Sure, GTA V on PC may have been delayed. Again. Again. But at least some games are ready to ship! And one of those games happens to be Visceral and EA’s upcoming Battlefield: Hardline, which is ready to hit shelves soon.
That’s the word according to the Battlefield Twitter account, which tweeted out the following:
#BFHardline is officially Gold on all platforms & all regions! RT if you’ll be joining us on the streets on Mar 17 pic.twitter.com/HmZsKrGgQA
— Battlefield (@Battlefield) February 24, 2015
And that’s great! A game that is on track to be delivered, is always good news if you’re a fan. It’s just a pity that the term “going gold” means so little these days. I have a little bit more faith in Visceral to deliver a complete product, as their Dead Space games were a trilogy of releases that had no major issues on launch, but it has become all too common for developers to unleash broken games these days and call them complete.
Hell, just look at Halo: The Master Chief Collection. It’s been months since that game was released, and what was supposed to be a nostalgic dive back into the glory days of that franchise, is instead a mess of multiplayer options that rarely work as intended. Dead Or Alive 5: Last Round is a complete clusterf**k of glitches and bad design, Dying Light launched with a 2gb day one update and the less said about the launch woes of Assassin’s Creed Unity, the better.
I’m confident that Visceral has managed to make something that runs smoothly in the single-player department of Battlefield: Hardline, I trust their pedigree that much. But it’s the multiplayer side of the game that is going to be scrutinised, especially after Battlefield 4’s online blunders.
Last Updated: February 25, 2015
Matewis Jubilai
February 25, 2015 at 14:07
I really could go for a cigar and a waffle right about now
Bobby
February 25, 2015 at 14:22
Yay… The 6th DLC for BF4 is about to ship. I’m so exited…….zzzzzzzzzz
Sean Carbutt
February 25, 2015 at 14:48
BF4 on the PS4 is already 60 gigs in size. So another say 4 gig update and then the dlc at probably 2 to 4 gigs. Fuck me, the game will be almost 70 gigs in size.
Pieter Kruger
February 25, 2015 at 14:51
3 Words “External HDD support” the problem is nothing! ????
Hammersteyn
February 25, 2015 at 14:23
Dealing with EA….
http://img-9gag-ftw.9cache.com/photo/a6ybw0m_460sa.gif
Sgt. M
February 25, 2015 at 14:31
This is soooo wrong. Here have an upvote
Matewis Jubilai
February 25, 2015 at 14:36
Shame, that looks really painful.
Poor guy was probably convinced it would be awesome to capture in slow motion a dildo exploding an apple off of his head 🙁
Greylingad
February 25, 2015 at 14:44
Haaaahaaaaahaaaaahaaaaahaaaaaaa!!! Imagine turning to the dude that shot it…”you missed”
Admiral Chief
February 26, 2015 at 09:05
Cockshot?
Greylingad
February 25, 2015 at 14:33
Hmmm…. in my experience, especially w.r.t. BF, Every.Single.Time. that I’ve bought a BF game, it had a day one patch which, in general wouldn’t be a problem, but in this case exceeded the total size of the game that could be squeezed onto the bloody disc… Why have a physical copy then on the first place? I remember downloading the game and seeing some ridiculous figure of a few billion hundred terabytes and opting to buy a physical copy, revoke the download and continue from there, only to find that the download upon installation was literally the same bloody size as the edition I’d physically bought…. Sense makes it not does…
Ranting Raptor
February 25, 2015 at 14:33
Gone gold? So shipped with a massive 2GB patch already in the works for launch day? SWEET!
Greylingad
February 25, 2015 at 14:34
Wooohooo!! I can’t wait to sit until the morning hours staring at a progress bar withholding me from playing the (un)finished game…
Ranting Raptor
February 25, 2015 at 14:36
I know right!
And then the best part? Hitting an offline server when trying to connect after the patch is finally done!!!!
Greylingad
February 25, 2015 at 14:42
JIIIISSSSSSS…….. That brings back memories….Memories of wanting to beat the publishers to death with a soft toy and an umbrella…
Ranting Raptor
February 25, 2015 at 14:57
Soft toy? You’re kind 😉
Greylingad
February 26, 2015 at 08:57
It’s like cutting their hearts out with a spoon, it’ll take much longer….
Ranting Raptor
February 26, 2015 at 09:01
That… is…. GENIUS!
Wraith
February 25, 2015 at 14:44
Going gold doesn’t really mean much anymore nowadays thanks to the prevalence of Day 1 patches.
Pieter Kruger
February 25, 2015 at 14:48
Of course it’ll run smooth, it’s just a BF4 mod and those BF4 glitches were all sorted, sort of….mostly…
Greylingad
February 26, 2015 at 12:54
…almost…
RinceThis
February 25, 2015 at 15:00
You mean need to spend gold to fix the bugs…
HvR
February 25, 2015 at 15:29
Or you need to wait for Games for Gold edition for it to be bug free and feature complete.
Fnuik
February 25, 2015 at 15:14
I gave Bf4 a complete miss since I thought it was basically just new maps for Bf3. I loved Bf3 and spent a lot of hours playing that. But now the withdrawal have caught up with me so I pre-ordered Hardline after loving the beta. I can’t wait!
HvR
February 25, 2015 at 15:35
Think a lot of people who pre-ordered is expecting Bad Boys but will getting Blitzpatrollie
Ran_Min
February 25, 2015 at 17:59
That picture was not the first thing I wanted to see this morning.