MWEB GameZone writes: "EA is taking a huge gamble with Hardline by completely changing the features and game mechanics that are trademarks of any Battlefield game. Gamers have always favoured Call of Duty for its specific features and Battlefield for its vast and open war-zones. With Hardline, the difference between Call of Duty and Battlefield are blurred. Hardline could draw new players, or it can cause existing fans to withdraw their support
Here are the core changes fans can expect to experience in Hardline.
Cheaters & hackers have been causing grief on Battlefield 1, Hardline & BF4 servers, with nonstop DDoS attacks among other things. Unfortunately, EA has remained silent about it.
Not even if they paid me.. EA always do this with old games with less money potential, if this was Ultimate Team, they'd address and sort it faster than stories could spread. Why invest time in their products when they will just dump it in the following years? Then again EA never could see the forest for the trees.
I imagine after those games were given out for free a couple months back through Amazon, anything that makes people go to 2042 is a plus for them
Nah. I think they can't do anything about it or they want to sink money into fixing it.
EA owns all BF servers so yes, they can do something about it but they refuse to because they dont want ppl playing their old games instead of the new one. Its EA we’re talking about here
if this happened in 2042, they'd have something to say. which is weird, considering battlefield 1 has more players on steam right now.
Its so obvious that EA is doing this or hired ppl to mess up the games so that we’d be forced to have just 1 Battlefield working.
Honestly it’s probably the devs themselves. They did an update to bf4 way back that kinda made assault rifles doo doo in hopes that people would flock to BF1 cuz BF4 was too perfect
From Xfire: "With the next game being a return to the classic XX42 formula, now is as good a time as any to make an utterly definitive and in no possible way controversial ranking of the Battlefield games we've enjoyed over the years, with which undoubtedly nobody will take issue in the comment section. Right? Okay then - here we go, from least good to best."
Bad company 2 was still my favorite, sure it was a bit gimped compared to the rest if the series but more fun and far more satisfying weapon unlocks.
Battlefield 1942 + both expansions are my all time favorite, it can still be played online to this day. Vietnam would be my 2nd, 3rd Battlefield 2, last BF2142 the rest I didn't care for. They really need to remake from the ground up in the new engine BF1942. Next year it will be 20 yrs since it was released. If they don't at least to me would be a disservice. ☹
"erasing that simply reinforces toxic male privilege." I see the writer is one of those types of people...
In a time not too long ago, a foul infection spread its way through the games industry. It was a vile illness that burrowed itself in deep, feeding off of greed and the incessant begging of teens desperate to receive funds from their parents. It divided friend groups, suffocated player bases, and was common practice up until recently—it was the season pass.
This doesn't make a ton of sense. Season Passes may slowly fade out for multiplayer games, perhaps, but I don't see them going anywhere in games that are primarily single player. They don't seem to touch on this either, with every game being some kind of online/multiplayer/GaaS title, and nary a mention of a single player game - at least that I saw.
I mean, games like Borderlands 3 just asked people to buy in to the 2nd season pass. Battle passes can't really take over in places that have story driven content and such. So I'd say perhaps they missed a bit of a necessary distinction but, since they claim the death of season pass is at hand, it appears they may have missed how single player games factor into this entirely.
It really shouldn't have taken the Battlefield name to begin with. It would've been fine as a new IP by Visceral
this is the WRONG site to be talking about Hardline at all.. this is a VERY VERY CoD fanboyistic site, so anything they say should really be taken with a grain of salt.. If anything, the game resembles more of GTA5 than anything CoD has even come close to creating.. When has Cod EVER had vehicles?? When has CoD EVER had cops v robbers??? When has CoD EVER had all out street chases???? ABSOLUTELY NEVER... CoD shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence with Hardline. So NO.. The "lines between Hardline and CoD" are NOT blurred at all. Try again CoD fanboy site... Hardline looks fun as hell.. Especially the Hotwire mode.
This is a question that should have been asked when the game was first shown/played. Or alternatively, why is Battlefield even in the title.
i dunno hey, i am not sold. I agree with the headline, its not so much a battlefield game and there are none of the cool features that make battlefield the success that it is. I reserve the right to be proved wrong and i pray its the best title of 2015, but i am still nervous. Almost as if its an entire new IP attempting to leverage of previous successes via name alone.
Not happening for me.