Sorry EA battlefield 4 destroyed any hope of me picking up or getting at all excited about any game under the "battlefield name" ever again. I tried it again on xbox one yesterday, and to my shock and horror it's still so broken, how on earth they brought out DLC onto a game that broken shocks me, they should have had the team or at least part of it locked in a room until it was fixed.
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Battlefield: Hardline (cops vs. thieves) leaks, tons of info [Officially Announced]
- Thread starter Lakitu
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Enforcer - Medic/Assault
Mechanic - Engineer
Operator - Support/LMG
Professional - Recon/Sniper/Close-quarters.
Would be my guess. Same set-up as BF3-4, just different names so it isn't "LOL BATTLEFIELD CLONE"
LOL BATTLEFIELD CLONE
*groan* Unless they tweaked it, I'd rather they remove it and suffer fan bitching than it being there and breaking the game by having too much advantage on one side while the other never gets a Commander until too late.
This is what kills the Battlefield.jpg
EA needs to stop with chasing the Call of Duty money, that series is starting to enter decline. Let Battlefield do Battlefield. Not Call of Field.
Reckless Onion
Member
Can't wait to see this. 2 more weeks.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
If the games in the Battlefield line can differentiate themselves well enough and have different studios within EA offering their take, then I think it can work annually. Actually it would benefit the mainline Battlefield a lot more. SWAT this year, Battlefront next year as the "Battlefield" entries, then a triumphant return of the mainline Battlefield in 2016 with a 3 year dev time.
Now this is the good old Visceral style "We know everything about your game before you announce it." leak I was expecting.
I'm actually really happy this is about thieves with heist modes instead of the cartel, since the potential to play differently is much higher.
Battlefield: Payday, perhaps?
Noisepurge
Member
starts to sound more and more like Counter-Strike 
Yes, that's the impression I get.
Edit:
Also, Visceral basically confirmed:
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/26levh/soooo_what_did_the_update_do/chs5wuzreddit said:
Counter-strike has been doing this since 1998. It'd be cool to see a BF-style warfare game on the level of counter-terrorist units around the world like Seal Team 6, French GIGN, Special Air Service, etc.
Whether it's terrorists, robbers, etc, as the enemy, the game play needs to be top notch. In my opinion, my first comparison of the gameplay including gunplay will be directly to Counter-strike. If the gunplay is anything like COD, it's gonna be a laughing stock.
benicillin
Banned
It sounds like the Battlefield devs have been playing Payday 2, what with those class names and all.
Lord of Castamere
Member
So what your telling me is that we could potentially be getting Counter Strike + Payday + Battlefield.
My heart can't take it.
My heart can't take it.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
It's not a big concern for me. The last gen ports of BF4 were so cut down that it might as well have been a different game. I'll also take 60fps over more eye candy.
Lord of Castamere
Member
SolidSnakex
Member
Not if each brand within Battlefield is able to differentiate itself enough. This game is currently sounding very different from the traditional BF games. And the concept is obviously very different. They can/should also bring Bad Company into the loop and keep the old humor. That way they could keep the brand relevant every year while avoiding franchise fatigue because each game is very different from the last.
It's a shame since I thought DI was pretty decent, and it ended on a cliffhanger. I actually though the original did decently at retail even though the reviews were mediocre. But I guess it didn't reach whatever expectations EA had. Which were likely high since they bought a Super Bowl spot for the game.
Mugatu
Member
That's silly - if this logic prevailed PC gamers wouldn't be able to buy any cross-platform game and yet most generally perform and play great on the PC.
Hot Coldman
Banned
This sounds like absolutely the best direction to take Battlefield in. It'll be fantastic if they manage to work actual police chase mechanics into things, although I'm guessing that's probably not what they're going for here.
I'm guessing it'll have some Legion of Shadows-type shit for the thieves if they're going to be even with the cops, mind.
I'm guessing it'll have some Legion of Shadows-type shit for the thieves if they're going to be even with the cops, mind.
Noisepurge
Member
no medal for pistols? PRE ORDER CANCELLED!
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
oooo from that badge looks like zip lines are coming back
McHuj
Member
I really wonder what the Map sizes will be. What drew into BF4 and has kept me playing is the large 64 player maps and sense of scale.
I really hope this can capture that as well, but I'm not sure if you can do a cops vs robbers as 32 vs 32 players.
I'm also curious about vehicle support and how it will work.
I really hope this can capture that as well, but I'm not sure if you can do a cops vs robbers as 32 vs 32 players.
I'm also curious about vehicle support and how it will work.
Noisepurge
Member
yeah that's the biggest question mark i have, how on earth do attack choppers, tanks and missile launchers fit into a game about cops&robbers?
We've actually knew about this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before he said anything.
Note the date on Ben Cousins' tweet: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=729604
yeah that's the biggest question mark i have, how on earth do attack choppers, tanks and missile launchers fit into a game about cops&robbers?
Well bank robbers have decided to escalate how they get into vaults.
larrybird33
Banned
After the BF4 fiasco I'm not jumping aboard another BF titles for a long time.
Benzychenz
Member
excaliburps
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Indeed. For all intents and purposes this COULD have been a different game altogether, but EA is wisely using the Battlefield name since it means an instant fan base.
I'm very curious what Visceral has in store for this one. They can either make their own version of Battlefield or crash and burn. Personally, I'm hoping for the former.
Noisepurge
Member
just gotta wait until the reviews hit and then when people get their hands on the game to report its condition. so, just don't pre-order and you should be safe
Ribbons from the next Battlefield game
https://twitter.com/BFDaily/status/471282308788805632
Equipment from the next Battlefield game:
https://twitter.com/BFDaily/status/471283668208861185
https://twitter.com/BFDaily/status/471282308788805632
Equipment from the next Battlefield game:
https://twitter.com/BFDaily/status/471283668208861185
Yankee Ruin X
Member
I actually wouldn't mind this is there were smaller CQB maps which used the environment and load outs really well. Like if there was a bank map and one team had to rob the vault and you had different ways to tackle it like hacking the doors or forcing your way in by blowing through walls, being able to block routes by making changes to the environment. Also taking out things like the lights requiring you decide to take night vision, thermal or flashlight and using smoke/flash effectively.
Terbinator
Member
So it's BF4: Spec Ops?
Flame Lord
Member
I kinda keep holding on to the hope that this will end up being a big expansion to 4 instead of some new game. I don't like the idea of annual Battlefield, especially after they fucked up with 4 when they had 2 years.
MightyHedgehog
Member
I know it's just a video game, but I do wonder about the thinking of putting law enforcement on one side of what amounts to being another elaborate deathmatch game. Definitely different from the usual pitting of national armies, paramilitary factions, and counter-terrorist groups. Of course, the recently revealed and captured goings on of various US local agencies' members killing rather indiscriminately as well as being total bastards otherwise does dampen my feelings about this not representing the role of law enforcement. Also seems like they're biting hard on Payday's success, a well established pattern for EA basically cloning successes of the competition. But my biggest question is why is EA so hot to annualize BF? That raging hardon they've got for CoD money is never going to go flaccid and it might lead to the ruin of a decent series if their lack of QA doesn't.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Oh god this is one of the worst kept secrets from EA I can think of in recent memory.
Still can't believe the cheek of them to make BF annual after the state of bf4.
Still can't believe the cheek of them to make BF annual after the state of bf4.
Well it's on EA's servers and matches with all the previous leaks, so I think you can take this one for granted.
AuthenticM
Member
If this is a smaller scope Battlefield game with less emphasis on vehicules, similar to Bad Company, then it will be the game for me.