Battlefield 4

[Goffin]

Nice!

[FlyingMongoose]

Reddit thread from gamescom confirms the following.

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• 11:00 Introduction to Battlefield 4.
   
• 11:04 [url=http://"http://www.battlefield.com/battlefield-4/faq/beta"]Exlusive BETA starts October 1 and Open BETA starts October 4[/url]. BETA period will end October 15. Siege of Shanghai will be the BETA map.
   
• 11:07 Levolution exhibition (we'll discuss maps shown post-analysis!).
   
• Second Assault Maps: [url=http://"http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1kqjmo/metro_caspian_border_op_firestorm_and_gulf_of/"]Op. Metro, Op. Firestorm, Caspian Border, and Gulf of Oman[/url] (from DANNYonPC)
   
• 11:09 [url=http://"http://www.battlefield.com/battlefield-4/buy/premium-pc"]Battlefield Premium will be $49.99[/url]. Includes 5 Expansion Packs, 2 weeks early access, and 12 bonus Battlepacks.
   
• 11:09 Obliteration mode, "only one bomb, random location spawned, to be used against enemy target". [url=http://"http://www.battlefield.com/battlefield-4/features/all-out-war"]Obliteration, Defuse, and revamped Domination modes[/url] are briefly described at the Battlefield website.
   
• 11:10 Paracel Storm confirmed. Powerful seas described.[url=http://"http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1kqjwo/5_new_screenshots_from_paracel_storm/"]Screenshots[/url] (from kruczinski)
  

Source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/co...om_thread/

[FlyingMongoose]

Lots of gameplay vids on the Battlefield Twitch
http://www.twitch.tv/battlefield/c/2802565?08232013

[FlyingMongoose]

More info:
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/for...608595435/

[Goffin]

within my origin game directory I now have BF4 beta which was added on the 21st.  I assume I have it due to me dropping coin on bf3 and being a premium member  

[FlyingMongoose]

within my origin game directory I now have BF4 beta which was added on the 21st.  I assume I have it due to me dropping coin on bf3 and being a premium member  

yes bf3 premium will get you in bf4 beta

Sent from my wireless communicator.

[cbre88x]

[quote author=Goffin link=topic=7002.msg270949#msg270949 date=1377349530]
within my origin game directory I now have BF4 beta which was added on the 21st.  I assume I have it due to me dropping coin on bf3 and being a premium member  

yes bf3 premium will get you in bf4 beta

Sent from my wireless communicator.
[/quote]

I won't join until the open. sad day

[FlyingMongoose]

They pushed a lot of things for the beta. Medal of honor warfighter , bf3 premium, bf4 premium, and now, early beta for bf4 premium pre-.

Sent from my wireless communicator.

[FlyingMongoose]

Correction, warfighter pre-orders

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[zaneyard]

I used to play Battlefield but I don't anymore.

[FlyingMongoose]

A lot of people quit when they made it origin exclusive, but at least it's not the ea download manager anymore. That thing was awful.

[FlyingMongoose]

Even more info
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/for...355785664/

[Elder]

Ill probably be running in the beta for the time being, since I spent the money on premium I might as well make some use of it

[FlyingMongoose]

If the beta is anything like its predecessors, it will most likely not offer servers to rent for the beta, but official servers to play on (a lot easier to iron out the bugs when you're the ones running the servers).

[Elder]

If the beta is anything like its predecessors, it will most likely not offer servers to rent for the beta, but official servers to play on (a lot easier to iron out the bugs when you're the ones running the servers).

i like using tire irons to kill bugs.
They go squish

[FlyingMongoose]

[quote author=FlyingMongoose link=topic=7002.msg271655#msg271655 date=1379703163]
If the beta is anything like its predecessors, it will most likely not offer servers to rent for the beta, but official servers to play on (a lot easier to iron out the bugs when you're the ones running the servers).

i like using tire irons to kill bugs.
They go squish
[/quote]

i'm fond of explosives.

[FlyingMongoose]

Exclusive Beta is Live until the 4th, then the non-exclusive beta starts until the 14th. Then the full game release that day.

On the 14th brb'u will have a BF4 server.

Note the BF4 server will be a 64 player server, it will be maximum scale, and a full map rotation, running conquest mode, it will be hosted in Chicago, from nfoservers.com if anyone wishes to help pay for this server you can do so with this link:
https://www.nfoservers.com/donate.pl?for...dchaos.com I am most likely going to do a 3 or 6 month chunk payment. If Procon becomes available for it I'll be using a procon layer host as well...

Opinion on the beta:
I've only been able to play it on my laptop which is a 2nd gen core i5, 8GB of DDR3, and a 1GB AMD Radeon 7670M GPU, it has some graphical glitches, and is a bit laggy, but it is also a build that wasn't even the build they used for presentations at E3 or Gamescom, so I expect more at retail release. The most important aspect, the gameplay, is quite solid and enjoyable. Commander mode is not yet available, but once it is I will have an opinion on that. The live-map overview feed via the tablet app or a second computer is quite useful and cool (and I wish PS2 did that, but they have a limited view). Spectator mode works fine, but it shouldn't be considered a "new feature" though what is nice is that commander players and spectators do not take up slots of the playing players, so a 64 slot server could technically be considered a 69 slot server (1 commander and 4 spectators)

[CorpseFactor]

Amazon'd it, see you guys on the Eve of Hallow's Eve(Hurrdurrjoke)

[FlyingMongoose]

Sweet, I'll see you in game then.

[Elder]

Wont be buying this straight out of the gate. (If at all) Beta was lacking, and I don't feel like it will be a game I want to sink time into at this point.

Sent from inside a giant robot car