So /v/, did you fall for the Mantle meme?
>>330027916
What game? Looks good.
>>330028152
Battlefield 4
>>330028152
BF4
looks is sadly the only good thing about that steaming pile of dog shit
>>330028213
>>330028247
How expensive is it nowadays?
Is it still broken buggy mess?
Did they add higher tick rate than 30 support yet?
>DirectX alternatives
As much as it would benefit everybody to have more than one company bring the technology forward in a parallel fashion, Microsoft is untouchable.
>battlefield runs mediocre on my 550ti
>can't play it online because I have a 6k connection
A-Atleast I have Battlefield 3.
>>330028247
Honestly now that its patched and working again and getting free content updates im enjoying it
>>330028292
From all accounts, Dice LA saved that game
>>330028292
It's pretty cheap, goes on sale quite often.
I occasionally get a crash, but it's still rare as fuck at this point. No other real issues I have with it.
Tick rate goes from 30 all the way to 144hz. You'll find plenty of 60hz servers used. 120 and higher are a bit harder to find unless you live in Europe.
>>330028292
Yes up to 120hz and better framerate but is now sniper simulater 2016 24/7
>>330028292
Its fucking great actually now. It was shit, its now perhaps best and most fun fps there is atm. Not even kidding.
Tickrates go up 144hz and it costs 10euro with premium 20e
>>330028247
>dogshit
Git gud kiido :^)
>>330028437
>>330028462
>>330028502
>>330028505
HOLY SHIT BUENO
Thank you anons. I'm from Poland so I guess EU servers won't be a problem. 100+ tickrate is ideal so that's neat.
Guess I'll look into getting the game this month then.
>>330028707
Also, is Premium required on most servers? I won't be able to afford both game and Premium so if the online is split between regular and Premium owners I guess I'll pass in the end.
>>330028707
>memerate
just because source engine is shit doesn't mean it's THAT important in every engine
a lot of vanilla servers, so don't worry about that
>>330028887
Most servers are NON dlc. So you dont really need anything.,
However, i suggest getting the premium edition. its 20 moneys and includes maingame and all dlc.
>>330028321
GabeN will save us
>>330028887
There's still a good chunk of non-premium servers at least for NA, not sure what EU offers.
Also if you wait for a sale, premium edition BF4 usually goes for 20-30 bucks.
Little OT but do people still play BF3?
>>330029187
>>330029016
30$ is overpriced as fuck.
I can get the base game for 10 eurobucks here.
>>330029268
That's the premium edition though. As in base game plus all the DLC.
>>330028986
You are retarded if you think 30 tickrate is acceptable in any game. 60 is the absolute minimum required not to have garbage netcode.
>>330029337
Premium shouldn't cost more than the base game.
If base game is 10 then premium shouldn't cost fucking 20 more on top of that.
>>330027916
>console
You're not tricking me you nvidiasshole
>>330029232
There are like 6 or 7 servers that keep a good player count.
>>330029516
How the fuck else are you supposed to take screenshots with Mantle?
>>330029481
It does NOT COST ON TOP. Its 20 total, all included. 20 moneys, get everything.
>>330027916
low lvl graphics apis only increase performance when bottlenecked by the CPU
If the game isn't bottlenecked in the first place then there won't be any difference
Try playing BF4 with a pentium dual core and compare DX11 to mantle. I'm sure it'll be a pretty big difference
>>330029637
Where? Certainly not here.
Base game here is 10 euro, premium edition is 30.
I would play Battlefield if it wasn't for Origin. I have enough bloat and spyware on my PC (Steam, Battle.net launcher) to get another one that has literally no games.
>>330029536
Uwotm8?
There are WAY more than that.
Even with just base BF3 there are at least 40-50 servers with at least 40 players online regularly.
>>330029594
Fuck off nshita shill, stop trying to fuck over based AMD
>>330028887
DiceLA released a couple of free map packs including night map, jungle map similar to those from bad company 2 and dragon valley remake from battlefield 2, they're free to download for both premium and non-premium and are pretty populated, especially dragon valley.
i got banned ages ago and im still not sure why. theres no screenshot proof for the ban and my appeal didnt work. literally didnt cheat at all.
>>330029481
Base game has 10 maps. DLC has 20 maps, 20 guns, and 8 extra gadgets.
Why isn't the base game + all DLC worth 30 bucks?
>>330029375
>60 is the absolute minimum required not to have garbage netcode.
[citation needed]
>>330029375
32 minimum
64 recommended
128 optimal
>>330029768
I just reinstalled that shit last week and there wasn't shit for servers. We are talking about Bf3 right?
>>330027916
Mantle doesn't even work for me.
If I use mantle the game will crash every time after 5 or so minutes of playing.
>>330029756
It kind of chafes me when people say this kind of thing.
Origin is literally a BF4 launcher for me, and I quit out of it when I'm done playing.
How bad is your computer, where you can't afford another 100mb of RAM use?
>>330030123
>We are talking about Bf3 right?
Yes
And this is just base BF3.
>>330030413
Also, this doesn't include the full servers aside from that first one.
>>330030123
you probably didn't set up the filter, it doesn't show a lot of servers by default
I don't know why but when I play bf4 with mantle enabled i get better performance, but when I enable it in DA:I it kills the frames and have to switch back to DX11, even though they're both on the same engine.
That's what I get for still holding trust for Bioware
>>330030226
Well, first of all, having a launcher for your 3 games is a retarded practice i don't want to support and the only way to vote out of it is with my wallet.
Secondly, it's just additional bloat i can totally get away from, and it's not like Battlefield games apart from Vietnam and 1942 are any good.
>>330030650
APIs won't just perform better magically if the developers that implemented it didn't optimize for shit.
If you straight up import DX11 and compile it into DX12 without doing anything else, then you get what? Shit.
>>330030713
>Implying BF4 isn't one of the best PC shooters on the market right now
>Implying 100 MB of RAM is taxing at all
>Implying competition to Steam and not allowing for a fucking monopoly is bad
>>330027916
I'm involved in the early stages of several DX12 titles. If you were let down by Mantle, just wait until you play these steaming piles of shit.
Some of you may have already seen the poor Ashes benchmarks. Let's just say it's going to be a very, very long time before we see any real improvement in terms of performance in DX12.
>>330027916
fuck off mate. dx12 is falling apart, just look at the garbage of gear of wars dx12 special.
>>330030906
Hello nVidia, how's that Async Compute treating you?
>>330030834
I get what you mean but wouldn't DICE have already taken care of that since BF4 came out I think a year before DA:I anyway,
unless they were working with an earlier build of the engine which I really doubt or the people working on the engine at Bioware can't keep their hands of things they shouldn't touch
>>330030847
how about fucking just releasing a game on physical media and available for p2p download on developer's website without the need for installing malware? like, just like all the games pre-hl2 did
>>330032493
>Malware
Oh boy, still going by that old chestnut are we?
>Implying anyone's going to do physical release when digital media is the fucking majority of sales
It's OK Grandpa, times have changed. Like well over a decade ago.
>>330029375
So you're one of the guys that weren't around when Q3 or UT2k4 were released, eh? 120 tickrate on BF4 servers don't mean shit, the netcode is fucking garbage. You still manage to trade kills with HITSCAN WEAPONS on 100 tickrate servers. Think about it for a second. Tickrate is not a buzzword, but it's certainly not the main culprit for CS:GO and BF4 having shitty ass netcode
>>330032608
Well i'm not losing on anything by not buying EA/Ubisoft games the last 7 or so years, am i?
You also probably install toolbars.
>>330032837
>I-I-I'm not losing out on good games just because I can't stand a measly 100 MB of RAM
>M-muh bloatware myth!
Also comparing malware/adware to a digital media platform no different from Steam is fucking hilarious. You probably have no problem using Steam either.
Are PS4 servers still alive, or do I have to migrate to PC and subjugate myself to Origin?
>>330033384
PS4 player counts are higher.
However, you're also then playing with a shitty controller and shittier servers.
>>330033384
I'd rather subject myself to Origin than have to play an FPS with a controller
>>330033028
Still no mention of a good game on Origin from you. Maybe the original Dead Space or ME1, but it's been ages and everyone who wanted that played that already.
Still, it's a fact EA forces me to use something i don't want. Steam has my friends, functionality, great sales and amazing amount of games, so it warrants being installed. Origin does none of that and has no games to boot.
>>330034006
I already mentioned BF4, which is currently one of the best PC shooters on the market right now.
Steam forces me to use something I don't want either, but it's still necessary in order to do what I want in the end.
Again, 100 MB of RAM is fucking nothing, and you're being a little bitch about nothing.
>>330034528
I suggest you go suck EA's dick further. You support the literal Hitlers of PC gaming.
>BF4, which is currently one of the best PC shooters on the market right now.
And you have shit taste to boot. BF4 is barely a reskin of BF3, which is still worse than BF:BC2, sold as a standalone game for full price with DLC up the ass. And cocksuckers like you gobble that shit up and then wonder why the industry is so shit right now.
>>330034841
>Hitlers of PC gaming
But when Gaben does it, he's a saviour? Got it.
>BF4 is a reskin of BF3
So much wrong with that statement it's not even funny.
>Praises Bad Company 2 of all things, one of the worst BF games barring Hardline and the worst out of the Bad Company titles
>Implying you have to pay full price and it hasn't gone on tons of sales
>Implying 20 maps, 20 guns, and 8 gadgets isn't a decent chunk of content
>Implying they haven't continued to patch in support and even free content for the game
>>330034841
>which is still worse than BF:BC2
Boy I sure do love those color tints in BC2 and the 30 tickrate.
Yeah no you're a nostalgiafag if you think BF4 is worse than BC2 and BF3.
>>330028247
This is bait.
>>330028247
I would have agreed if you had said this on the launch date.
