This post was sponsored by EA Ronku as a part of the forum shill and misdirection program. Preorder Hardline or I'll kill this baby. Oh uh... buy it even. The baby is dead anyway.

So!

Hardline arrived in the post this morning and I can say without shame that I've spent the last 12 hours playing it pretty much non-stop. I thought I'd just post my honest two cents about the game here because raisins (EA Shill).

Singleplayer
I wasn't expecting their 'episodic story' to be quite so literal <.<
You've got 10 episodes to play through, a bit like a season of CSI but where michael bay and rambo are teaming up with solid snake. It's got a few mildly amusing jokes and some vaguely recognisable actors (That republican majority leader from HoC for examplé)
The plotwists so far have all been as clear as can be but maybe that's because I've watched a lot of cop shows (who hasn't though?) but altogether it's interesting enough. The stealth mode is kind of lackluster for me, but ehh I can see the appeal as I think it's done fairly well. I'm just more of a 'kill em all and let god sort em out' person >_>
You get a lot more customisation than in the BF4 story, by fucking miles. None of this predetermined bollocks.
One thing I've noticed is that the lip synching is subpar and occasionally they are talking straight up by telepathy.

Multiplayer
Chaotic clusterfuck of the best kind.
I thought the higher TTK would make it very shit, but it feels fairly similar to BF4 honestly. You can shoot a guy and he'll die quickly enough but of course the PDW rape train has no breaks.
RPGs are so stronk it's not even funny, I think brute mentioned this but yeah you can spawn with them and basically just fuck up an entire round of hotwire solo.
I haven't seen the M16a3 as much as I'd feared, which is good because you should ram it up your urethra if you shitbucket with it like lelvelcap. Use a real man's gun, like the zipline.
Battlepacks are better but also worse, they broke one of the values I think for the boost ratio as I've opened about 20 today and not a single attachment voucher. So I hope that gets fixed.

General thoughts
It's a very fun game, the extra time they took to make it has paid off and the game is an absolute blast. It's pretty newb friendly too and is a much more casual shooter than BF4 so the two kind of complement each other nicely. You have a crazy shooter with lots of splosions but without the CodKids and you have a large scale war game that's in the middle ground between CKs and Armafegs <_<

overall I r8 it 9/11 so far.
Allah Akbar.

I'm going to be that person but it's sad that this game is the exact same concept as the 1918 mod for BF 1942. They're both nothing more than texture packs with tweaked gameplay. 1918 plays like a different game but it's still a mod for 1942. This game is just a cops and rubbers skin for BF4 just like how 1918 have different skins for the things in 1942.

There is quite a bit more to it than that, there are a lot of unique assets that have been created for the game, not just textures painted over BF4 stuff. Shit like leaning out of vehicles or your aim being steady whilst doing so isn't a BF4 thing. The full release is a lot more than just a reskin, which is what the original alpha/beta thing was back in 2014 summer.

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I shill for battlefield like a JIDF does for israel.

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on March 20, 2015, 06:24:24 PM

(That republican majority leader from HoC for examplé)

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I was tired and I'd been killing french players for a while >_>

The HONHONHON had infected me.

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on March 20, 2015, 06:24:24 PM

. I'm just more of a 'kill em all and let god sort em out' person >_>

Did a 'Merican bang yer mum or sumtin?

Worse.

They rebelled against the Empire 250 odd years ago. Disgusting.