As DICE has attempted to fix the various problems that have plagued Battlefield 4 since release, there have often been new issues introduced with every patch. Arguably, up until the launch of the community test environment (CTE) in June, it seemed as though the state of the game would remain at an unacceptable level. For me, a person whose first experience of the franchise was with Battlefield 3 on PS3 (a game that saw me sink in more than three hundred and fifty hours), the quality has not been at a level that I can accept. Battlefield 3 was known to have some netcode and gameplay issues of its own, but nothing on the scale of the most recent release in the series.
