Battlefield Hardline dev is excited about the PC version

So optimize game this time around?

Over on the Battlefield Hardline website, developer Mike Glosecki has penned a san-serif love letter to PCs, PC games, PC gamers, Police Constables, Perry Como and PC gaming. It's full of impassioned promises about graphics and flirtatious, stability-related assurances.

In a short blog post, the developer extolls the virtues of playing the next shooty man game on PC, while also reassuring fans that yes, Hardline is honestly, truly the next Battlefield game.

Glosecki is at pains to stress the Battlefield series' roots on PC, before running the gamut of the usual push-button, PC gamer-pleasing features. Above 1080p resolutions? They've got 'em. Better textures than the console versions? Yep. Adjustable field of view? Oh you'd better believe it. 60fps cap? No way José, not round these parts. Get outta town ya dingus.

"Lastly," Glosecki says, "you get to use a mouse and keyboard which gives you the best control setup for a first person shooter." Mouse and keyboard? Hello! This is unmistakably a game we will be playing on our PCs.

Stability is also a major concern following the shonky Battlefield 4 launch, and EA are keen to avoid a repeat performance. "I think we can all agree that Battlefield 4’s stability at launch was less than stellar," Glosecki writes. "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".

A cynic might call such a blog post a soulless and transactionary exercise in PC fluffing in which neither party wants to make eye contact, but its publishing at least points to a degree of consideration being made for the PC version of Battlefield Hardline. You can read the full post here if you like.

http://www.pcgamesn.com/battlefield-hardline/battlefield-hardline-developer-is-reeeaaally-excited-about-the-pc-version-of-battlefield-hardline

*After he made this statement, he spun his chair around and went back playing a console version

why would he play the inferior version

Another broken upon release PC port confirmed. Thanks EA.

why would he play the PC version?

He just said he was big pc gamer and prefer mouse and keyboard in a blog

@speedfreak48t5p: This is more accurate than some people would believe...

Guess I'm getting it a month after launch when the game is playable.

Remember the last time an EA developer claimed PC love and focus?

Half-assed barebones broken console port confirmed.

What? other than the save game debacle.... wtf was wrong with DA:I port? oh right... nothing.

lmao multiplats on PeeC.

So having mouse and keyboard support in a FPS is a sales feature now?

@Postosuchus: What was wrong with DA:I other then the dumb ending? Hell I wasn't even able to max it out with am i7 3770k and a 770 4gb and it still looked great at 1440p at mostly ultra settings. I guess you could mean the keyboard and mouse controls sucked. They did, though as a pc gamer I have the option to use a controller which I did.

That's it. Why would a game "Made for PC Gamers by PC Gamers" have such bad K+M controls and useless tactical camera, and need a controller? Especially for a franchise (or at least the first in the franchise) which had solid controls? Heck even Bioware themselves acknowledged it after launch:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/138971-Dragon-Age-Inquisition-Patch-2-Fixes-PC-Controls

lmao coming up with actual arguments on System Wars

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Salty pc gamers all over the place.

this

Battlefield 4 wasn't optimized? What?

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I remember a lot of people really not liking the PC controls in DA:I. I played through the game using a controller, but a lot of mouse and keyboard users were bummed out.

I just pre-ordered Battlefield:Hardline on Thursday.Can't wait for the Xbox One version. :)

I'll be playing Quake 2. On my pc.