14 DAY TRIAL // DICE has just released a brand new and impressive update for Battlefield 4 across the PS4, PS3, and Xbox 360 platforms, bringing general stability improvements, enhancements to the multiplayer netcode, but also tweaks to weapons, gadgets, or vehicles like the AC-130 gunship.
Battlefield 4 is a really popular first-person shooter, but quite a lot of fans have been spurned by the many different glitches, problems, or bugs that affect the game's single-player story campaign as well as its online multiplayer one.
Despite many different patches from developer DICE, some problems are still persisting, while new ones are popping up and affecting almost all players.
Now, a new update has just been rolled out for Battlefield 4 across specific platforms, namely the PS4, PS3, and Xbox 360.
As usual, various general enhancements are present, such as crash fixes, but also improvements to the multiplayer netcode, which should ensure that the online matches are fair and far less prone to glitches and other such things.
The update also brings Gold Battlepacks as rewards for Class Service Stars, allowing players to have reached the maximum rank to continue earning new bonuses.
All sorts of different improvements have been made to many weapons in the game, from the M4 and M16A4, to the G36C or the different grenade types. Vehicles, especially aircraft, have received some changes, including the AC-130 gunship that has seen an increase in splash damage from the JDAM bombs or from the 40mm cannons equipped on the plane.
Check out the general fixes and multiplayer enhancements below and head on over to the official Battlelog forums for all the tweaks.
GENERAL
FIXES
-General stability improvements -Fix for a crash that could occur when players were customizing vehicles. -Fix for an issue in the Rush game mode where end-of-round screen would always indicate that there were 60 minutes left of the game. -Fix for an issue where the splash damage for IFV shells, Helicopter rockets, and Mortar rounds was unable to destroy deployed equipment. -Fix for an issue that could cause the quad bike to explode when it hit indestructible objects. -Fix for an issue that would cause sniper rifles to display too much bloom when aiming in snowy conditions, especially the outside areas of Operation Locker. -Fix for an issue where the ECM would sometimes fail to jam incoming missiles. -Shortened the take-off distances for jets to match the length of the runways in Second Assault maps. -Fix for going above ceiling exploits in Operation Metro. -Fix for a new MAV riding exploit. -Fix for kill camera jittering/strobing sometimes if colliding with other world objects or terrain. -Fix for soldiers getting catapulted when walking on steep surfaces
NETCODE
-Fix for an issue where the kill camera would display the incorrect killer. -Fix for an issue where the kill card won’t show up when playing on servers which have the kill camera turned off. -Fixed an issue where other soldiers would appear to fire in the wrong direction when turning quickly. -Fix for weapons firing twice, or not at all in some instances. -Fix for an issue where explosions didn’t do any damage to infantry and vehicles that were outside of the combat area. -Fix for an issue where late-joining players wouldn’t correctly experience Levolution events on Paracel Storm and Flood Zone. -Fix for an issue that could cause packet loss.
The new updates are already available for download for the PS4 and PS3, via the PlayStation Network, and for the Xbox 360, via Xbox Live.