Got a code but won't be able to play til Sunday
It ends on Sunday, no?
Got a code but won't be able to play til Sunday
A part of me feels joy to see the privileged press that gets early access to almost every game (and often rubs it in the face of "consumer peasants") moaning about this on Twitter.
A part of me feels joy to see the privileged press that gets early access to almost every game (and often rubs it in the face of "consumer peasants") moaning about this on Twitter.
More like EA ninjas, I bet the Respawn devs themselves would like for nothing more than the entire world to know everything about Titanfall right now.
this game is too good.
Yeah you're probably right. If they are seeing the same stuff I'm seeing even on Twitter they gotta be pretty thrilled at the response so far.
It ends on Sunday, no?
I'll be very pleased if we get at least one high quality video of gameplay over the weekend. It's one thing to see those choreographed videos from Respawn, but I want to see natural gameplay videos.
Respawn guys must be pretty happy with the feedback so far
non-nda breaking impressions from EA Titanfall alpha forum = game is awesome, easy to pick up and play, graphics are great, and gameplay on 6v6 is insane.
this game is too good.
Who gives a shit if its 720P? I guess all the fun I have been having with Dead Rising 3 and BF4 is fake because because...GASP...they are both 720P
very nice. I wonder if they will do a beta in a few weeks....non-nda breaking impressions from EA Titanfall alpha forum = game is awesome, easy to pick up and play, graphics are great, and gameplay on 6v6 is insane.
Seriously, it's a 6 vs.6 source based games. It's not exactly the prettiest. If it can't hit 1080p, I just don't know what to think.
Yea, who cares if a $500, brand new console (not to mention the more expensive and less capable) can barely do resolutions slightly above an 8 year old console!
Seriously, it's a 6 vs.6 source based games. It's not exactly the prettiest. If it can't hit 1080p, I just don't know what to think.
Oh snap.. it does?!??! Damn!
It's a heavily modified version of Source IIRC so not really as simple as a 1 to 1 comparison to current Source titles.
the alpha test is a data center stress test... they are having issues right now, and are trying to fix them....
and yes, the graphics are drool worthy
Drew McCoy: At this point I hate to say that it's the Source Engine.
Digital Foundry: In the same way that saying Call of Duty uses the Quake 3 engine?
Drew McCoy: Yeah, I mean we've replaced... it's a whole new renderer, all-new audio code, all-new net code, all-new input code for gamepad. There's some stuff that we've just improved but we've done massive changes. We have our own level editor, we have our own lighting, the way that maps are compiled...
Digital Foundry: But Source is fast, right? It has to be if I can play Portal 2 at 720p60 on a Surface Pro.
Drew McCoy: The thing about the Source Engine when we got it is that we actually branched from Portal 2. It was DX9, very single-threaded and they used the way that engine worked to its best possible potential for Portal. It can't render that much on-screen. The main thread just can't push out enough jobs, so we've done a huge amount of work. We didn't choose this engine because it was going to be 60, we chose this engine knowing that we'd be spending the next two years making it fast.
It's actually a pretty slow engine for showing stuff on-screen. What we have in a level now would run in single digits on what it was before - if you could even get it to load at all. It's been a huge engineering task, so what we did was put all the engineering [team] on the back-end so design [team] could be up and running at the task, otherwise engineering would have to be creating tools and design would be sitting around twiddling their thumbs. We only have a dozen or so engineers - it's pretty small for the amount of work they've done.
Digital Foundry: What's the approach with the renderer?
Drew McCoy: It's all-new. It's like going from a 360 engine to a PS3 engine - or more. It's now a 64-bit app, it's DX11, we've rewritten the way lightmaps are rendered and we have our own lighting system in it. It's not the crazy global illumination real-time everything. It's very tailor-made for our needs. We don't tend to add the whizzbang technical features just because they exist, so that's what we should have. We put more of our effort into design, gameplay and giving our artists the tools they need to make stuff look good. Good performance is our goal.
The only thing I want to know...Can the Titans Teabag things...
the alpha test is a data center stress test... they are having issues right now, and are trying to fix them....
and yes, the graphics are drool worthy
A part of me feels joy to see the privileged press that gets early access to almost every game (and often rubs it in the face of "consumer peasants") moaning about this on Twitter.
This is what the Producer of Titanfall had to say about the engine:
I'm totally bummed. Everyone I told about it (none of us got an email except one) got in, except for me! WTF! Oh, well, hopefully I can carve out some time to go over to their house and play a little.
Drool worthy? Really? I mean, they looked ok on the PC versions.
the alpha test is a data center stress test... they are having issues right now, and are trying to fix them....
and yes, the graphics are drool worthy
Thank you! Bookmarking this for future use.
It ends on Sunday, no?
I'll be very pleased if we get at least one high quality video of gameplay over the weekend. It's one thing to see those choreographed videos from Respawn, but I want to see natural gameplay videos.
You're right, can't possibly be "drool-worthy". /s
the alpha test is a data center stress test... they are having issues right now, and are trying to fix them....
and yes, the graphics are drool worthy
anyone have a link for the alpha forums ?
can you even access it without participating ?
anyone have a link for the alpha forums ?
can you even access it without participating ?
I'll be very pleased if we get at least one high quality video of gameplay over the weekend. It's one thing to see those choreographed videos from Respawn, but I want to see natural gameplay videos.
A part of me feels joy to see the privileged press that gets early access to almost every game (and often rubs it in the face of "consumer peasants") moaning about this on Twitter.
This is why I really hope there is a beta soon on all platforms, especially since this is a MP only game.the alpha test is a data center stress test... they are having issues right now, and are trying to fix them....
and yes, the graphics are drool worthy
Unless there has been a significant upgrade since the last time we saw footage or the visuals are better than the PC version, I wouldn't call the graphics drool worthy either.You're right, can't possibly be "drool-worthy". /s
Wouldn't that footage be some of the first of the game running on the Xbox One? Most impressions from the different gaming shows were from the PC. I don't believe we have seen it yet on Xbox One, so that footage would be some of the first.
I would love to see it as well, but you know the Internet, it will be posted before midnight tonight, I am confident.
From what i understand, only those who actually received invites can enter the forum.
Only people who are in can access it. There is a link for it in the Alpha email.