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zero democracy
Oct 9, 2002

in extremis
My BONEDRIVE poo poo itself and stopped recognizing anything as playable so I figured I should RMA it now as nothing really comes out until November. By then everyone will be so far ahead of me in Destiny that I can return to the Battlefield for those battlefeels.

Has anyone done this with Microsoft? If I shipped it off yesterday, about how long did it take to get it back?

Edit - Estimated completion 10/13. Hopefully that's a worst case scenario. :suicide:

zero democracy fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Sep 26, 2014

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Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

zero democracy posted:

My BONEDRIVE poo poo itself and stopped recognizing anything as playable so I figured I should RMA it now as nothing really comes out until November. By then everyone will be so far ahead of me in Destiny that I can return to the Battlefield for those battlefeels.

Has anyone done this with Microsoft? If I shipped it off yesterday, about how long did it take to get it back?

My Kinect, in Australia, took about 7 business days turnaround.

cats blood
May 11, 2011

zero democracy posted:

My BONEDRIVE poo poo itself and stopped recognizing anything as playable so I figured I should RMA it now as nothing really comes out until November. By then everyone will be so far ahead of me in Destiny that I can return to the Battlefield for those battlefeels.

Has anyone done this with Microsoft? If I shipped it off yesterday, about how long did it take to get it back?

In the UK you can get Microsoft to send a replacement bone straight away as long as you give them a credit card number, when it comes you send your broken one back in the box and if it is really broken they dont charge your card. worked for me when mine stopped reading games, but was fine with films.

Raskolnikov2089
Nov 3, 2006

Schizzy to the matic
Beastie you should have stayed man, we ruled the server for awhile.

RonMexicosPitbull
Feb 28, 2012

by Ralp
Both Microsoft and Sony will bend over backwards to make poo poo like that right because they don't make jack poo poo on the consoles its all about you buying games and movies from them. Which you won't do if using the system is a hassle.

Beastie
Nov 3, 2006

They used to call me tricky-kid, I lived the life they wish they did.


Raskolnikov2089 posted:

Beastie you should have stayed man, we ruled the server for awhile.

The warden was due home at any time and my buddy wanted to loot farm in Destiny. Sorry. I'll be on all drat day today.

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



Bad Company 2 is one of the free games on Xbox 360 this month. Since BC2 will be repopulated again, anyone who still has a 360 and wants to squad up, let me know! GT is Cubivore.

Raskolnikov2089
Nov 3, 2006

Schizzy to the matic
Sorry Nick, internet went out. Hopefully it's back to working today.

Vehicle CTE patch is apparently going to nerf stingers/MAA against helicopters, buff them against jets.

Raskolnikov2089 fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Sep 26, 2014

Raskolnikov2089
Nov 3, 2006

Schizzy to the matic
wheeeeeeeeee

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/battlereport/show/64/516022581137960896/200678871/

chocolateTHUNDER
Jul 19, 2008

GIVE ME ALL YOUR FREE AGENTS

ALL OF THEM

RonMexicosPitbull posted:

Both Microsoft and Sony will bend over backwards to make poo poo like that right because they don't make jack poo poo on the consoles its all about you buying games and movies from them. Which you won't do if using the system is a hassle.

Sony doesn't even cross ship lol

thenicko33
Sep 2, 2011

noob, you died once.

really don't understand why dice thinks stingers need to be buffed vs jets. if it were bf3, i'd understand, but the only jet that is a threat can easily be destroyed by anyone who gets in the stealth and has opposable thumbs.

Bohemian Nights
Jul 14, 2006

When I wake up,
I look into the mirror
I can see a clearer, vision
I should start living today
Clapping Larry

thenicko33 posted:

really don't understand why dice thinks stingers need to be buffed vs jets. if it were bf3, i'd understand, but the only jet that is a threat can easily be destroyed by anyone who gets in the stealth and has opposable thumbs.

I dunno. Coming from the PC, the attack jet on the xbone seems to be in a really cozy and mostly untouched spot, perhaps mainly because the mobile AA seems to lack a lot of the bite that I'm used to.
At the moment, both the stinger and igla can't even remotely be considered a threat to the attack jet, so some minor adjustments are probably in order. I mean, If you get hit by iAA in the first place you already hosed up, but in the rare occasions that it actually happens, it doesn't really matter anyway because it usually just forces you to take an extra 15 second break while you wait for your countermeasures to replenish- and by that time, your health will be back up near 100% anyway.

Unfortunately, it seems like just having opposable thumbs doesn't quite cut it! I came into xbox BF4 thinking I would be completely trounced in the air without my joystick, but with 50ish kills under my belt I've yet to actually get shot down by stealth jets or otherwise, so it's been a lot easier than expected.

Bohemian Nights fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Sep 28, 2014

Seedge
Jun 15, 2009
Hey, buddy. :glomp:



thenicko33 posted:

noob, you died once.

really don't understand why dice thinks stingers need to be buffed vs jets. if it were bf3, i'd understand, but the only jet that is a threat can easily be destroyed by anyone who gets in the stealth and has opposable thumbs.

I can't imagine any reason. I mean, why allow any of 30 people on the ground using dedicated AA weapons to be effective against an air vehicle when they could all wait in a queue for a singular air vehicle? Crazy.

Raskolnikov2089
Nov 3, 2006

Schizzy to the matic

thenicko33 posted:

noob, you died once.

really don't understand why dice thinks stingers need to be buffed vs jets. if it were bf3, i'd understand, but the only jet that is a threat can easily be destroyed by anyone who gets in the stealth and has opposable thumbs.

Just get ready to embrace the chopper. It will become even more fun to drive.

tehinternet
Feb 14, 2005

Semantically, "you" is both singular and plural, though syntactically it is always plural. It always takes a verb form that originally marked the word as plural.

Also, there is no plural when the context is an argument with an individual rather than a group. Somfin shouldn't put words in my mouth.

Seedge posted:

I can't imagine any reason. I mean, why allow any of 30 people on the ground using dedicated AA weapons to be effective against an air vehicle when they could all wait in a queue for a singular air vehicle? Crazy.

Wading into this again!

Take repairs off little birds, remove the retarded disabled spin mechanic that makes it so getting hit by one stinger can stun lock you. Hell, even buff the stinger damage to make it a two hit kill.

The reason I bring up the little bird is because it pretty much singlehandedly ruins what little air balance there is in the game. Jets are fine and hardly the threat to ground they were in BF3 since AP effectively shuts down any run an attack jet may make.

ambient oatmeal
Jun 23, 2012

They should let every class replace their knife with an infinite ammo stinger that doesn't actually do damage it just makes people waste flares and knock them all over the place because that would be hilarious.

tehinternet
Feb 14, 2005

Semantically, "you" is both singular and plural, though syntactically it is always plural. It always takes a verb form that originally marked the word as plural.

Also, there is no plural when the context is an argument with an individual rather than a group. Somfin shouldn't put words in my mouth.

keyboard vomit posted:

They should let every class replace their knife with an infinite ammo stinger that doesn't actually do damage it just makes people waste flares and knock them all over the place because that would be hilarious.

Infinite range too.

Seriouspost:

Or make stingers disable with little/no damage and Iglas do more damage with no disable. I just don't understand how Dice gets air balance so wrong.

Lazyfire
Feb 4, 2006

God saves. Satan Invests

tehinternet posted:

Infinite range too.

Seriouspost:

Or make stingers disable with little/no damage and Iglas do more damage with no disable. I just don't understand how Dice gets air balance so wrong.

Run Gyro Stabilizer and save yourself a ton of aggravation.

Charles Martel
Mar 7, 2007

"The Hero of the Age..."

The hero of all ages
^^^ Yeah, going without gyro is a death sentence.

Bohemian Nights posted:

At the moment, both the stinger and igla can't even remotely be considered a threat to the attack jet, so some minor adjustments are probably in order.

This was my first thought after he mentioned the CTE patch notes. In virtually every match I've been in with jets while on the ground, I completely ignore them. Usually they're too busy flying in circles and having a dick-waving contest with the jet on the other team to see who can chaingun the other one down first and would have to be super stupid to get shot down with a stinger or igla.

I hope Final Stand comes out soon. Titanfall not having a server browser is the loving worst.

Manatee Cannon
Aug 26, 2010



tehinternet posted:

Wading into this again!

Take repairs off little birds, remove the retarded disabled spin mechanic that makes it so getting hit by one stinger can stun lock you. Hell, even buff the stinger damage to make it a two hit kill.

The reason I bring up the little bird is because it pretty much singlehandedly ruins what little air balance there is in the game. Jets are fine and hardly the threat to ground they were in BF3 since AP effectively shuts down any run an attack jet may make.

Yeah you shouldn't be able to repair them in the air.

Also honestly the only real way to balance jets is to remove them. They're in their own little world by themselves anyway. That isn't gonna happen, though.

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Lazyfire posted:

Run Gyro Stabilizer and save yourself a ton of aggravation.

Seriously, almost everyone switches over to Stealth Coating once they unlock it. As if that extra fraction of a second of delayed lock-on time really matters.

ambient oatmeal
Jun 23, 2012

New Best weapon: Hipfire 44 Magnum

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
oct will be the month i pick up the bone, looks like a few decent releases on the horizon for when i get bored of milking pubbie tears (except i will never get bored of team swap special).

tehinternet
Feb 14, 2005

Semantically, "you" is both singular and plural, though syntactically it is always plural. It always takes a verb form that originally marked the word as plural.

Also, there is no plural when the context is an argument with an individual rather than a group. Somfin shouldn't put words in my mouth.

FastestGunAlive posted:

oct will be the month i pick up the bone, looks like a few decent releases on the horizon for when i get bored of milking pubbie tears (except i will never get bored of team swap special).

If there's one thing I miss from consoles, it's badminning.

Oh, the tears. :)

Raskolnikov2089
Nov 3, 2006

Schizzy to the matic

FastestGunAlive posted:

oct will be the month i pick up the bone, looks like a few decent releases on the horizon for when i get bored of milking pubbie tears (except i will never get bored of team swap special).

Sweet. Also get Lococycle as soon as you 'bone up. It's a must-have.

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

BF4 Fall Patch Notes posted:


Weapon changes

- DMRs: Audio when being shot at by a DMR has been improved


The best change.

edit: (hopefully)

Charles Martel
Mar 7, 2007

"The Hero of the Age..."

The hero of all ages

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

Sweet. Also get Lococycle as soon as you 'bone up. It's a must-have.

The Fighter Within is pretty ownage too.

Lazyfire
Feb 4, 2006

God saves. Satan Invests

Buy D4 because it's only sold like 10,000 copies at this point so some day hard drives with it on them will be a collector's item.

Beelzebozo
Nov 6, 2002

I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel. But I am, so that’s how it comes out.

Lazyfire posted:

Buy D4 because it's only sold like 10,000 copies at this point so some day hard drives with it on them will be a collector's item.

Counterpoint: Don't get it because it's just an anime with some QTEs and is dumb and janky but not in the charming way you'd expect a SWERY game to be dumb and janky.

Lazyfire
Feb 4, 2006

God saves. Satan Invests

Beelzebozo posted:

Counterpoint: Don't get it because it's just an anime with some QTEs and is dumb and janky but not in the charming way you'd expect a SWERY game to be dumb and janky.

No, this sounds like a SWERY game all the way through. People forgot the games he did before Deadly Premonition were pretty bad and janky as well.

Beelzebozo
Nov 6, 2002

I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel. But I am, so that’s how it comes out.

Lazyfire posted:

No, this sounds like a SWERY game all the way through.

No, you can go with "sounds like" if you want, but I played through it start to finish last Friday. And I'm telling you it is bad and janky in the mundane way and not in the charming way that Deadly Premonition and the Lord of PSP games were bad and janky.

Lazyfire posted:

People forgot the games he did before Deadly Premonition were pretty bad and janky as well.

Before? :raise: Are you implying that Deadly Premonition itself was not bad and janky? IGN gave it a 2/10 when it was first released. It found a cult audience in the year following, and later reviews have buoyed the metacritic up to 68 as people began to look past the game's myriad of technical flaws to find the charm. But it's a bad game; just an adorable one. D4 is not that, in my opinion. It's just bad. Don't waste your time. Unless you're a big weeaboo, I guess.

Jejoma
Nov 5, 2008
You know, the time I've spent in jets has been mostly shooing away enemy jets. The jet-respawn timer is so fast that by the time I finish killing both enemy jets, I have something like 15 seconds to try and shoot down a helicopter or something that contributes to the team before I have to spend another 2 minutes kiting the same loving pilots into my killzone. Wouldn't it be great if stingers couldn't didn't gently caress helicopters up solo, and the role of helicopter-loving was split more fairly between missile launchers and jets? Like what can a jet actually do in this game? And what role should they have?

It may be rose-tinted aviation sunglasses, but I feel like older battlefields and even the Bad Company games really nailed what I wanted in a game like this. I died a little when I read that article where DICE was basically like, "We have no idea why people liked Bad Company." I don't think they actually know what they're doing at all. :negative:


I actually played some BF4 for the first time in a while today. It was pretty terrible. Full 3-4 second lag, counter-knifing never worked, teams had poo poo balance. Really terrible time.

Jejoma fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Sep 30, 2014

Majere
Oct 22, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

I played for an hour or so today. Tried to fly, immediately locked onto from 4 directions, peppered by MAA 1km away, hit by 6 missiles at once.

Tried to tank, locked onto by javelins, rpgs firing from all angles with recons calmly walking up to deliver sandwiches.

Tried LAV, blown up by invisible slams and roving packs of engineers.

Tried rocket truck, and was blown up within 5 seconds of entering vehicle.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Are there any PS4krew still playing this broken as game? Vanilla was on special and I'm bad at money. :(

DiverTwig
Jul 23, 2003
I ignore all NWS Tags, my Boss's like porn

Chalupa Joe posted:

Are there any PS4krew still playing this broken as game? Vanilla was on special and I'm bad at money. :(

I was on for a bit yesterday, there's still quite a few that play somewhat regularly.

Jejoma
Nov 5, 2008
I'm on more these days. add me psn:Jejoma

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Chalupa Joe posted:

Are there any PS4krew still playing this broken as game? Vanilla was on special and I'm bad at money. :(

I'm about to start playing again since the huge rear end patch drops today that fixes so many loving things.

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2979150494051082340/last/

ambient oatmeal
Jun 23, 2012

Chalupa Joe posted:

Are there any PS4krew still playing this broken as game? Vanilla was on special and I'm bad at money. :(

I play a lot more now that I remembered that this game is much more fun when you find something really stupid to do for a day and just have fun with it.

e: Looking at the patch notes they're fixing supersquads though:
• Fixed an issue where squads would get bigger than the supported maximum of 5 players.

ambient oatmeal fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Sep 30, 2014

Fateo McMurray
Mar 22, 2003

deadwing posted:

I'm about to start playing again since the huge rear end patch drops today that fixes so many loving things.

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2979150494051082340/last/

This should have been the first patch major patch they released and not one they're releasing a year after the games launch :lol:

Finally fixing so many things that have been broken for so long

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djinndarc
Dec 20, 2012

"I'm Bender, baby, please insert liquor!"

Chalupa Joe posted:

Are there any PS4krew still playing this broken as game? Vanilla was on special and I'm bad at money. :(

Chalupa Joe posted:

Are there any PS4krew still playing this broken as game? Vanilla was on special and I'm bad at money. :(

I haven't played in about 2 weeks but I'm going to start back this week. Psn: genkun

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