Because EA likes giving you a hassle by having you update your browser, update your plugins, then giving you a “you must wait till the game exits” when the game never even started. That was an issue that existed for maybe the first month after Battlefield 3 / 4 came out and even then it wasn’t persistent or anything.
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The game starts the same way after launching form the browser. The only difference now is the game redirects to their website first, then starts the game from there. And this happens after the game got a 2.5 GB update of some kind.
From a security perspective, it seems to be actually quite a bad idea for every game’s launcher to tie itself into your browser. Without this tying: If the launcher code has a vulnerability, it’s unlikely to be triggered because the server has to send a malformed response (usually the launcher opens the connection, as users tend to be behind NAT).
Just posting a solution I found on steam forums in case anyone was still having this issue. What I did was right-clicked BF4 in Origin and went Game Properties then Advanced Launcher Properties. Then I changed launching the game from x64 to x84, saved it, …
Battlefield Hardline have a WebUI, a webbrowser based user interface. In the order to play the game you have to log in to Battlelog. Here you can check your player profile (pic. 1). You can play multiplayer (pic. 2) In multiplayer I suggest to browse server, because the lack of players on PC. Picture number 3 show how to enter onto Single player.
Yes, you really need to install the browser plugin. The simple and quick way to get in is to right click on the origin icon in your systray and launch BF4. It will take you right in to the browser automagically.
UNKNOWN9122. artistpavel 10 years ago #5. I think the browser is actually the best gaming invention so far, you just bookmark your battlelog, choose a server and let it do the loading while you can still browse the web. I HATE how in every normal game you have to stare at loading screen like a moron. kazn_ 10 years ago #6.
Do server browser. The more you limit your search the more matches you find. At least that’s the way it seems to happen with me. Be sure to favorite servers so you don’t have to search over and over. Also, I don’t know why they did the whole web browser thing either.
I unchecked that box and then using IE 11 I tried launching a game from battlelog. This time it offered the plugin installer which I allowed to run and then my game launched like normal. Since all of the latest browsers don’t allow plugins anymore IE …
The Battlefield 4 server match/profile pages have to use a Browser to show you your stuff and join a server. It’s not a big deal, not sure why everyone makes it as such. fusi0n
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