At one point, I watched as the resort hotel crumbled under the explosives of my teammates and jets screamed overhead, and then I ran to the next capture point, gunning down other players and avoiding turret fire from a Little Bird attack chopper.
As infantry cross bridges and hills on foot to take points and attack boats rush along the shore to ferry troops to unguarded areas, the new Commander element allows one player on each team to direct support and assume control of a missile truck in the center of the map. Anything.īut when those levels are full - when, for example, 64 players are battling for control of Hainan Resort's five capture points - there's no shortage of engagement. When one of the larger maps had less than 50 players, for example, I found it easy to wander for multiple minutes looking for something to do, for someone to shoot or assist or something.
Battlefield 4's multiplayer levels feel less compromised in scale than in Battlefield 3 - which has the unfortunate side effect of feast or famine. Battlefield 4 takes the scope of the previous games and blows it up, with maps that span virtual kilometers of space that take minutes to run across on foot.
