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Thankfully, Guilin Peaks is also a fantastic place to charge around on the newly reinstated dirt bikes, barrelling through the low-hanging mist as you bypass the carnage on the way to a distant capture point or bomb in Obliteration mode. Hopefully future map packs will feature a more cogent theme. It's the most ostentatious (and if you're on the wrong team, as I so often seem to be, nightmarish) killzone since Operation Metro's ticket gates, and our play time at EA's offices was punctuated by elongated stretches of instant death upon spawning - the only time when you actively hope the game does hard crash your system.
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An arched tunnel sits atop a raised mound, and passing through this is the most direct and viable way to reach distant capture points or the next section of a Rush onslaught. While a pretty map, Guilin Peaks will likely find infamy thanks to its cavernous choke points. Serviceable, if not special.Įven more vegetated is Guilin Peaks, another mountainous space coated in verdant next-gen shrubbery. Still, it's a perfectly acceptable host for games of Rush and Conquest - the minimum requirements for any Battlefield map - with a nice variety of scenery around capture points and a pleasing through-line when progressing from one end of its dogleg geometry to the other. It's a nondescript space - a blood bowl of sorts - and anyone experienced in DICE's world will feel pangs of over-familiarity as you sprint through one-storey huts and crouch in lightly swaying foliage. You simply attack in tanks or do not, depending on your play style. Those mountains don't actually have an impact on the action, which is largely fought on and around a long, twisting road that naturally undulates through the valley, allowing just enough cover for infantry combat without the whole affair turning into a massacre.īeing a large map, Dragon Valley supports vehicles, but does little to accentuate their inclusion. It looks like you're waging war on the fourth disc of Shenmue 2. And what better place to start? Imposing mountains, golden-hued skies and lush greenery surround Dragon Pass. Three of the four included maps are genuinely new, with only Dragon Pass a remake - in this case of the Battlefield 2 classic, Dragon Valley.
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So will its map pack China Rising, free to those who pre-ordered the game and available to Premium players today, be enough to sate those who've spent hours screaming at black screens and menu locks in futile rage? Yes, despite multiple patches and updates, Battlefield 4 is a mess on every platform - a litany of crashes, misfires and save bugs. Well, in the interim, two consoles have launched globally and it seems like DICE's game has experienced an entirely different kind of levolution: its servers crumbling into dust under the mortar fire of people actually trying to play the thing.
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In my review of Battlefield 4's Second Assault map pack, I described its online service as patchy, but fighting its way back to full health.