Battlefield™ Hardline

Battlefield Hardline is probably one of the most underrated online shooters ever made. It became a victim of EA's marketing decisions. If it had been released as a standalone cops vs criminals shooter instead of carrying the Battlefield name, I genuinely believe it would have attracted a much larger audience. The single player campaign is still enjoyable today. It's not a masterpiece, but it tells an entertaining story that's worth playing at least once. As for the multiplayer, things are a bit more complicated. Even now, the game can still be fun, but getting into a match is oddly cumbersome. You usually need Steam, the EA App, and Battlelog running at the same time just to play. On top of that, there are only a handful of active servers left typically two or three at any given time. If you're a new player, the setup process and the low server population will probably make the experience frustrating. It's hard to recommend buying the game just for multiplayer unless you know what you're getting into. However, if you're a returning player looking for nostalgia, Hardline is still a blast. Game modes like Blood Money and Heist are still incredibly fun and offer a unique experience that you won't find in most modern shooters. The cops-and-robbers theme, fast-paced gameplay, and memorable multiplayer design help the game stand out from the rest of the Battlefield series. Despite its flaws and its small community today, I still have a great time whenever I jump back in. Recommended for veterans and nostalgic fans, but difficult to recommend for newcomers.

[h1] Hardline - Single player campaign review [/h1] [i]This review contains spoilers [/i] [i]This game requires a 3rd party account [/i] [i]This game requires a 3rd party launcher [/i] [b]TL;dr:[/b] This single-player campaign receives a lot of criticism for a good reason. The story is weak, the gameplay is poor and the actors aren't given a proper script to act on. Avoid this if you are looking for a good single player FPS. [b]Not recommended.[/b] [table] [tr] [td]Platforms played on[/td] [td]Windows desktop[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Pros[/td] [td]The premise for the story is interesting. The actors do quite well with the limited script they have been given. Some of the set-pieces are built well. The "Previously on:" and "Next time on:" mechanics are really nice, and I would wish they would get used more often.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Cons[/td] [td]Story is really low quality. The gameplay is weak. Changing your guns only affects your rate of fire, nothing else. Invisible walls will block your bullets randomly.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Things to know?[/td] [td]This game requires EA App. This game uses the old Battlelog webpage, so launching the game to either single-player or multiplayer requires using a browser. This game uses PunkBuster anti-cheat.[/td] [/tr] [/table] [hr][/hr] [h2]Details[/h2] [b]DLC:[/b] This game comes with all previously released DLC. There is a separate multiplayer unlock DLC that can be purchased [b]Achievements:[/b] This game has achievements for both single and multiplayer segments. If the servers go offline, you cannot finish the multiplayer achievements. Some of the single player challenges are tied to finishing entire story mode on certain difficulty. Getting all these difficulty-related achievements requires at least 2 playthroughs. [hr][/hr] [h2]Overview of the Story and Gameplay[/h2] This review is only for the single player campaign of the game. Battlefield Hardline tried something new. It didn't go for the typical Battlefield formula of armies fighting against each other, instead it opted for a police versus criminals style of action in urban landscapes. As is the case with each Battlefield game, this too came with a singleplayer campaign to showcase different locations and to tell, usually a very mediocre, story. In this installment you take the role of a Miami PD detective chasing after narcos with your partner when you suddenly find out about a dirty cop in your department and start to gather evidence for Internal Affairs division, which never appears, only to get framed and sent to prison. During this time your framers suddenly fight with each other, decide to break you out for reasons that are never told. Then you fight (and arrest??) other criminals on your road to vengeance which takes you to a... you know what, it makes even less sense when I'm trying to write it out. The game is played on first-person and your job is to mainly shoot bad guys. Hardline mixes up the formula however by having you arrest bad guys and rewarding you experience points for taking bad guys down stealthily or arresting them. To encourage players to actually do this more, your weapons are peashooters and the only difference between guns is pretty much the rate of fire, whereas your enemies do tend to get the more hard hitting weapons. Want to use sniper rifle? Well too bad, you may have to hit an enemy 5-6 times before he dies. Want to use suppressor? Miss a shot and everyone knows instantly where you are? Want to stealthily use your taser to take down enemy non-lethally? Prepare to get blocked by invisible walls. This pretty much means that most of the time you will be going for the crouch and sneak behind every enemy to take them down approach and many enemy encounters are like taking down enemy camps in Far Cry 3 in stealth mode. To mix the gameplay up a bit, you also have a magic scanner that can tag your enemies and read case evidence. These evidences are mostly optional, but they do unlock "more powerful" guns for your road to revenge. There are few "search through this place" kind of levels and driving levels and get to even drive a tank for total 3 minutes. There is also the mandatory sneak through this long level without getting spotted at all -level. [hr][/hr] [h2]The Tech[/h2] Battlefield Hardline is a game from 2015. It looks good, has plenty of PC features, working surround sound and the presentation still holds up. Bafflingly all the cutscenes, even those where player has control, are locked to 30 fps. Which means that cutscene parts are quite jarring when the FPS suddenly jumps from 30 to 144 fps for example. The game supports ultra-wide resolutions in cutscenes and in gameplay. The game launches via Battlelog webpage and requires EA client to be installed. [hr][/hr] [h2]My opinions[/h2] For 3 euros, this didn't seem like such a bad deal. I was warned that I'd be met with a very poor campaign, and that proved to be right. I was curious to see, how Battlefield-formula would work when applied to a narcotics/police game. Let's be honest, it didn't work well for the campaign mode. What I got was a very nonsensical story padded with poor gun-play and even poorer finish. Many encounters were tedious just because I tried to use a sniper rifle from 10 meters, aimed for head, held my breath aaand missed or didn't cause enough damage, turning whole camps of enemies in my position instantly. The actors do a nice job, but the script is so nonsensical that many motives and story beats become fuddled. It took me 6 hours to finish the story, with all collectibles and almost all achievements (barring difficulty ones and one stealth one). It's a pretty short campaign and doesn't last too long. [hr][/hr] I cannot recommend this game for single player mode at all. My recommendation is [b]not recommended[/b]. My score for the game is 4/10. [hr][/hr]

纪念8个小时通关《战地：硬仗》，今年夏促买了两个游戏，一个战地3一个硬仗，都说原价买是一坨，0，5折就是神，但是不好意思就算是打着我也不想给你任何好评。 首先就是最让人无法理解的就是网页端启动设计。别家游戏要么客户端内一键启动，而你硬仗非要在 EA 启动器点开游戏后，强制跳转浏览器网页才能选服务器、有毛病啊。还是说dice的老冯有两个？ 我以为战地3打不开游戏还要让玩家自己制作寒霜引擎修复才能进游戏，没想到还有高手，战地硬仗。 好不容易熬过网页启动、加载进单人战役，迎面又是两大致命 bug：全程无声音、无字幕。 开场动画人物张嘴像默剧，没有对白、没有环境音效、枪声脚步声全部消失，更离谱的是字幕彻底消失，剧情对话全靠猜，本身警匪剧情大量台词铺垫人物关系，没字幕等于完全看不懂故事走向。我想要打开字幕，打开音频卡一下直接必闪退，还得切换到英文才不会闪退，音频那些更是你自己需要去网上找教程修改文件才玩得下去，我是来玩游戏的，结果害的我们自己修复游戏。 抛开启动和底层 bug 不谈，游戏本身也是让我觉得不行，你说这是战地，但是我觉得这哪是战地，这倒像是cod+GTA的缝合杰作。

EA apps and web launcher is the rubbish of the rubbish, can’t event launch the games in steams deck.

Bad and boring campaign, dead multiplayer peak online 20-40 players only, do not recommend even on sale!

The story had me glued to the screen. For some reason it reminded me of Max Payne 3 but in first person. Unfortunately, it’s not without its downsides. The devs went out of their way to not let you play the game. The launcher, the website (???). Maybe the game starts at some point, if you're lucky. Brave browser asked for access a couple of times and I allowed all, that seemed to work. And also: unplayable FOV. It's like 50, and is absolutely unplayable. Luckily there's a tool for that, but the game crashes sometimes. With all that said, the game is absolutely worth playing. I suspect it’ll become unplayable once they shut down the servers, so give it a go while you still can.

this is a dead game! the multiplayer dosent have players , the archivments are imposible to get , like what game requires 40k kills , and competitive match is offline , not worth it

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Одна из самых ужасных серий батлы. Пук, сёр, пись, как ну и херня. Почему Джона Сины нет тут? Ну в целом же, это форсаж 12. Оптимизации нет совсем, даже на старинных и новых пк, буд-то на камне запускаешь.

Найперше зауважу, що я грав лише в однокористувацький режим і дупля не ріжу шо там в мультиплеєрі. Найдруге зазначу, що в гри якась вельми дика застаріла система запуску. Окрім того, що стім запускає ЕА лаунчер, так на додачу він запускає якийсь кривий сайт, бляха, в браузері, щоб потім гравець САМ ручками найшов на тому сайті кампанію і запустив її. Така дікуха тільки тут, ранішше не зустрічав такого ніде. Отож, шо по грі. Дуже багато катсцен і є чималий акцент на кінематографічність, проте більшість кат—сцен йдуть в 30 фпс, навіть не в 60. А геймплей йде в 200, оскільки гра не нова. Тому на екрані постійні стрибки кадрової частоти, що ріжуть око. По духу це геть не баттлфілд, навіть не близько. Ймовірно корпорати надихнулися успіхом ГТА 5 і вирішили зробити свою кримінальну драму, але обов’язково під відомим брендом Battlefield інакше хто ж це купить. Чомусь до піджаків ніяк не дійде, що всі купують ГТА не топу що там про бандитів і поліцію, а тому, що це ГТА. Менш з тим. Гра віддає вайбами такого старезного артефакту як 25 to life якщо хтось це взагалі пам’ятає. Вона теж свого часу виходила винятково на гайпі від San Andreas, що злутати трішки грошенят на темі. Бо від Батлфілд тут лишилась лише назва. Темп геймплею і перестрілок впав кратно. Швидкість і екшн проявляється хіба в кат-сценах. Більшість часу в самій грі – це стесл епізоди, де треба пройти повз пів десятка майже сліпих і дуже тупих бандюків. І так, у грі є стелс і багато. Звісно, що можна просто посинати стріляти з нульової, але гра активно заохочує повзати на сраці, вирубати і арештовувати цих бандюків по одному. Власне на цьому опис геймплею можна було б і завершити, але ще скажу про стрільбу і зброю. Повноцінні автоматичні гвинтівки тут рідкість і відкриваються не швидко, не кажучи вже про якісь обвіси на пушки. Перестрілок не те, щоб багато і рухливість протагоніста сильно впала. Швидкість і мобільність залишає бажати кращого. Одним словом, геймплей тут не радує. Добре хоч не бісить і нема форсованого стелсу. Темою гри виступає косплей на поліцейські серіали 80-90х років. Маямі, Каліфорнія, сонце, банди, круті копи, зрадники, наркотики і тд. Тут навіть після запуску і перед виходом показують «в попередніх\наступних серіях». Усі дійові особи, діалоги і сюжетні лінії відповідні. Несподіванкою виявилося те, що вийшло то непогано. Може це в мені говорить ностальгія або просто непопулярність теми, але коротка сюжетна гра про крутих копів – це те що мені зайшло. Сюжет не скочується в комедію, як і гіпердраматизм. Просто конкретні події відбуваються в конкретному місці в конкретний проміжок часу. Також можливо, що на схвальне враження від гри вплинув класний і різноманітний візуал, класні драйвові катсцени і коротка тривалість гри. Це все дійсно сприймається як непоганий твердий серіальчик з високим бюджетом.