New Battlefield 4 update goes live today, short downtime expected

DICE has announced that a new update for the PC version of Battlefield 4 has begun rolling out, which will bring with it a brief pause in the action while everything gets squared away.

Improved/reduced explosion induced camera shake
Character collision improvements
Fix to reduce object damage mismatch between client/server.
Fix explosion packs not being able to be shot sometimes
Improvements for client side packet loss
Client crash fixes
AMD Mantle multi-GPU improvements
Carrier Assault game mode reports bug fix
High Frequency Network update
dded High frequency “bubble” updating player movement, stance, rotation, damage and projectiles at a separate rate on foot and in vehicles
Added option to control client side update rate setting

By all appearances it's a smaller update than the one released at the end of March , which hopefully means that DICE is slowly but surely pulling it all together. Good things come to those who wait, I suppose; speaking of which, the studio warned that "a short period of downtime is expected with this update."

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