Visceral worked with DICE to improve Battlefield 4 and prepare for the release of Hardline in early 2015

Sep 29, 2014 12:57 GMT  ·  By

Visceral Games, the developer of the upcoming Battlefield Hardline first-person shooter, has once again pledged that its new online experience will work at launch, and thereby avoid any of the issues that plagued the recent Battlefield 4 when it first came out almost one year ago.

The Battlefield series has been for a long time among the best in the first-person shooter genre, with developer DICE delivering solid experiences with stellar multiplayer modes and all sorts of new technology, such as the destruction one.

Battlefield 4 had many problems

Unfortunately for fans, last year's Battlefield 4 wasn't exactly the most stable of experiences, as it launched with a wide array of problems, glitches, bugs, and issues across all platforms, i.e. PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.

Even after a few months there still were plenty of problems plaguing the shooter, making many fans abandon the whole experience and try out other new shooters, from Call of Duty to Titanfall and other such things.

Hardline hopes to avoid the glitches

However, with the upcoming Battlefield Hardline, developer Visceral Games, which is handling the creation process on this installment, hopes to avoid the many problems that plagued Battlefield 4.

According to Creative Director Ian Milham, who has talked with GameRevolution, Hardline will work at launch, as Visceral has been collaborating with DICE to fix Battlefield 4 and ensure that there are plenty of improvements for the new title's debut.

"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."

The beta also helped Visceral

Milham also points out that the beta stage organized by EA and Visceral back in June across platforms like PC or PS4 helped the studio gain a lot of insight and feedback about Battlefield Hardline, how it runs on a wide array of computer configurations and in different PlayStation zones.

"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."

Battlefield Hardline was set to appear in October of this year, but Visceral and EA decided to push back its release until early 2015 to continue polishing the game and ensure a great launch.

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