The EA & Visceral Games title will not make it to the previously announced October release date.

In a Battlefield Blog post, DICE Vice President and Group General Manager Karl Magnus Troedsson explained that devs will need more time to launch a game which can deliver "the best, most innovative Battlefield experience."

According to him, feedback from the recent PC and PS4 beta of the game played a part in the decision to delay. "We've been pouring over the data and feedback, and have already been putting a lot of it right into the game and sharing it directly with you," he said in the post.

"This feedback also spurred us to start thinking about other possibilities and ways we could push Hardline innovation further and make the game even better. The more we thought about these ideas, the more we knew we had to get them into the game you will all be playing," he added.

Specifically, the "Battlefield Hardline" dev team is looking to up the following:

"1. Multiplayer Innovation: Coming out of our E3 beta, internal focus tests, and work with our community, we have received a lot of great Multiplayer thinking. We're going to be adding some new feature ideas direct from the community that will evolve the cops and criminals fantasy into a truly unique Battlefield Multiplayer experience.

2. Single Player Story Depth: In order to ensure our Single Player experience delivers on player expectations, we're spending more time polishing our core features, as well as adding a few new ones that will support a deeper "crime revenge" story experience.

3. Stability: This has been a focus for our team since day one and we're going to be using the extra time to continue to optimize the game for a stable launch. We have learned a lot from Battlefield 4, are continuing to learn from our Community Test Environment and will learn more from another Hardline beta. More time allows us to surface issues that the team can attempt to fix prior to launch."

Game Rant opines that a pushed-back release date for "Battlefield Hardline" might be a good thing. "The developers seem to be taking the lessons learned from BF4′s rushed launch to heart and combining that knowledge with the recent beta feedback to shape the rest of Hardline's development," the outlet says.

With a delayed release date for the EA game, CVG says that it is not clear whether the previously announced second beta will push through or not. Originally, the second beta test for "Battlefield Hardline" is set for this autumn across all platforms including PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, notes CVG.

Also, the team behind "Battlefield Hardline" did not specify any new release date - just a bleak 2015. The title will still roll out on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One, says Game Rant.