Part 1

Part 1 of the Battlefield Hardline weapon guide covers an introduction to the game's firearms, mechanics, and how to interpret weapon statistics from Symthic.com.

This is a guide to all the multiplayer guns in Battlefield Hardline.

Although this document is written from the perspective of a PS4 player, pretty much all the info within it should apply equally to the other platforms. However when specific controls are mentioned, these will be the default PS4 joypad controls, with the trigger buttons L2 to ADS (aim down sights) and R2 to fire, etc.

The aims of this guide are to explain the firearm mechanics in the game (and how to interpret the Symthic weapon charts), to discuss/compare all of the guns and attachments, to keep a record of stat changes from patches and to give a little background on each gun. Hopefully at least some of this will be informative or interesting.

All gun stats in this guide are taken from Symthic.com who apply data-mining techniques to extract all the exact stats for each weapon from the code of the PC version of the game. Previously the same stats were also used by the console versions but on 1 March 2016 Visceral introduced a new damage model for PC only. It is believed that most of the stats quoted throughout this guide still apply to all platforms but the DAMAGE stats are now for CONSOLES only - for PC stats please refer to the charts on Symthic.com. Symthic.com was taken down in January 2019 but eventually reborn as Sym.gg.

The author is a veteran of Battlefield 4 (hereafter "BF4"), Battlefield 3 ("BF3") and the superb Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ("BFBC2") and has written over fifty guides for GameFAQs. Trophies and firearms guides for BF3 and BF4 and trophies guides for Hardline and BF1 are also available on GameFAQs.

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The lead developer for Hardline is Visceral. They are best known for making the Dead Space series but they also previously made the End Game expansion for BF3.