Which of these 5 objective markers am I paying attention to? Should I guard the Escape route or go after the package? What's the rest of my team doing? Part of this might be attributed to the general confusion I've noticed with regards to how Heist Mode itself progresses. During the first several matches I was hopelessly lost. But too frequently it just results in utter chaos, nothing more than a close-quarters death match. I understand that the nature of this mode inevitably funnels entire teams together in certain hot spots like the vault or the rooftop escape locations. Unfortunately, it seems to devolve into a moshpit of gunfire and death about halfway through the mission instead of resembling any kind of strategic gameplay. And Bank Job's thoughtful, intricate map design reinforces that and amplifies the importance of sticking to the mission at hand. I love the goal-oriented gameplay of Heist Mode, and appreciate how map awareness can be crucial to success. Sure, these are cops and robbers, not soldiers, but I don't feel like that argument (if it even exists) will hold any, erm, weight (sorry). The UI is nearly identical, the gunplay itself is very similar, and veteran Battlefield players expect their avatars to feel the same. Look, I get that Hardline is very intentionally a more arcade-driven experience, and faster player movement is the end goal, but you can't just abandon the basic foundations of your predecessor. In Battlefield Hardline that seems to have vanished. Something about Battlefield 4's design - probably the animation timing and accompanying sound - gave players a sense of weightiness to their characters and their weapons. Mantling, vertical climbing, even basic sprinting felt deliberate, purposeful. The changes made to player movement from Battlefield 3 to Battlefield 4 were welcome. How do you feel about grenades in Hardline, specifically the distance they can be thrown? Perhaps this was an intentional design choice to eliminate grenade spamming, but in my eyes they took it too far.

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