When the Battlefield 4 news rains, it pours. Just the other day we told you about the Dragon’s Teeth DLC going live this July 15 for Premium members, and today we’re back with a hat trick of Battlefield news that should put fans of the franchise in a chipper mood.
For starters, DICE has just announced a summer festival called Battlefest. An event that will run from July 12 until August 13. Each day, players will be asked to submit Battleshots. Essentially just in-game screen captures, these daily contests will give players a theme, then ask that they capture an image from their game and submit it for consideration. Each daily winner will receive an AMD graphics card, $50 gift card to the DICE store, and a Battlefield 4 Premium membership on the platform of their choice. You can find the Full Contest Rules here if you’re interested, which we suspect you are.
Aside from the contest above, Battlefest will include several other incentives which we’ve listed below.
Free Camouflage Unlocks
Each week we will be releasing a free camouflage in-game for all players. This will give you more ways to standout on the battlefield.
Double XP
As noted above, we’re kicking Battlefest off with a double XP weekend and we’re definitely going to end with one too for all players to reap the benefits.
Community Missions
Each week we will be hosting a global community challenge to reach a specific goal in-game. If you reach the goal, everyone who logs in will receive a free gold Battlepack the following week. The first mission starts on July 15, 2014, where you will have to collectively reach 15 million revives across all platforms, with the mission ending on the eve of July 20, 2014.
Stunt Video Competition
This is a month long contest where we are asking you to send us your best stunt video that can only be done in Battlefield 4. Once we receive the submissions, the DICE team will pick the top 12 and then you, the fans, will vote on the top three winners to win a massive prize. Read the Full Contest Rules.
Continuing on to news item number two, Visceral Games recently released a few fun facts that they gathered from the Battlefield Hardline beta that wrapped up a short time ago. While none of it is really essential knowledge, it does give players a fun look at some of the shenanigans that were had stealing money and blowing up motor vehicles. They even provided this nifty infographic to illustrate some hypothetical dollar values based on the chaos.
Lastly, on July 8, DICE released the latest game update for Battlefield 4. From stomping out common bugs to introducing new game modes, there’s a little bit of something for everyone. While each platform does have their own patch notes, we’re going to share the PS4 version with you below (because we’re bias like that), but you can read all about any platform you’d like Right Here. While there are a few differences, the PS4 version will give all players a good idea of what to expect.
Commander App
-Various bug fixes
General
-Fix for an issue where players were able to duplicate Battle Pickups by repeatedly picking up a kit
-Fix for an issue where field upgrades would stop working after one round when players had reached the max field upgrade level
-Fix for a crash that could occur when a player left a round
-Added a 15 seconds warm-up timer for all Official games
-Fix for an issue that prevented players to issue squad order around capture points during the sandstorm on Gulf of Oman
-Fix for an issue where a squad leader would kick a member from the squad, but the slot wouldn’t become available for others to join
-Option added for double tap forward to sprint (when on foot)
Graphical
-Fix for an issue where the player would get a water splash effect on the screen after crashing an EOD/MAV/SUAV into the water
Modes
-Added Conquest Small on PlayStation 4
-Added a competitive Obliteration game mode
Servers
-Server Browser support added to Squad Join (Beta)
-Fix for an issue where server administrators couldn’t ban players that had clan tags
-Fix for an issue that could cause the game to freeze while in the My Rental Server menu
User Interface
-Fix for an issue where the Squad Join (Beta) feature wouldn’t display squad members presence correctly
-Fix for an issue where the kill card wasn’t displayed in some cases in Hardcore mode
-Added total team experience points to the end of round screen for the Capture the Flag game mode
-Added user interface options for tweaking the ADS aiming sensitivity
-Dog tags are rearranged in the kill cards so the right one is not obstructed
Vehicles
-Fix for an issue where the flag would occasionally float in mid-air when players got out of vehicles while carrying the flag
-Removed the boost button press to turn off boost for vehicles, boost should be turned off by releasing the accelerator, this makes it consistent with soldier sprint and helps using vehicle boost easier
-Adjusted the PWC physics so it drives/controls more nicely in all water levels
-Option added for double tap forward to boost (when driving a vehicle)
Weapons
-Fix for an issue where a weapon would flail wildly after a player would die
-Removed the 2nd set of shell that are visible in the speed loader when reloading the M412 revolver
-Fix for the Hawk Shotgun missing “pump action” animation in 3rd person while crouching
-Fix for RPG-7 rocket remaining visible in the launcher after the last shot is fired while zoomed in
-Fixed the bipod animations for MTAR-21
-Foregrip in 3rd person now has hand in the correct position on M416/M417
-Fix for a broken animation when switching to AWS as main weapon
