DICE and Electronic Arts have released a new update for Battlefield 4 that aims to address some of the game’s memory leaks, as well as improve general stability and rebalance jets. Unfortunately, this update does not come with the promised Mantle support, and there is still no word on when we’ll get it. You can view the complete changelog for this new patch below.
Battlefield 4 January 13th PC Update Changelog:
-Various fixes for improving general stability
-Fixed a memory leak issue occurring after level shutdowns, which could result in a out-of-memory crash in longer play sessions
-Additional fix for the “sound loop” deadlock when running High/Ultra graphics settings
-Added a warning for using Legacy AMD drivers that were out of date
-Fixed a player feedback timing issue where blood was appearing before other damage indicators, and before damage was actually done
-Fixed a bug where players’ rank icons on the scoreboard would not be updated
-Fix for Asian users unable to start Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 on Windows 8.1
-Normalized repair rates across all vehicles.
-Fixed problem with killer health in kill card not being correctly updated (showing 100% health even though the soldier was hurt)
-Fix for friendly marker not always showing when needed to, resulting in players shooting team members
-Fixed a bug where a Main Battle Tank Coaxial HMG ammo box was occasionally blocking the driver’s camera
-Increased damage by 25% for the Stealth Jet 20mm cannons.
-Stealth Jets now have more similar handling attributes to each other. F35 & J-20 are slightly more agile, Su-50 is less agile.
-Attack Jets now have more similar handling attributes to each other, and all 3 are now slightly less agile than earlier
-Fixed camera glitch when switching weapons while moving in crouch
-Fixed an occasional bug where players could experience intermittent engine sound dropouts when driving wheeled IFVs
-Fix for player spawning under the map when deploying on Lancang Dam
-Fixed flickering in map and minimap on Rogue Transmission and Operation Locker
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Yes, there is word when Mantle might be released:
http://semiaccurate.com/2013/12/30/happened-eas-battlefield-4-mantle-patch/
It is no accurate date, but there is confirmation that Mantle is coming. Although I think that January won’t be the month of release hence the problems they still have to fix.
Losing interest in mantle because of delays
Can’t bring myself to buy this after BF3, just lost interest and don’t want to support EA. I’d prefer a solid SP game but it just looks like BF3 with better graphics. Yes the engine looks stunning but it’s just not worth it.
Also having to run battlelog and Origin in the background, ugh, launching the game from a browser, worst idea ever.
The single player was way more enjoyable than BF3, IMHO.
But yeah Battlelog never made any sense to me. Seems pretty amateur to not have that integrated right into the game.
mantle support is like dragons…its coming!!!
Mantle really must be so easy and trivial to implement that they cannot be bothered to take five whole minutes to make it work. Right? RIGHT?
Wait, no. It must be a PITA and they’re saving that can of worms for ANOTHER month when there aren’t still tons of things that need to be done on the version everyone can play.
If you think this is the only time this is going to happen to an exclusive users of very select AMD gear version, you perhaps need to adjust your expectations of Mantle.
Mantle. Your attempt to fragment PC gaming just as it’s growing up has failed. Back to the Island of Misfit Gaming Ideas with you! We all know you’re Glide in disguise!
3Dfx lives on.
Mantle will cause MAJOR problems, may as well get the game as close as bug free before they introduce tons of new bugs.
Memory leak is as bad as ever…..absolutely one of the worst game launches in years……have totally lost interest in this garbage…