DICE and EA struggle to attain stability in Battlefield 4 across all platforms, but the latest PC update aims to change that. While a variety of issues still persist on consoles, the Battlefield 4 PC update brings fixes for any bugs and client crashes.
The patch fixes client crashes, frame rate drops and other areas impacting performance or stability. Additionally, the update also fixes a frame desync issue that caused players to get shot even when behind cover.
The full patch notes read as follows:
Sometimes the character stance could get into a multiple frame desync and be part of the problem where you got shot even though your character was actually behind cover. This would mostly affect players doing transitions into crouch and prone as well as moving when crouched. The impact was smaller in a standing stance. This bug fix eliminates this particular desync issue.
We have also increased the camera height when crouching and moving to more accurately reflect the actual height of your soldier in that stance (the first person camera was too low when crouching and moving, resulting in that you had a poor representation of how much of your soldier that was actually out of cover.)
- Fixed one of the most frequently occurring client crashes
- Fixed broken collision on containers with open doors. The bug previously made grenades bounce back even though the doors were open.
- Fixed a bug in Defuse mode where defenders could win the round by killing all the attackers without disarming the bomb, if the bomb was disarmed in the previous round.
- Miscellaneous stability fixes further reducing the number of client crashes
- Fixed side gunner jitter when aiming in attack boats & transport helicopters
- Fixed some instances of frame rate drops when shooting at large Levolution objects after they have been destroyed (like the radar dish on Rogue Transmission)
- Fixed broken aiming for passengers on the China Rising dirt bike
- Fixed a bug where the sound when capturing a flag was not playing correctly
- Removed a bug that would double save during MP round transition and SP level transition. This fix will reduce the occurrence of corrupted save files.
Other versions of Battlefield 4, including the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, are still experiencing multiple crashes. Until DICE can bring a stable performance to all platforms, they suspended development on future projects, including DLC.
