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Titanfall beta will be an entirely new build/anti-cheat system in place
- Thread starter fluffydelusions
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Yeah, it was purely a test for the servers. The core game mechanics were all amazing though. I'll be curious to see if there are any improvements to the AI with the later builds.
I would like to see the AI being more of a factor. I think the AI for the Titans was pretty great, but all the NPCs running around had too many moments of "why are they here?"
Core mechanics were prime though. They felt great.
You'd probably want the beta to be as close to the final product as possible, even with an increased download size. This allows you to catch more bugs, do more tests of performance, etc... There just probably won't be all of the maps.
Diablohead
Member
The robot's voice which says that line in-game is something I will not forget for a long time.
Yay!!!
Hip Hop
Member
It kind of sounds like this, and look at how that turned out on PC:
https://twitter.com/IWMarkRubin/statuses/387307624837828608
The old Infinity Ward wasn't very good at anti-cheat by looking at their COD games. Modern Warfare 2 especially.
I may just get the game for the Xbox One whenever I purchase that, or even if. For one, the hacking might be less rampant and I'm sure the community will be much bigger.
https://twitter.com/IWMarkRubin/statuses/387307624837828608
The old Infinity Ward wasn't very good at anti-cheat by looking at their COD games. Modern Warfare 2 especially.
I may just get the game for the Xbox One whenever I purchase that, or even if. For one, the hacking might be less rampant and I'm sure the community will be much bigger.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
I am not a fan of games being called beta less than a month before release. They will have no time to change anything. It will basically be a demo to help spread the word and test the servers. They only call it a beta so that if anything crazy happens they can say well that's why there is a beta, the problem is those "beta" problems usually persist after the game releases.
Am still pretty sour about some previous game's betas. Who knows maybe respawn has all their ducks in a row, but online games rarely do. There are too many variables.
Am still pretty sour about some previous game's betas. Who knows maybe respawn has all their ducks in a row, but online games rarely do. There are too many variables.
respawn dev page 1
FYI guys, the beta build isn't final code. It has to go through cert before final does - it was branched a while ago. That said it is close, but still not gold. Can't wait to see how everything goes once tons of people are playing! Breaking things in beta means we can have fixes for launch
JayKay1337
Banned
Give me the god damn beta already
Hope my X1 TitanFall pad will be delivered in time
Hope my X1 TitanFall pad will be delivered in time
Agree that the game change too much - but this kind of beta can help with balancing tweaks, etc with a bigger player base and to make sure the server tech is where they want it.
Hope I can get in on the Beta - looks awesome!
legacyzero
Banned
Give it to anybody who bought BF4.
Seriously, though. I'm pretty hyped for this on PC.
Seriously, though. I'm pretty hyped for this on PC.
dragonelite
Member
This plox or at least the ones that also have the premium pass
I got both, so im fine
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
That's very typical as well. Still all it does ia give them leeway to say "yep we know, we are working on it". Doesn't change the fact that a lot of issues in betas are not addressed by release.
The Battlefield betas are also old builds and we all know how those turned out after release. And it's not just Battlefield that does this. It's a glorified demo, not much will change before release other than the things they were already optimizing and changing anyways. Even demos are often old builds. Lol. God of War 3 demo that came out a month or two before release was a nearly year old E3 demo.
That is the hope anyways. The longer they wait the less likely that is the case. We are just over a month away, and don't even have a date for the beta. Which means at best it drops 3 weeks from release.
Also because these betas are old builds most of the time devsdint want to use these betas for balance and tweaks because there are so many changes already in the final build they want to wait for that first. So really their only purpose is PR and server testing which I am also skeptical of since the final build may also impact servers as well (positive and negative).
TheSinkingKnight
Member
I really need the beta to see if my PC can run it smoothly. If it does, then I'm going to buy it for sure if I enjoy it.
No. At least not "miles better."
Why do you assume the XB1 community will be bigger? BF4 is more popular on PC than it is on 360 or XB1:
http://bf4stats.com/
So is PS4. Respawn am cry.
Was just playing and realized how much it does not look next gen hehe, hopefully TF looks better.
Probably not: source engine. And in all honestly I don't care, IMO: gameplay > visuals my CS Go hours can vouch for that.
Will get for PC.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
It may not be bigger, but is willing to bet a lot of people got the Bone for titanfall. I sure did.
i like both hehe
BruiserBear
Banned
Battlefield began as a PC franchise, so it still has strong roots in that space, but even still when you add up those console numbers they dwarf the PC.
Titanfall has no PC legacy, and has been marketed as an XB1 experience from the beginning. I'd be very surprised if the XB1 player base isn't larger than PC the first week it's out.
matrixman92
Member
they should really just give it to everyone on xbox one. With so many people calling this a system seller, I would think they would want to destroy the servers during an open beta rather than at launch. But as we all know, EA will never have a good launch
Here's hoping for FairFight over the token Punkbuster inclusion. PB is worthless, because it relies on scanning and being up to date. Fairfight examines the stats of a player and compares them against all sorts of metrics and averages. Battlefield 4 has benefited a great deal from it. If you've got massive pools of player data sitting around you may as well pay people to scan the data for obvious hackers.
SneakyStephan
Banned
Probably punk buster, lol
Does the game have full rcon support?
Having admins on community ran servers is a thousand times more effective than some shitty anti cheat system that only works against the first 3 aimbot results for that game on google
Does the game have full rcon support?
Having admins on community ran servers is a thousand times more effective than some shitty anti cheat system that only works against the first 3 aimbot results for that game on google
There are no traditional servers. It's matchmaking, 6v6. So at best there will be a votekick system.
Eclectic Jabber Monkey
Member
No dedicated servers in this day and age? Brutal, get with times Respawn, its 2014.
LyleLanley
Banned
I thought all the servers were hosted by Microsofts cloud.
It has dedicated servers from microsoft called Azure. No worries it's across all platforms PC,360 and Xbox One.
You're complaining about the wrong thing, It has dedicated, but may not have a server browser.
No non-dedicated servers.
cuevas. PhD.
Member
I hope it's punkbuster.