spacemonkeynation
Member
You would buy a new system for a single game mode in one game. Jeez, that seems extreme. You must really love LTS
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Titanfall PC: Pilot Hunter/CTF gone as separate modes: "not widely used, long waits"
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You would buy a new system for a single game mode in one game. Jeez, that seems extreme. You must really love LTS
human onion
Banned
TF2 hasn't even removed Territory Control at this point, and that's probably more dead than these modes.
I just don't think features should be removed from multiplayer games even if they are underused.
I just don't think features should be removed from multiplayer games even if they are underused.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Pathetic.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
I don't think modes should ever be removed ever from released products.
Wow, I paid $23 for it yesterday, and I'm almost sorry now that I even gave them that much of a sale. This is really stupid.
I just used 50GB of my 300 monthly data cap to download it last night, so I feel I should get something out of it. :/ This hobby's starting to lose its appeal to me.
I just used 50GB of my 300 monthly data cap to download it last night, so I feel I should get something out of it. :/ This hobby's starting to lose its appeal to me.
Wow, super disappointing! I can see why though from an after-the-fact PR/Customer Service standpoint... Hoping for a quick flash-in-the-pan outrage then people who don't make up a majority of their players either quitting or moving to other playmodes and being happily quiet about it vs ongoing "it takes FOREVER to get a match, this game is dead/matchmaking is broken!" from the few still trying to get into those game modes propagating across social media.
Still a terrible choice to have made. I wonder if they could have simply really loosened up the matchmaking/in-match-join rules on those modes so even with imbalanced skill levels games could start at least. Unless each of those modes had less than 16 people playing on average during prime hours...
Still a terrible choice to have made. I wonder if they could have simply really loosened up the matchmaking/in-match-join rules on those modes so even with imbalanced skill levels games could start at least. Unless each of those modes had less than 16 people playing on average during prime hours...
vasametropolis
Member
CTF is the best mode... What a load of shit that they removed it. I already wasn't playing it much, but now I might uninstall it.
This seems especially misguided since the founder of ESL suggested in that article he wrote that CTF would be the best candidate for a competitive match mode. Sorry if this has already been mentioned, or if other considerations make it pointless to mention (I haven't yet had a chance to read the entirety of this thread).
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
I just did that and already downloading Team Fortress 2. I may even go back to BF3, are the servers still somewhat active?
marlowesghost
Member
As someone who plays this actively on the PC i can tell you the wait times were pretty killer. It seems like even the other game modes have fairly long/inconsistent waiting periods. The past couple of days it has been fairly frustrating. It still boggles the mind that they would just strip that content out, there wasnt a whole lot of content there to begin with.
human onion
Banned
Well that's a given, but developers take more control of their multiplayer games, especially ones that are run as a service. They can add anything, remove anything, or simply do nothing and all of those can have adverse impacts on the game. I've never heard of entire game modes being removed though.
Well , yes.
The "adding" part is pretty important, though. Especially when we are going from 5 to 3.
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
3 Game modes
3 Titans
3 Assault rifles
2 SMGS
1 LMG
No Single Player Campaign
Game is brimming with content!
It may have been 40% of the game but only 4% of their customers used it.
They are doing us a favor
Pseudo judo
Member
I've got the game on PC and the X1. It's a better game on X1 despite the hardware being inferior to my rig. The game on PC is painful to play because of wait times. My play time is split between LTS and Attrition. Getting a LTS game on PC could have you waiting for 10min as players slowly cycle in and then drop out because they get tired of waiting. That's not an issue on X1. In my experience there's always a game ready.
Getting rid of game modes may not be seen as a proper response to the wait times on PC but some sort of response was definitely needed.
Facism
Member
"they didn't take the modes out, they just removed your ability to play them"
NoMoreTrolls
Banned
But I thought the whole purpose of azure servers was dynamic scaling so that an instance could be created when needed? So why the hell would you have to remove modes?
This shit is all fucked up lol
This shit is all fucked up lol
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
The power of the cloud has it's disadvantages. Drought season is here.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Wow... Are they giving everyone a retroactive pricecut atleast? Who am i kidding ofcourse not.
NoMoreTrolls
Banned
Seems like someone was telling porkies about their server architecture...
spacemonkeynation
Member
Part of me was holding onto some hope. That they would see the error of their ways and reverse this dumb decision. So I went to the official page to voice my disagreement on the matter and saw this: http://www.titanfall.com/community
Yes, that's right, they are using Twitter as a technical support help line. Twitter. I give up.
Yes, that's right, they are using Twitter as a technical support help line. Twitter. I give up.
NullPointer
Member
This.
I remember when Bungie removed Firefight Arcade from Halo: Reach playlists. That killed the game for me in one fell swoop.
This also reminds me of how manipulative COD could be with its playlists and what was that map - Nuketown? Didn't they only make that map available at certain times?
spacemonkeynation
Member
Did run into this though: http://www.respawn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=16199
A roundabout way of finding CTF games. It's fun. It's kind of like going to the bball court in winter and yelling out: "Anyone want to play ball?!?!?" instead of joining a league or making plans with friends.
A roundabout way of finding CTF games. It's fun. It's kind of like going to the bball court in winter and yelling out: "Anyone want to play ball?!?!?" instead of joining a league or making plans with friends.
Part of me was holding onto some hope. That they would see the error of their ways and reverse this dumb decision. So I went to the official page to voice my disagreement on the matter and saw this: http://www.titanfall.com/community
Yes, that's right, they are using Twitter as a technical support help line. Twitter. I give up.
They have a forum also.
http://www.respawn.com/forum/?intcmp=titanfall_community_right-promo1_forums_visit respawn
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I'm already obligated to buy that stupid thing because of Killer Instinct. LTS going away would just push the buy date forward.
flaxknuckles
Member
I just requested a refund. I wasn't aware that the community on PC was so small and the fact they removed these modes (I love CTF) sealed the decision for me. If it had a campaign I'd probably keep it.
Lol you're obligated?
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
Thanks for reminding me why I've never installed Origin or bought an EA game on my PC until Titanfall came out. Learning the hard way I guess...
Nice. Maybe Respawn can integrate something like this into the game itself. Like some kind of... server browser?
-MD-
Member
If he wants to play Killer Instinct then yes he is.
You're gonna buy the game again even after they pulled this shit?
I highly doubt it.
I'm assuming EA will offer full refunds to those people that bought is game on the basis that they could play these game modes? I don't care about the pilot one, but removing CTF is bollocks. The entire game is MP only and they've just cut nearly half of it (well, two fifths)
NumberThree
Member
Dedicated servers > matchmaking, there's just no way around it. No way I'm going to buy a multiplayer game built around matchmaking alone.
Read the OP? It's clearly stated that the mode was removed because there aren't enough people playing, leading to long wait times.
Read the OP? It's clearly stated that the mode was removed because there aren't enough people playing, leading to long wait times.
No wonder PC gamers are abandoning it so soon. Sounds like the amount of content I expect from a beta.
obligate - to make (a person or organization) do something because the law requires it or because it is the right thing to do
Did Microsoft pass a law I'm not aware of?
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
You are taking that too seriously.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
If he wants to play Killer Instinct then yes he is.
You're gonna buy the game again even after they pulled this shit?
I highly doubt it.
According to the Titanfall forum EA is doing that... and quite honestly I'm tempted.
Well when he said he had to buy a Xbone to play one mode of one game before that, what do you expect lol.
Garrett 2U
Member
CTF is my favorite game mode in TitanFall, I'm sorry PC players... That ain't right :/