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Post by Fidite Nemini on Sept 8, 2015 9:50:25 GMT -6
Eh, it's a DICE game, that's all I need to know to not buy this game at launch. Just recently the Bf4 Summer Patch claimed to eliminate dusting on vehicles (for those not in the know, dusting is the term for when you shoot at a vehicle and you visually see the hit, complete with explosion effect and a large smoke blowout on hit, yet your target recieved no damage because the server screwed up the hit detection) ... it's now worse than ever.
Basically, my jaded advice is: wait out the launch for at least a week or so, read (player!) reviews and if SW: BF is not working satisfyingly at launch and needs patches to work properly, scrap the idea of buying it. DICE patches fix one thing and break two others. And the patch after the next one will reintroduce formerly patched issues.
Oh, and a word on reviews: do not ever, under any circumstances trust any pre-release review for any sort of MP game, or just the MP component of a reviewed game in general. Because even the most thoroughly tested game pre-release (and who am I kidding, gaming journalist reviewers don't thoroughly test games, because that takes time and would mean that whilst you're doing a 100% playthrough, another lazy reviewers just publishes his barebones review first and hogs all the viewers, which is were the money's at!), won't have the same server load the game would have to deal with after launch when thousands of players are playing the game over various internet connections with varying amounts of speed, packetloss, latency, etc. pp. compared to the clean test environment of a couple editor colleagues over a local LAN network or test server. Post-release reviews are the only representative opinion you can get on MP games, period. The gaming press was praising Battlefield 4 in droves right before the release and we all (ought to) know how that one worked out ...
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