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Battlefield 4 For PS4 Suffering Crashing Issues

Yesterday, after having some stability issues coinciding with the launch of the Playstation 4, Electronic Arts posted -- and removed -- a message blaming Sony's firmware update for stability issues on the console. Now, a day later, EA is taking some heat for a crashing problem that is plaguing the PS4 version of Battlefield 4 that seems to have nothing to do with the firmware update.

According to many users on the Battlefield 4 forums, players have been getting kicked out of games, and are getting shown error code CE-34878-0. Upon relaunch of the game, the game will load fine at first before telling you, the first time after receiving the initial error, that your save file has been corrupted and must be deleted...

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Majin-vegeta3814d ago

BF4 is an unoptimized POS game just look at on PC,PS3 and 360.

Enemy3814d ago (Edited 3814d ago )

It actually is. Not sure why you got a disagree. The game is a completely broken mess even on PC. Anyone looking forward to buying it should wait it out a bit longer.

hellzsupernova3814d ago

this is battlefield though, when have they released a non buggy version?

HelpfulGamer3814d ago (Edited 3814d ago )

Battlefield 4 PS4 Japanese version release date, February 24 2014, can't wait! XD

Comnnsence3814d ago

Obviously they wanted to beat Infinity Ward COD to the store. But this is a norm, EA got to be the worse 3rd party company with deep pockets! Now, all we gonna get is a bunch of patches that eventually gonna full up our HDD......bastards

IaMs123814d ago

Most of the bugs and crashes are server based. The game itself is very well optimized.

Golden_Mud3814d ago

I have to agree with you both , even CoD is bad , the only good games I saw for now are KZ:SF and DR3 (yes I'm buying both consoles)

Lwhit63814d ago

@laMs12 no. The whole game is broken. Servers don't run the single player which is where the floor of one level glitched out causing me to fall and die multiple times. Oh well its not like it matters because I just had to redo the campaign three times over because the game didn't save. It's a massive, fumbling, broken P.O.S. there's no way around that fact.

static52453814d ago (Edited 3814d ago )

While I do admit that I love the BF series and I do enjoy BF4 but I definitely don't play it as much as I normally would because of all the bugs.

I don't blame DICE for this at all. They have proven themselves at releasing awesome FPS. But as soon as EA got their hooks into them things have gone down hill. I guarantee DICE wanted more time to work on the game, but here comes EA and says to bad it needs to be released on this date broken or not.

I'm actually happy Watch Dogs got pushed back. There's no shame in needing a little more time to make sure your game his going to be as good as it can be for release

Kryptix3814d ago

Even with PC being the main platform BF4 is being designed on...it still had reports of the game crashing. The game probably got rushed to stay competitive with Ghosts in sales. It's something a patch could fix but EA needs to give DICE more time to optimize their game next time. It gives them a bad view which results in less sales for the next game in this amazing franchise.

xXxSeTTriPxXx3813d ago

Haven't played 1 f'ing game of conquest=fail.

Philoctetes3813d ago

Yes, this game is definitely busted, but it's so good when it's working. Which is not very often.

JsonHenry3813d ago

I play it on the PC and it isn't a "broken mess" for me or any of the ~20 people I play with on a regular basis.

AlexanderNevermind3813d ago

I've yet to get into a MP game since Friday morning. I just deleted the game install and am reinstalling it now. Who knows maybe I'll get in a game today.

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Lwhit63814d ago

YES! I've had to restart my campaign THREE times and I can't play it for more than hour without crashing AT LEAST 3 times

frostypants3814d ago (Edited 3814d ago )

People actually play the campaign? It's Battlefield...playing the single player campaign is sacrilege. Its very presence is just to appease people uncomfortable with buying an online-only game.

FalconR2893814d ago

Same thing kept happening to me. 3 times I had to restart the campaign. About a 1/4 of the way through the Singapore mission it crashed and corrupted my saved data, 3 times in the same spot.

MajorLazer3813d ago

@Frostypants

..because you speak for everyone /s

SaturdayNightBeaver3814d ago

lol yep , with console its nothing wrong

Evil_Abed3814d ago

I just love how ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING will be thrown under the bus to protect the PlayStation image on this site. It's always someone or something else's fault but never the PS brand.

Bad review for exclusive? Reviewer must be biased, a noon or doesn't understand the game.
Technical difficulty with PS version of game? Lazy devs!
Firmware bricking console? Don't switch of the console while it's still updating, duh!

Game runs better on PS console? Yeah dat GDDR 7000/cell of hope!

Majin-vegeta3814d ago

Maybe you should head on over to Battlelog and see for yourself.its the game and not the hardware.

Autodidactdystopia3814d ago

That is as true as it gets, and yours and my disagree counts will verify that.

sourav933814d ago

Yet you will stay blind to the fact that some of those reason's are actually valid. Hypocrite much? With BF4, I can no longer progress on SP because the game keeps crashing on the beginning of mission 7, and this is on PC. The game is completely broken.

Mr-Dude3814d ago (Edited 3814d ago )

And the same thing doesn't happen with other systems? Like for example the Xbox One or PC?

I am very curious for the 21 and the 22nd, for the reviews of the X1, and what the Xbox fans are going to say when things aren't going the way they want or hope. And the youtube vids appear online of "broken" systems etc... because they will, it's launch hardware and software!

frostypants3814d ago

GGJ, in this case, it's well known that all versions of the game are buggy as hell. Your comments are misplaced.

ceed9113813d ago

Consoles suffering hardware issues? Foxconn had saboteurs in there to destroy Sony's launch because China hates Japan.

Although I cant find this story on any credible site nor is a picture of an open PS4 prove much.

KwietStorm_BLM3813d ago

I guess you haven't played the game then,and haven't played every other PS4 game that doesn't crash.

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V0LT3814d ago

Agree. I have BF4 on the PC and it really is a optimized POS at the moment.

GirlOnFire3814d ago

I have an perfectly fine experience with battlefield 4. It was Ghost that was the problem with error code for me. It works today and it said I had corrupt data then worked fine. It was most likely an update problem because I started Ghost without the update first. ^~^

Nocando3814d ago (Edited 3814d ago )

I have to agree, playing bf4 today and it crashed 3 times, not to mention this annoying glitch where the screen looks like its going into 3d mode and back. Fun game when it works, but I expect far better for the $70 "digital deluxe" premium.

XboxFun3814d ago

And yet everyone was jumping for joy and dubsteppin not too long ago on N4G about dat 1080p for PS4.

Kind of hard to enjoy that 1080 when your game keeps crashing eh?

Another example of jumping the gun and celebrating before actually getting your hands on the game. And also another example of how resolution means nothing if your game is either crap or can't even work.

Both CoD and BF4 were rushed out to meet both new consoles release date. Instead they could have held these versions back and tweaked them more and released them later maybe even during Xmas time to make sure the game was working correctly.

KwietStorm_BLM3813d ago

Yes it's hard to enjoy it when it's crashing. What's your point?

RyuCloudStrife3814d ago

I got that same screen on Killzone Shadow Fall one time so far... I'm about to finish the campaign now.

Mosiac773814d ago

It must be EA because my copies of killzone and COD are working fine on SP and MP so is not the firmware.

Magicite3813d ago

runs nice at high settings on my hd7770 2gb + i5 2400

princejb1343813d ago

I got this error 4 times thus far
The game is still playable

trancefreak3813d ago

I have the PC version because I couldn't wait to play BF4 but I had already ordered the PS4 version as well. I wanted to play with a ton of my co workers whom just received PS4's. Looks like that isn't happening with this game

I have not opened the BF4 PS4 version as of yet and its being returned. I am having to much fun playing Shadowfall so I will use the credit to get a compatible gaming headset.

Skizelli3813d ago

Anyone who says BF4 is optimized is full of crap. The game is buggy in general, no matter what platform it's on. I've been playing it on PS3. The game played fine the first day or so, but then I started experiencing game freezes. They weren't random, however. I noticed it only happened when spawning on a squad member, but not when I was alone or the Commander. After browsing some forums and then Reddit, I found out the game's field perks are bugged and I have to use the Defensive perk until they fix the rest. Sure enough, the problem was solved and I haven't froze since.

Battlefield is fun and all, but it's been a buggy, clunky franchise ever since BF1942.

starchild3813d ago (Edited 3813d ago )

I don't know what you are talking about. I haven't had any problems with the PC version. It looks amazing and runs extremely well.

I have an HD 7950 and i5 2500k and I can tell you Battlefield 4 looks at least as good as Crysis 3 (probably better) and runs a hell of a lot better. I haven't had any real issue to speak of. I think they did a pretty good job optimizing it for the PC. I can't imagine how good it is going to run after the Mantle API is made available.

Skizelli3812d ago

Like I said, the game ran fine for me for a day or so, even when I chose different field perks. Maybe you're one of the lucky ones, but the problems DO exist on the PC version as well.

http://bf4central.com/2013/...

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Enemy3814d ago

I fear DICE may soon approach the route of annually rushed Battlefield thanks to EA.

konnerbllb3814d ago

I love bf but "soon"? Its already happening. They have always botched the launch since bf1942 on PC.

Pandamobile3814d ago

Name a Battlefield game that has had a smooth launch.

You can't.

It's just the way it goes with some series. Most multiplayer games have horrible launch-period issues. They all get ironed out in the first couple patches, but the first week of a game's long life cycle is never a good metric for how good the game actually is.

aceitman3814d ago

battlefield is every 2 years not annually.

tehpees33814d ago

We all know it will become an annual event if EA see it sell enough.

TheStorm3813d ago

Nah, because their next game is not even Battlefield, it's the reboot of Star Wars Battlefront

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svoulis3814d ago

Wait wait BF4 BROKEN on another platform ....no wayyyy

/s

frostypants3814d ago

Dice is kind of the Bethesda of the FPS genre...they make epic games, but they also have epically bad QA.

ufo8mycat3814d ago (Edited 3814d ago )

Guys you have to realise DICE had to develop BF4 for 5 platforms - PS4,XBONE,PS3,360,PC

That takes a TON of work

There is bound to be issues

TheGreatAndPowerful3814d ago

Then delay the game for a month or two or however long it needs to freaking work properly on release day...what's so difficult about that?

badkolo3814d ago

exactly im getting fed up with the excuses dev's use, dont release the game until its ready

leogets3814d ago

the fact is that the problems are server based and can't be fully tested until its available to the masses! der

DARK WITNESS3814d ago

unfortunately the truth is that it's not up to the devs.

it's up to the publishers, in this case EA. ea hold the $$$$ here. EA want it out before Cod, they don't care if it works or not.

this don't have nothing to do with the ps4 or it's power.

I have it on 360 and it's constantly locking up my console.

TheGreatAndPowerful3814d ago (Edited 3814d ago )

@leogets

and what do you think the purpose of the beta was for exactly?

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hellzsupernova3814d ago

so iron these issues out before release

OrangePowerz3814d ago

Especially when EA insists on releasing before CoD.

NovusTerminus3814d ago (Edited 3814d ago )

Assassin's Creed 4 did that plus the Wii U and I have not hit any issues. DICE just launches the games almost in beta and then fixes it all after they cash in.

famoussasjohn3814d ago

There's too many issues that are there to even have thought of releasing it with pride of putting DICE on it. The launch of BF4 on PC has been atrocious and had endless crashes and can only assume that the consoles are getting screwed too. There's been a lot of things that shouldn't have been passed through QA but was.

svoulis3814d ago

I agree, but I feel like they should've waited then. I can't even play on PC without random crashes and horrible FPS I have 2x 680's. Then I get it for PS3 and PS4..(cause of the digital deal)

and it works alright on PS4 (did the whole campaign with only 2 crashes) but online crashed a few times already.

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mkis0076h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows906h ago(Edited 6h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0075h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19894h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw6h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno6h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak6h ago(Edited 6h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy855h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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