Battlefield 4 Lets You Carry Over Stats To Next Gen

[Steven Bogos]

Battlefield 4 Lets You Carry Over Stats To Next Gen

Battlefield 4 offers a one time transfer allows players to transfer their stats and multiplayer progression from current gen to next gen consoles.

For PC gamers, "console generations" are meaningless, as PCs can be as advanced or as weak as the user desires, and as they are infinitely backwards compatible, PC gamers never have to worry about losing anything when they upgrade their systems. But for console gamers, upgrading your console is a big deal, as both the PS4 and Xbox One won't be backwards compatible, meaning you'll have to say sayonara to all your old games, and the stats and saves that went with them. Except for Battlefield 4, that is.

DICE have unveiled the Battlefield 4 stats transfer system [http://blogs.battlefield.com/2013/08/bring-bf4-mp-stats-to-gen4/?utm_campaign=bf-social-us-socom-tw-bf-social-na-socom-tw-gen3to4&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=social&sourceid=bf-social-us-socom-tw-bf-social-na-socom-tw-gen3to4], in which a one-time transfer allows players to transfer their stats and multiplayer progression from the Xbox 360 or PS3 version of the game to the Xbox One or PS4 version when they are released. "That way, on October 29, you can get in the game without any worries that you will have to start ranking up all over again when the next generation consoles launch," said DICE, "We got your back."

DICE also confirmed something that should come as a shock to exactly no-one: the "Premium" subscription that it spearheaded with Battlefield 3 (basically, a season pass that bundled several DLC packs into a single package) will continue with Battlefield 4. "With [premium] membership, players can expect themed digital expansion packs, new weekly content and personalization options."

If you pre-order Battlefield 4, you'll get the China Rising expansion pack at no-cost. While it hasn't been confirmed that China Rising will be a part of Premium, Battlefield 3's pre-order bonus, Back to Karkand was bundled in Battlefield 3's Premium membership, so you can assume China Rising will have the same deal.

Source: Battlefield Blog [http://blogs.battlefield.com/2013/08/bring-bf4-mp-stats-to-gen4/?utm_campaign=bf-social-us-socom-tw-bf-social-na-socom-tw-gen3to4&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=social&sourceid=bf-social-us-socom-tw-bf-social-na-socom-tw-gen3to4]

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[Jadak]

Umm.. Great, I guess. So long as you want to buy the same game twice, at least.

Unless the licence for the game could be trasferred to the new console as well, now that would be awesome.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Cool, I bet many a player will appreciate that.


Out of curiosity, can a player bring their 360 stats over to the PS4 and vice versa? I'm pretty sure transferring leaderboard stats is impossible due to separate listings between the consoles but I could see a potential for anything you unlocked being doable.

 

[dragongit]

Whow... I mean yea, cover your bases, I'm sure there are those who will buy the current gen, wait for the next generation for like a price drop, and then get the next gen copy. But it's still buying the same game twice. Not to mention it'll likely be on the used market, so they wouldn't get any money directly... except for DLC... those evil bastards... *fist slam*

 

[VanBasten]

Nice way of trying to convince people to buy the game twice.

 

[Evonisia]

Doing the exact same thing Ghosts did to buy the game twice.

Didn't really see the point of stating how PC doesn't have Generations and why it matters.

 

[octafish]

I'm sure for some people this would be a boon, but if you are considering buying BF4 (for my sins I have pre-ordered it, I still love Battlefield), if you are considering buying it, buy the only proper version available in October (PC), or wait for the proper version for consoles (next gen). The bigger maps with maximum players is where the game shines and current gen just can't handle it, don't bother with the 360 or PS3 version.

I think the game looks good, I am at least, still hopeful it will be a better version of BF3, which delivered my favorite multi-player shooty experience in many years. (Tribes and PS2 were close but I still prefer BF3).

 

[fix-the-spade]

I think the game looks good, I am at least, still hopeful it will be a better version of BF3, which delivered my favorite multi-player shooty experience in many years. (Tribes and PS2 were close but I still prefer BF3).

That's what BF4 needs, jetpack power armour, run me over now Mr Tank!

I have to agree about buying the PC version, getting locked into 24 players must be rubbish, some maps feel positively sparse with 32 players kicking about. I'd hate to be stuck on Alborz with 24 players and the battle going down at the other end.

 

[TheComfyChair]

Doing the exact same thing Ghosts did to buy the game twice.

Didn't really see the point of stating how PC doesn't have Generations and why it matters.

If there's any time for highlights of PC gaming to be discussed, it's when people are going to spend most of the money for a decent middle of the road gaming PC on a console which is slightly less powerful than a middle of the road gaming PC i guess. It won't help much though, PC gaming doesn't have a multi-billion dollar company shouting that their sparkly box is the greatest ever. if it did, all it'd do is walk out, show people the occulus rift, point at games like star citizen, maybe show a tech demo of a game running natively in 4k resolutions, smirk, and wall off.

BF4 on the next gen consoles will feel like an entirely different beast though compared to current gen. The next gen (aside from some pretties) will be much more like the PC version, which is simply a much better version online with 64 players and the awesome chaos that brings. So, in that regard, it's definitely worth buying twice if you *have* to buy it at launch. Personally, i'm waiting for a premium edition bundle.

 

[Evonisia]

Doing the exact same thing Ghosts did to buy the game twice.

Didn't really see the point of stating how PC doesn't have Generations and why it matters.

If there's any time for highlights of PC gaming to be discussed, it's when people are going to spend most of the money for a decent middle of the road gaming PC on a console which is slightly less powerful than a middle of the road gaming PC i guess. It won't help much though, PC gaming doesn't have a multi-billion dollar company shouting that their sparkly box is the greatest ever. if it did, all it'd do is walk out, show people the occulus rift, point at games like star citizen, maybe show a tech demo of a game running natively in 4k resolutions, smirk, and wall off.

See I understand that the new Consoles will be inferior to the PCs we have now, but the target audience of this article is clearly the people who will play Battlefield 4 on the PS3 or Xbox 360, then move onto the PS4 or the Xbox One. To bring up the fact that the PC won't have to deal with this transition seems a little shallow, of course by all means it's good to encourage people to go get a PC if they can but if the people are only interested in whether their stats will stay when they choose to move on, I doubt that being told "If you don't even bother getting it on 360/PS3, it'll be fine on PC" will appeal.

Personally I have no intention on getting Battlefield 4, chances are a friend or relative of mine will play it and likely on PC but otherwise I'm just speaking out of principal.

 

[frobalt]

PCs can be as advanced or as weak as the user desires, and as they are infinitely backwards compatible,

You really should do your research before stating stuff like this.

I am unable to install Theme Hospital on my 64 bit system. Yes, there are ways around this such as running a 32 bit OS in a virtual machine, but it's not what I'd call backwards compatible...

I'm sure there are other old games that require VMs using older OSes to run.

 

[Strazdas]

And this i am sold. I am a stats whore, i admit it. i live statistics and the more staitsitics there are the better. i love games that give you 5 pages of variuos statistics up to the point of steps taken or bullets fired, and i love to keep them. at the end of the game i always screenshot my statistics and save them.

PCs can be as advanced or as weak as the user desires, and as they are infinitely backwards compatible,

You really should do your research before stating stuff like this.

I am unable to install Theme Hospital on my 64 bit system. Yes, there are ways around this such as running a 32 bit OS in a virtual machine, but it's not what I'd call backwards compatible...

I'm sure there are other old games that require VMs using older OSes to run.

That is lack of backward compactability on your OS, not your PC. and that is solved via virtualboxing easily, which is what any console backward conapctability does anyway. The REAL problem with backward compatability is graphical hardware. Some games were desined in such a way that new grpahical hardware cannot run them, for example one of Total War games cant run on modern GPUs. there is also the whole "athlonXP" debate, as more and more games drop support for this type of processor now as it is estiamted to be 0.1% of gaming population and getting less every day, there is also the same problem the other way around. games desined for athlonXP may not work on next generation of processors due to different architecture. We see this in games refusing to lauch becasue "you have no processor" error. but so far we managed to trick them into playing and the else we emulated. but its going to get worse as technology moves on.
a TRUE backward comapctability is stagnation. but a emulated backward comapctability is what PC has and others dont.

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