Gamers will need to drive fast to win the match

Sep 19, 2014 06:21 GMT  ·  By

Video game developer Visceral Games and publisher Electronic Arts might have delayed Battlefield Hardline into 2015, but the companies are still interested in giving players access to more details about the coming game modes, with the focus now on the Hotwire experience.

Thad Sasser, the leading multiplayer designer at the studio, writes in an official blog post that the new mode is created around a number of marked cars and that driving any of them, regardless if the player is a cop or a criminal, begins to drain the ticket pool of the other side.

Visceral Games says that speed and jumps help a team accumulate points faster and that getting a passenger into one of the vehicles means breaching charges are launched behind it to stop any pursuers dead in their tracks.

Sasser explains, “Putting sabotage on a car is a pretty sneaky move. Putting sabotage on a marked car? Well, that’s just downright mean. Ensure that what’s yours stays yours – or no one’s!”

Hotwire also involves strategic choices

The new mode for Battlefield Hardline is designed to give the teams a clear way of stopping cars using rockets, and that means that gamers will also need to control strategic points on the map where they are located, while also finding spots where they can create their own ambushes.

Visceral Games adds, “Each Hotwire map has a couple of key locations that you need to learn and stake out if you want to bring down your enemies. Park your squad car across the lanes, maybe rig it with breaching charges or trip mines – and funnel the enemies into your line of fire! That will teach ‘em to come onto your turf!”

The studio is also bringing back the tracking dart seen in Battlefield Bad Company 2 in order to offer players more choices when they play Hotwire and need to keep tabs on an enemy.

Battlefield Hardline is still coming in 2015

Visceral Games and Activision are saying that the delay for Battlefield Hardline allows them to increase the quality level of both the single and the multiplayer of the first-person shooter.

The solo campaign is designed to draw inspiration from Hollywood and from TV series and will focus on characters and big set-pieces.

The multiplayer aims to show the evolving conflict between criminal gangs and law enforcement and Visceral Games plans to introduce a number of entirely new modes that will increase the dynamism of the player experience.

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