Confirming reports that Dead Space studio Visceral Games has been working on a police-themed addition to the popular Battlefield series, several bits and pieces of leaked artwork have revealed the game as Battlefield: Hardline.
Following the leak, publisher EA has since activated an official teaser website at
battlefield.com/hardline, confirming the game's existence and scheduling the official unveiling at its E3 2014 press conference on June 9th.
We seemingly already know a whole lot more than that though, as an assortment of assets were discovered in the bowels of Battlefield's Battlelog web portal, including the game's logo, weapons and unlocks, and even player class details.
Polygon credits
Better Battlelog forums,
Battlefield Daily Twitter, and
Koen Vlaswinkel with the finds, and indicates that the game is planned for PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, and will pit a team of SWAT, against a band of Thieves.
Four of the game's classes are outlined as Enforcer, Mechanic, Operator, and Professional, and game modes Blood Money and Heist are mentioned.
Vehicles include several armoured variants and what appear to be fast cars, as well as helicopters. Weapons and accessories include an assortment of automatic weapons, tasers, a riot shield, and a bunch of unconventional items such as deployable cameras, laser trip mines, breaching charges, and a grappling hook.
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I wonder if we will need to wait 8 months for Heist...
Posted 10:08am 28/5/14
Or 5 years for hit rego. Wait, more like 8 years.
Posted 10:08am 28/5/14
I imagine it will be, just better. Pay Day 2 was good for about a week @_@
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The only interesting part is BF:Hardline is being done by Visceral Games (Deadspace series) and not by DICE. So Battlefield may be entering a CoD development style (i.e. Infinity Ward and Treyarch alternating games).
I suspect Hardlines will play more like Bad Company 2.
Posted 01:02pm 28/5/14
For now I'll just have to make do attempting to self fellate while I replay SWAT 4.
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Posted 03:26pm 28/5/14
Lights.
Camera.
Action!
Oh how I miss rounds starting like that.
Originally CS was fast paced like AQ2 but features were slowly removed and you have the turtle paced game of today. Urban Terror (Quake 3 mod) was a good successor to AQ2 mostly but what UrbT lacked the most was some of the really whacky maps of that Quake 2 era.
Posted 03:29pm 28/5/14
Still think the next BF should be future combat. Or WW1 lolz
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Trench foot is the new Levolution
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Posted 04:59pm 28/5/14
WE need this game.
Posted 05:06pm 28/5/14
Fresh format recently, no Origin, no BF, no Battlelog, nothing. It feels like I kicked a 40 year smoking habit. I suggest everyone does the same.
I thank EA for releasing Origin (in hindsight) because now I can very easily identify which games are theirs.
Yeah, I'm mad. I'm mad that even with display after display of ineptitude from EA (Sim City, most Battlefields, etc) that they are still in business. Die please.
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