Battlefield Hardline developer Visceral Games has revealed the changes it's made to the game as a result of feedback from the community during the beta.
In a blog on the series' website, the studio stated that tweaks have been made to the following aspects of the game:
- MOVEMENT: There was a lot of feedback about slow movement speed and feeling “sluggish”. We’ve increased player speed by 10%, and players will get a +10% bonus for running with your pistol out. It feels much faster now!
- SUPPRESSION: There were a lot of negative comments about the camera “bounce” when suppressed. We’ve changed the way suppression works – your aim-point is no longer affected, but your situational awareness is.
- SURVIVALIST: We’ve heard both sides of the argument on the Survivalist gadget, it is pretty polarizing. Some of you hate it, some of you love it – either way, we agree it was overpowered. We’ve changed it to revive you at 1 health and auto-inject after 5 seconds.
- HIGH TENSION – CRANE CAMERA SHAKE: A number of people called out the camera shake from this event as being too over the top. We’re tuning this down.
- HIGH TENSION – STAIRS IN HIGH TENSION BUG: Stairs in High Tension should no longer pull players into the wall.
- ELEVATED OBJECTIVES: We’ve added some feedback to help you find the objective when it’s above or below you.
- SPECIAL VEHICLES: We’re working on adding more special drivable vehicles like the Fuel Truck into all maps. We’re also working on a handbrake for cars.
- STUCK VEHICLES: We’re working on the ability to “nudge” vehicles with a melee attack to help get them unstuck or to be able to move past them. No promises, but the early prototype looks promising!
- HEAVY VEHICLE DAMAGE: We’ve added “weak spots” in the rear of the heavily armoured vehicles, making it much easier to bring them down!
- VEHICLE OCCUPANT LIST: We’re working on adding the Bag Carrier icon to the list of team mates inside your vehicle, so that you can tell when the bag carrier gets in your vehicle.
Visceral added that it intends to continue to listen to feedback until, and beyond, the game's launch and shape the game based on how the community responds.
The beta was available for PlayStation and PC but will be rolled out to Xbox in some form before the game's launch. Battlefield Hardline is coming PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on October 21st.
