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Battlefield Hardline Open Beta Discussion Thread
- Thread starter VisceralBowl
- Start date
kostacurtas
Member
No problem here:
OdysseusVA
Banned
Why isn't there pre-loading on PSN? :/
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dapperbandit
Banned
What time would someone in the UK be able to get a hold of it?
Yes. Correct. Beta opens tomorrow. Pre-load is today. Which means beta opens at ~4AM on the East Coast tonight.
Alkastelca
Member
Will ps4 users have to wait for the store to update to get the beta ?
God I hope not.
God I hope not.
Yaphett Kotto
Member
I'm cool with this. I don't think I've had any disagreements with most of the people who do BF vids. From all I've seen, all of them have a nice grasp on what Battlefield should be like and know how it should work at its core.
Definitely cannot say the same thing for CoD and its annoying ass quickscope community where there are numerous content makers that started playing CoD with MW3 or some shit.
EASTC0AST_GH05T
Member
redownloaded the BFH E3 Beta on the PS4 and had to install a update before booting up the game and can confirm the old box art picture has changed whatever that means.
EASTC0AST_GH05T
Member
you think that will be across all platforms?
Reckless Onion
Member
Can we do the vpn trick?
so we can start pre-loading?
SniperHunter
Banned
I'm ok with this.
sounds great
MMaRsu
Banned
Smooth Operator
Member
Hell yeah Origin :
Probably. Though more than likely: Probably not. US PSN is a shitshow in getting updates on time. I don't miss that "will they or won't they" Grace Chen Time-updating.
More than like the X360/720 versions will be up at midnight or 4AM if following X-box Live update times.
drotahorror
Member
4am est.
Some clever things in there.
It's a real bummer that the weapon models haven't improved since the last beta. Textures still look unfinished and weirdly flat. UI also still looks like a cheap placeholder font.
I'll give it a go tomorrow. Hopefully the character movement and weapon feel is improved. Those were my biggest complaints with the last beta.
I'll give it a go tomorrow. Hopefully the character movement and weapon feel is improved. Those were my biggest complaints with the last beta.
Yup, and indoor looks bad too :/
And vehicles.
I just assumed all that was because of the fact it was a beta but seeing the visuals and UI still looking weak is a bummer. BF4 looked better in that regard. Not going to change much now.
kingwingin
Member
Someguy is streaming the ps4 version, how do you get it?
Earlier this morning, there was someone streaming and when asked how he was playing early, he said it was a closed beta and his friend gave him a code. My guess is that they wanted to avoid issues with too many people trying to download and log on at once, so they sent out codes to certain players, to try to ease some of the server stress tomorrow.
Yaphett Kotto
Member
I really dislike guns being battle pickup items. Launchers, medkits, and ammo are cool since there are teammates that are total assholes or your team lets helicopters rip through them and you need something to fight back with, but LMGs being battle pickup items is total bullshit to me as no situation calls for it since you already have a gun to deal with enemies and there is no limitation on that.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
That's the link for the beta in the xbox website: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Battlefield-Hardline-Beta/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802454109ed Not working now maybe in a few hours.
dapperbandit
Banned
LMGs as pickups annoys me as well.
But apparently they did that because all weapons fire will now damage vehicles and LMGs proved too effective at destroying cars.
The same logic applies to mechanics not having rocket launchers available as a gadget as it would be too easy for them to dominate in gamemodes like Hotwire.
But apparently they did that because all weapons fire will now damage vehicles and LMGs proved too effective at destroying cars.
The same logic applies to mechanics not having rocket launchers available as a gadget as it would be too easy for them to dominate in gamemodes like Hotwire.
Anton Sugar
Member
AFAIK, "battle pickups" are actually unlocks. Like, you have to purchase (in-game leveling currency, not microtransactions) the ability to put the RPG in the trunk of that specific car.
So if the car you selected is not available on the map, you won't be able to use that battle pickup. I think LMGs can be selected instead of RPGs. They're just meant to be "special weapons".
Yaphett Kotto
Member
I still find it dumb. Like, if they were going to do a gun that had to be pickup, they should have went with a minigun.
It will be fine with me if they just remove LMGs.
Interesting that you have to purchase them, though.
Barakov
Member
Some very interesting ideas. I'm now pretty interested in playing the beta now.
i wanna know this for X1.
Visualante2
Member
Still no download cap feature in Origin. Too lazy to install a third party app. Might have to skip this, sadly. The multiplayer modes look pretty good.
For the engineer class, not recons.
Still don't like the low TTK and shorter rounds on Conquest but I get what they're trying to do.