Battlefield Hardline. Divide your weight by two, that's how many fluid ounces of water you should be drinking a day, minimum. It's getting hot out there boys, stay hydrated.
@@masterficus I think the reason why both games never got the praise they deserved is because IW came in such a terrible time to make a futuristic game at a time when Sci-Fi Shooter fatigue was setting in. Hardline meanwhile had to compete with BF4 Which had more liberties in it's setting. You can't compete fighting in a game set in a Louisiana swamp in a cops vs robbers against Jets, different types of Tanks, APCs, Hovercrafts, Hovertanks with a railgun in the middle of a de-commissioned Soviet base in the middle of Arctic tundra.
i felt hardline was an homage of serialized police tv shows, but played it completely straight and with not one ounce of self awareness or parody. the story barely made sense, but nothing in it was as baffling as the moment in battlefield 3 when you had to shoot your squad leader within milliseconds of a cutscene ending or else he opens fire on you despite neither you nor him having any reason to do so
Cole it's implied is a paranoid loon who would sooner shoot a Russian uniform than listen to reason from his subordinate. Campo spends the whole campaign bitching about Cole's attitude and command and the general impression is laid down that he's a gung ho glory hound who will stoop to surprising depths to advance his career. It's an intensely dramatic conclusion to the conflict but by that point the game had already invaded Iran and blown up Paris, so can you really judge a few more rounds of 5.56 thrown at the guy who's been belittling your work the whole time?
@@bansenpy5553 yeah well there was kind of a giant economic failure that bankrupt a vast majority of the world and lots of people died as a result of both it and the world war and several disease plagues that ravaged the planet.
"the game rewards you by doing non lethals with lethals" is all the gameplay type issues i have with BFH. It really didnt seem like some of the choices was made with any logic thinking. Still my favorite BF story to revisit. Edit: Didnt seem like the choices were made to be inclusive or "fun" either. If you're a traditional CoD shoot em all then its no fun forcing arrests so no guns for that playstyle and its far from satisfying to be rewarded stuff from a different catagory. Locking the tazer or other tools behind arrests or maybe even non lethal options that gave a small amount of xp when doing arrests (like rubber bullets, batons etc.) Too short development time with not enough focus is the core of many game issues but this battlefield feels way more plagued with it than others. like they spent too much time throwing ideas around at the table without locking them down before releasing the Design doc for the teams.
Your comment got me thinking, maybe reduce the number of lethals to the point that in a couple playthroughs you could try them all, and expand the number of non lethals and their effects. Have slightly different endings if your playthrough was mostly lethal or non lethal to tie gameplay style to the narrative. I think you're absolutely right on the short development time.
@@masterficus the vast majority of players i assume Finnish the story once or twice at most within the games life span. So balancing around more would be silly. Changing the ending would be quite easy aswell with just 3-4 different cutscenes. Not going the mass effect route of having different mid points (unnecessary dev time for a cop drama) but just something that recognized the play through but sadly this wouldnt work with the stories as they tried to keep the leaderboard system from bf4 missions causing it to be segmented but didnt even make the leaderboard/points system well thought out. because they didnt keep the cop theme all the way through for theming and weighted it to only one gameplay style often making the player take choices in engagements that they didnt really want to make. Leading to worse outlook on the campaign as a whole. To be honest the leaderboard system is a good representation of everything wrong with bfh aswell. Not enough theme to make it immersive, not enough freedom to be 100% fun and seemingly not enough time to make it feel complete.
@@minio585 Why do we need branching paths in the cop drama? Are we so autistic now that we can't appreciate nominal choice without demanding 30+ endings for a fucking cop drama set in 80s Miami? It's fine as it is.
My head cannon for this battlefield game. All of the gangs are different Political movements gearing up for Civil War selling drugs and dealing with cartels to get more firearms and fund their revolution that is why the police are so armed and that is why the suspects are so armed and why normal police tactics are being abandoned as America looms towards chaos.
@@masterficus they should’ve hired me as a storyboard Director hahaha I think a setting like this would be far more interesting and make a lot more sense with gameplay and why these gangsters have tanks, instead it’s just sympathetic soldiers defecting to the side of revolutionaries. Their game could’ve had a deep and compelling story about political extremism, and what happens when a government is pushed to the brink of collapse have the game stepped in gray there are no good guys or bad guys.
despite all this game's shortcomings it remains *the* best battlefield game. hands down. a much less serious, much more casual battlefield title, with a lot of love put into it.
So this entire time, I watched this entire video thinking that it was a top quality video essay from some big youtuber. Turns out, its a top quality video essay from a small youtuber. Dear Master Ficus, please, continue making this good content. You literally locked me in for half a hour only to give me the biggest surprise of my life. Good video, good content, will continue to watch.
I scrolled down to read this comment, only to scroll back up and be shocked that the "small" youtuber ment under 1k instead of under 10k. Especially for how good this video was.
Holy shit this is the first time I've ever watched a review or video talking about a specific game that actually went into its difficulties. I know it's such a small thing which in the video, but I almost almost never hear people talk about the difficulties and how well or poorly balanced they are.
Honestly I love this game with all my heart, its wacky, its stupid, it makes no sence and has a pretty decent pacing which only goes up and up. Its battlefield, in its purest form. Its not an accurate game, or a realistic game, but its downright fun. It even manages to feel like the bad company team got hold of the reigns for a moment.
I really should've included this, one of the other collectables you can find are guns, I can't remember how many there are but it's not a lot. The swedish smg is found in swamp episode, which means the coke smugglers were using an antique swedish ww2 smg as a drop gun in the middle of the swamp.
I just finished this game like a couple of weeks ago in my rush to catch up on the battlefield franchise before the multiplayer dies and it's gone forever like bad company 1 and 2. I pretty much missed out on the entire franchise growing up. And after playing the campaign of this game man, it gave me less of a battlefield 5 and more of a vibe of Payday 2 combined with rainbow six siege. Once again, I'm just talking about vibe. Now I can't play, not graphics, but the general vibe and atmosphere of the campaign. And the only thing I can really narrow it down to it is a few significant seeds and its color designs and the music that really gave it sometimes that siege Payday 2 vibe for some reason.
The only Battlefield games ive played were Bad Company 2, BF3, and owned but never installed BF4. Would love to see what you think of the Medal of Honor series.
Been years since I've played a Medal of Honor game, I remember enjoying it though. Played BF3 growing up and remember being really impressed, been a while though.
i honestly love this game! that or it reminds me of those cops shows i used to watch as a kid. really reminds me of like overdramatize CSI Miami show i really loved, good kind of corny :)
I hit the craziest trick shot in hardline beta weekend I’m 21 now still think about that tripple collateral through a moving car 360 no scope (%100 on accident but my friends didn’t need to know that)
Scale-wise I think it'd make a ton more sense for Call of Duty to do a Cops and Robbers themed game than Battlefield. COD is known for its 6v6 small multiplayer gameplay which I think you can justify as being some sort of SWAT raid better than Hardline's "Open street war" thing with attack choppers and heavy weapons.
So, it’s actually accurate to the average modern American police experience. I am talking about committing misconduct not bat shit insane stunts and things
I mean they try to do unnecessary shit like that though. There's the infamous video of a cop ramming his car into a car with a pregnant woman in it because she didn't pull over quickly enough (she signaled she was doing so), flipping her car. He gets out and berates her while she's still upside down.
I remember reading somewhere that the pistols are stronger than rifles in the campaign, but I could be wrong. And at 25:23 I'd just like to share that some modified M113 Bradleys are in use by police and SWAT teams See also: police BTR
I think you're right, the snipers and shotguns do more damage but the other rifles trade damage for fire rate, to the point that at least the revolver I used a lot did more damage per shot. The police do have some rad armored carriers, but the main gun on the tank takes training to use and a dedicated guy for it. Also I had no idea some police departments had access to M113 Bradleys, that's very cool and a little unnerving.
The fact that none of the criminals try to struggle or break free when you arrest them is a travesty. They couldn't even bother with a garbage quick-time event.
I think if they gave out all the DLC with the full game for like, $20, this game would explode. Personally my favorite Battlefield to date; the level of player freedom you get is actually insane.
my favourite part of the video was 25:31 when he noticed that he can get close to the propeller then immediately runs into it to see if he can take damage from it
Making a Battlefield game thats a Cop Drama is like making a Jak and Daxter game thats nothing but demolish derby. Oh wait, they did. Still, someone new to follow.
I don't understand why they didn't think to make a SWAT game instead. I could see it getting fleshed out to be almost like siege or ready or not before they were out
im one of the people that liked battlefield hardline and call of duty advanced warfare at the time they came out and convinced my friends to play them still salty that these games died earlier than they deserved Edit: I only played the multiplayer modes.
the multiplayer was super fun. Hotwire was entertaining as could be, Blood money and Heist were up there too, I'm just sad Hardline's multiplayer doesn't get the same love BF4 and BC2 get, in my mind they're all up there as some of the best Battlefield has to offer, though, I'm biased in favor of BF5 being the best, I just love WW2 games. The singleplayer felt bad, even back when the game came out. Thanks for this deep-ish dive on it. Good stuff.
I bought the BF games through to bf vietnam, and played part of I think it was bf 2142? We're talking pre-2010 ish. Haven't really bothered with anything multiplayer or online since me3. Seems like a janky cop game they threw the "battlefield" title on.
16:40 it sure would be cool to look at the explosion... . to bad you are shaking worse than a naked dude in -60F weather (before you factor in a 50MPH wind, gusts to 70) and i know how bad you shake in weather like that.... because i live in NE montana.... and have been naked outside in that weather (dont ask) . seriously.... that is the most VIOLENT "explosion shake" ive ever seen in video games, movies.... even real life when i blew up 10 pounds of tannerite.... (that was just a shock wave, then about 2 seconds of "holy fuck"/confusion/checking my self for shrapnel) . but i could still see the door of the fridge we blew up flying about 1/2 mile away..... (the "main door" fell off of the transport to the shooting range..... so we just put it on top.... put the 10 pounds in the freezer.... and blew it up) only thing left was a square metal frame and the compressor (EVERYTHING ELSE was reduced to pieces less than 1 inch square)
it may be "cringe" as the kids say..... but how do you have less than 1000 subs? . id like to see your take on the Brothers In Arms series (the first 2 games are pretty good....have their rough patches, but still hold up) the last game leaves you on a cliff hanger... and randy pitchford is too greasy to make the 4th game (and if he does... it will just be a cash grab) . the last game was SO much more than got delivered... their WAS!!! a trailer that showed off "buddy moments" (this is a squad based game.... if you order your fire team to charge an MG42 and they all get killed, on some difficulty options they are dead for the REST OF THE GAME) so a buddy getting shot was a BIG deal (on "easy" i think they were dead till the next mission.....and in EIB you could revive them after a checkpoint? like an opntion to revive or not came up IIRC) . ANYWAY..... your squad MATTERS!!! so if you are running behind someone.... and he gets shot in the head (like in the now deleted trailer) you catch him..... it goes slowmo.... you see the hole in his helmet, blood running down from his face....... (no other game did that at the time) . they also had a trailer showing off GAMEPLAY of a REAL!!!! "toy shop"..... all the maps were going to be made using WW2 recon pictures. and this toy shop was REAL..... and this motor attack was REAL.... (the first game actually DID!! have a lot of pretty close to real life maps/engagements) a motor hits outside.... you everyone gets FUCKED by glass shards.... you pull one from your arm in a cut scene . . what we got was a rushed game with focus issues.... the last mission where you are in a tank is SUPER rushed....the FIRST!! time i played the game i was like "wow, this is jank AF... this feels like they were rushed" and that before i started watching youtube... before i knew what "dev hell" was.... or "crunch" . . . anyway.... Borthers in arms "kick started" my love of more realistic video games but i still LOVE Call Of Duty 1/UO (base attack mode needs to make a comeback... COD1 is more like Counter Strike than COD2+) . then red orchestra came out.....and i STILL play that game (stock RO is best RO.... really shows the horror of WW2... ONLY!!! game that makes me duck IRL when bullets come close) . then ARMA2... then DCS flight sim (i LITERALLY got addicted to DCS..... F15C was my jam!!! then Mig-21, then F14..... now i might have to reinstall to play the F4 phantom.... much eaiser to kill modern jets in the F4 than the MIG21..... which i LOVED to do in multiplayer, troll modern jet players, especially F15s, in the mig21) . people said my mig 21 had stealth tech..... because id study the maps on the 104th sever (which is where 99% of my ~2500 hours was spent) i knew EVERY valley.... i knew where the ACWACS was on each team and what valleys it could see into..... spawn points ETC . . before me and 2 other dudes figured this out..... NO ONE was flying above ~35,000 feet they would all try to climb sub sonic.... and eventually the angle of attack / induced drag gets so high you CANT accelerate. . but if you take off.... hit 500 knots.... (in F15C... 6 aim120, 2 aim 9, 2 wing bags) then pull up.... try to maintain 400 knots.... 320 at the LEAST!!! . once above contrail altitude (for stealth reasons)..... level off / shallow dive to hit mach 1.6 at mach 1.6 the F15s engines start to act a bit like ram jets.... and pick up some thrust at that point.... you can climb to 52,000 feet at mach 1.9 if you want to... . you can shoot AIM120s at people 40 to 70 miles away and get hits!!! (even if they defend after they get the pitbull RWR warning.... its still super sonic) range depends on how high and fast they are... of course. . a dude on the deck and cold = 20 miles a dude at 35,000 and mach 1.5... head on.... = 40 or 50 miles. . normally... people say the AIM 120 is only good to 15 miles MAX!!! usually 10 miles.... (pitbull is ~8 miles.... so shooting inside that gives no advantage over FOX1s)
Never played Brothers in Arms, sounds like it's worth trying out. I'm not worried about my sub count, I'm just a hobbyist, if I took youtube seriously I would've pumped out weekly fallout content and wouldn't waste my time with superstition shorts that only I care about. I just make videos on whatever I feel like talking about, the trade off is being a small channel, which I'm totally fine with.
One sentence in and you’re already talking shit. BF and COD are not competitors, they are completely different styles of game. That’s like saying Tetris is a direct competitor to sonic the hedgehog 2
