Battlefield Hardline - Closed Beta - General Discussion

ktulu123

The sign-ups are open now. Just signed up myself & am currently downloading. Not sure when it's playable! Get cracking lads!

http://www.battlefield.com/hardline/beta

dreamers75

Gone

ktulu123

Yeah seems to be, hopefully it was just an early leak & they plan to announce it during the E3 Conference. I got in myself

Spear

Page just worked for me. Told me about the free things I was given for the sign up too.

TheDoc

I'm confirmed as in, downloading the game now.

I believe the beta is actually live now ready to go :O

*Seemingly will take a bit to show up in "My Games" due to the fact the world just went onto Origins haha

Spear

Odd, I didn't get a link or any email. It showed a download option, then forwarded on to the reward page. Can you send me on the link to download, since my account is already permitted access?

Ravenid

In and downloading

You need to login with origin and download it there.

Spear

Not on my Origin yet. Time to refresh repeatedly and make it worse for everyone else.

ktulu123

What confirmation email did guys get? Mine seems to be messed up now & says its available at 8Pm tomorrow

DeWinterZero

I think the page might be getting slightly DDOS'd at the moment but you can register your interest. They'll email if you get into the beta itself.

You get a BF4 dogtag next month for signing up.

TheDoc

ktulu123 wrote: »

What confirmation email did guys get? Mine seems to be messed up now & says its available at 8Pm tomorrow

Got an email from Origins saying it was added to my account, its like the email you get if you ever bought anything via origins

EDIT* Just got another email with a serial number, you add that and game appears

Ravenid

Ehh Download done and installing.

Already.

From Origin.

Somethings wrong isnt it?

TheDoc

Hmm says my serial number is in use, must auto append to account. Gonna come back alter see if anything ready to go.

Watching the stream at the moment, looks excellent

ktulu123

Ah ok, I got the first one saying I 'bought' it but haven't received the second one yet

Spear

Ravenid wrote: »

Ehh Download done and installing.

Already.

From Origin.

Somethings wrong isnt it?

Thankfully the download system is completely separate from the account parts, but it's the account part that's buckling.

jonski

ktulu123 wrote: »

Ah ok, I got the first one saying I 'bought' it but haven't received the second one yet

Same as

Nuri Sahin

Been waiting for an email for 10 minutes now..

DeWinterZero

From the Battlefield twitter account

Signup for the Battlefield Hardline beta is experiencing issues due to high demand. We are aware of this and working on a solution.

https://twitter.com/Battlefield/status/476098773081669632

dreamers75

OMFG!!!!! EA CANT EVEN DO A CLOSED BETA DURING E3!!!! THAT MILLIONS WILL TRY AND LOG ON TO PLAY!!!!!

Got in just waiting on email :P

KonFusion

So I've got the first email saying I have the game, and to check my games tab in origin to download.

However my games tab has nothing in it

Ravenid

Yeah dont expect to get in anytime soon.
EA's servers are being hit so hard even their forums aren't loading right now.

There's a reason no one has launched a Beta during their E3 Conference before.........

ktulu123

Looking at the Battlelog for it & 90% of the servers are empty

Edit: If someone get's in playing be sure to let the rest of us scroungers know :P

2nd Edit: Downloading now, be done in hours. I need new internet

DarkJager

Think there is still about 26% availability through PS4 (the beta tile is under Battlefield 4). Downloading mine now, 6GB. Will post some impressions if I get a chance to play it tonight.

TireeTerror

Does everyone who signs get to participate? Ive been waiting about 90 minutes with no email....

jonski

Downloading now

The Red

In and downloaded, will play v soon...

Benzino

Still waiting on email

jonski

First Impressions - I know it's early days but this is not for me , reminds me of something I played from a group of independents about 5 years ago . I'll give it some more time from both me and them but I'm probably negative going into it as it's less BF more CSS .

Nuri Sahin

Benzino wrote: »

Still waiting on email

I was waiting for 30 minutes if not more. Was told to reset PS4 by one of the lads here, and low and behold, I could start downloading via the Battlefield menu in the XMB on the PS4. Try that.

edit - just checked there, still haven't received the email, but am downloading it right now nonetheless.

Benzino

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

I was waiting for 30 minutes if not more. Was told to reset PS4 by one of the lads here, and low and behold, I could start downloading via the Battlefield menu in the XMB on the PS4. Try that.

edit - just checked there, still haven't received the email, but am downloading it right now nonetheless.

Cheers, but I don't have BF4 on the PS4 or PC unfortunately, just going to have to wait it out

Shiminay

I had a lash of BFHardline just now, it's a Counter Strike mod for BF4 essentially (which I'm sure we all figured anyway), but that's how it plays too. Will have to have a proper look at it tomorrow when it's not time for bed.

Benzino

Seems like there was a work around on the PS4. If you went into the Live From Playstation app, went into a stream of BF: Hardline there is a link to open the game in the PS store. From there you could download it. However it's not working for me, so perhaps they have closed it off now or they fixed the workaround, but worth trying anyway!

The Red

Im pretty mixed, Its fun enough but theres nothing there that BF hasnt done far better. Maybe better for two close-coordinating groups to use tactical play but didnt see any of that tonight... just like jonski said, a bit css. It might get better in time, Ill keep going back to it for a few more days anyway to test it out.

TheDoc

First impressions were that it's a BF game thats putting more emphasis on player skill with a rifle, over vehicles. And in respects, I kinda like that. I appreciate that BF has always been about big maps and vehicles but I think the infantry combat is some of the bes tin the business, and I wouldn't mind them taking a step away for an iteration to do something different.

BF4 still has PLENTY of life in it yet, so I'd imagine they envisage that keeping up the war aspect of the series for atleast another 18 months, which is fine by me, the game is barely starting to feel stale.

My immediate reaction to Hardline is that the guns feel wild. Recoil feels very sporadic on the rifles and shotguns and SMG's seemed to be winning the day.

The respawn element was a bit mental. Because of the concentrated fighting in certain areas of the map, people could randomly spawn behind you. It works well for BF in a wide open map, but when its concentrated fire around objectives in relatively tight quarters, not sure I like the spawn on team mate aspect.

Had some good games, people were being tactical and using vehicles well and I can see the potential here.

It's also possible that Hardline might be the first real viable entry into E-sports for the franchise, don't know if thats the intention, but its possible. The previous ones have tried but have fallen pretty flat.

It's early days yet, so I'd say I'll keep myself open to change and something new. If it does end up being just a CS MOD, hopefully the price reflects that, but I could probably say already at this early stage I'll probably be a buyer, since BF has rarely to never let me down.

MajesticDonkey

TheDoc wrote: »

If it does end up being just a CS MOD, hopefully the price reflects that, but I could probably say already at this early stage I'll probably be a buyer, since BF has rarely to never let me down.

It won't. The price will almost certainly be the same as BF4 - €59.99 for regular and €69.99 for "digital deluxe" which is completely ridiculous. Looks like another simplycdkeys purchase for me...

mozattack

Didnt play it yet but dont the character animinations looks very amateurish?

Also, what is the player count on the BETA?

I think vehicles are very important, too much infantry gets boring very fast... thats why I love BF as you can pop into a jet, boat, chopper, tank, IFV etc to mix it. Variety

GottaGetGatt

Is it 64 player?

Haha, i see my M16A3 is back whoop, whoop.

KonFusion

Anyone else find it somewhat disorientating?

Sometimes I'm left wondering what objective I'm supposed to be completing.

ktulu123

haha it kind of was at first but I have the hang of it now. Your grand though 90% of players haven't a breeze whats going on

Nuri Sahin

KonFusion wrote: »

Anyone else find it somewhat disorientating?

Sometimes I'm left wondering what objective I'm supposed to be completing.

Only played 3 games a little earlier, and I found that to be the case, though I usually find that to be the case with any FPS game starting out! Need to sort out the controls though when I play it again later as I was in a rush earlier.

KonFusion

jackoire

Try this for beta access, it worked for some on reddit but not me

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Benzino

They are letting in more people again, look out for a code in your inbox if you signed up.

Wooden Jesus

What's the hit detection like? Do you still get killed behind walls.
Is destruction improved or is it the same as Bf4?

catch--22

Played a few games of the Heist mode last night on PS4. Very similar to Obliteration.

I'd agree with a previous comment that it looks and feels very much like a BF4 mod. Playing style, menus, deathcam, classes etc all the same. I'm sure once people get used to it some of the tactics to each class and team will start coming into play but most people last night we're running around shooting wildly.

For some reason they've changed the vehicle controls on PS4 so that the two paddles control accelerate and reverse which enabled me to plow a couple of choppers straight into the first building I could find.

mozattack

Now that Hardline is a new IP I think it is time they increased BF classes to 6 so there is a notable gap between the two games.

6 classes is needed

MajesticDonkey

What would those classes be?

mozattack

I dunno, I never played BF2 but liked the sound of the classes.

Certainly 5 classes so it aligns with the squad size but I really think medic and assault should be split and so too should recon and sniper.

Otherwise Hardline is just a reskined BF, having different classes would at least make the games more different but still similar.

fergus1001

catch--22 wrote: »

Played a few games of the Heist mode last night on PS4. Very similar to Obliteration.

I'd agree with a previous comment that it looks and feels very much like a BF4 mod. Playing style, menus, deathcam, classes etc all the same. I'm sure once people get used to it some of the tactics to each class and team will start coming into play but most people last night we're running around shooting wildly.

For some reason they've changed the vehicle controls on PS4 so that the two paddles control accelerate and reverse which enabled me to plow a couple of choppers straight into the first building I could find.

back to bf3 control scheme !! yes !!

mozattack

fergus1001 wrote: »

back to bf3 control scheme !! yes !!

This is fair annoying... i wish the control system was just the same, will be awkward when flipping back and forth between games

hallo dare

catch--22 wrote: »

Played a few games of the Heist mode last night on PS4. Very similar to Obliteration.

I'd agree with a previous comment that it looks and feels very much like a BF4 mod. Playing style, menus, deathcam, classes etc all the same. I'm sure once people get used to it some of the tactics to each class and team will start coming into play but most people last night we're running around shooting wildly.

For some reason they've changed the vehicle controls on PS4 so that the two paddles control accelerate and reverse which enabled me to plow a couple of choppers straight into the first building I could find.

Not half jealous here or anything! But how in the name of all that's good did you get access to the beta. I'm sick waiting!