- Playing at different resolutions! WOW!
- Enabling various levels of ansiotropic filtering! WOW!
- Adjusting your field of view! WOW!
- How's about using a mouse AND a keyboard to aim and move! OH MY GOD!
- And more! YEAH!
But that's not all! If you get Hardline on the PC, you can be sure the experience will be super stable! Let's let the game's "Gameplay Systems Producer" Mike Glosecki give us the complete rundown!
What About the Power of PCs?
The PC allows you to customize the experience to your liking. You can play at much higher resolutions, 1920x1080 and beyond up to the capabilities of your video card. You can also use much higher graphic settings on PC – which you gives you the best texture filtering, texture quality, and anti-aliasing in addition to other benefits. You can adjust your field of view or run higher than 60 FPS if you choose. You can even play with a three monitor setup for an immersive experience. Lastly, you get to use a mouse and keyboard which gives you the best control setup for a first person shooter.
How Stable Will the Game Be on PC?
Stability has been one of the largest areas we’re focusing our attention at Visceral while developing Hardline. I think we can all agree that Battlefield 4’s stability at launch was less than stellar. In order to address stability for our game at launch, we’ve had the game up and running in the multiplayer environment for the last two years with both the development and quality assurance teams playing in daily matches. We’ve run two betas for the game as well, one at E3 and the pre-launch beta which just completed on Feb 9th. Both of these have not only helped us solidify the stability of our servers, but have also provided great feedback for us to address in the game. As a side note, we are also making changes to Battlelog to include a new pop-up on how to activate the plugin in your browser since this was an issue for some of our players.
The PC allows you to customize the experience to your liking. You can play at much higher resolutions, 1920x1080 and beyond up to the capabilities of your video card. You can also use much higher graphic settings on PC – which you gives you the best texture filtering, texture quality, and anti-aliasing in addition to other benefits. You can adjust your field of view or run higher than 60 FPS if you choose. You can even play with a three monitor setup for an immersive experience. Lastly, you get to use a mouse and keyboard which gives you the best control setup for a first person shooter.
How Stable Will the Game Be on PC?
Stability has been one of the largest areas we’re focusing our attention at Visceral while developing Hardline. I think we can all agree that Battlefield 4’s stability at launch was less than stellar. In order to address stability for our game at launch, we’ve had the game up and running in the multiplayer environment for the last two years with both the development and quality assurance teams playing in daily matches. We’ve run two betas for the game as well, one at E3 and the pre-launch beta which just completed on Feb 9th. Both of these have not only helped us solidify the stability of our servers, but have also provided great feedback for us to address in the game. As a side note, we are also making changes to Battlelog to include a new pop-up on how to activate the plugin in your browser since this was an issue for some of our players.
Are we really at the point for PC games where things like good framerates, adjustable resolution, and being able to use a mouse and keyboard are features that should be touted? You're touting about being able to use a mouse and keyboard for a PC game? Are you for real? Those should be standard. Hell, they were standard for quite a few years a while back. Things like a multi-monitor setup? Yeah, that's some unique stuff there! Things like AF, AA, and using a keyboard and mouse? Those are expected to be in there.
(via Battlefield)
The annoying thing is though, some people need this, lots of people are stupid enough to not understand, and get most of their information from marketing spiel.
I need to see some straight un-edited gameplay and technical breakdown just to get me interested, others need a pre-rendered teaser simply to guarantee a purchase.