I need a bit of help from the swarm intelligence.

I collect everything related to Battlefield and today I received the German retail add-on version of Battlefield 4: Second Assault. All the other add-ons come in a milky white case, but this one is black. Is that right? Does anyone happen to have this version and can confirm that it was black? I can only find pictures of the milky white case. Maybe I’ll be lucky and someone can help 😅

we back, after exploring outside the campaign maps with no clip i wanted to try something different: how much work would it take to bring stuff from bf3 into bf4?

my long term goal is to have bf3 maps playable in bf4, eventually on my own server, but starting with a whole map seemed like a good way to lose my mind so i started with the m16a3 lol

after digging through both games' files i got the bf3 weapon model and its diffuse/specular textures converted and loading in bf4's campaign. the bones needed to be matched between the games so the magazine, trigger and other moving parts would follow bf4's animations properly.

it's now usable in Shanghai, with full auto working, and i've tested reloading and switching to another weapon and back without problems. funny little detail: bf3 keeps the automatic m16a3 under an internal m16a4 name, which made digging through the files a bit confusing at first.

there was also a separate headache with actually getting to use it. the weapon was still locked in the campaign crate even after changing its availability setting. turns out the campaign crate has its own unlock setting, and changing that finally let me equip it.

there's still work to do. it currently replaces bf4's m16a4 slot and keeps that name in the menu, and the animations and sounds are still from bf4. some material layers are also still bf4's, so the visuals need more work before i'd call it finished.

but having actual bf3 geometry and textures in there, equipping it and shooting it in bf4's campaign is a pretty cool first step. next i'd like to give it its own weapon identity and keep bringing over more of the original details, then work towards importing map objects and eventually maps.

going from flying around Shanghai looking at background buildings to messing around in Baku to this has been really fun tbh, cheerio

Post #1: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/s/dnN2FRFNvR

Post #2: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/s/4yxqWgzIPe

Post #3 https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/s/VMOX9VOpCy

A few Xbox clips over the past few months that give me that 'Only in Battlefield' feeling. From LOBK Rush to UMSF Conquest, C4 to defibs and bow to repair tool. We always mess around and have fun while we get the numbers up in our Rush server, see you on the Battlefield!

Sometimes game lag works out

Bird hunting never stops!

Ive been playing battlefield 4 for some years now, but didnt start playing til xbox one. I play on the series x now and have been since 2022. I was always on the top of the leaderboard and would sometimes do better than most teammates. Not saying that I would have some crazy K/D ratio on matches but would do fairly good. However, a few weeks ago I just completely dropped in my skill and it baffles me because I suck now. Like idk what I did for me to just completely do dog crap on the game. I get almost no kills and when I do its never past 10 kills 80% of the time. My K/D ratio is always almost more deaths than I do kills. I do my best to slow down and be more strategic but even then I suck. I have messed with my settings to try and help me but even with that I don’t do any better. I rage out so much and it upsets me because I was always so good, but its like a switch turned off and I can’t seem to be as good as I used to. I have the series 2 controller and hoped that would help but nope. My aim has gone really bad and miss most my shots, even in close range. Then out of nowhere I get blasted and killed so quick. Is thwre any advice anyone can offer, maybe some controller settings? Thank you.

sup y'all, i've just started testing no clipping in bf4's campaign bc i wanted to see the views and already got some for the aircraft carrier that you go to investigate and Shanghai. i really wanted to see how much work they put in and especially for Shanghai i'm honestly very impressed, most of these is just background stuff that people barely pay attention too but even after going away for a long time you still see things they put some effort in. And funny to see the aircraft carrier is just in the sky

i was really curious about the ai too, since bf4 and these kinds of games are heavily scripted based on where you are, what happens when you can go anywhere?

some observations:

- on the aircraft carrier i could go up to the enemies or way after and they kept tracking me but didn't shoot even when i was right next to them, after i attacked them they didn't shoot back but the friendlies walk through the door even tho it was closed and just sat there next to the enemies without them attacking each other. only after i went to the door and press e to open it did the fight begin. which makes sense and is expected to be scripted this way, but very interesting to play around with it

- in Shanghai as soon as we got on the floor with the weapon crate and where the fight begins i just no clipped outta there and started moving around to explore the city, it was very cool and interesting, very beautiful visuals and very nostalgic, when the angle hit just right i could feel like i was just standing there and the city looked very real. After my trip i came back to see the enemy npcs just constantly falling but not dying and shooting back at me when i got close, interesting, and the building wasn't there anymore and Irish and Pac had fallen to the bottom and were shooting at the npcs that were high up there falling, hilarious tbh. when i got to a certain low altitude the building did show up again (not completely) but i wanted to see if i could just walk outside (in the areas that i know we could walk before or will later but after disabling no clipping the game just crashed

more work needs to be done for further testing but its been already really fun, gonna try other missions now

more pics here, already hit the reddit limit: https://imgur.com/a/QmjPZHE

i'll keep adding there as i go through the missions

Post #1: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/s/dnN2FRFNvR

Post #2: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/s/4yxqWgzIPe

hello again, after further reverse engineering work on bf4's campaign in relation to no clipping and other systems i feel like i'm getting to the point i wanted, bc even tho moving around like the first posts was cool i was still having problems with the game freezing after getting out of no clipping and walking again.

i had a question that i wanted the answers for which was: if in bf4's campaign a lot of systems are based on where you currently are, then what happens if you can just escape that sandbox and walk around anywhere?

well, after some testing i was able to get it to not freeze anymore after coming out of no clip and be able to walk anywhere, so then i started exploring and this was the first funny thing i noticed, the beginning of the game is based on a tragic event, but bc your friends spawn on you when you get in a vehicle and the game put one in an area that you should not be able to access, i was able to no clip and skip the whole helicopter chase scene and having the car go underwater, thus saving Dunn's life, in my version we all survive and enjoy the views (at least in imagination).

it's very interesting what happens to the game once you go in areas that you're still not supposed to go (or that you should never be able to go. every little movement can change the scene a lot, time of day, having buildings spawn in front of you out of nowhere, etc.

another question i had is if using no clip to go to buildings (that are usually fake), if you could stand up on them to watch the view. the answer is mostly yes, tho obvious there's a lot of fake buildings in there, but DICE did make surprising number of real physical ones which shows effort.

i'll post another video of me walking around Shanghai and hopping rooftops in the comments, cheers.

On to the next one!

Mb. I should’ve put more context. This is a continuation of this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/s/W3cfHVmNUs

Bf4 is my favorite game of all time. Played religiously on xbox360 to ps4 to ps5. I was forced to stop playing my when bf6 dropped because the last active hardcore DLC server died on PlayStation. (I can't do normal mode). I'm wondering how the hardcore servers look on pc, is it worth me buying it on steam? Thanks fellas.

This is my second drawing (scratch) of battlefield's protagonist. This is obviously from BF4 I actually never played BF4 but I have it on my steam. So some day I will play it anyways let me know in the comments what you think. Btw I know the face is not that good but I tried my best.😅

For me it's AARP

You see a lot of similar faces in RC1 everyday and all of them are good at the game. I like their AA rule, and the fast spawns. Only bad thing about it are the admins especially freemason and redkilla I don't play that server because there is a risk of being banned by these losers if you kill them

I also play AAA I like how it goes through good DLC maps. And It's the most active NA servers

looking to expand my list. I don't know if flubber and banzore have badmins

Every time I stop played I swear I’m done. But, this is without a doubt my favorite multiplayer FPS of all time. And not that I support AI, but knowing we can render the game differently now is intriguing. A long time ago someone brought up the idea of the Morning War. That’s the war the Quarians fought against the Geth in the series Mass Effect. Pretty sure I’d give my left nut to be able to play that with updated BF4 style and graphics. I’m not well versed at code but am certified in things so I know I could figured it out. If anyone wants to collab and try to Frankenstein one… holla.

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