Battlefield Hardline – GM Confirms Visceral as Lead on Multiplayer and Single Player

MP1st - Following some of the slight confusion surrounding the teams involved in Battlefield Hardline‘s production, Visceral general manager Steve Papoutsis confirms exactly who is developing what in EA’s recently unveiled Fall shooter.

[BattleAxe]

The idea of this game is interesting, but I'm still playing BC2 and BF3. Too many Battlefield games starting to come out.

[showtimefolks]

it use to be a new BF game meant huge news but now EA will try to turn it into the run of mill Military FPS

sad thing is BF4 still hasn't been fixed and they are already releasing another.

[jdktech2010]

To be fair, this doesn't look too run of the mill. The only other game it reminds me of (besides Battlefield itself) is Payday which I've never played. I've heard it's a hell of a time though.

[shivvy24]

I went back to bf3, its was far better.

[venom06]

wow... spoken like a TRUE CoD fanboy... that has to be the STUPIDEST thing thats been put on N4G in a LONG time... so CoD comes out every year, but folks don't say anything about "too many CoDs"... this is FIRST time a Battlefield game has come out a year after a previous one and now is "too many Battleifields"???? GTFO with ridiculous statement.. Point of the matter is, this is a spin-off (like Ghosts, Black Ops, Modern Warfare), and spin-offs are great the longevity of franchises.. Battlefield should've done this long time ago and CoD has been having spin-offs forever.. Cant wait to see more one this one....

[Ripsta7th]

So venom you are OK w developers releasing 1 game a year? CoD does it so why can't they right? Actually all developers should do that since you say it adds longetivity to the franchise. They should also have microtransactions for camos because COd does it, so why can't they right??! I don't like the way you think

[showtimefolks]

venom06

here is the major difference

1-Activision have this development cycle figured out

2-Most COD are fun to pick up and play(hence the reason its sold so much, the learning curve is quite steep in BF series)

3-Most COD's aren't broken, their DLC packs don't have to be delayed because the developers have to fix the game via patches over half an year after release

4-I personally hate the yearly releases, but i don't buy COD,BF or AC games. Just not my cup of tea. I am a single player gamer

I was speaking from a different point of view, as someone who doesn't buy a lot of FPS, BF name is a legit brand. People expect quality and support for long long time after release

more power to you if you think its ok. But atleast Activision are going with 3 teams/3 years development cycles instead of 2

[guitarded77]

I agree. I love all the Battlefield games, but it is becoming overbearing with all the titles coming out so fast now. This really isn't on my radar... and Visceral working on the MP isn't really helping.

I wish DICE and Visceral would take a break from Battlefield, and work on the Star Wars games they have going. Hopefully, Visceral working on Battlefield means DICE is working their asses off on Star Wars Battlefront.

[venom06]

and what's hilarious and stupid at the same time, is that folks aren't even commenting on the fact that this story is about the fact that Visceral is lead on SP and MP with collaboration from DICE... folks ran to this comment section to talk about BF4 (that Visceral had nothing to do with)... Cant wait to see the new and fresh take on the franchise thats gonna come from this game..

[XiNarutoUzumaki]

Mm I'm skeptical about this. Viceral games did a really god job with Dead Space 1 and 2. However, DE3 flopped and DE2 MP was meh.

I'll wait and see.

[Deadpoolio]

Ummmm Dead Space 3 did not flop....

[Plagasx]

Well it certainly was not as good as the first 2 that's for sure.

[showtimefolks]

dead space 1 filled the gaps for many left behind by average resident evil games. Dead Space 2, EA tried to make more action and less like original(which fans loved)

for dead space 3 they just F-ed it up, plain and simple. Yes it did flop big time.

[XiSasukeUchiha]

Wait Naruto remember your ordered by me, but yeah Dead 1 and 2 were good , but I disagree on Dead space 3 was alright!

[NovusTerminus]

Sad that Visceral got set on this project. I love Dead Space (yes, all of them) and was eager to see their Jack the Ripper project which I assume now is dead, since they are just another FPS team now.

[infinitewords]

Yup, same here. I really enjoyed all of the Dead Space games and seeing Visceral getting taken off doesn't bode well for the franchise.

[Alex_Boro]

Great lets make some dead space maps and charge it as dlc

[Trunkz]

Thank God!

People keep blaming EA for crap, they only made DICE push the game out early, all the coding and problems have been DICE fault tho, especially the bad netcoding.

Visceral hopefully will do things differently and get it right.

[OmegaShen]

Because anything with EA on it, means buggy games or online problems.

Skate 3 anyone?

[Agent_hitman]

Speaking of Visceral, are they working on new DEAD SPACE game?.

[Asuka]

nope, i believe it was about this time last year EA announced that they had no plans to release another dead space game in the near future. Tis very sad news
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[bmf7364]

However, they should be working on something that's said to be centered on what Star Wars 1313 shouldve been. I'm super hyped for what Visceral can do with Star Wars.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Remember Amy Hennig joined Visceral to work on a new Star Wars game with Visceral

[STK026]

If I'm not mistaken, Sledgehammer Games, the developer behind Call of Duty : Advanced Warfare, was founded by some of Visceral Games staff. They were once in the same studio, but now they must compete.

[jdktech2010]

Ironic, isn't it?

Hopefully they both bring new takes to the FPS and especially the tired modern war FPS (remember when we were saying this about WW2 games)

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Yes, Glen Schofield who was director of the first Dead Space is the one who started Sledgehammer

[brightlight]

They plan their games years ahead so I start to understand why EA couldn't afford to delay BF4, knowing that they had a premium plan all year long + this Battlefield on fall '14 to promote and market. Still to not delay their game which clearly needed more time to be fixed before release got them to lose the so sensitive trust of their fan-base.

People who are interested in BFH will reserve judgment and money before to commit and that'd hurt the pre-orders.

Life is a choice!

[RegorL]

The more you put into a game, the more have a potential to break.
I think DICE were a bit over confident adding new stuff late.

I still see no real competition out there...
Especially not on PS4 / Xbox One
BF4 on line 64 players MP often surpass other games single player.

Every frostbite related bug they fix on BF4 will be a bug less in BF Hardline.

[dogga94]

Are all you people really that young to not remember SWAT 4? Or still being EA, it will be fucked one way or another. As DICE said dont shoot the messenger. Everything is EA's fault.

[incredibleMULK]

I'm gonna skip this game. I learned my lesson from gears of war judgement and Modern warfare 3, regarding new teams doing projects.