Battlefield 4 gets updates and fixes

9 April 2014

Battlefield 4 players can expect a bunch of updates and fixes to make their way into the game from today, 9 April 2014.

As posted on the Battlelog site, the update focuses on platoon – Battlefield 4’s version of clans – improvements while the fixes look to mend little niggles in the game.

Features and improvements

  • Loadout Presets: Create your very own Kit and Vehicle presets in Loadout, and quickly apply a previously created Preset.
  • Platoons 1.1: we have now released the first big update to Platoon, including features such as:
    • Be able to see where your Platoon members are playing in the new servers tab
    • You can now increase the member cap to 150 by reaching rank 5 and 200 by reaching rank 10
    • Automatically subscribe to all Platoon wall posts and comments, so you won’t miss a thing
    • Once rented servers become available, Platoon leaders can choose to promote their servers for their Platoon
    • More information is now shown for each Platoon member on the Members page
  • A lot of smaller improvements and fixes
  • The Leaderboards tile on Home now shows your best or favourited leaderboard
  • New styling for the Premium tile on Home
  • Better support for Carrier Assault in Live Scoreboard
  • The “Personal Details” privacy setting now also controls for whom the “Playing” box on your profile page is shown
  • UTC indicator now added to the time selector in Settings

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where some Mission Dog Tags didn’t unlock after meeting the requirement (to trigger the unlock, please play the specific Mission once again)
  • Soldiers that have reached max rank now have the experience progress bar and score correctly displayed
  • Items that are unlocked with Kit Shortcuts are no longer suggested in Suggestions
  • Items that are unlocked with Kit Shortcuts now show up more correctly on the Unlocks pages
  • Fixed an issue where Service Stars wasn’t shown for items that had been unlocked with Kit Shortcuts
  • Better fix for the duplicated UCAV in Stats -> Vehicles, so the kills are not counted twice
  • Fixes for for some unlock criteria and expansion pack icons showing incorrectly in Loadout
  • The newly added Soldier Portraits are now shown in opened Battlepacks
  • Unlock criteria are now shown correctly on the Unlocks -> Weapons page
  • Fixed an issue with the Battlelog Plugin, which didn’t always made the plugin auto-update
  • Fixed an issue where upcoming Rank Battlepacks had incorrect progress bars on the Battlepacks page
  • Fixed an issue in Battle Reports, where the correct ribbons weren’t always shown in Awards & Unlocks
  • Various tweaks for Battle Reports to better support longer and localised texts
  • Fixed an issue in the Medal of Honor Warfighter section where some images, like ribbons, didn’t display
  • Fixed an issue in the Medal of Honor Warfighter section, where some page tabs for Xbox 360 soldiers didn’t work correctly
  • Various minor fixes and tweaks

More gaming news

DGL 2014 Winter registrations go live

Flockers from Worms developer Team17

Are 2014′s games meeting the 2013 standard?

You have read 1 out of 5 free articles. Log in or register for unlimited access.

Read now

The best gaming website in South Africa
MyGaming proudly displays the “FAIR” stamp of the Press Council of South Africa, indicating our commitment to adhere to the Code of Ethics for Print and online media which prescribes that our reportage is truthful, accurate and fair. Should you wish to lodge a complaint about our news coverage, please lodge a complaint on the Press Council’s website, www.presscouncil.org.za or email the complaint to [email protected] Contact the Press Council on 011 4843612.