BF4 official info, beta and release date and rumors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBSbxjkLXuU
BF4 singleplayer

E3 MP demo was so great from BF4

BF4 MP trailers:
Siege in Shanghai:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZjSykcTGrNc
Official commander mode trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgZTeVnM5Sw&feature=player_embedded

E3 multiplayer gameplay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nJY7n8KaOY&feature=player_embedded

^^ looks awesome!

damn this is fucking awesome... I hope my Videocard can run it...

AWESOME!!!!! omg u can deny a knife attack !!!!

Damn! No real limited ammo in vehicles. There is a limited ammount of rounds to shoot but those regenerate in certain time.

UP^ekyxor wrote:Damn! No real limited ammo in vehicles. There is a limited ammount of rounds to shoot but those regenerate in certain time.

Too bad, does that also affect to Gunship?
Anyway for people who hasn't looked info:
On this PreAlpha:
Commander mode: separate mode, can be played with tablets and commander is useful after both teams has catched 1 flag. And seemed like Commander is separate, meaning in 64 slots server thre is 64+2.
Battlerecorder: now they have 3 different choices, one being free mode, 2nd being player to player mode.
Counterknifing: from front only atm.
In Shanghai map, one skycraper building can be totally destroyed, after that environment changes: a lot of dust and garbage, hard to see etc.
Swimming: fast swimming, can dive and shoot with pistol.
Weapons have 2 scopes, normal one and with Zoom.
5 persons in squad (confirmed).
New suppression: lmg supports giving higher suppression (long distance effect) and other classes gives less suppression (close quarter fights).
In that alpha, seemed like there is 2 different type of medics, one with medic kits only (assault class) and one with defibrilators (support class). But Im not sure about this yet, but looked like this.
Graphics looked awesome, but I think they might need a fast computer/graphic card for that.
Sound effects were better than in BF3.
From battlerecorder they said this is first implementation that it can be changed as other things too, they are listening now alpha testers and changing what is needed so some things seem here might not be exactly same as in final product but this looked great really.

Official link to follow E3 live stream every day:
http://www.twitch.tv/battlefield/

Siege of Shanghai picture:

TheBikingViking wrote: We use a hybrid model with both some client-side and server-side hit detection.

Darklord wrote:Defibs needs to be recharged everytime with holding mouse button

Full magazine reload:

Demize said DEFIB paddles are in the game but they could not feature them at E3 because they found a bug a day before the build was being put in the computers for E3. Look for a cooldown or recharge timer though...

Zeroing: With V-key

Recon motion balls:

UP^Jaskaman wrote:

UP^ekyxor wrote:Damn! No real limited ammo in vehicles. There is a limited ammount of rounds to shoot but those regenerate in certain time.

Too bad, does that also affect to Gunship?

Yes, when it shot all rounds it were approximately 5sec without ammo. Only good thing were that it regenerates only one round at a time. Would be much better with actual limited ammo. If there is lot of people looking for limited ammo and they complain to DICE about it, then we have possibility to affect the final solution.

Idk how I feel about that full mag reload. Sure, it adds "realism" to the game but it's not like we're buying this because we secretly all are ArmA fans.

Option 1: Constantly run out of ammo
Option 2: Die because you didn't have enough in your mag to take out the 2 guys around the corner.

Hoping they change that piece tbh. Guess they're trying to force each squad to have a support with them but.. damn it. Just look at how many people in the E3 livestream are constantly running around completely out of ammo.

Damn I can't w8 for this. And the commander mode is awesome. I can join u guys on my iPad....

Not sure but I think that I saw tank in main base and it didn't have health bar. When it came away from the base, health bar appeared to the player info. Maybe there is protected base so baseraping is not possible? :B

UP^ekyxor wrote:Not sure but I think that I saw tank in main base and it didn't have health bar. When it came away from the base, health bar appeared to the player info. Maybe there is protected base so baseraping is not possible? :B

Hope not, because it means people shooting from base, not getting killed etc.
They have to do it an old fashion way, meaning report to admin programs where people are located in the map.

Some useful stuff confirmed:

KNOWN BUILT IN ADMINISTRATION FEATURES:

(these are things you can do, set or change from the users menu)

Spectator mode and/or battle recorder
Player ping
Ability to mute an annoying player in chat/voip
Player tags
Player kit
In game team balancer – one that actually works
In game votekick/voteban options

does quitrage still be on?

Interesting video of BF4 multiplayer.

Alpha starts tomorrow:



This is why they needed to force this unfinished update to Battlelog before Monday.

LOL!

Big lols to BF4 Alpha

Interesting choice for alpha, is that for real? Then they really test game engine only

Early comments of Alpha: Sun is not as disturbing as on BF3 but still client side hit detection: meaning you will still die behind of the corners.

Weren't they supposed to change that hit detection?

No mod support on BF4. 
(According to some alpha testers, at alpha they can choose spawnpoint with crosshair from map, we will see is this feature coming to beta or full product.)