The Terminator Reload Animation (Battlefield Hardline)
Battlefield Hardline is unique within the Battlefield ecosystem, mainly because of its cops and robbers aesthetic (most Battlefield games go for a strict military theme) and also because it wasn’t developed by DICE but rather by Visceral Games, the same studio behind the Dead Space series. However, just because DICE was sitting in the backseat doesn’t mean Hardline didn’t have its share of easter eggs.
One such easter egg was actually quite widespread and it didn’t really require any special tasks or parameters to unlock (aside from a bit of dumb luck that is). You see, players quickly discovered that certain weapons had special alternate reload animations which ranged from stylish (like spinning the .410 revolver with one hand and flicking bullets into its empty chamber slots with the other) to downright weird (having a third hand pop up to reload the RO9-D3 assault rifle). These animations had about a 1 in 10,000 chance of triggering whenever a player reloaded, guaranteeing that their appearance was always a fun little treat.
When Visceral added a new shotgun called the 1887 to Hardline via its Getaway DLC expansion, players noticed that it bore an awfully strong resemblance to the shotgun used by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator in the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Well, as you can see in the below reload animation video, that was an intentional move on Visceral’s part:
Not the most elaborate easter egg of the bunch, but still one of the coolest additions to Hardline by far.