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[DryvBy]

FYI everyone, these types of problems are exactly why we're running a beta - to expose problems at scale greater than what we can get ourselves or even with something like the closed Alpha. This wasn't a capacity issue (at our peak playercount we weren't close to hitting the ceiling), its a bug. The goal is to find all these things before people have dropped money on buying the game - launch day needs to be as smooth as possible

Oh, and for all the speculation going on about the 360 version. Its coming along really well, Bluepoint is full of phenomenally talented devs. We (being Respawn) have been pushing for them to have all the time they need to make it as good as possible, which means extra time for them to polish it up. We'd all like it to be day and date, but a better game a few weeks later is better than an unfinished one earlier.

I'd rather have a bad beta weekend than another Battlefield 4 launch. No problems.

 

[SapientWolf]

All part of the hype train. First we all waited for codes ... now we all wait to play.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

FYI everyone, these types of problems are exactly why we're running a beta - to expose problems at scale greater than what we can get ourselves or even with something like the closed Alpha. This wasn't a capacity issue (at our peak playercount we weren't close to hitting the ceiling), its a bug. The goal is to find all these things before people have dropped money on buying the game - launch day needs to be as smooth as possible

Oh, and for all the speculation going on about the 360 version. Its coming along really well, Bluepoint is full of phenomenally talented devs. We (being Respawn) have been pushing for them to have all the time they need to make it as good as possible, which means extra time for them to polish it up. We'd all like it to be day and date, but a better game a few weeks later is better than an unfinished one earlier.

May sound strange but the anticipation from people to get back playing since the problem arose is a big compliment. Encouraging despite the issue.

 

[Atone13]

Even though I have beta I quoted you anyway just to make sure there weren't hidden keys.

You've broken me.

LOL I did this too, couldn't help myself. That was a lot of fun last night DK, sad as hell cuz im so damn slow, but still very much fun. Hopefully when this gets sorted out you can make a return to that thread for some more fun.

 

[de1irium]

Don't have impressions yet since I just got my key and the servers are down, but I'd definitely prefer to play with TitanGAF ... can add me on origin @ StillDelirium.

 

[bryanee]

Got in a game, woooo.

 

[Jessie.Bristol]

That image is probably how EA support feels right now.

 

[Freki]

FYI everyone, these types of problems are exactly why we're running a beta - to expose problems at scale greater than what we can get ourselves or even with something like the closed Alpha. This wasn't a capacity issue (at our peak playercount we weren't close to hitting the ceiling), its a bug. The goal is to find all these things before people have dropped money on buying the game - launch day needs to be as smooth as possible

Oh, and for all the speculation going on about the 360 version. Its coming along really well, Bluepoint is full of phenomenally talented devs. We (being Respawn) have been pushing for them to have all the time they need to make it as good as possible, which means extra time for them to polish it up. We'd all like it to be day and date, but a better game a few weeks later is better than an unfinished one earlier.

Thx for the answer and the key again.

Question on the PC version - atm it's either heavy screen tearing with vsync off at stable 60fps or a really laggy / unsmooth experience with either double or triple buffering on. Is this on your radar?
edit: 560ti 3GB and 2500k@4.1Ghz - everything low except textures high and 2*MSAA

 

[RK9039]

There's a ceiling?

Yeah, you can't use the jetpack all the way out of the game.

 

[Willkiller]

FYI everyone, these types of problems are exactly why we're running a beta - to expose problems at scale greater than what we can get ourselves or even with something like the closed Alpha. This wasn't a capacity issue (at our peak playercount we weren't close to hitting the ceiling), its a bug. The goal is to find all these things before people have dropped money on buying the game - launch day needs to be as smooth as possible

Oh, and for all the speculation going on about the 360 version. Its coming along really well, Bluepoint is full of phenomenally talented devs. We (being Respawn) have been pushing for them to have all the time they need to make it as good as possible, which means extra time for them to polish it up. We'd all like it to be day and date, but a better game a few weeks later is better than an unfinished one earlier.

Fair. People just want to play because you've crafted such an incredibly fun game.

 

[NTIETS13A_Superiority]

Beta ends Tuesday the 18th according to Vince Zampella, unless they expand because of the server issue.

Shit. Thanks. hopefully beta extends. And hopefully I can get more than 0-200kbps from my 21mbps connection by then.

 

[DKo5]

Thx for the answer and the key again.

Question on the PC version - atm it's either heavy screen tearing with vsync off at stable 60fps or a really laggy / unsmooth experience with either double or triple buffering on. Is this on your radar?

I suspect you're running an NVIDIA card? If so, yup. Seems to be some weirdness with the way the driver deals with how we queue up frames. Working very closely with them on addressing it.

 

[Woo-Fu]

Imagine if the tutorial didn't need the servers. Some of you would have played through it 100 times by now.

 

[SeaCarrot]

Posted this is the NPD thread, want to know what you guys think of it. I been thinking, and I'm willing to bet that the delay for Titanfall on 360 was a political move by MS. The news came out about the time that MS would have gotten January's numbers back. So, realizing they really need Titanfall to move units, they delay the 360 version so that if people want it at launch they have to do it on PC or Xbox One.

Does it matter? Is it not a perfectly reasonable thing to do in their situation? Would you not do it?

I think its perfectly reasonable that now with a new gen out they want their new flagship product to be helping push units, they wouldn't have invested in its exclusivity otherwise. I'm almost surprised its coming out on 360 at all but I suppose with the size of its player base it would be madness not to.

 

[Freki]

I suspect you're running an NVIDIA card? If so, yup. Seems to be some weirdness with the way the driver deals with how we queue up frames. Working very closely with them on addressing it.

Yep - sry for not adding my rig - 570ti 3GB; 2500k@4.1Ghz; 8GB DDR3; 120GB SSD M4 Crucial; Win7 Professional 64bit.
Thx for the fast reply again :-D

 

[DryvBy]

Enjoy this Titanfall footage before the great crash of 5pm EST.

My favorite thing I did so far was on 7:20 until that dude dies.

 

[Kibbles]

How big is the file size (Xbone)?

 

[Dubz]

I'm only bummed because the game looks so fun to play, and I can't wait to play it.

 

[Megasoum]

Well, yeah. There isn't actually an unlimited number of servers in "da clowdz"

*GASP*

We've been lied to by Microsoft since the beginning!

It's actually "The finite power of the cloud"!!!

 

[MrCompletely]

Got in a game, woooo.

Did you just let it go for awhile at the connecting screen?

 

[TomShoe]

Imagine if the tutorial didn't need the servers. Some of you would have played through it 100 times by now.

You say that like we have anything better to do on Valentine's Day. I'm hurt. :`(

 

[Azsori]

FYI everyone, these types of problems are exactly why we're running a beta - to expose problems at scale greater than what we can get ourselves or even with something like the closed Alpha. This wasn't a capacity issue (at our peak playercount we weren't close to hitting the ceiling), its a bug. The goal is to find all these things before people have dropped money on buying the game - launch day needs to be as smooth as possible

Oh, and for all the speculation going on about the 360 version. Its coming along really well, Bluepoint is full of phenomenally talented devs. We (being Respawn) have been pushing for them to have all the time they need to make it as good as possible, which means extra time for them to polish it up. We'd all like it to be day and date, but a better game a few weeks later is better than an unfinished one earlier.

It's late...take the rest of Friday off. Other people are working on the servers anyway. I fully authorize it .

 

[tookhster]

EDIT: I can't read...

 

[hawk2025]

That should be a more than capable machine. What kind of issues are you seeing?



Well, yeah. There isn't actually an unlimited number of servers in "da clowdz"

...of course, the point is whether or not there's a chance that your game (or any other!) may eventually be capped by a limit imposed on the number of servers.

That is, a potentially binding ceiling.

 

[Yuuichi]

That should be a more than capable machine. What kind of issues are you seeing?"

I was getting some pretty serious framerate issues on the recommended settings, which are listed as this. I ultimately made it playable, if not very good looking, with settings like these (might have turned off MSAA, don't remember). It got especially bad in areas with fog or when I would ADS, but the issues continued (but did improve) even when I turned that down, so I don't think it's just one thing. I can get you more complete info (dxdiag) if you want it, but I know this probably isn't the place for that.

Edit: I suppose I should mention the only other thing I was running at the time was chrome, which shouldn't have been causing problems.

 

[Mupod]

While you're here, can you talk about the optimization some? My 560ti and 2500k @ 4.2ghz seem to be having more trouble than they should keeping a solid framerate on even the recommended settings, so any advice is appreciated.

I have a 2500k and GTX 580, I'm still running nvidia 314.22 drivers and the only real issue I have is flickering burn cards at the pre-game menu. Game itself is fine with everything maxed/8xMSAA/high textures. Insane textures chug the game but my 580 only has 1.5 gigs so that's expected.

Considering the horror stories I've heard about pretty much every driver they've released after that one I'll stick with this until there's a game I absolutely can't play.

 

[Dubz]

Enjoy this Titanfall footage before the great crash of 5pm EST.

My favorite thing I did so far was on 7:20 until that dude dies.

Seriously busted me up with the bolded section.

 

[DenogginizerOS]

I have an i5 750, 560 Ti, 8 GB of RAM, 7200RPM HDD. I am going to start out on all Mediums and turn buffering off for now.

 

[IAmRandom31]

Not trying to be an ass or anything but I thought the whole point behind this Azure cloud server was to prevent stuff like this from happening? Those millions of servers or whatever ...

 

[Boogdud]

Thx for the answer and the key again.

Question on the PC version - atm it's either heavy screen tearing with vsync off at stable 60fps or a really laggy / unsmooth experience with either double or triple buffering on. Is this on your radar?
edit: 560ti 3GB and 2500k@4.1Ghz - everything low except textures high and 2*MSAA

I'll see what it looks like on gsync, whenever servers are back up.

 

[Dubz]

I'm in!!!! on X1. Just let it keep trying.

Too bad I'm off to Valentines Day dinner.

 

[Megasoum]

Not trying to be an ass or anything but I thought the whole point behind this Azure cloud server was to prevent stuff like this from happening? Those millions of servers or whatever ...

Like the guy from Respawn said, it's not a capacity issue, it's a bug in the server software.

 

[JambiBum]

Not trying to be an ass or anything but I thought the whole point behind this Azure cloud server was to prevent stuff like this from happening? Those millions of servers or whatever ...

It isn't the fact that they ran out of servers, it's the fact that a bug is preventing new ones from being used. So only servers that were already in use are currently able to be used.

 

[eroots]

Titanfall twitter keeps talking about Microsoft working on gettting servers up... That's good and all for xbox, but what about PC? What's the word on the problem with pc servers? Is MS handling them too?

 

[The Cowboy]

Enjoy this Titanfall footage before the great crash of 5pm EST.

My favorite thing I did so far was on 7:20 until that dude dies.

What's up with your colour/recording settings?, that's really dark.

 

[MrCompletely]

Not trying to be an ass or anything but I thought the whole point behind this Azure cloud server was to prevent stuff like this from happening? Those millions of servers or whatever ...

This is the point of the Beta, to expose issues that exist at scale.

 

[IAmRandom31]

It isn't the fact that they ran out of servers, it's the fact that a bug is preventing new ones from being used. So only servers that were already in use are currently able to be used.

Ah ok I gotcha. Never heard of such a bug before.

 

[BennyBlanco]

i7 3770k
gtx 670
16 gig ram

should i even try 1080p and all the way turnt up?

 

[Jessie.Bristol]

Titanfall twitter keeps talking about Microsoft working on gettting servers up... That's good and all for xbox, but what about PC? What's the word on the problem with pc servers? Is MS handling them too?

Yes, all platforms use Xbox Live Compute Servers.

 

[Freki]

I'll see what it looks like on gsync, whenever servers are back up.

Vsync off works fine so I'd expect gsync working fine as well as it "simply" adjusts the monitor refresh rate to be in sync with the rendered frames.
Would be cool if you could verify this though.

 

[DryvBy]

What's up with your colour/recording settings?, that's really dark.

No idea. I stole this from Twitch.tv. The game is like 50% brighter in real life. But it's best I got until I can record real footage via Fraps.

 

[Megasoum]

On a side note... Is it me or is the lady talking to you during the games sounds an awful lot like Abbie Heppe?

 

[OneEyeTwoHead]

i7 3770k
gtx 670
16 gig ram

should i even try 1080p and all the way turnt up?

I have a 660 with same proc and RAM and I'm playing all the way turned up...except for the "insane"? I believe texture res (which really does not help/make it look any better)

 

[MrCompletely]

Mine is now saying "attempting connection 1 of x" every few attempts

 

[bryanee]

Did you just let it go for awhile at the connecting screen?

I left it for a couple of minutes.

 

[Dubz]

Oh guys...Did I mention that I'm now playing. Shit is real. This is happening. My body is ready...etc...

 

[Azsori]

i7 3770k
gtx 670
16 gig ram

should i even try 1080p and all the way turnt up?

Uh, yeah. I run it like a champ with my i5 2500k and 760 GTX (8GB ram). But I do have a good overclock going on both of those...

 

[sflufan]

Titanfall twitter keeps talking about Microsoft working on gettting servers up... That's good and all for xbox, but what about PC? What's the word on the problem with pc servers? Is MS handling them too?

Yes, all servers are being handled by the MS Azure network.

 

[Principate]

On a side note... Is it me or is the lady talking to you during the games sounds an awful lot like Abbie Heppe?

That's because it is her.

 

[Yuuichi]

I have a 2500k and GTX 580, I'm still running nvidia 314.22 drivers and the only real issue I have is flickering burn cards at the pre-game menu. Game itself is fine with everything maxed/8xMSAA/high textures. Insane textures chug the game but my 580 only has 1.5 gigs so that's expected.

Considering the horror stories I've heard about pretty much every driver they've released after that one I'll stick with this until there's a game I absolutely can't play.

I can always try a rollback, as I'm currently running 331.82 for drivers. However, I'm suspicious of that being the issue, because BF4 gives me a solid 40-60 on high with a small drop when things explode 2 feet from me, which is about what I expect.