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PS4 Users Unable to Play Battlefield Hardline Ultimate Edition DLC

Developer Visceral Games says it is looking into the problems.

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Owners of Battlefield Hardline's Ultimate Edition on PlayStation 4 are encountering issues with the game's Criminal Activity DLC.

The Ultimate Edition is the most expensive version of the game, priced at $119.99 (£71.99), and includes exclusive Battlepacks, as well as early access to DLC content.

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Multiple posts on the game's Battlelog forum, however, have indicated owners of this version are unable to play the Criminal Activity DLC, while owners of the Standard Edition and Deluxe Edition are unaffected.

Although the content can be downloaded, it is not registering as a validly purchased DLC, according to posts on the forum.

"Ok. it's not downloading it that is the problem, that works fine but once installed it doesn't register as a valid purchased DLC," said one forum user. "When told to do so it says 'no content' under 'My Downloads'."

Multiplayer producer Zach Mumbach has responded to complaints, assuring players that developer Visceral Games is investigating the problems.

"First off, I apologize. This sucks," he said. "Right now we are looking at all the digital versions on PS4 to make sure everyone can download. Best update I can give your right now."

Visceral Games previously detailed the content introduced in the Criminal Activity DLC. Weapons and attachments included were designed to enhance close-quarter combat, while two new vehicles were also added.

The Criminal Activity add-on also introduced four new multiplayer maps, a new Bounty mode, and more masks.

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what a surprise....EA cocks up another game.....

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Piece of shit game anyway, why anyone would even fund EA for this I will never know.

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PS4 still sucks two yrs later

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@con_wars: It hasn't been out that long jack ass.

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You know what I noticed. It seems like the media is trying to tarnish the image of sony bad. I type in ps4 in google 4 articles pop up from express.co.uk and other sites like this who say there are issues with planetside2 and batman. Yet you type in xbox one you don't hear anything. When my boy has been telling me he has had issues with batman on xbox one as well and log in issues. Kind of misleading. It is the developers that have to fix these issues not the system.

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I consider this justice.

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I got BF4 premium edition for $25 on PSN, and I will do the same with this game.

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Husain seems butt hurt about something. Dude is trolling ps4 hard right now.

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I actually can't believe people were still playing this a week after release. The whole FPS genre needs an overhaul.

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@abees05: and by overhaul I mean Halo 5

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@abees05: Halo is one of the most generic fps out there imo, but it cant be any worse than hardline that's for sure

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@fobbs69: It might be generic, but I do believe it does the most to try and change the dynamic (content, gameplay) launch over launch than any other FPS

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@abees05: By becoming more and more like generic headshot simulators? Okay.

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@Barighm: Again, was not a serious comment on the part of Halo 5 (still going to be a great game) but the FPS genre does need to change. Hard part is developers are trying to cater to Pros more and more so the originality is gone.

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@abees05: It needs "an overhaul" and by overhaul i mean "Halo". Whats wrong...did you buy the wrong console? Is your Cortana panties in a knot, dont like it, 180 yourself and show yourself towards the Halo thread, plebe.

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@action_b4stard: Mighhht have been slightly biased, don't let it ruin your day man.

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@abees05: BF:HL the base game is pretty fun with the gametypes Hotwire and BloodMoney specifically. I got the game for $35 and its been well worth it. The servers have 5 times as many people playing compared to BF4. (even though I would prefer to play BF4).

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@spartanx169x: No they don't google the player counts..... there are 22k playing hardline and 30k playing bf4,,,,so where they hell did you get that statistic?

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Still convinced that this spin-off is not Battlefield, so no damage done.

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Just realised that, if you look at the homepage right now, the latest stories are all related to PS4 issues lol. Ohhh dat greatness.....

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But PS4 is just for offline games anyway. That's not a problem...

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Nice bait x1/PS4 bait to start the fights...again.

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@Triton: this site doesn't get enough traffic for flame wars, IGN is where the real flame wars are at.

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@Triton: The article about slow download speeds on PS4 is more trollworthy than this.

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Edited By cwv_rebirth

Typo in the title? I don't think this has anything to do with Battlefield 4.

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It says Battlefield 4 in the main healine. Someone might wanna change that

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Console too weak

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PS4 is doing you all a favor by saying NO to Battlefield Hardline and DLC....in it's own way.

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@berserker66666: The PS4 is doing you all a favor by charging you a fee for backward compatibility while Microsoft and Nintendo offer it for free

lol

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@berserker66666: Battlefield hardline isn't even a real battlefield :p

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@dylandr: lol yea. They just looked at Payday and Rainbow Six Siege and they were like "Yea, we're making this and calling it Battlefield while also being nothing like Battlefield cause the tagline "Battlefield" alone will sell millions right? Right?"

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@berserker66666: payday 2 > > > Hardline

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Wait people still play hardline?

i thought people hated that game...

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