Game: Battlefield Hardline BETA – My impressions & opinions

Battlefield Hardline is coming in March and they have just had their open beta test. In the beta there where 3 modes to choose from, regular conquest that is the same as it always have been, Heist that is more like get the package and drop it of at location X and Hotwire have conquest-marked cars that you drive around to bleed the other teams tickets. Hotwire is easily the funnest and fastest of the modes and a good change of pace from the standard of conquest

There are three maps, Bank Job, Downtown and Dust Bowl and they all have the mechanic Levolution. There are bollards to raise and/or lower, cranes to be brought down and so on. Nothing really new but it's still a neat mechanic. The maps are not bad but not great, hopefully there will be some better maps at launch.

The change of setting from hardcore military to cops and robbers works a lot better then it should. I thought it sounded stupid when i first heard about it but it really works great. Especially the criminals and their filthy comments.

Over to the stuff that i don't like. First of all, we still haven't got the destruction feel you got from Battlefield Bad Company 2. In Battlefield Bad Company 2 you could almost level every building on the map. After a match the map would look completely different, in a cool way and i miss it. My biggest problem is the same problem i had with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 and that is Battlelog. Can't they have made the server select inside the game like in Battlefield Bad Company 2? Battlelog is nice for tracking stats and all that but server selecting should be inside the game. I haven't found a way to squad up before joining a game. It may be there but i haven't found it, so if it isn't there they need to get that option.

This still feel like Battlefield 4 so to make it feel like something more than a downloadable content/expansion they need to add a lot of content, that or they need to drop the price significantly.

TL;DR

New mode is fun, the new setting is not bad. Still using battlelog/browser to find server. Not enough destructibility. It still feels like Battlefield 4. Going to need a lot of content or a better price to make it worth it. So unless you are a hardcore Battlefield fan wait for a sale. It's more of the same again.