14 DAY TRIAL // The team at Uprise, which created the Battlelog feature for Battlefield 4, has quietly announced that it is continuing to work with the team at publisher Electronic Arts in order to create similar services for the upcoming Battlefield: Hardline and Star Wars: Battlefront.
The information comes from the official site of the company, which was also known as ESN, which brags about its work on the companion app, which is offered both via desktop and on mobile devices, and shows that it is also working on future shooters that will use it.
The text seems to suggest that for both Battlefield: Hardline and for Star Wars: Battlefront the name Battlelog will be kept, although Electronic Arts has not yet talked about the service.
Uprise is not saying how it plans to enhance the experience or whether there are any plans to link the three versions in any meaningful way.
Battlelog is designed to allow players to keep track of their characters and to get access to a wide variety of statistics and social interactions even when they are not actively playing Battlefield 4.
Shooters are a priority for Electronic Arts in 2014
Battlefield: Hardline was initially set to be launched in 2014 in order to offer competition to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, but problems with quality and community feedback during the beta prompted the publisher and developer Visceral Games to push the title back to March of this year.
The theme of the game will be the conflict between criminal cartels and the law enforcement agencies that aim to track them down and the Battlelog service is one of the core elements that will make the multiplayer modes of the coming shooter a success or a failure.
The development team is also aiming to deliver a single-player campaign which aims to match the quality of TV shows that focus on police work and criminal psychology.
Star Wars: Battlefront does not yet have an official launch windows but is expected in the fall and DICE is directly handling development.
The title will be linked to the coming trilogy of movies set in the same universe and the studio says that the focus will be one team-based multiplayer battles, which makes a solid implementation of Battlelog even more important.
Almost no info on the core mechanics has been offered so far.