Battlefield 4 CTE Initiative #3: Teamplay Patch #1 (146923)

[freexavier]

 

Posted by t1gge(CTE), t1gge(BF4)

 

Today we release the first patch of the Teamplay Initiative, and since we are working in the same branch as the Final Stand team, the coming CTE-updates will include their changes to the game as well.
This first update does not include any specific updates to our six items for Teamplay Initiative/Final Stand release target as of yet (we are working on those items still) – but it does include some neat updates we’d like you guys to get your hands on over the weekend!

 

PATCH CHANGES
These are the changes in this patch:

• Changed behaviour of spawning Battlepickups
  Will re-spawn after 60 seconds if one of these happen: Weapon runs out of ammo, weapon is dropped (when player changes weapon, dies, disconnects), and dropped weapon times out and unspawns, Deployed vehicle is destroyed.
• Fix for Decoy Pack Scale issue
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Animation fixes:

• Changed the blend behaviour when you transition into sprint (1st person)
• Fixed 1st person reload issue
  The reload got omitted if you pressed the reload button after an empty reload.
• Potential fix for the guy sliding around in crouch
  Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zHkxxNXpMA
• Fixed problem where a Prone to Stand anim was buffering and playing late after reloads and boltactions.
• Potential Melee animation fix
  Fix for when melee animations  could get out of sync and play different animations for attacker and defender.

 

New Projectile Debug
We have added a debug overlay to track down issues with incoming and outgoing damage (netcode) and hitdetection. We have already seen some descrepancies using this tool internally – but can’t wait to see what we will be able to find with your help using this tool.

Projectile hit overlay rundown:

 

• Blue squares indicate a spawned projectile/bullet
• Green x indicates the client thinks the projectile has hit a soldier or a vehicle on a different team
• Red x indicates the server confirms that damage was dealt. This currently maps to the hit indicator feedback – every time you see the red x, you should see the cross hair hit indicator.
• The bullet display is staggered, so that the displayed data doesn’t overlap when using high RPM weapons. There is nothing tying the green x’s to the blue squares (i.e. co-location does not mean one is the result of the other) or tying the red x’s to the blue squares or green x’s. Vertical position on the graph means nothing either.
• Enabled via in-game console or user.cfg by using: “NetworkPerfOverlay.DrawProjectileGraph 1”

Known bugs/short-comings in this version:

 

• On target death, green x may still show up until the server has confirmed that the target is dead. Will cause green x(+)/red x(-) discrepancy.
• Server discarded damage – the green x doesn’t have all the damage rules available to it (e.g. assault weapon versus tank does no server damage, but will still show green x). Will cause green x(+)/red x(-) discrepancy.
• Packet loss or server degradation may cause bunching of packets. If this is the case it’s likely that there won’t be individual red x’s for all damage applied. Will cause green x(+)/red x(-) discrepancy.
• All server-confirmed damage dealt causes a red x – this includes grenades, claymores, UCAV, etc. Will cause green x(-)/red x(+) discrepancy
  Occasionally a phantom blue square/green x/red x will show up (usually upon exiting a vehicle). Will cause green x(?)/red x(?) discrepancy
• Any data points drawn directly above each other are as a result of events happening in the same frame/sample (this in turn means that sometimes it’s possible for the data to exceed the usual height of 4)

Additional notes:
It’s now possible to relocate the network perf overlay graph via in-game console or user.cfg.  Note that using values outside of the range 0 to screen dimension(x,y) will cause that axis to revert to the relevant bottom/right default.

An example:

 

• NetworkPerfOverlay.GraphPos.x 100.0
• NetworkPerfOverlay.GraphPos.y 200.0

 

 

 

[vandanved]

The youtube video in the description is freaky...

[ComradeHX]

Still didn't remove spawning on squadmate.

 

As expected of CasualField4; always broken but DLC always arrive on-time.

[freexavier]

Still didn't remove spawning on squadmate.

 

As expected of CasualField4; always broken but DLC always arrive on-time.

Better they make spawning on any except the Squad Leader to be 5x longer.

[jbr]

The damage model changes are are going to be interesting once they hit vanilla.

 

http://cte.battlelog.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2985968005370278034/

 

 

Instead of focusing on bugs that need to be fixed they've spent most of their time changing the game itself

it's only a matter of time before EA pulls the plug because BF4 sales are starting to tap out and it's not worth spending

money on paying people to do the CTE anymore and the bugs that are left over because DICE wasted all their time

screwing around with other crap will be with us permanently.