Battlefield 4 Tips

[NiteShade]

So Phats suggested that Nvidia users use the following driver for best FPS: 320.49

To see in-game FPS type this into the consol: perfoverlay.drawfps 1
(If you are like me and actually removed your "squiggly" key, just hold down B to bring up the consol.)

[Irish_Luck28]

On domination, there is a crate that you can close on B flag. This crate is excellent for capping/defending B flag. I was pwning people there last night.

[Salty Ferret]

Always aim for the head when shooting at the enemy

[Salty Ferret]

Taking down tanks, just as a thought, when shooting a tank head on...try aim for the con-caved part where the tank turret meets the body. it does a lot more damage. plus if you did not know, it takes two shots in the bum of a tank to kill it. They have limited the tanks firing sequence which mean you need to use your ammo sparingly, so what BF4 has done it made the tanks faster with the boost. So on a 1v1 with a tank, best is to charge ahead and take that one or two shots and get behind the tank for a kill cause the enemy tank should already be on 60HP.

[Hubris]

I had a crack at making a grrr emblem in BF4, it's not very good but I think anyone can do it pretty easily and quickly. Check it out yo, improve upon it! It would be cool to standardise them to a great design, but I think we'll get more emblem assets on release and unlocks so that has to wait. Apparently there won't be a custom image upload for BF4, but I see there are some forum posts to get EA/DICE to reconsider.

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Couple bugs/things you should be aware of:

- Engi RPGs can lock onto the Recon PLD (laser), currently there is no tone when a missile is fired. So flare in your chopper on hostile lock and get range to pick them off with the gunner's cannon unless you know for certain it's an air threat.
- The attack boat often spawns on land, can't seem to work out why but it just does. It falls from the sky in the wrong place.
- The ACOG on the DMR rifles doesn't seem to be accurate, just my experience but maybe I have it wrong.
- Some cover will not let you vault over it, instead you will be pushed backwards. It seems to be in certain areas as opposed to certain landscape asset types.
- When the main Shanghai building collapses, one of the elevator buttons is preserved and you can actually activate it and get teleported to the height of the building prior falling. You basically just parachute down but you can launch tanks even like that.
- By default, BF4 settings make you auto-join on the person you joined on via Battlelog. This mostly works but it can lead to a loop where you can't make a new squad and can be frustrating. Either join servers manually or disable the setting option.
- The terrain is still deadly, especially around the fallen building. The old bad luck is confirmed in BF4, let's hope it gets sorted out. There's also this weird acceleration effect on C flag if you run in a certain area around the middle of the flag.
- Apparently tank secondary gunners can "blind" other tanks by shooting just left of their turret (relative to their point of view - your right). This is supposed to hit where the driver camera is and the flare of the secondary gun will make it more difficult to see (still testing).
- C4 slides when you throw it and sometimes doesn't stick to vehicles properly on a throw. Get close to make sure. Ducky also mentioned that you can throw ammo/health packs really far by aiming dead on at a person and then throwing.
- Be aware of the blueish skyscraper around E, it is extremely high and has no elevator access. Often guys will camp there to get quick caps on E, lock choppers and generally snipe the crap out of you. Always check it and clear it if you're in the air.
- The airburst works by locking a range when you first scope in, so be sure to reset it if you misaimed else you'll miss miserably. It takes about 3 good hits to kill someone, but I've yet to see this making the support class as well equipped as the other classes.
- The knife animation can extend beyond your death. I've had it where I knifed a c4 recon at the back of our tank at the moment he detonated. I was dead and so was he, but the knife animation continued and I got a kill. Front knife counters are way too easy too btw.
- Hackers. Yes there are BF4 Beta hackers. One on the local servers is a guy named "ANC-Must-Die" or something like that. It's your typical I can headshot you across the map with my support gun without even looking at you type. No PB yet but you can report his profile.

Last thing, you can double the fire rate of the AK-12 Assault Rifle by switching it to burst mode. If you can get used to playing like that, you have a super fire rate railgun. You do have to deal with the increased first round recoil each burst, but the AK-12's recoil is non-existent so with practice you can compensate for it. I've had good success with this and I believe it puts out much more accurate DPS than the SCAR with a larger clip - you need to time your taps though. It's impossibru good, I promise.

[Hubris]

Check this out if you are still wanting to config further: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/at...2&d=1381183819

Be sure to test out your settings on an empty server because it's not perfect yet, I have found it gives me much more stable frames by disabling a couple more effects.

[Morphza]

If you use the Utility, post what options helped you improve your gameplay, so that we can all try the same settings.

[BadA$$jack]

These are apparently the best config for now:

RenderDevice.Dx11Enable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Dot1Enable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Dot1RuntimeEnable 0
perfoverlay.drawfps 1
worldrender.motionblurenable 0
worldrender.spotlightshadowmapresolution 256
worldrender.spotlightshadowmapenable 0
worldrender.lighttilecspathenable 0
renderdevice.forcerenderaheadlimit 3
gametime.maxvariablefps 100
renderdevice.triplebufferingenable 0
renderDevice.vsyncenable 0

[Phatso]

Cross-Copy-Pasta

REMEMBER THIS IS A BETA AND THINGS WILL CHANGE! DON'T GO UPGRADING JUST YET

Obviaaaaas that YMMV, but everything is worth a shot to get the game running smoothly.

GFX card stuff
1. Nvidia users in Windows 8 - it is advised that you use the latest BETA Geforce drivers.
2. Nvidia users in Windows 7 - it is advised that you use the 320.49 Geforce drivers.
3. ATi users in either - it is advised you use the latest BETA Catalyst drivers.

[Hubris]

Another quick emblem for those interested (slightly more complicated), you can apparently copy mine if you view it via my profile. I've neatened it slightly and changed some of the colours since this post and looked at it game, I think it looks pretty cool. Would be nice to see on soldier shoulders, it's a proper patch

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