lebowski4ever
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yes...very much so. its great.
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Titanfall 2 Free weekend, 3/30-4/3!
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yes...very much so. its great.
I can get down with this.
King Gilga
Member
Yeah this is my problem for most of these 'free weekends' these days.
I'm not downloading that much for 3 days.
If it was a free week then maybe.
I just stick to the longer betas nowadays, never bother with free weekends.
TF2 probably still has a higher player count tbh.
It is a week.
Tried the free weekend after owning it way back at launch but then selling it. I probably won't buy this again game is still fun but it's kind of inexcusable to only have delivered 2 maps(remakes at that) in almost 6 months of being released. The post launch support has been garbage for this game
it's actually 4 maps, 2 remakes, 2 for Live Fire which is a new and free mode.
There were 2 new weapons and huge tweaks in balancing.
I think the support is good for a free DLC model.
oneils
Member
Installing games from disk on PS4 is faster. That might be what you are thinking of.
King Gilga
Member
It's only 4 days at most. It's in the thread's title.
Exploratory
Banned
Where can I go to download this? Under trending demos when I click it says that content cannot be selected at this time. The regular game isn't free it's 30 bucks.
Not sure what system your on, but this link has links to both the PS4 and X1 trial:
https://slickdeals.net/f/9900856-ti...x-one-digital-download-free-valid-through-4-3
Does anybody think this game uses too many buttons in combat? Like, there's jumping, crouching,abilities, iron sights, shooting, grenades, and reloading. There's only so many triggers and shoulder buttons, how am I suppose to utilize wall running, jumping, crouching, and my abilities in combat? There's bumper jumper, but then it also maps the titan's defensive ability to x (which means you can't aim when you defend yourself, which is... Not good!) I guess you can customize the controls yourself but... What am I going to give up? Aiming down the sights? Grenades?
RichiRamjag
Member
I never had an issue with it myself. Especially when using jumper.
Zeus The Dino
Member
scrub problems, lol
So as a veteran, what's your advise?
Game is pretty fun, love the use of adaptive resolution to keep the framerate up on PC.
Only thing I would change is have everyone start with a Titan in every mode (except Pilot vs Pilot for obvious reasons). The lack of Titan gameplay for most of the matches' duration is baffling.
Only thing I would change is have everyone start with a Titan in every mode (except Pilot vs Pilot for obvious reasons). The lack of Titan gameplay for most of the matches' duration is baffling.
I'd say generally the game is very frenetic and taking it all in can be overwhelming at first. Even as someone who played over 100 hours on the first Titanfall I really needed time to adjust and just get my ass handed to me when getting into TF2. It eventually clicks, but I'm not sure what specific advise I'd give other than sticking with the game, playing the campaign, and trying out different load outs to see what you enjoy most.
MeisterLeder
Banned
Audio crackling on XboxOne makes it unplayable to me
I like it. It guarantees a certain amount of pilot v pilot, which would never happen if everyone started with Titans. Despite the name, the pilot gameplay is the highlight of Titanfall2 imo.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
Just played the trial single player mission, and a couple of games of multiplayer. I enjoyed the single player, though I have too many other games to play right now. As for the multiplayer, I had very little idea what was happening. So many game modes, menus, unlockables, etc. Does the full game have a multiplayer tutorial at all?
AgentOtaku
Member
Campaign is kind of a tutorial for the most part actually
Shotgun Kiss
Member
I meant I was more confused by the sheer amount of menus, gameplay modes, different online lobbies, etc. I highly doubt Campaign acts as a tutorial for that?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
To be honest, the game is at a state where there are just two modes that are viable - Attrition and whatever the featured mode is at the moment.
On PC maybe. But on xbox one and PS4 it's really easy to find games in all game modes, especially with the new mixtape system.
Jack The Nipper
Banned
Respawn should just have made a new cod like game in ww2. Or a new and improved mw. They are the ones that created that series anyways.
Can't really get into this game. Just had too much to do and lacks a core gameplay focus imo
Can't really get into this game. Just had too much to do and lacks a core gameplay focus imo
I tried it for a couple of days. I didn't like it.
Its pretty much an extension of CoD where weapons are becoming too powerful and once you have the right perks and weapons you can destroy pretty much anyone. Same with Titans. There's no balance to the game. Fun for a weekend but I don't see myself playing it much after that perhaps on CSGO or h1z1 downtime or something like that.
Its pretty much an extension of CoD where weapons are becoming too powerful and once you have the right perks and weapons you can destroy pretty much anyone. Same with Titans. There's no balance to the game. Fun for a weekend but I don't see myself playing it much after that perhaps on CSGO or h1z1 downtime or something like that.
Shotgun Kiss
Member
Oh, really? If I plan on playing multiplayer, am I best off getting it on console? I'm surprised to hear they have a more active community than PC. I thought PC games typically have healthier online communities?
PC game communities tend to last longer, but are not necessarily bigger.
Bornstellar
Member
This hasn't been true since they put in the new mixtape.
Played quite a lot over the weekend and really loved it-the gameplay is incredibly frenetic and as others have said it's a lot to take in and work out WTF you need to do...once you get over the hump it really clicks-movement across the maps feel great, when you get the hang of the grappling hook and boost.
I still feel half the time I'm just spamming shitloads of buttons and by accident cool shit happens, a bit like when I play OlliOlli.
I'm at lv40 so not sure what else is waiting for me after the trial...I did think I churned through the main maps quickly, too...it could do with a couple more Attrition maps.
Respawn, you had my curiosity; now you have my attention.
I still feel half the time I'm just spamming shitloads of buttons and by accident cool shit happens, a bit like when I play OlliOlli.
I'm at lv40 so not sure what else is waiting for me after the trial...I did think I churned through the main maps quickly, too...it could do with a couple more Attrition maps.
Respawn, you had my curiosity; now you have my attention.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Are there more than a hundred people playing LTS, PVP or CTF now? lol
It's super fun to play, even with the Devotion/Hemlock meta (I have no idea if they fixed that) - I made it my goal to get to 10.50 and basically stopped at that point to play other games, so there's that goal if you want to be crazy and devote several days of play time to it. lol
Yeah, the maps are not as good as Titanfall 1; they were made to be a lot flatter and conventional, as if designed for a traditional CoD (and according to the early beta, Titanfall 2 was going to be a lot more like normal CoD). Thankfully after the massive backlash from the beta they brought back the original Titanfall-style movement but the maps are still remnants from that past.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Played it. Still no sale if they don't add Frontier Defense. If I still subscribed to live I would still be playing it in tf1.
AgentOtaku
Member
Yup, I have no problem finding each of my fav modes in mixtape: Bounty hunt, Amped HP, Attrition
Hemlock/Devotion abuse has stopped with recent updates from my observations
Now everyone is rocking R-101s, but that's more due to just being content starved as it's essentially a R-201
Think it's still on till tomorrow is it not?
It seems likely they'll be added it. We'll probably find out for sure this month.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
They really should just add in a Titanfall 1 Attrition mode and call it a day. lol
Yeah, I'll come back whenever they add this in.
Melchiah
Member
According to the OP it ends today. Dunno at what time exactly.
Tried it out over the weekend but it isn't for me. I love the fast gameplay but the game modes i tried Amped Hardpoint, Attrition games ended way too quickly for my liking.
Love the dynamic settings for keeping a frame rate target and super sampling. If only it was a more common option in games.
Love the dynamic settings for keeping a frame rate target and super sampling. If only it was a more common option in games.
Tried the beta and now tried this free weekend. Still hate it.
Why did they make everything so cluttered and convoluted? It's like they went brainstorming and said fuck it, let's add everything.
Titanfall had a pretty basic, but very clear gameplay loop, you knew how stuff worked and what you have to do. It took me just a couple matches in first game's beta to know the core of the game and I was ready to play.
Now there's so much stuff on top of another, tangled up together in ways that you need a book to figure out what is what and why. There's some kind of phase shift, trip wires, turrets, crab robots, battery mechanic, wallhacks, maphacks, amped weapons and electric smoke on some kind of timer now, a bank mode that I couldn't figure out in 3 matches and so on. The interface is a mess, there's so much stuff, a lot of times I literally had to stop in place for several seconds just to look where is indicator for something is. Crab robots and tripwires are all red so you end up avoiding them only to realize it's you teammate's. I've died so many times without realizing why I died or there was nothing I could do to avoid death, which is so frustrating.
A lot of you probably will say "git gud", but it was not the case with Titanfall 1. I've played that game a lot, so I expected to know some stuff. Almost every mechanic from the original is now overcomplicated while adding very little depth to the gameplay.
Why did they make everything so cluttered and convoluted? It's like they went brainstorming and said fuck it, let's add everything.
Titanfall had a pretty basic, but very clear gameplay loop, you knew how stuff worked and what you have to do. It took me just a couple matches in first game's beta to know the core of the game and I was ready to play.
Now there's so much stuff on top of another, tangled up together in ways that you need a book to figure out what is what and why. There's some kind of phase shift, trip wires, turrets, crab robots, battery mechanic, wallhacks, maphacks, amped weapons and electric smoke on some kind of timer now, a bank mode that I couldn't figure out in 3 matches and so on. The interface is a mess, there's so much stuff, a lot of times I literally had to stop in place for several seconds just to look where is indicator for something is. Crab robots and tripwires are all red so you end up avoiding them only to realize it's you teammate's. I've died so many times without realizing why I died or there was nothing I could do to avoid death, which is so frustrating.
A lot of you probably will say "git gud", but it was not the case with Titanfall 1. I've played that game a lot, so I expected to know some stuff. Almost every mechanic from the original is now overcomplicated while adding very little depth to the gameplay.
Single player is now permanently available.
SmartWaffles
Member
There is an FAQ section in-game to explain mechanics...
You can disable HUD elements in settings...
Friendly Ticks show up in blue names...
I do agree that friendly trip wire mines need to have some sort of identification.