The Battlefield series, at least recently, has earned a reputation for its weird and wonderful bugs. The latest game in the series is no different, though there’s quite a gap between a funny graphics glitch and “Oh dear, my save is corrupted, my life is over”. Recognising this, DICE has posted a list of critical bugs it’s aware of and the steps it’s taking to address them.
The thread, entitled “Known Battlefield 4 Issues and Next Steps”, can be found on the official Battlefield 4 forums. It notes that the developer has already taken care of a number of problems via a server-side patch deployed on November 1, but that other issues will have to be sorted out by a client-side update, which is coming “soon”.
Here’s the list of niggles DICE is currently tackling:
Progress in Multiplayer Lost
INVESTIGATING
Players have reported losing their progress in multiplayer. This is probably related to crashes stopping the game reports from being sent to Battlelog. We are still investigating this issue in more detail. Note that your progress sometimes can seem to be reset during server maintenance windows. In these cases, your stats will be just fine and reappear later.Single Player Save File Corrupted
INVESTIGATING
We are still investigating the issue of single player save files being corrupted for some players. If you have experienced this problem, please describe below the steps leading up to the save file being corrupted, your platform (PC, PS3 or X360), and when the issue occurred. If you’re on PC, please also list your OS and system specs.Miscellaneous Audio Bugs
FIX UPCOMING
We are aware of the issues with missing/corrupted audio in multiplayer and have created a fix for them. This fix is planned for release in the next PC client patch (see “Upcoming Updates” below.)Magazine Reload Bug on Normal
FIXED
On all platforms, some players were experiencing a bug when playing on Normal servers. The bug caused the reload setting to incorrectly mimic the behavior from Hardcore servers. This was fixed in our fourth and latest server update.Xbox 360 Missions not Working as Intended
FIXED
There was a bug preventing Xbox 360 players from creating MISSIONS. This should now work properly, as we made some necessary changes to the backend infrastructure.Battlefield 4 Premium “Reset Stats” Feature Not Working
FIX ROLLING OUT
Battlefield 4 Premium members have the option of resetting their multiplayer stats. This feature has not been working as intended. We have now identified the cause and solution, and Battlelog will perform a zero downtime fix for this that should roll out very soon.Server Queues not Functioning
PENDING FUTURE PATCH
Players haven’t been able to join queues for servers, and we are actively working on the issue. We believe we have a solution to this, pending a future patch. We disabled server queues as we found a bug in the queue system, and we are working to isolate the real issue and find a solution for it.Promotional Battlepack Items Not Appearing In-game and/or on Battlelog
INVESTIGATING
We are aware of this issue, and are working on a solution for it. Note that in some cases the Battlepack items will actually show up after a delay. If you’re still not seeing your items after 12 hours or so, please reach out to EA Help at https://help.ea.com/en/battlefield/battlefield-4 [help.ea.com].
Of course, if you want to stay up-to-date with the developer’s progress, best to hit up the original forum post.
Known Battlefield 4 Issues and Next Steps [Battlefield 4 forums, via Reddit]
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25 responses to “The Battlefield 4 Bugs DICE Knows About, And How It’s Dealing With Them”
Interesting, there’s no mention of multiplayer freezing while loading the next match. I thought that was a pretty common problem.
Got stuck with a russian/polish locked digital copy, got a full refund from my vendor though but basically EA live chat would flatly tell you “sorry we can’t change your game to english” plus they locked the game code so you absolutely can’t DYI patch it via registry. sucks for polish players they’re getting shafted because at no point did polish players get told they wont have english gameplay available, soo many screen grabs of bad EA live chats. 42 page thread.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955065217095733298/1/
had this a bunch of times
Always on loading Hainan Resort for me..
It Happens on all maps including when you play as commander and single player .
Very upset i waited along time to play only to get ……. This
Too bad they are having so many issues. My system freezes all the time and locks up. Half the time I can’t even get on a server without my system completely locking up. Thank god COD will be out tomorrow night. I’m really disappointed with BF4. I’ve spent over $110 for the game and premium package and now feel screwed out of my money.
I agree I have this same problem on my 360. Also the campaign play is very glitchy and when u try to turn right its like the guy is moving in quick sand but he moves normal when u turn left.
This happens on ps3 for me. Evey game I crash and cant see my score. Also when I put a new attachment that gun disappears
I have crashed a few times in a match so i was expecting to see something about that.
Just checked the thread linked and the crashing issue is in there now.
I lost my campaign progress (PS3) and I’m not sure I want to start again until I’m sure it won’t disappear again. I enjoyed the first two missions a lot but it’s annoying that it’s lost that progress.
Edit: Just checked on Battlelog on PC and the progress is recognised there!
I was planning on doing campaign for a while, since multiplayer is constantly crashing on me. Until I saw ‘Single Player Save File Corrupted’ here :/
Did you lose the unlocks for those missions, as well as your progress?
I seem to have the pistol I unlocked in mission one but I’m not sure what else to look for
Edit: there aren’t many weapons to unlock from the campaign according to Battlelog. I’ve only earned one and it’s still unlocked.
There’s one pistol for finishing mission one and 3 weapons for finishing the final mission in different ways. There are also 2 knives you can unlock.I think the unlock for the second mission is a shank. If I’m looking at the right things, I believe the singleplayer unlocks are listed at the bottom of the Assignments page in Battlelog.
The shank is for Kunlun Mountains which is not mission 2, even though it’s the second assignment.
Ah right, I see. Thanks for the info, mate.
Unlocks should be synced to battlelog, your local save file dying however means you would need to start again.
You lose everything score unlocks progress ive. Play campaign. Its freezes and i shut down load back up and reload game and everything is gone im so pissed its happed at least three times now
Hi, I’ve had the same problem, just came on BF4 today and my single player prgress is gine, luckily only done the first two missions, still surprising how many broken games are being released these days :/
Me and my mates all have the same issue it doesnt save the campaign progress for any of us, Its like the auto save isnt working we dont get the save file corruption warning its like we never did it, yet the battle log has all our scores on it
I’ve started over two time on PS3 BF4. I make it to the same spot. Stop then go back another day. It starts at the beginning. What’s up with that?
This thing is all just crazy. I’ve played four levels. When the fifth one started, I quited the campaign, then the game and turned off the PS3. BOOM! I had to start again. For the third time. Seriously, it’s a pain in the ass. But curious fact: I’ve walked to a checkpoint in the first mission, the game saved. I turned off the PS3, then turned on and voilá! my campaign it’s intact. But I’m afraid to play another four hours of the game and lose it again.
Man I got gold status an almost all collectables. For the first 6 missions…though I would try multiplayer online,but it froze..next thing I know I have to restart campaign..ps3 aswell
Man me to I tried campaign 4 times for my thing to screw up and unsave and then I waited for ps4 and it’s still doing it
It’s been driving me crazy. Most of the time I’ve been in the server browsers menu because without queues I have to there spamming connect to servers until there is a spot. 3/4 of the time when I do start joining it loads for a few minutes then says client shut down connection. Then I finally join the game. Play for a few minutes then the server crashes.
The one good run I got where I managed to play for any decent amount of the it didn’t save any of my progress.
Now today I’m having the actual game crash all the time for no apparent reason.
I am seriously considering trying to get a refund right now.
The audio problems are driving me crazy on the PC! half the sounds keep disappearing. Not too mention random crashes.
EA your QA team is top notch
After having some of these bugs it was like, why was there only a week long beta? The beta should have been a month, and their should have been a keyboard combo for bug submits ala WOW. At the end of the beta I was in no way confident the released game would be ready in a couple weeks.
Beta? More like Demo.
If it was a month a lot of people would potentially get over the game. They have had a closed beta for awhile. Open beta is a promotional tool designed to get people interested.
I’ve given it up on playing for awhile, the constant crashes and audio drop outs are just too infuriating to deal with, I’ve lost so much progress (ranks, weapons, weapon accessories etc..) from the amount of crashes whether it be server or client. It’s also frustrating that only now have they acknowledge the problems and even then they don’t have a date for us.
Is it me or the game is very frustrating, people in the game have really good accuracy. They seem to pullout their weapon faster, and kill me with great accuracy with Full Auto.
You get used to the aiming and how to position the gun. There is also a fair bit of lag at the moment so maybe that.
Also the netcode is worse than ever so you get shot behind things etc before you have even seen the bad guy.
I killed someone yesterday after I had already died, my gun went off after he killed me and I got the kill on him.
Damn broke ass game!
Pete could it have been the bullet travel time? Eg he shot first and a fraction later bit before his bullets hit you you shot? Because there is bullet travel time in bf4
same here. I unload a clip in the guy and he just runs a way or turns around and shoots me once and i’m dead. I hate that. I play a lot of COD and it isn’t the same. Too many hit markers for so little kills
No listing of my issue either, which is what feels like insane amounts of lag despite 60 plus fps and ping at around 40-48. Friend has the same problem, both tried to get support, no fix. Feels like just another EA cash grab to me.
On my Xbox 360 2 days ago, my game kept freezing when I try to join a multiplayer server that lead to my single player save being corrupted.
I’m playing on PS3 and I’m honestly amazed at how few problems I’ve had. A couple of crashes and that’s about it. The things that are annoying me are more do to with the unnecessary changes to the controls from BF3, the server queuing not working and the fact that there doesn’t seem to be any kind of concept of a “party” anymore – if I want to play with my friends we need one person to join a server then the rest of us have to jump in quickly and hope it doesn’t fill up in the meantime.
The no-squad thing for me is a huge disappointment – BF is a squad/team based game. I can understand from their prespective that there are team balancing issues that have to be addressed when squadding up, and we all know how much of a debacle that was in BF3 with splitting teams up. But surely it’s not that hard to keep teams balanced and leave 4 man squads intact. I’ve found that DICE keep trying to change the rules, it just never works and seems ill-thought-out.
RE controls: I keep pressing select to spot people and it brings up the battlelog which is hugely annoying, the R2 trigger to spot doubles as the command selector and it just becomes a mess. A return to the old BF control layout would be nice.
Yeah, at least just give me an option I can select that says “make the controls the same as BF3”. I know they’ve had to move stuff around to fit the comms stuff onto R2, but I rarely, if ever, use that. Given the choice, I’d rather give that up and keep the existing control scheme.
Agree re the squads (although I think squads are now 5 man instead of 4) – yeah it caused some minor issues in BF3, but on the balance it’s better to keep the squads and put up with those issues than throw the baby out with the bathwater like this.
when i spawn it dose the same thing
I’ve got very far twice on campaign mode but every time I go to play it again its gone…. This game is trash and I’m definitely using it as trade in for cod ghosts… The real online first person shooter!
Honestly BF4 isn’t that bad. There are some issues but thr are just as many in Ghosts. As someone who owns both I have to say Ghosts was a huge dissapiontment. Whereas BF is trying to progress the game COD stuck with the same old stuff. I’d choose bf4 over ghosts anyday. Also to everyone bitching please go try and design a game that looks this good plays this well (when thrs no issues) has the ability to do bullet ballistics and please tell me how many game breaking issues you have. Stop bitchi ng they’ll fix it.
My save file is completely gone every time I start the campaign again. Should I even bother keeping this game or should I just go get my money back? Also during multiplayer I’ve been able to shoot clear through an enemies head without them dying or taking any damage. The third problem I’ve been having is that whenever a match ends the game tacks on one more death than I should have. 4th problem is I only lag when I’m inside jeeps. The last problem I’ve been having is with my primary weapon. It seems like the game doesn’t fully load the graphics of it. Instead it leaves blocky figures floating around it.
Well, my singleplayer was erased, and I was about half way done. After this, I played and finished the campaign. I am not sure if it is saved now, but I hope so. When it was erased, I simply returned to the xbox home screen, ejected the disc, put in the BF4 multiplayer disc, played multiplayer, woke up next morning, and bam! my singleplayer campaign was gone.
I was at the end of the second mission just after blowing up 2 tanks and then my game froze. I had to restart my system and then it froze again when I tried resuming the campaign and so I restarted it again and then it told me I had to start a new campaign.
I’ve played the missions 3times and every time i shut down the ps3 it doesn’t save, I love battlefield 4 but not so much that I wanna keep doing the first missions over and over, please help!!!!!!!!
I just lost all my single player progress for the third time and DICE wants me to explain what happened before it was lost, ok here goes I played the single player till I was nearly halfway done with it quit and came back and it was f#$$ing gone does that help you guys narrow down the problem.
agreed
Love the game but pretty fed up with all the issues. I’ve had issues with every one of those listed above and also ones mentioned by others like system freezing while loading next match and getting booted from games. Very frustrating. Especially when they are promoting the game so far in advance and wanting us to pre order the games to help fund the company. We spend good money on these games and can’t even play them comfortably! I understand issues will happen but seruously, there’s ALOT of them, not to mention the graphics are terrible, screen tear, glitchy and horrible FPS.
I have downloaded the 10 GB game and every time I tried to start the game it freezes up my system with just that little cursor at the top of the screen. I have to turn off my system and then turn it back on multiple times sometimes up to four or five times before I can actually get to the press start button screen.
Also just the other night at the end of a round I leveled up to level 16 and then when I started the next map I killed my first guy and leveled up to level 16 again and then at the end of that game I leveled up to level 16 one more time.
Xbox 360 corrupt single campaign save, hard difficulty 50% through
Terrible they didn’t even mention about not having a party system. It’s almost impossible to play with friends
what about in game stats not showing up on battle log? I’m trying to unlock camos via assignments but battlelog won’t update my stats so it basically makes it impossible to complete the assignment.
On the xbox 360, everyone I know has been experiencing full system freezing during certain multiplayer levels. Please investigate.
Yeah I just encountered this problem on my Xbox 360 it happened when my game froze loading a multiplayer map so I turned it off and back on and that’s when the warning sign came up. I checked my single player to try and play the last mission and turns out that he screwed up my single player file and it says if I’d never played the campaign before none of my mission assignments are accomplished and no longer done, I have no weapons unlocked,no dogtags and not even my top friend leaderboard score is there. I really don’t want to have to start COMPLETELY over again!
My Health Won’t REgerate. This Really Sucks Are They Gonna Fix That For The Ps3 Version Campaign
I’ve had to restart my campaign twice now the second time i made sure it saved by leaving to the main menu and going back to the campaign and it saved so I turned off my ps3 and and the next day I went back on to finish it and i notice it didnt save and i really liked the campaign and I only got to the prison part and i want to finish it but i dont want to restart it all over again
having saved game corruption on ps3 also a wierd bug, say im half way thru a lvl and i exit, save and turn off my ps3, wen i restart it will auto go to Hard setting, so no hp regen, enimies are hard as shit. so practically if i want to play game on easy or normal i have to play from start to finish without stopping, which is shit as. anyway hope they fix it on ps4
My game has reset 3 times now when im almost done with the game. Im playing on 360. Im about done with the game…. its pissing me off i can like say the lines of the damn game by now…
Yeah, getting sick of unloading a full clip on someone and they turn around, 1 shot I’m dead.
Hardcore is no better as well. Also lost campaign progress as well.
I stopped playing #3 because of the freezing and in the end my screen went black, lost everything, all game saves. Used a usb update in C drive (PS3) and saved the PS3
So I began playing bf4 campaign yesterday and nearly finished half of it ,then i got off until today after school, after the little intro in the beginning it asked me how big i wanted the screen like they do traditionally when you first play the game after that i was in the main bf4 menu . I went to the campaign and it said what difficulty i wanted the campaign to be. It does not say “resume” like it should . Now i have to start all over . This is really frustrating.
My multiplayer disk won’t start up and takes me multiple times to get it to work even when installed to my harddrive. But my campaign disk works completely fine. Also my campaign got erased after an update on xbox live for the game
On my multiplayer disk it freezes inbetween matches
Now I’m really frusteratedI
I lost my campaign progress for the xbox one version that I got yesterday thought it was the system but now I see it is happening across all platforms
I’m not the only one I’ve lost my campaign progress 2 times on the Xbox One & I’m not happy. Once I was playing it then it froze & went back to the Xbox dashboard so I went back on then I’ve lost my campaign progress & had start all over again. Then I started the campaign again a few hours later then I finish the campaign it a day later then played online & then I logged off & went back on a few hours later & it happened again & not happy.
isnt your emblem supposed to show up on weapons and vehicles? because i made one and now i never see it
i keep losing my campaign progress. it seems like if i stop playing the campaign for a few hours it will lose all my progress.
i also have a problem with getting kicked out of the multiplayer games all the way to the xbox one dashboard. when i go back in the game i end up at the multiplayer menu.
I’ve got the SP restart on PC
win 8.1
GTX 660 windforce
amd fx 6120 turbo to 3.1 ghz hexa core
10 gb’s of ddr3-1600 ram
1 tb 7200rpm storage
I have played through the campaign now twice in its entirety (read from start to end) without turning off the console. I had to do this because my save files kept disappearing.
I completed the game on easy which unlocked…. nothing for multiplayer.
Yesterday I did it again, but on normal, and again the same issue.
Waste o’ time methinks.
The campaign keeps restarting on my ps3. At first, the campaign and multiplayer wouldn’t start, but then we updated it and it works now but keeps restarting the campaign. I’ve restarted the campaign three times and I don’t really want to play through it all again. I was almost finished too
Ok so I’ll play a game and at the end of the round it will tell me I earned like 5000 pts but then I’ll go look at the progression screen and it’ll say I only earned 3890 pst or something WTF!! is this it happens to me every game!!!
I got a solution for me, i use another ps3 account without internet connection and start playing the single player and i never got any problems whit the save games, but my account connected to psnetwork allways deleted my save games, about the multyplayer i had no issues. I hope this works for you guys.
My battlefield 4 crashes 3 to 4 times for every 3 hours of play on the 360 and after about 6th crash it corrupts data beat the campaign on hard and lost all of it data has corrupted 20 times since I got it
Xbox one
So initially I was about 5 hours into the solo campaign. I went to start up my game. When I selected solo campagn the game asked me what difficulty to play easy medium or hard. Right away I knew there was an issue. I made sure I was signed into my profile (which I was) and then I rebooted the game. Still the same thing. Very very very discouraging when you play a game that long trying to earn all the gold medals and then poof. Gone. So. I went ahead and REPLAYED every mission all over again. Finally got back to the same point. Came back two days later and I get the same thing. Wtf? Am I supposed to beat the game in one shot? I have no interest in doing all of this all over again now. I feel like I wasted my money and it would be nice to see how DICE is planning on making this right
Xbox 360
tv missiles when launched from an air craft-
1. sometimes launched like pod rockets causing the missile to start off in a completely different direction than the cross-hairs say
2. phases through the ground and enemy causing most likely for you to crash seeing how you can no longer control your plane
Campaign freezing on Xbox One on Tashgar. I got to the point where you (Spoilers) Assault the Dam and after getting onto the dam I died and the game crashed, sending me back to the Xbox Home page. I then tried resuming the Campaign and then got to the point where the prompt to skip the intro pops up, then the game sends me back to the Home again. I had to restart that mission, and after doing so I got to a similar point of the Campaign, died, and then it crashed again.
Well the problem is on the 360, for me at least. I played story mode for 4 missions all the way through and then it froze or just flat out didn’t auto save my game. MULTIPLAYER there is also a problem with the vertical aim. When I look up to throw a grenade it moves slowly in frame type movements and it is not a connection problem either. Also Ive seen a couple random ass hillbilly kids sliding all around the place inside the maps specifically dawnbreaker inside a certain dark building on TDM.
I’m having more issues than mere Campaigns not saving. Which I am also having. My game’s freezing up, shutting my ps3 down, (*) and weapons are being switched while I run, walk, or crawl.
Automatic weapons are reloading after only 3-4 rounds being spent, and what the hell is up with having to shoot a Tank in the back or Turret region, with a SRAW, 4-5 times, and it survive? Or how about the pistols being favored over Rifles & Shotty’s & actually killing people 1/2 way across the map While being shot with a PDW (keep ur smart remarks about being more accurate to urself-I’m accurate! )
Finally, the Trajectory slide for Recon/Sniper rifles is a Joke that’s Not funny! (I can shoot a Guy off the roof with a PDW, 4x scope, and No adjelevation needed for elevation. But need to make adjustments with a Sniper Class, at the same Range as the PDW… or Miss the shot. Now that’s BUNK & demoralizing! Another Sniper class issue I have, is I have yet to get a ‘kill’ for shooting a Hostile in the chest at shoulder level. C’mon guys, DICE, EA, [whoever] deals with this. Battlefield should be just that: A Battle, not COD style.
My ps4 auto save doesn’t work on campaign
Well i play on the 360 and my problem is that i played the campain and then stopped after the first mission then left and turned my xbox off. So the next day i started it up again (ive already played multiplayer) and it makes me change the screen settings, then it says welcome to bf4 and all the first time entry letters. Then i notice my campaign is gone. I play agin and make sure its saved and turn off my xbox when i know its not loading anything. Ive done this 3 times now and its frusterating. I want to finish the campain and get my achievements please fix this
Sorry i didnt finish my last post so after i make sure its saved and i leave it still makes me change the screen settings and stuff. Im glad my multiplayer is ok but somerimes it saves campaign but it mostly doesnt. Like i said i just want to finish my campaign
I do not play on line. I play single player. I am 71 yoa and play to keep my brain from turning to mush. It works too. It is hard to do this when the game freezes up, gets locked in a loop, or just crashes. I do not want much, just my money back, or a game I can play that is not screwed up. Can it be that you are FUBAR, or is your SNAFU. Either way you have screwed up by not testing-testing-testing. Your customers make you money, do right by them or go broke. They will help by not buying.
Campaign progress not saving, i’ve restarted the campaign three times due to corruption in saving, i just bought the game couple days ago for my Ps4. It is very annoying, please whats the solution.
So my campain just keeps loading all it shows is the loading board and none of my buttons will work and I can’t see help?