Battlefield: Hardline Delayed to Early 2015

23rd July, 0 replies

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Yesterday EA announced the financial results for their first quarter of the year. Along with various profit and sales tidbits from the report, we also learned that Battlefield: Hardline, which was set to come out this fall, has been pushed back.

On the official blog for the Battlefield franchise, General Manager of DICE Karl Magnus Troedsson explained the main reason for the delay was because of the feedback from the Beta back in June. The dev team realized new ideas and possibilities they wanted implement into the game from the fan feedback, but sadly time restraints wouldn’t allow for them at the time

But now they've decided the push back the release date to early 2015. Troedsson has cited these three points as the team's main focus to implement into the game with the extra time given:

"1. Multiplayer Innovation: Coming out of our E3 beta, internal focus tests, and work with our community, we have received a lot of great Multiplayer thinking. We’re going to be adding some new feature ideas direct from the community that will evolve the cops and criminals fantasy into a truly unique Battlefield Multiplayer experience.

2. Single Player Story Depth: In order to ensure our Single Player experience delivers on player expectations, we’re spending more time polishing our core features, as well as adding a few new ones that will support a deeper “crime revenge” story experience.

3. Stability: This has been a focus for our team since day one and we’re going to be using the extra time to continue to optimize the game for a stable launch. We have learned a lot from Battlefield 4, are continuing to learn from our Community Test Environment and will learn more from another Hardline beta. More time allows us to surface issues that the team can attempt to fix prior to launch. "

While Hardline won’t be making it this year, DICE say they’re committed to giving Battlefield fans more content in the form of new DLC for Battlefield 4. Dragon’s Teeth comes out on the 29th of this month and Final Stand releases at some point later this year.

Source:

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