Battlefield BubbleBlower Sickness

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CptnTech

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So tell me soldier? :o (looking at you with red, tired eyes and a frown on my once beautiful face) Do you know what #BubbleBlower sickness is? Have you ever experienced it? :confused:

BubbleBlower sickness? What the hell is that you may ask, well let me enlighten you...:cool:

It's war time and your running around with a murderous feeling in your soul, guns polished, ammo checked and explosives at the ready. All you need now is the face of an infidel so you can shoot 'em up! You finally meet, face to face, without flinching you squeeze, not pull, squeeze the trigger and unload your wrath upon the dirty scum. You see the hit marker register the hits, he's body is riddled with bullets and you see blood spatter....just as you think: 'He's dead - hope it hurts!' He suddenly shoots back and it's YOU that dies in an instant. Huh!? What? But HOW you may ask? Immediately you think the dreaded thought...hax! He / she (yes we have gals playing this yummy war game also these days) must be hacking... But no son, what you're experiencing is known in these here parts as #BubbleBlower Sickness. And it sux BIG TIME!

It's as if your weapon of choice is shooting bubbles and you're doing no real damage at all! But why is that? What's the cause? Is it my on, 'the technical edge' crappy system? Should I add more ram, a faster GPU, or maybe an SSD? None of that will help unfortunately...the only issue that's causing this dreaded disease is poor broadband quality. If your Battlefield client is speaking to the server, and telling the server that you shot first, but your broadband upload is slow, plus it's losing packets along the way, then the dastardly enemy player will just not die and you will lose every single face-to-face battle. :eek:

In short, before you scream hax, make sure your upload speed is what it should be. Do a test at www.speedtest.net and also check for packet loss. Take this up with your ISP, ask them to reset your port also, it will definitely improve your online war career. Playing BF4 is like Formula 1 racing, every millisecond counts! There's a lot of amazing talented BF4 players in South Africa and they can be very difficult to kill.

Keep on fighting and I'll c U on the Battlefield #Hooah !
#CptnTech
 
This can be applied to any online twitch shooter. I know that back in the day I tried out CS:GO and experienced this. I moved on to happier games and times.

One of the few first person shooters where I've not experienced this issue yet is Insurgency. It's one of the reasons why I keep going back to it.
 
Hi Axon1988,

I understand what you mean by ' happier times' - :)

This #BubbleBlower sickness cost me a basically new keyboard that's now in pieces, in the trash. I know it's stupid to rage but sometimes it's just to much to bare. Especially if you complain and all replies you get is: "Hey bro, it's skill. If you can't play then don't complain bra" Let me make this very crystal clear: "Skill have absolutely nothing to do with how many health you have" Skilled & UN-skilled noob MUST both die with a head-shot.

Here's to more 'happier times' and swift kill shots :rolleyes:
#CptnTech
 
Hi Mottamort - soz about the Hashtags man, didn't realize.

Hopefully the upcoming 'BF5' (If that's the name) will be less buggy. And yes, the netcode monster......how I hate thee! Like when you're in a fierce firefight, jump behind a container, and THEN die! What? Really!? Dis I just have a stroke or what? Naa man, it's just netcode, deal with it. Pffft, I freakin hate it!
 
CptnTech said:
Hi Axon1988,

I understand what you mean by ' happier times' - :)

This #BubbleBlower sickness cost me a basically new keyboard that's now in pieces, in the trash. I know it's stupid to rage but sometimes it's just to much to bare. Especially if you complain and all replies you get is: "Hey bro, it's skill. If you can't play then don't complain bra" Let me make this very crystal clear: "Skill have absolutely nothing to do with how many health you have" Skilled & UN-skilled noob MUST both die with a head-shot.

Here's to more 'happier times' and swift kill shots :rolleyes:
#CptnTech
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This just reminded me of KF2 and why I don't really play it any more. :'(
 
axon1988 said:
This just reminded me of KF2 and why I don't really play it any more. :'(
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Killing Floor 2? Unfortunately never played it before. Battlefield 3 and 4 kept me busy for the past few years (combined more than 2000Hrs)

I for one really know BF very good, and yes, I came across a 'now-verified' hacker or two. At least BF updated their anti hacking software on server side, so for someone to pull of a hack will be very difficult. They also added a setting to improve network response that will in-turn improve the net-code monster. I must say, net-code is not such a big issue anymore. But dude, that BubbleBlower crap, you don't even know! LOL! I seriously hate it, and with the upcoming DGL 5v5 Squad Obliteration, it's gonna be hectic if your upload isn't performing 100%.
 
CptnTech said:
Hi Mottamort - soz about the Hashtags man, didn't realize.

Hopefully the upcoming 'BF5' (If that's the name) will be less buggy. And yes, the netcode monster......how I hate thee! Like when you're in a fierce firefight, jump behind a container, and THEN die! What? Really!? Dis I just have a stroke or what? Naa man, it's just netcode, deal with it. Pffft, I freakin hate it!
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Yeah nothing pisses me off more than diving behind cover, only to die a second later....frikking bendy bullets man :(

Is bf hardline bf4.5? :P

Oh and don't mind me, I'm just an ass :D
 
HAHA! that's exactly what comes to mind every time it happens! Bending bullets like that dudes (and girl) in Wanted! Lol I, or rather the soldier I was playing in BF, just suddenly died (killed in action) when I jumped a fence! Must've been a heart attack? :D
 
CptnTech said:
HAHA! that's exactly what comes to mind every time it happens! Bending bullets like that dudes (and girl) in Wanted! Lol I, or rather the soldier I was playing in BF, just suddenly died (killed in action) when I jumped a fence! Must've been a heart attack? :D
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With battlefield my problem is that the local servers are completely dead. But perhaps that is because I only play Bad Company 2...
 
axon1988 said:
With battlefield my problem is that the local servers are completely dead. But perhaps that is because I only play Bad Company 2...
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No Axon, the local Battlefield server are very much alive and well. You'll find active players each night just waiting to kill you :cool:
 
I still don't understand how BF can have such low Tick Rate Servers. 32 I think it is. That is terrible. CSGO server (Competitive ones, not MM or casual) run at 128 tick. So imagine only a quarter of the message is getting through to the server from the client compared to CSGO
 
Hi Flex,

There's now higher tick rate servers available, our clan [GZRZ] is running a 60 hertz server for the upcoming Digital Gaming League. But the higher the tick rate, the more traffic is uploaded. So your upload quality & speed plays an even a bigger role and the dreaded BubleBlower sickness can be more prevalent. So for the broadband elite this might be awesome, but for me it's not so awesome. I'm struggling way more to kill an infidel on a high tick rate server. Guess my broadband upload quality is not so good :confused:
 
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No Axon, the local Battlefield server are very much alive and well. You'll find active players each night just waiting to kill you :cool:
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Nope, only empty local server in Bad Company 2. Sometimes I'll just mess around on the maps all lonesome. But it really does seem like everyone has moved on the the later titles.
 
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