Launch is going to be fucked.
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TitanFall Beta not open: Invite waves & codes required, staggered to avoid implosion
- Thread starter RulkezX
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Launch is going to be fucked.
DeadlyParasite
Member
As someone who played in the alpha and routinely talked to other people in the loading lobbies I can absolutely debunk that hyperbole. Everyone I was playing with agreed with the surprising amount of polish and lack of problems playing.
No, Xbox One and PC only.
The thought crossed my mind to call off work for the launch but I can't imagine those servers are going to be fairing too well.
BruiserBear
Banned
I'm sorry, but DICE have a history of releasing buggy ass games that don't work that well early on. The people from Respawn do not.
So many people are going to be upset if the XB1 version of this game is the highest seller. lol
I don't know. With the ability to spin up more servers on the fly with Azure, launch should be fine. All of the server stuff is being handled by Respawn and Microsoft, EA only has Origin to worry about.
Sure, but the way you originally phrased your statement was basically "because Respawn is not a newbie developer, they're not going to release a buggy mess" and my point is that just because you have experience releasing games, that has no bearing on whether or not you will release a buggy product.
And DICE was doing just fine without buggy messes until they started developing on consoles IIRC from my days playing BF1942 and BF2. And EA has never been involved in Respawn's (prior IW's) releases before like they are this time.
BruiserBear
Banned
Thanks for the clarification. Didn't know I had to explicitly state that Respawn is made up of people from Infinity Ward who have successfully launched several multiplayer shooters without trouble.
And I have no earthly idea why consoles would be an excuse for DICE's sloppy work, but ok.
Yeah. For those that don't listen there was a reader mail on Giant Bombcast that said he wasn't able to play the game at all, and the alpha was extended to an additional day due to problems early on.
enanogrande
Member
enanogrande
Member
Well I never said EA has good certification.
xD
Joking aside though, both EA & MS have too much riding on this game so I would expect them to be testing the ever living shit out of it. I'm (maybe naively) faithful things will go smoothly on launch day.
Zuhzuhzombie!!
Member
Say what?
Respawn is Infinity Ward, responsible for the buggy mess and laughable netcode that was Modern Warfare.
BruiserBear
Banned
COD2, COD4: Modern Warfare, and Modern Warfare 2 all launched without netcode problems. You are the first person I've seen suggest otherwise.
Zuhzuhzombie!!
Member
I'm gonna assume you haven't actually played the Modern Warfare games. MW2 was hilariously buggy. MW and all of its sequels have had the same awful netcode problems.
BruiserBear
Banned
Played all of them, very extensively in fact. I'm gonna assume you don't know what you're talking about.
If you want to say those games were buggy because some clown figured out how to glitch a care package, a bug that was fixed a week later, oh well.
DICE has shipped games with the fundamentals broken, and screen tearing, and all sorts of other basic shit just screwed up. I have yet to see a single COD game launch that way, even the ones the original Infinity Ward worked on.
brickwalker0
Member
I don't recall any network issues with those games other than launch night for MW2.
rudieboy77
Member
So if they are worried the servers cannot handle a beta, what do they think day one will be like? Maybe one of the unable to connect to EA servers messages?
MW and MW2 were decent. The games after that got worse and worse.
They are using Azure servers, so we won't get the usual EA stuff.,
friskykillface
Banned
:/ bummer, I should uncheck the send me info and email button on BF4 then
I want to get in this beta, oh EA
I want to get in this beta, oh EA
BruiserBear
Banned
Right when the Respawn people left.
rudieboy77
Member
Then wtf is their issue with this beta?
Still ironing out those network issues from the Alpha , the ones that only needed to be tested on the US network.
I dunno, XBL and by extension Azure should be well up to the task, maybe it's more to do with something on their end. They ain't leaving themselves much time if there is an issue at this stage.
rudieboy77
Member
That's my thinking as well.
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Deleted member 22576
Unconfirmed Member
Invite waves might also mean 50,000 people every hour. Honestly it could even be the signup mechanism thats the bottleneck. IDK.
If you work at Respawn and see this post, follow these instructions:
1) Click my name
2) Select "Send a private message to Kade"
3) In the subject line "Titanfall PC beta code for cool and handsome guy"
4) In the message field, a beta key for the PC version of Titanfall
Thanks in advance. Bye.
1) Click my name
2) Select "Send a private message to Kade"
3) In the subject line "Titanfall PC beta code for cool and handsome guy"
4) In the message field, a beta key for the PC version of Titanfall
Thanks in advance. Bye.
I'd imagine the BF4 open beta was considerably larger than this one is going to be, and as long as they allow early access to download the client there shouldn't be an issue.
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Deleted member 22576
Unconfirmed Member
Me too!
It's a beta only in name. Did you remember that they released an "alpha"?
how did it work on the game you released ever?
GuitarAtomik
Member
Do you not remember betas last gen at all? lol
This game has to deal with the issue of matchmaking to Azure servers. If it isn't done right, it will be horrible. There were actually a lot of Battlefield 4 beta servers that opened up literally the second the clock hit midnight. Could be why they need to do waves.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
I want int this beta! I will do very bad things if i have to, to get in. Things my fiance and child might disown me for.
The ball is in your court Respawn....
The ball is in your court Respawn....
Terbinator
Member
God no. I guess you weren't there for the 360 launch?
MW1 and 2 were fine, the former only caved along with the rest of Xbox LIVE in 2007.
Forsaken82
Member
I would actually argue since Origin's inception, rather than Consoles. Bad Company games were pretty damn good and not buggy messes from what I recall (at least on PC, can't say about the Consoles). It wasn't till BF3 really which of course Origin was a big part of that process.
I also get this impression that there is some confusion over the MOH games and Dice in general... and yeah, MOH was a buggy mess, but Dice was only responsible for the MP on that, and had nothing to do with the sequel which was of course a trainwreck.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Well fuck. By the time many of us get in it will be over. Combine that with the fact that I work Friday sat Sunday that weekend, and I have very little to be excited about now.
Also was going to use this to gauge if I wanted the PC version or Xbox One version.
PC it is...
Also was going to use this to gauge if I wanted the PC version or Xbox One version.
PC it is...
You didn't need to state that. You just need to be more clear when you make sweeping statements like experience=quality. I'm sorry I wasn't able to glean from your statement that Respawn will have no problems because they have experience launching games to mean that only Respawn fits that statement and not other developers who have experience.
And nowhere in my statement did I make an excuse for shitty DICE work. I was doing the opposite, making the statement that not everyone who has tremendous amount of experience launching games comes out with quality launches later on, as evidenced by the shitty launches of more recent DICE work. If that can be classified as "making excuses" then I guess I don't understand the meaning of the word.