Update: I got bf4.... sigh. (but at least quite cheaper)
Im not getting it... period!
A bit like BF:Bad company 2, they seem to use BF4 like some kind of prototype for something new they have in development.
I played the beta, I didn't like it. My Asus G74sx didn't like it either (Nvidia geforce gtx 560m) due to my now 2 years old graphic card that can run almost anything on highest settings. (with exception for those really heavy games that barely no one can run in highest settings)
But bf4's "new" "features" simply suppress my graphic card into submission. I need to go to medium to keep a framerate between 20 and 30, or well so it fells. For smoother game play i would probably have to go into low settings.
So what could this possible be caused by? Dynamic water? The one single building that can fall down, just like the radio mast in BF3 ? (yes that is one of their "new" features) Their new lightning which I don't notice at all ?.
I'm not sure, but it seems wrong. It is definletly not a great effect for the performance you have to pay.
And about that "new" "feature", the skyscraper that can be destroyed:
BF3 antenna pros:
Didn't kill everyone around, only those it hit. Real time hitbox calculation
Cons:
Happens when the round is almost over, not by players actions
BF4 Skyscraper.
Pros:
Players can make it crash down
Cons:
It is prerendred.
To achieve the affect, alter the game map and avoid any bugs, people are just killed.
Nothing in between. In a tank on the ground beside the skyscraper. Well sorry, you die. You might not even be hit by the wall, but you were close enough to be über raped by this feature.
Ofcourse it is prerendered, physic calculations on that shit would make the server lag every single time someone destroyed it. But this is their sales monument. "See we got a falling prerendered box, that magically kills you if you are near it, and at the same times spawn some objects" This is one of our "new features" that's definitely not a copy from BF3. Ow and by the way we made the sun shine a bit different, and you now have waves which you don't give a shit about, due to the battle being on the ground and in the air.
It is SO new that even COD's dynamic maps sounds next gen.
Dear Dice. Thanks for letting me play the beta. Now you saved me for 200$ this year. You also made some of my friends save 200$. Cya when you stop waxing your old games and call it new.
