DICE and EA have released the large Winter Update for Battlefield 4. You can find the full patch notes below.
Major improvements have been made to the Battlefield 4 network layer. They have done long range network updates by adding a cone to the High Frequency Update (30hz), illustrated in the image below.
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Other Netcode improvementsthey have done according to the Battelog Blog Page:
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- Network prioritization and filtering has been improved. This now prioritizes health/damage, enemy players and vehicles above all.
- Vehicles now use a larger (front) hemi-sphere shape for collision improvements
- Aiming down sights, or zooming in sitting in a vehicle or on foot, utilizes an even longer range cone for better target acquisition at a distance
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With the Winter Patch coming a new game mode called Squad Obliteration to the game. “In this mode the fast paced, objective based gameplay of the original Obliteration is scaled down to 5 vs 5 size – balanced and perfected for competitive play. Here are the major differences from the original Obliteration mode:
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Squad Obliteration/Obliteration differences
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- No vehicles, no parachute spawns
- Secondary base spawns are made available
- First team to destroy two out of three bases wins the round
- Bomb carrier position is only known to the enemy team if spotted”
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DICE also changed the Quickmatch funktion:
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- New player gating: New players can now matchmake into special servers until reaching rank 10, giving them a chance to learn playing Battlefield 4 against other new players.
- Ranked Preset support: Players now have the added option to Quickmatch into Ranked servers as an addition to the Official preset available in the past.
- Premium Playlists: Three new playlists are added catering to various play styles and including maps from all expansions and base game combined.
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Take a look at what all they changed in the full patch notes below. We have to say that it is a long list. Enjoy 🙂 !
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THE FULL PATCH NOTE:
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