HAHAHA yessssss like finally the game i have been waiting for all the while for year 2013 is finally out! no its not GTA five, neither is it Watch Dogs or TitanFall, its Battlefield 4!! :D :D all the while i have been wondering, just what can DICE offer us since BF3 is already so awesome. well i preordered BF4 and have beta access! i started downloading the file at about 11am? it took me just about 20mins to download the whole of BF4 into my computer. too bad i couldnt play it yet since it hasn't been released. anyway, in my last post, i was worrying about the possibility of really slow download speeds, because that is so present in any game that does a world-wide launch. some of you guys may even remember the agonsing wait to download maplestory when they changed over to version 2 or something like that. The wait is probably even longer than for D-day to come! so kudos to DICE for making the download speeds so fast! i was really stunned by the speed of which my download bar moved.
SAY HELLO TO BF4 BETA!!

i went to be my busy for the afternoon and when i was back home, finally, after an unprecedented-unaccomplished afternoon, which really really spoilt my day off, i managed to get access to gameplay. like finally!! however, i ran with some issue, which is the graphic card being outdated. i was like WHATTT don't tell me i cant play BF4?! it's like some De ja vu for battlefield 3. What happened for 3 is that i had a desktop which could support it, however the OS was still win2000, good old win2k which didnt allow me to play the game and buying one copy is so expensive... Then i have a notebook too! its powerful which enough RAM and it is windows seven. like wohoo! but i realised that it doesnt have enough graphic card juice :( so nope #phailed. so it took me A LOT of time to get a new computer, with the help of my fellow 30SCE office warrior, Hernando. :) now my computer is able to play BF3 with just 33% memory used! xD so i usually let it run multiple bots to play other games for me at the same time. lol. When i loaded my first game, i DCed because my graphic card driver was updated which triggered my WHATTT?!?! bell in my head. i downloaded the beta of the new version (kinda complicated here) driver and failed. No way my graphic card cant support BF4 man!!! then i tried the latest update for the driver which isn't the beta one and it worked! xD I think they mentioned that you need at least AMD radeon HD4500-5000 minimum to play Four. I ran a check on mine and my graphic card runs at HD7800 so PHEW! i think this can go through Five too, if it is released :P

Look at how packed the servers are!! okay how it works is that in BF4 beta, there are a few designated servers that are able to be used to play. So far on my side, i've seen/received mixed info on when is it gonna be released to the rest, but i must say it is a lot harder to play! will go more in depth later, but if you notice here, in the screenshot below, lol now i have 3 friends online! i can only access asia-located servers which are 90% Jap and 10% SG. like thats all. lmao. The beta map for us to play around is pretty nice just that i find there is really a lack of cover. especially after everyone starts blowing everything up with their given m230. now for medics, they need to work for 10k points before unlocking the defibrillator. so now everyone has a med kit and m230 loadout unless you play for a substantial time.

What is my take on the gameplay so far? well since beta players at this stage are the more hardcore players, their skill level is indeed above average, making it pretty tough for me! Those people spot targets from afar really well man. target = me running and jumping across the street. Really really cool interactive map that you have there, DICE! but really sometimes its TOO messy. such that it really obstructs the walking/running of the character. Like when something blows up, even the small fragments were obstructing my movements. more realistic indeed, but i would very much prefer to do without this feature, like so in BF3. Other than that... if you get used to the AK12 that you start with, gameplay is pretty much similar to hardcore mode in terms of the damage you do. When i first started, it was pretty much me shooting at everything except the player -_-"' getting used to the new interface and gun recoil. i usually use semi sniper rifles instead. Somehow even though controls and skeleton remains the same, SOMEHOW it just feels so different! maybe it's because of the map. There is considerably more variables now though since the map interacts more with you :) like glaring lights and stuff. gets annoying sometimes, but i guess maybe we should start wearing sunglasses when playing BF4! :D


LOOK AT THAT. FIRST ROUND FAIL. i'm bonesharkie btw. LOL. some of them have really good skill! just look at the first player like how in the world.... *uninstalls BF4* jkjk!! have fun and keep gaming! :D