{"id":63741,"date":"2014-04-25T11:50:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T09:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63741"},"modified":"2014-04-25T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T09:52:22","slug":"battlefield-4-servers-upgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63741-battlefield-4-servers-upgraded","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 4 servers upgraded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DICE has promised performance improvements for online Battlefield 4 players, following the launch of new high-performance servers for the game to combat rubber-banding issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve found that the root cause of the [rubber-banding] issue was a configuration of certain hardware types dedicated to 64-player matches.\u00a0We have invested in new hardware to resolve this issue and deployed new higher-performance servers this week,&#8221; said DICE via the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.battlefield.com\/2014\/04\/battlefield-4-high-performance-server-solution\/?utm_campaign=bf-social-us-socom-tw-social-socom-tw-km-server-update-correct&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;sourceid=bf-social-us-socom-tw-social-socom-tw-km-server-update-correct&amp;cid=20956\" target=\"_blank\">Battlefield Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are already seeing performance improvements with 64-player matches and expect this to continue. While the process took longer than we would\u2019ve liked, we wanted to be 100% sure it was done right and that the long-term solution was properly in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is good news for Battlefield 4 fans. The game has been marred by a slew of hiccups and in-game glitches, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62791-battlefield-4-naval-strike-pc-delayed-over-quality-concerns.html\">delay of the Naval Strike expansion for PC<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63026-battlefield-4-has-yet-another-ridiculous-bug.html\">TV-guided missile bug<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63332-battlefield-4-has-yet-another-bug.html\">death-shield bug<\/a>, and the aforementioned <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63001-dice-admits-servers-cause-battlefield-4-rubber-banding.html\">rubber-banding issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2014\/04\/25\/battlefield-4-adds-new-higher-performance-servers-to-resolve-rubber-banding-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG24\/7<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63589-china-lists-new-restrictions-on-video-games.html\">China lists new restrictions on video games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63543-ubisofts-best-selling-franchises-of-all-time.html\">Ubisoft\u2019s best-selling franchises of all time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63472-x-ray-console-art.html\">X-ray console art<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DICE has has deployed &#8220;high performance&#8221; servers to deal with rubber-banding issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":51970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1419,5693,12355,99],"class_list":["post-63741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-battlefield","tag-battlefield-4","tag-rubber-banding","tag-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63743,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63741\/revisions\/63743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}