14 DAY TRIAL // Battlefield Hardline will take a page out of Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s book when it comes to the class balance in multiplayer matches.
The information comes from the recent Tokyo Game Show, where the game was available for attendees to try out ahead of its launch early next year.
It’s new but familiar
The class balance in Battlefield Hardline follows in the footsteps of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, with support classes carrying med bags and assault ones having extra ammo on them.
Developer Visceral Games has also revealed that the RPGs are being removed from the engineer class, due to the fact that they don’t really fit thematically with the cops versus robbers setting, and replaced with grenade launchers.
Additionally, the tracer dart from Bad Company 2 will be making its way back to the loadout in Hardline.
The tracer dart takes up the secondary weapon slot, enabling you to fire magnetic darts at either vehicles or enemy players. In Bad Company 2, this gave you the opportunity to lock a homing missile to a target, making sure that it would do heavy damage.
Another perk of the feature was the fact that you then didn’t have to spot the marked vehicle again during the match, which enabled you to fight against skilled pilots more efficiently.
Other features
Like DICE’s Battlefield 4, the upcoming Hardline will also feature the Levolution mechanic, introducing dynamic shifts in gameplay environments, such as sending a massive construction crane crashing down into a nearby building, with debris raining down on the streets.
The gameplay will feel very familiar to those who played previous installments in the Battlefield series, but at the same time will introduce a couple of twists to the formula, meant to offer gamers a different kind of experience and a fresh take on multiplayer.
The Special Response Unit and the Criminals are the two factions of the war on crime, and each of them will get to use various types of weapons and vehicles, across a variety of thematic game modes.
In addition to this, Visceral has also promised to draw upon their experience developing the acclaimed Dead Space series, and offer those looking for a more in-depth single-player experience a better campaign than in previous Battlefield iterations.
Battlefield Hardline is currently scheduled to come out on March 31, 2015, worldwide, headed to the Xbox 360 and Xbox One home consoles from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 computer entertainment systems from Sony, and Windows PC.
