Battlefield Hardline will avoid the troubled launch of Battlefield 4 and actually work upon release, at least according to Ian Milham, creative director for developer Visceral Games.
Speaking to GameRevolution at the Tokyo Game Show, Milham was asked if the game would be stable when it goes out into the online wilds:
"What you're basically asking is, 'Is you're game going to work?' and the answer is yes, it's gonna work. We actually started on this more than a year before Battlefield 4 came out. We've been working with the DICE guys for a long time; some of our engineering work is actually in Battlefield 4 and things they've been doing since then. It's in pretty great shape now and all that work is gonna come into what we're doing.
We already had one very successful beta, we're going to have another beta on every platform we ship on. We take shipping a working game pretty seriously. So, yes, the game will work."
Given that the game is large, and releasing at the same time on five platforms, there will likely be some issues but Visceral is confident that Hardline will release without the major problems that affected Battlefield 4.
Battlefield Hardline is set for release in early 2015 on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
