Thread: BF4 Update Today

Originally Posted by GrandMasterGuess

Thanks for the SSD suggestion..I don't mind waiting a bit to load..I'd rather get a better video card to make me kill you guys better. The GT640 is a low end card for this game and it shows when I die needlessly from its slowness.

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Originally Posted by maximusboomus

Here's my beef - I found it worked better than before, then people started going into the high speed bubbles... I'm back to where I was before. Except I don't die as much behind walls. I will say people with higher ping don't have an advantage, in fact it's the opposite. I can tell when someone has a lower ping, I'm clearly getting the drop on people and they kill me regardless. I've sat in TeamSpeak and been outraged at Allane, calling him out on some absolutely bullshit kill, and he'd be like "I was facing you, not turned away as you saw". This update has made the game minutely better for me, as now instadeath is back as my pc is constantly catching up.

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What hasn't changed is that you're still playing via wireless 3g network speeds.

Originally Posted by Warprosper

What hasn't changed is that you're still playing via wireless 3g network speeds.

Yep. My point was I work Fucking hard to be as good as I am on a high ping shitty internet, I don't have some advantage as some people think. Put me on 30-50 ping for a week and I know people will start getting mad at me... I know this based on Lan games

Originally Posted by maximusboomus

Here's my beef - I found it worked better than before, then people started going into the high speed bubbles... I'm back to where I was before. Except I don't die as much behind walls. I will say people with higher ping don't have an advantage, in fact it's the opposite. I can tell when someone has a lower ping, I'm clearly getting the drop on people and they kill me regardless. I've sat in TeamSpeak and been outraged at Allane, calling him out on some absolutely bullshit kill, and he'd be like "I was facing you, not turned away as you saw". This update has made the game minutely better for me, as now instadeath is back as my pc is constantly catching up.

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Haha I did warn you about the isntadeaths Max

Its probably worth mentioning Bf4 servers suffer from degradation over a relatively small amount of time (hours and day(s) rather than weeks) leading to all kinds of issues.

t1gge (DICE dev/ CTE producer) said on CTE battlelog:
"Hi guys,

We are hunting what I'd like to call "server degradation". It seems that every time we restart (and patch) the servers you guys like the feeling of the game - but then slowly but steadily we see you thinking something is off or wrong (normally after the full weekend).

This in combination with the performance graphs we have points towards the server being naughty and starting to mess with the gameplay through some leak or other performance issue (not causing rubberbanding, but interfering with the gameplay).

We're now restarting the servers (without changing anything), and I'd like you to give me "clean slate" feedback on the feeling before & after this restart to prove a hunch - and get us closer to fixing & finding the issue.

Thanks,"

t1gge "It seems pretty clear that over time improvements degrade and the gameplay suffers - slowly making things worse. This of course makes testing a bit harder, but rest assured we are going after this one! "

t1gge "What we've seen now is both memory _and_ processing usage goes up slowly over time, and at some point start affecting gameplay negatively."

I don't know how often the TPG server gets restarted, but maybe it should be once a day (while its empty) to ensure optimal performance.

Originally Posted by Voodoo_S3

Haha I did warn you about the isntadeaths Max

Its probably worth mentioning Bf4 servers suffer from degradation over a relatively small amount of time (hours and day(s) rather than weeks) leading to all kinds of issues.

t1gge (DICE dev) said on CTE battlelog:
"Hi guys,

We are hunting what I'd like to call "server degradation". It seems that every time we restart (and patch) the servers you guys like the feeling of the game - but then slowly but steadily we see you thinking something is off or wrong (normally after the full weekend).

This in combination with the performance graphs we have points towards the server being naughty and starting to mess with the gameplay through some leak or other performance issue (not causing rubberbanding, but interfering with the gameplay).

We're now restarting the servers (without changing anything), and I'd like you to give me "clean slate" feedback on the feeling before & after this restart to prove a hunch - and get us closer to fixing & finding the issue.

Thanks,"

t1gge "It seems pretty clear that over time improvements degrade and the gameplay suffers - slowly making things worse. This of course makes testing a bit harder, but rest assured we are going after this one! "

t1gge "What we've seen now is both memory _and_ processing usage goes up slowly over time, and at some point start affecting gameplay negatively."

I don't know how often the TPG server gets restarted, but maybe it should be once a day (while its empty) to ensure optimal performance.

TPG servers are automatically restarted around 6-7 AM daily.

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DICE

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Depending on the nature of the leak(s), 24 hours could be plenty of time for a server to cause mayhem, especially if the computational complexity compounds over time. It's an interesting problem, I'm curious to see what they find and how they fix it

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Voodoo - I'll take insta-deaths over bs (Empty an entire clip of an SKS into low ping players and see them walk off happily after killing me).

Originally Posted by maximusboomus

Voodoo - I'll take insta-deaths over bs (Empty an entire clip of an SKS into low ping players and see them walk off happily after killing me).

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