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10 years ago

Battlefield 4 - Swimming Bug Resolved

Swimming bug resolved

Hello fellow Battlefield 4 players. I feel your pain. I too ran into a problem swimming while under water during the SOUTH CHINA SEA campaign.

Scenario: You are tasked with finding a sinking ship’s hard drive, to see what may have happened. You pull a small boat into a hole in the hull of the ship. There you make your way to the hard drive. Along the way you need to go through a lower deck, which is beneath water. To do so, you must swim underwater and navigate to the appropriate location.

Problem: You start to swim and then get stuck. If you stop your forward progression, you are pushed backwards. This sequence adds nothing for your gaming experience. It only build hostility and frustration. I do not know why game developers even bother with such nonsense. The only reason I can think of is to make the game a bit more eerie, because you swim past floating corpses.

Resolution: Some people suggested pausing and then resuming the game. This will only get you so far. I found that you have to assign and use your look up, look down, look right, and look left key-binds. Don’t turn to the left, look towards your left, etc. After I did this, I was able to conquer the challenge in about 10 minutes and continue the game.

RealHelsing out …

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  • Same here but 10 minutes is still infuriating.

    So glad the next BF is almost here.

    This bug is so stupid and it was ADDED to the game pretty recently. WTF?

  • I'm having the same problem. How long has this game been out? Is there no update to fix this? Pausing and resuming, hitting buttons, changing keys etc are all bandaids. Why has the developer not stepped in a fixed this?
  • The problem still excists and changing keybinds or pausing the games dont really work on my pc... Sometimes it works when i use a controller instead of my keyboard...

    Nice job here developers -,-

  • EA_Atic's avatar
    EA_Atic
    Icon for DICE Team rankDICE Team
    6 years ago

    I'm closing this thread to stop it being necroed.

    If you have any issues with Battlefield 4 please make a new topic about the issues you are having and what kind of steps you have tried to solve it.

    /Atic

  • Neil2508's avatar
    Neil2508
    Rising Newcomer
    29 days ago

    Dont **bleep**ing close it

    Fix the goddamn bug for the game I spent 40usd on

  • On console as of july 2025 still not fixed, and that through ea play

  • TremorHunter43's avatar
    TremorHunter43
    Rising Newcomer
    14 days ago

    Next time don’t close the forum and fix the **bleep** thing, genuinely crazy this even made it in let alone stayed for 9+ years, I genuinely think this huge issue has costed hundreds of thousands of dollars from people who either refunded the game, stopped playing or gave up the bf franchise all together because of this. I mean the first 2 missions are buggy and relatively boring as is, and I hope this was their nail in the coffin. Because seriously how does something like this just go unfixed. 

    im being serious when I say this mission is the single most miserable thing ive played in any video game ever. Specifically that section, because aside from the way too long intro all these missions have for some reason, this was actually one of the better missions post traumatic sea dive. 

    fix your game please

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