Me and my crews' issues, suggestions, and ideas with BF4 - part 1

Weapon Issues:

• I can’t speak for everyone else, but I can speak for myself. When someone goes through the process of working their butts and minds off trying to win a weapon unlock achievement in the game, and to finally achieve it, the accomplishment should be what it is worth in gold. The bad is that most of the unlocked weapons just purely stink in this game.

a. SR338 sniper rifle: This rifle can NOT hit anything even if you stand in front of the item itself. It says it gives about 75% damage. The damage it offers doesn’t even come close to actual damage can do - It’s MUCH LOWER than that. The damage is more like a mosquito compared to the SRR rifle. I’ve used it in battles only to find out all it is able to do is to **bleep** off the other players your trying to shoot. It, in my opinion, is another item that once achieved, is a waste of gamers’ time when trying to accomplish this goal. It can be corrected using the actual stats for a 338A-Lapua( auto 338 Lapua sniper rifle system). This would make it a more feasible sniper rifle to use in the game.

b. M39EMR: In BF3, this was a sniper rifle. I used it A LOT in BF3. In Bf4, it became the worst thing of all.., a DMR. The DMR’s won’t shoot far, upon aiming, they usually shoot off from where they were aimed-(This also goes for the RPK12, RPK74M, F2000, ASVAL, etc). No actual scopes that are worth anything to use for them exist in the game. We need at least Hunter Scope options for these rifles and better damage and shooting distances with them.

c. I want to know the reason that someone with a pistol can and will use it as a sniper rifle? I’ve been shot with the 44 mag with a 3X scope from almost half way of the maps. The same goes with A LOT of the pistols (MP412Rex, MP443, O226, Compact 45, M1911, etc…). I always thought that a pistol is for when the main weapon failed or it was a Close Quarter Battle and your characters life depended on him doing what was needed to survive in the game.

d. M16A4 and M4: Burst mode fire? Really?? This is the best that they can do? I know for a fact they offer a Full AUTO fire mode as well. (I own both of these guns in real life.) Yes, they do have a bust fire mode where they fire 3 rounds (NOT the 2-burst like in this game-I don’t know what the heck your company was thinking when they designed this into these guns.).

e. The 338-Recon: Was this a fake rifle added to the game to give the sniper class more guns? It doesn’t exist in real life as for what I can see. Most of the 338 Lapua Based Sniper Rifle Systems (AKA-338SRS or the 338A-Lapua {Which I own one}) (not all-but most) Recon sniper rifles are auto-fire, they have a 5-10 round clip, come with the railing system for add-ons, and can hit a bull’s-eye at a 1000 plus meters with ease. The bolt action versions can shoot even further with the proper know-how. I propose that the SR338 and the 338-Recon get re-coded into more of what they can do as a real rifle.

f. Single Player awards and rifle achievements: When I played the single player version of this I managed after a month of trying to accomplish the entire SP weapon unlocks in the game. Come to my surprise, only the weakest weapon unlocks were available in the multiplayer. Since I like playing as a sniper, I was severely anticipating and wanting the M83A3 and the AMR series rifles to be available in the game. I agree.., they can be found in the game by running around here and there and hoping you don’t get killed off before you finally find it, but that is extremely unlikely. I propose to your company to make a variation of these guns that is a little bit weaker but with the auto fire and attachment earnings as could be expected whilst playing and using them. You already have the materials in the game to accomplish this feat and I believe it could be done as well.

g. AMR rifles. Why is this rifle a bolt action? It should be a true automatic rifle.

h. AMR and M83A3 rifles again. When using them in the game, why can’t you reload them? If your teammate throws down an ammo box near you, it won’t reload them. I have tested this too many times with no way possible to reload them as of yet.

i. Sniper scope glare: I mean really?? Why is this in the game?? Why even play as a sniper if someone is going to pinpoint your scope and shoot your player dead. The glare from the scope can be seen completely across every map and makes it very easy to kill the player that is using it. It doesn’t show up on any other class if they are using DMR’s with scopes, so why just snipers? I know a lot of other people have it in for snipers and don’t think they ever do anything to help their team, but your people made it almost too easy to find and kill them in the game. The glare looks like a flashlight from map to map end and like a lighthouse from half map to your player. After awhile, it makes you even think twice about playing as a sniper in the game due to this “glare” **bleep** you have stitched into the game. Ask a true former armed forces sniper and they will tell you about having a true “sun guard designed scope” to prevent “sniper glare” on any ballistic or high power scope that they use. A lot of the ballistic scopes you have posted in the game are actually designed to be “glare resistant” but they are still showing a glare from them. This “glare” feature needs to go. This is also evident if your sniper is inside and hidden in a building and defending an area. Every time he aims through the scope, he is almost 100% likely to be spotted. In my opinion, and on any level, map, and hardness of the game, the glare is a wasted memory resource in the game. These wasted resources could be used to help some other issue in the game.

j. Unnecessary game extras and crappy designed scopes: Having lasers, ballistic 1x scopes, 2x magnifiers, etc, is a total waste in this game. Especially for a sniper. Give some good 6x to 60x scopes, some with heat vision, x-ray vision, auto-targeting type scopes are what snipers use today. Now if your favorite class is specialists, assault, or medical class.., (or they are used in close to mid range situations) I could understand the wimpy scopes and the extra accessories for their classes only (Like in BC2). I, for one, can not understand the deal with having a L96A1 and only being able to stab on a 1X scope?!?!? Then having to go thorough all kinds of kills to finally get an 8X scope and the variable zoom. I believe all scopes above 8X should automatically come with the variable zoom feature built into them. 20X and higher should come with a 3X power zoom (Like in BC2) – For example: 20x should come with a 6X-then a 14X- then the 20X. The 40X should be designed to be as a true sniper scope. It starts out at 8X- then goes to 20X-then goes to 40X power. This could be put in as an add-on to the scopes depending on their size and power and could give the user more options in the classes.

k. Night and heat visions scope in a day-time only game: This is another useless feature in the game. Using heat vision scopes in a building is okay IF and only IF it could see through walls. But it seems your company didn’t code that feature into these types of scopes. So, they are a useless waste in my opinion as for resources in this game. These features should be an add-on feature to any scope in the game like you have in adding the lasers and magnifiers. This way they can be turned on and off with a click of the directional buttons.

l. The USAS 12-Gauge gun. This is another gun that I used before in battlefield games (BC2-BF3) that was very useful in the game. I see it has now been reduced to a hidden gun in the game as well. I agree.., they can be found in the game by running around here and there and hoping you don’t get killed off before you finally find it, but that is extremely unlikely. I propose to your company to make a variation of these guns that is a little bit weaker but with the auto fire and attachment earnings as could be expected whilst playing and using them. You already have the materials in the game to accomplish this feat and I believe it could be done as well. Your company did manage to put the DOA-12 in the game but made it almost impossible to accomplish the feat to collect it as for both accomplishments have to be completed in one game and in one round as well without dying. (I’m good in the game.., but I’m not that good.) Also I see that do to the patches, it was weakened down to where the reload times takes forever on it as well. It should be the same as Saiga rifle because you can actually reload an entire canister of shells at one time.

m. Speaking of auto fire shotguns, where is the AR-12? It is similar to the AR series rifles that the military uses but the fact that it shoots 12 gauge shells. Also That or the Bullpup designed BPSaiga12 (AKA BPS12)

n. Suggestion: Shotgun Canister Magazines options: Why are they no canister shell holder (AKA Cans) options for the Saiga or any other auto shotguns? I believe this could be made into a Battlepack item if your company wanted to add it into the game. It would hold a complete clip (30 or more rounds) and could be used without reloading (unless you ran out of shells, which when reloading could take a short while). They could be reloaded with the ammo crate box but at a slower rate. It’s just a thought.

o. RPG’s, Grenades, C4, Claymores, etc.., at close range. This should annihilate the one your aiming at completely and if your character is close enough, KIA him as well. But as I have seen too many times, it won’t happen that way. It has a 50/50 chance of killing the one being aimed at or any of his teammates nearby, but it only does enough damage to him to bring him down to an “almost dead” health score and still he is able to kill your character. I’ve seen in real life what an RPG can do. They can take out entire buildings, permanently destroy tanks in one shot, destroy a ship in one shot, you get the point. If they can destroy a tank (which they won’t now after the last two patches) they should be able to take out the “bad guy” and whoever is around him (his teammates) in one shot. An RPG, if they can tear a hole through a 6 inch thick piece of plated steel and keep traveling through the air and then explode, I don’t see why this isn’t effective in the actual game.

p. Where are the missing Personal Mines: Stuff like “bouncing betty’s” or the “spike of death” or the “nail bomb grenades” or the “ball bearing grenades”?? These are used by our military today and have been used for years. Why weren’t they ever designed for the game?? I believe these should be coded into the game so they can be used like the military uses them AND they should not be weakened down to let any live if they are exploded near that character.

q. DMR Rifles. Why aren’t there any good 20x to 40X scopes, variable zooms, etc.. for these rifles? Or any of the sniper class add-ons that would help these rifles out any? The M39EMR and other DMR’s could become decent rifles with a few tweaks to them in their distance, damage, and other sections.

r. Sniper rifles: Why can’t we include a straight pull and range finder and bipod at the same time on any of the sniper rifles? Through the options available, it is entirely impossible. It’s either one or the other. I believe each person should be able to customize his or her gun however they wish whether it kills the effect of the gun or enhances it. I propose a new menu system that after you unlock an accessory, you can choose it at will for whatever weapon you want to within your class range.

s. Naval map missing boats: Where are the battleships with their big cannons that can shoot over so many miles?? Where are the aircraft carriers and the ability to land and take off from them? Where are the guns for the hovercraft boats? Where is the Surface to air missile launchers from the ship? Where are the submarines and the ability to launch missiles (land, sea, and air) from them?

t. The range of tank type vehicles: I noticed that the tank firing range when firing its main weapon is decreased seriously too much. A common tank can shoot well over 20 miles which equals to 32186.9 meters. I know the game does not have this distance designed in it but the range of the tanks vehicles when they fire their main weapons should. I propose this should be fixed. This is including the main battle tanks, the LAV’s, and any other vehicle that shoots tank like weapons.

u. Random Glitch on SRR rifles: there is a random glitch on SRR rifles where when it is in aimed mode and you shoot it. The click the fire button, it doesn’t show the animation of it being reloaded or it does a “delay” reload. You can aim it, fire and kill somebody, and then while still aiming at times; it won’t ever break away from being aimed. You will hear the reloading of it but never see the animation. On occasion I did an aimed shot, then went to reload the gun while still being in aimed mode, it totally reloaded the gun and never showed its animation for that either. Also since the last update (07/10/2014) it randomly will never show the reload animation in the game if running and reloading or crouched down or in prone position and have shot a few rounds already. Fix the glitch please.

Gadget Issues

• A lot of the gadgets have issues as well. I will start with some that your company has already nearly destroyed in this game by doing the “patching them to death syndrome”.

a. AA mines. I can not go on how proud these were brought into the game. But after the last four patches, they are pretty much useless now. When they fire, they only scratch a copter or a plane just enough to **bleep** them off and make them come back and shoot you.

b. AA Mines still: Why is the amount of ammo fired from them only 2 rockets? They fire two rockets and then explode. Modern ones carry up to 16 rockets and can fire various types of rockets as well depending on the type of aircraft flying around. This should be corrected to be the modern weapon that it is. And the fact that they could be reloaded as well within a certain time limit – either near the AA Mine or from a distance with an ammo box.

c. AA mines and Rocket Launchers. I’ll admit I was one to use this platform for my engineer guy. I used it to protect my squad/team from helicopter attacks. The AA mines would only scratch the copter but not disable it. Add this with an AA stinger, SRAW or a RPG and you had an effective plane/copter killer. I see this ability was removed in the last 2 patches and I want to know why? It is the same deal in my mind as for having the m2 slams and the AT mines on one engineer to use to destroy many tanks in one area. In the book, The Art of War – “Use everything you have around you to your full advantage to kill the enemy.”

d. AA mines-again. The ability to relocate them if they are accidentally deployed but not in a usable place. I never figured this out. If you can deploy the AT mines and the M2 Slams and then PICK them up and relocate them, why not the AA mine??

e. C4, AT Mines, Fragment Grenades, M2 Slams, ETC... The Limitation of amount one can carry into battle. I like the Sniper. I unlocked the deal of being able to carry 6 claymore mines but can only deploy 3. If upon trying to deploy more, one of the ones I already deployed will disappear to oblivion to never be seen again. This goes for even if you have an ammo box nearby to refill them, they still disappear. The same goes for the other perks. The ability to carry more than 1 Grenade. Even though it states in the game you unlocked that perk and that ability, you are still limited to only one (maybe 2 or 3 depending on the grenade itself) grenade. This truly stinks when you’re trying to defend or capture a flag in a building when the building is loaded down with a bunch of campers holding onto the flag. I propose the ability to at least carry 6-grenades (any kind), 6-C4s’, 6-Claymores, 6-M2s’, 6-Frag grenades, etc. And the ability to deploy them whenever you wish and however you wish in the game (without them disappearing after laying out 3 mines or just only to be able to hold one grenade). This is what my army friend carried (Frag Grenades that is) when he went to war in Vietnam and what most military carries today as well.

f. Where are the laser guided trip mines for guarding door entrances, special areas, etc? Also the “**bleep**-trap” mines? This was a very popular deal in the Vietnam War and in wars since then. I’m still wondering why they are not in this game as it seems most of the current weapons used in this game are from days gone by.

g. The Mobile Anti-Air Guns that were in BF3. These guns were a blast to use and could take the opponents air defenses quickly if one knew how to use them. Why weren’t these included in BF4? I could see these being used to help the troops to keep the pesky jets and copters at bay to keep them from hurting the troops or when they use the air vehicles to “rush” the base. You could mod the design of the mobile rocket defense truck and put one on the back of it. I guarantee it would be awesome to use it again.

h. Where is the HVM-II rocket launcher? You people did not want this animal to be found in the game did you? I’ve searched the maps several times trying to find it, but with no luck yet. I did manage to accidentally find it when I was on the “B” tower in Shanghai but I haven’t located it there since. It seems every time a patch goes out, the location gets moved somewhere else. I propose this should be a weapon unlock that could be used for BOTH air and vehicle defense.

i. The ability to hold a grenade a second or two and then throw it or hold it out and then put it back in the pouch. This was in BF3 why was it removed in BF4?

j. Actual Military Vehicles: Where is the military version of the Humvee? Where is the mine destroyer vehicle (a modded tank with flailing chains-it can still shoot like a tank but it can destroy at-mines to clear a path for other vehicles.)? BF4 is supposed to be a “modern day war game”. (Your companies quote, not mine.) So why most of the vehicles are from the 60’s through the early 80’s? From my calculations.., this is the 2000 and up years. I ask to update the vehicles and give them modern weapons that are used as of this current time with the actual firing distances in related to the map size and the damage they can do in real life as related to the map size.

k. Piloting the air vehicles: I thought I was a good pilot in BC2, but this game proved me entirely wrong. I really enjoyed the controls setup in Bad Company 2. They worked like a champ. To pilot a copter in BF4, it takes beyond skills to take off, use it in warfare, and then land it safely to deliver troops. The reversal of the left/right functions and no way to manually change them is quite annoying. Example; Turning the copter while doing a hover flight. The controls are totally backwards. When you push to the right, it should go right NOT to the left. I know the PS3 version could use a major update on its’ controls for the game (especially a way to customize the controls to a way the user wants them to be) and I propose that your company attempt to fix this please. I am implying the type of controls that even a 2 yr old could fly them with.

l. The EOD Bot: I’ve only seen one use of this gadget. Destroying anti-tank mines. IF and I mean IF either it or you or BOTH doesn’t get destroyed. I propose to make this bot useful in the game. Give it some armament. Let it be able to use a weapon like an auto shotgun, LMG, rocket launcher or something like that to give the user the ability to actually use it in clearing out buildings, destroying “**bleep** traps”, killing claymores, destroying anti-tank mines, defusing bombs, killing the enemies if needed, carry C4 to an unsuspecting enemy, etc.., etc. All-in-all to attempt to make it actually useful in this game.

m. The M.A.V. robot: Yes, it can shoot one shot which does hardly any damage at all to the enemy. Read the above for the EOD Bot and use the same principles to it and it will finally become a decent gadget to use in the game.

n. Getting your boat stuck on land by accident: I propose your company add a way to push the boat (AKA - hold a certain button down and then the boat gets knocked back a certain amount) instead of having to stab at it with the knife to get it to move back to the water. When having to do this, it makes your player a viable target when you are only doing your best to get the boat back in the water to help out your team.

o. The sniper spawn point gadget: I see when playing as an engineer and deploying m2 slams, at15 mines and then get killed, then return to the game as an ammo guy, the slams and mines are still there where they were deployed. When deploying as a sniper, then setting up a spawn point, then get shot, if you change classes, the spawn point explodes and you lose your advantage to your team that you had. When as an engineer, the mines/slams stay until someone runs over them or shoots them and you can still earn points for the damages they cause to vehicles. The same goes for any C4 planted unless you change classes. Then they magically disappear until you change back to the former class that planted the C4. Even then, you can’t explode them using the trigger switch. They can only be exploded if your lucky enough to shoot them correctly, grenade them, rocket launch them or mav shoot them. If you’re a sniper and deploy C4, then die when setting them out, when you come back, you can see them but you can’t trigger them with the detonator switch. I feel that the sniper spawn point and the other classes gadgets should stay until they are destroyed by other players.

p. What happened to the explosive power of the AT-15 land mines? When I first got this game and played it online, the mines did what they were designed to do – Blow up a tank in one try with only one mine. Now do to all these patches, it takes 2-3 mines to absolutely send a tank or any armored vehicle to the graveyard (if you are lucky enough). Why was the damage rate changed in them? They did like they were supposed too in the real-world and not like a firecracker under a bicycle tire. Please put them back they were.

This list may be amended at any time upon I, my family, and my friends find any more issues or complaints. Thanks for your companies time in reading this and I hope that these issues, add-ons, or glitches fixed can be done. Have a blessed day and I hope to see you on the Battlefield!!

I moved all your posts together so they can all be in this one thread instead of 3 different ones. 

That is the longest post of suggestions i have seen yet (which is good). But DICE devs do not come here to Answer HQ. You would be better to post this on battlelog. 

Post it here: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/

Thanks for putting them together as one. It would only let me do a 20,000 character post so I did it this way.

As for posting on Battlelog.., that's the next place I am going to post...

tried 5 times just a few minutes ago... Battlelog won't let me post over 500 characters to their board and I can not add to any post I put on it till the next day.... which is kinda sad to me......

all I can do on battlelog is to post a link to here and hope someone reads it...