Battlefield Hardline will break from tradition set by previous installments in the series by functioning properly at launch, Visceral tells Game Revolution (thanks MP1st). Here's what Visceral Games creative director Ian Milham told them about the police shooter at the Tokyo Game Show:

What you're basically asking is, 'Is you're game going to work?' and the answer is yes, it's gonna work. We actually started on this more than a year before Battlefield 4 came out. We've been working with the DICE guys for a long time; some of our engineering work is actually in Battlefield 4 and things they've been doing since then. It's in pretty great shape now and all that work is gonna come into what we're doing.

We already had one very successful beta, we're going to have another beta on every platform we ship on. We take shipping a working game pretty seriously. So, yes, the game will work.