Well I never, i didn't know half of them Spook! Granted I have only racked up 10 hours playtime but I didn't realise you could trigger them yourselves, I thought they were all time based. I am going to give all of them a go over the weekend, the Mrs is away so I can see a 12 hour BF session on the horizon.....

Yeah, I assumed the Flood Zone one was a timed event but there's a weak spot in the levee where it's been patched up with some kind of barrier holding it up.

I've done them all now. Every major levolution event. Took me ages to do the Dawnbreaker one as I didn't see the stairs going underground to the gas pipeline maintenance bit. You gotta overload the pipeline pressure at both ends (point B and D). Had to go on YouTube to work that one out. Worth it tho!

Had a long session last night but I think some of the new maps may be very poorly balanced in how they're set out as one side always dominates. Silk Road (the desert one) is particularly bad, it's really hard to win if you're on the US side it seems. Altai Range, playing as the US again. We couldn't even get out of base to capture point A. If you wanted to take a chopper and leg it past all the [censored] shooting into base you'd get taken down easy. It was a nightmare and I can't remember BF2 being quite so bad, even on Dragon Valley.

Games like BF4 demand time for sure. I'm sure the Missus will understand.

Battlefield 4: China Rising Edition is now sat in my drawer.

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Battlefield 4: China Rising Edition is now sat in my drawer.

Well, solider. What's it doing there? You won't be killing no one with it there. Maybe just your socks and undies? Are you hiding it from yourself? Doing a Santa are ya?

He was actually messing about with the playroom the other day which is a camera enabled App within the Playstation media hub.

He said he wasn't setting up the camera until Christmas but seems to have changed his mind or had a little pressure from his daughters more like

Come on Dad��..Please ,please.please we will do the washing up if you set up the camera and show us the Playroom..

Nelly�Look girls if you do my general household chores like the ironing,cooking,cleaning,dog walking and don't tell your mother i will show you how this playroom works��.But its our little secret��Please for pete sake don't tell your Mother else I'm in the Dog house

There's no dog house in our house. The missus wouldn't stand for it.....in fact I'm not sure why I call it OUR house at all.

And the playroom was an accidental button press, the camera's all wrapped up on top of the wardrobe. Hang on.....now there's a thought?

Nope. Timey made me promise not to go online until he was back in action!

There's no [censored] "I" in team soldier.

I played Killzone MP search and destroy last night and guess what? No meaningful lag whatsoever. Zilch.....nada. It was supremely playable. And out of all the modes, search and destroy was the most unplayable in COD games. I've never had a KD ratio greater than 0.39 in either COD or BF3 games. First night of MP on the PS4 (in fact the first night of competitive MP since November last year) and the nel meister comes away with a 1.48. Eh? Eh? Howdya like them apples?

Too early to say whether it's the killzone netcode or the network as a whole, but I'm praying for the latter. I will be gutted if BF4 lags on me like BF3 and bad company did.

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There's no [censored] "I" in team soldier.

Yeah, but there is an 'i' in soldier.

Who needs Timey anyway? Oh hang on. A diversion eh? Actually I've spawned a fair few times in BF4 only to serve as a handy bullet shield for the squad mate I was spawning on. It's most annoying so I guess having Timey handy is a useful thing.

Hopefully you won't have the same cra,ppy netcode balancing sh.ite going on as you did before with the PS4. What broadband co. did you say you were with again?

There is a network smoothing feature thing in the settings in BF4 on the PC. Maybe you have something similar with the PS4? Not exactly sure what it's for but it's a slider from 0 to 100% and advises you that your latency increases as you apply it whilst 'visuals errors' decreases. I'm experimenting with it at the minute. Not sure if it'll make a difference tho. I have my good games/nights and my bad ones. The good nights are all right (a mix of performance) and the bad ones are very bad. Current K|D ratio is 0.7. Ahem. Reflects my tendency to go for the flags at great cost to (my) life and limb. I always play Conquest mode and I'm sh.ite at rush, which is the only other one I like so far.

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Current K|D ratio is 0.7. Ahem. Reflects my tendency to go for the flags at great cost to (my) life and limb. I always play Conquest mode and I'm sh.ite at rush, which is the only other one I like so far.

Conquest IS Battlefield, forget the other modes and you are playing it the right way, going for the objectives and forgetting about your K/D ratio

Well, I wish more people would play it that way. Many more! I was explaining Battlefield to Timey and how it wasn't just a one man mission (against all others) for top score. It'd be nice to kill some more people now and again though.

My K/D ratio doesn't even get me on the leaderboards. I think there are 7 or so divisions for things like Best Commander, Aviator, Support Class and Skills and so on and unsurprisingly I'm not even in the lowest division for K/D. I'm in world division 1 for top commander, 2 for ace aviator and 2 for support class.though (just checked).

Also, my Win/Loss ratio doesn't even feature as I've been on the losing side far too many times. What does that say about me I wonder? Either I'm dragging everyone down or my refusal to quit/switch teams is a highly punitive strategy.

To be fair, BF4 continues to strive towards rewarding players with points for helpful team play. There's still a ways to go though. Conquest is Battlefield. I like that. Yeah. There's too many modes now and luckily you can filter them out so I have.

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