As the abundance of bugs, crashes and general stability issues are affecting the gameplay experience of players on all platforms, EA and Dice are working hard to keep things running as best as possible and patch things up (I’m still getting the feeling that perhaps the game was released ahead of time to make use of the profitable sales period, although it was not completely ready). Today, Playstation 4 users will be receiving a patch that should increase stability and provide better stability in Battlefield 4.
Among the most important issues addressed by the patch are the prevention of file corruption issues, Battlelog crashes and general stability improvements.
The full patch notes can be viewed below:
Dec 11 PS4 Game Update Notes
-General stability fixes that should remove a large amount of the client crashes we are currently seeing on the PS4
-Fixed the audio drop outs that could occur when playing on large maps. Typical map affected was Golmud Railway in Conquest with 64 players. Ambient sound would sometimes cut out, like foley sounds from player running, vehicle engine sounds, vehicle movement sounds, and map ambient sounds
-Removed the blur effect on soldiers that appeared when Commanders were using EMP attacks
-Further reduced the probability of getting a corrupt save file by doing miscellaneous changes to the save file system. These include removing the save file saving again when quitting multiplayer
-Fixed multiple crashes that could occur when bringing up the in-game Battlelog during round transition
-Fixed a crash that could occur when using the BattleScreen
-Fixed a random crash related to destroying vehicles
-Fixed minor destruction issues in the terrain
With Battlefield 4 still facing various critical bugs and issues, DICE is still holding off development on any other projects, as EA is pushing hard for the game to be stable once again. Some of the still unfixed issues include game crashes, the “one-hit-kill” bug, sound issues and general problems with the server browser service. No particular platform has escaped these issues, as problems are abundant on all three major platforms – PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Playstation 4.
Source – Battlelog