything up!! 

4AM Eastern US.  I have to get up at 730 to do some work in a chemistry lab

preloading now. 3 hrs 38mins puts it right at 6pm. EA thinking of Australians for once :Pdarksusperia

[QUOTE="darksusperia"]preloading now. 3 hrs 38mins puts it right at 6pm. EA thinking of Australians for once :PFelipeInside

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="darksusperia"]preloading now. 3 hrs 38mins puts it right at 6pm. EA thinking of Australians for once :Pdarksusperia

[QUOTE="darksusperia"][QUOTE="FelipeInside"] My BF4 Beta maxed out my download and it was downloaded in an hour or less (6GB)FelipeInside

Less than hour and a half to go...for me at least.

Screw waiting til 1am, I'll just play it before work. And hopefully avoid any server problems

In 25 minutes it's happening!!!

I'm unable to play this game at playable frames :(

DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL ORIGIN TO PLAY THE GAME.

INSTALL ORIGIN

When youve installed Origin !!

ERROR

Crashes

Disconnects

Unstable

But when it works it is fun, also, 120 FOV, wow!

Played about an hour and everything worked fine and stable (Sydney Server and everything on Ultra).

Battlefield is not for me though. I'm used to COD so it feels very different to me, had fun anyway.

amazing game, runs awesome on my laptop on high. Cant wait to get home and try it on my desktop

Felt a big underwhelming. IT might just be the map, its so awful. Like one play said, it felt like playing a Sprinting simulator to get from one area to the action sometimes. Overall the map looked bland and just poorly designed, looking foward to a better map, parcel looked better.

There won't be anyone on the servers anyway.....everyone will be playing the TERRARIA UPDATE !!!FelipeInside

I forgot about that. I know what I'm doing until the 4th.

Played about an hour and everything worked fine and stable (Sydney Server and everything on Ultra).

Battlefield is not for me though. I'm used to COD so it feels very different to me, had fun anyway.

FelipeInside

Played for about 30 minutes with everything on Ultra, Had no problems at all, game is really fun so far.  For what it's worth i'm using a 7950.

Siege of Shanghai is one huge map. You could be spending one round fighting in the metro, on the streets or on the skyscraper rooftop. Different theatres of war in one map, I am impressed so far. Cover system lets you lean around a corner like most FPS games have now.

Siege of Shanghai is one huge map. You could be spending one round fighting in the metro, on the streets or on the skyscraper rooftop. Different theatres of war in one map, I am impressed so far. Cover system lets you lean around a corner like most FPS games have now.

mhofever

Played about 45 min before work. Performance is really wonky. I'm playing with everything on Ultra except MSAA off (not touching that until final game and release drivers come out), and I'm getting anywhere from 70fps to 20 fps. Huge and wild dips in framerate happen periodically, sometimes seemingly for no reason. No action, not looking at anything special, and the FPS flies all over. I remember BF3 beta had pretty bad performance compared to retail, so I'm not too worried.

It feels a bit more like BF2 in gunplay. I don't know if I like or dislike that yet. My initial impression is that it doesn't feel as visceral as BF3, but again I'm comparing beta code to optimized and batched BF3, so who knows.

The map is kinda meh. The tower is really freaking cool, and I haven't seen it come down yet...but the rest of the map is pretty boring compared to the BF3 maps.

Will play more later. Hopefully the performance evens out. I downloaded the new nvidia beta drivers and tried them for a few min and didnt notice a big change, so we'll see.

Well the game crashes everytime it tries to join a server so I guess that's all there will be for me.