Battlefield:Hardline Beta OPEN!

[Bock]

Shouldn't he be putting that lube all over his fist, not just a single finger?

[Róka]

The "game" itself is very fun. Some of us grouped and played together and we had a blast... It's just frustrating that they're asking for $70 and a whole new Premium for it...

[haruky]

The new tom clancy rainbow six gameplay looked pretty nice if we are talking about the cops and robbers genre.

Yeah, I don't pretend to know anything about this series, but why is Tom Clancy's name still on it even after he died last year? Was he ever involved with these games at all? Could somebody enlighten me?

Tom Clancy basically created the Rainbow Six name. It started off as books which the games were based on in the beginning. Rainbow Six games have been around for nearly 2 decades now.

Anything "Rainbow Six" will undoubtedly continue to have the Tom Clancy name to it.

[Jokerle]

played 2 rounds, was fun.


Only thing is: I cannot use my w-key to drive vehicles forward, something is bugged

[LoA]

The "game" itself is very fun. Some of us grouped and played together and we had a blast... It's just frustrating that they're asking for $70 and a whole new Premium for it...

~€35 on various cd-key websites.

[matsif]

It's just frustrating that they're asking for $70 and a whole new Premium for it...

The amount of content that you'd get with this game would have been considered a mod for Arma/RO2/BF42/BF2/BF2142/CS/any other FPS game. To charge double price for everything again is just EA fondling themselves over dollar signs.

Play the beta as you will. Just don't buy this farce. EA won't learn otherwise.

[Hypol33t]

So now that i have played around 3 hours my first real impression on Hardline:

I still dont like the theme, vehicle bugs still persume BUT the game feels like bf4 should have been like from the beginning.

All in all, hardline should have been a DLC that should have been free of charge as compensation for the disaster that bf4 was and STILL is.

A lot of shoulds, enough for me to not buy this game full price, not even with a 35 € price-tag.

[haruky]

It's just frustrating that they're asking for $70 and a whole new Premium for it...

The amount of content that you'd get with this game would have been considered a mod for Arma/RO2/BF42/BF2/BF2142/CS/any other FPS game. To charge double price for everything again is just EA fondling themselves over dollar signs.

Play the beta as you will. Just don't buy this farce. EA won't learn otherwise.

The only way to win is to not play. I have no plans to buy any major publisher release at launch since they always turn out to be terrible. There are a few exceptions from publishers and publishers that I trust (Rockstar, Naughty Dog...) but I do my best to not purchase any EA, Activision, or Ubisoft games right at launch.

[ZombieToof]

It's just frustrating that they're asking for $70 and a whole new Premium for it...

The amount of content that you'd get with this game would have been considered a mod for Arma/RO2/BF42/BF2/BF2142/CS/any other FPS game. To charge double price for everything again is just EA fondling themselves over dollar signs.

Play the beta as you will. Just don't buy this farce. EA won't learn otherwise.

The only way to win is to not play. I have no plans to buy any major publisher release at launch since they always turn out to be terrible. There are a few exceptions from publishers and publishers that I trust (Rockstar, Naughty Dog...) but I do my best to not purchase any EA, Activision, or Ubisoft games right at launch.

There is no reason to preorder it or buy it in the fist days after launch. Unless you have friends that will buy it and you want to play it with them instead of sitting out.

On the other hand the beta started 5 month before release so they can tweak based on the community experience for month. And they let comp players and youtubers test it beforehand and tweaked game play based on their feedback between tests. So there is hope that it will be a good game.

And last but not least we have lot's of time to test the demo beta in the next month to see if you like it. Don't like -> don't buy. Simple.

All in all I expect the game play to be much better than BF4 and am pleased by the change of attitude in the last month.

[Nix]

EA gave my Alt. account a Beta.

Going to give this thing a try.

[Hgx]

>Gets account with beta
>Downloads for 5 hours (South America baby!)
>5 mins after download is done (at 5am), MAINTENANCE for 1 hour!
>Has to download another 5gb, another 4 hours or so.
>Plays a few rounds
>Huge storm fks internet connection



It was fun while it lasted tho.

At least this is a beta and not a demo, with quite some time to make needed changes.

Like removing laser beams coming out of guns, WHY IS THIS EVEN IN A BF GAME AGAIN?

WHY.

[Nix]

LMG does nothing to vehicles, heatseekers OHK.

Feck this game. I'm done.

[Fields]

There is no reason to preorder it or buy it in the fist days after launch. Unless you have friends that will buy it and you want to play it with them instead of sitting out.

On the other hand the beta started 5 month before release so they can tweak based on the community experience for month. And they let comp players and youtubers test it beforehand and tweaked game play based on their feedback between tests. So there is hope that it will be a good game.

And last but not least we have lot's of time to test the demo beta in the next month to see if you like it. Don't like -> don't buy. Simple.

All in all I expect the game play to be much better than BF4 and am pleased by the change of attitude in the last month.

Your enthusiasm and positivity is refreshing, but all I can think about is how perfectly this mimics the BF4 beta preview. We all played it for a few days and heralded it as everything that BF3 should have been. Then, they released a game that was several steps backwards from their polished little demo that we had all played weeks before. It's almost like their beta is a sales pitch for the game that basically misrepresents what the final product really is.

[Róka]

Your enthusiasm and positivity is refreshing, but all I can think about is how perfectly this mimics the BF4 beta preview. We all played it for a few days and heralded it as everything that BF3 should have been. Then, they released a game that was several steps backwards from their polished little demo that we had all played weeks before. It's almost liketheir beta is a sales pitch for the game that basically misrepresents what the final product really is.

*Fixed.

[Ash2Dust]

The spin doctors are paid well for a reason.

My main complaint of BF3 and BF4 is they ran "betas" on the most marketable build of the game. While we were playing beta, they were working on a different build of the game. So the beta was a marketing tool for pre-orders and had from my before and after perception little to do with making the game fun.