This is quite amusing: http://youtu.be/RA0O_EjoDzw
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Titanfall Beta (PC/Xbone) Impressions (No Key Begging/Trading or I will ban you!)
- Thread starter Jarmel
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Titan on Titan gun battle. I'm on the losing end, eject out - somehow manage to maneuver myself to land on my opponent's titan and rodeo him to death, god that felt awesome 
Anyways I honestly have nothing but good impressions so far.
Gunplay feels good. Shooting is tight and hits feel impactful. Gun animations and sounds come together nicely.
Parkour was much easier to get into than I imagined, which helped considering the game initially appears to be quite complex but I actually found it was easier to jump into and play than say, Battlefield.
Titans get the feel down of being in a giant death robot while avoiding the clunky "Mechwarrior" feel and still remaining distinct from being on foot.
Matches seem to be about the right length - not too long and not too short. Love how there are AI grunts placed as well so you avoid the "Battlefield" syndrome where you'd be running around with nothing to shoot at.
Anyways I honestly have nothing but good impressions so far.
Gunplay feels good. Shooting is tight and hits feel impactful. Gun animations and sounds come together nicely.
Parkour was much easier to get into than I imagined, which helped considering the game initially appears to be quite complex but I actually found it was easier to jump into and play than say, Battlefield.
Titans get the feel down of being in a giant death robot while avoiding the clunky "Mechwarrior" feel and still remaining distinct from being on foot.
Matches seem to be about the right length - not too long and not too short. Love how there are AI grunts placed as well so you avoid the "Battlefield" syndrome where you'd be running around with nothing to shoot at.
Dreams-Visions
Member
:-O
Doing that tonight. I should have guessed. They're probably going to have to patch that out or something, because it's incredibly easy to save your last calldown for the ship.
Oh I never registered because I was out of town this weekend
I was under the impression it would be a open beta, without signups
Ho ho hooooo. I didn't think of that lol. Now I've got to try it.
Dreams-Visions
Member
I think they need to increase the spray of the SMG. Once you unlock the upgraded HCoG sights, it basically becomes a rifle that you can hipfire with ease or snipe people across the map with. It reminds me of old IW CoD games where you could outsnipe a sniper with a LMG. I never liked that and I don't like it now. Why would I pick the Carbine if the SMG gives me the benefit of hipfire at close range and only a slight nerf to really long range targets compared to the Carbine...at a higher fire rate?
The low range on the SMG's information card really needs to mean more than it does here.
The low range on the SMG's information card really needs to mean more than it does here.
Best way to destroy them it seems.
Man this thing was not meant to run on HD 4000 graphics. Trying this on my Surface Pro, and while the frame rate is solid there are horrible graphical glitches, and for some reason setting the game to a lower than native-res literally makes it that resolution on the screen (so it's like a small box in the middle of the screen).
Oh well.
Oh well.
Intheflorsh
Banned
That's got to go.
Epsilon-delta
Banned
I do that all the time in Fracture
I was hoping someone wouldn't upload it somewhere for the all the world to see. It made sense ever since the first time I dropped a Titan on an enemy, I thought why not save it for a stationary object such as the dropship lol.
Exactly! Bots serve is an appetizer before battles with humans. The only thing, though is that bots look like pilots sometimes and got me in trouble a few times.
In general, I FUCKING LOVE this game. You can do pretty much whatever your heart imagines -- they thought of everything. It's so obvious that they focused on fun mechanics before anything else. There is just so many ways to play. I'm going to try to not play too much more, because I keep getting difficult challenges and don't want do all of that before the retail.
All in all, I don't how people can call this COD with mechs, because it's very much not. Hell, I don't know how I can play any other shooters (except maybe Halo) and enjoy them.
Titanfall is Halo 2 level of fun for me.
Balmung421
Member
Couldn't agree more.
MooseKnuckles
Banned
Just played a few hours on PC, I'm not sold 100% yet but I am having lots of fun. Hardpoint seems to be a little bit less frantic and a good way to get used to the speed of the game.
Is there a GAF group or somewhere to get games together? Anyway, my Origin ID is DonnyDont, so add me if you'd like.
Is there a GAF group or somewhere to get games together? Anyway, my Origin ID is DonnyDont, so add me if you'd like.
Interficium
Banned
Holy shit, haha.
Any chance you can say if the game will have any snow or rain maps? That'd be so freaking cool. Also, have you guys thought about raising the Attrition point limit? The matches seem to end as soon as the chaos ramps up.
Figured I'd post this video to demonstrate what happens when you try to record with ShadowPlay at 1080p.
It ain't pretty.
http://youtu.be/yvsaz6tqH3Y?t=1m41s
It ain't pretty.
http://youtu.be/yvsaz6tqH3Y?t=1m41s
jacksepticeye
Member
Played 4 rounds of Attrition earlier, got the highest score in every round and never died a single time in all 4. Felt like a beast.
Then of course it all went to shit lol
The frame drops aren't noticeable on youtube because it's all defaulted to 30fps. When you said you're noticing frame drops it all just looked the same
Then of course it all went to shit lol
The frame drops aren't noticeable on youtube because it's all defaulted to 30fps. When you said you're noticing frame drops it all just looked the same
Wanna elaborate on why?
That was too awesome so I re-giffed it a little bigger
Saw this on reddit.
Ogre finishing off an atlas.
Man i really hope i get an ogre card soon.
Jeez - rips arms off; insane. I wonder how hard the Ogre would be to take down. It's like playing as a Big Daddy.
Are you serious? It's pretty bad tho...
Are you using insane textures? Those use too much vram for 2gb cards when running shadowplay.
Epsilon-delta
Banned
I'm pretty sure I've done it when the dropship was at half health before. Now I'm going to camp right underneath it to see if it takes it out with shields still on or at/near full health.
Yeah
CheezyMac88
Member
That was too awesome so I re-giffed it a little bigger
How did you cropped out the banner?
PC impression here.
It definitely has the feel of Call of Duty, but it is its own game and still totally different. I think it's mostly just the gun play that makes me feel that way. With that said, I have played around 4 hours and I've been having a blast. It's super fun to play. I'm definitely heavily interested in the retail release. I don't think I'll be spending $60 on this game though. I'll wait to buy it at $30-$40, unless it gets released and reviews are phenomenal and there's tons of content/levels we didn't get to see in the beta.
Fingers crossed!
It definitely has the feel of Call of Duty, but it is its own game and still totally different. I think it's mostly just the gun play that makes me feel that way. With that said, I have played around 4 hours and I've been having a blast. It's super fun to play. I'm definitely heavily interested in the retail release. I don't think I'll be spending $60 on this game though. I'll wait to buy it at $30-$40, unless it gets released and reviews are phenomenal and there's tons of content/levels we didn't get to see in the beta.
Fingers crossed!
Solid Samus
Banned
Do you know your encoder settings or does ShadowPlay auto upload? As shitty as the framerate drops are that vid seems to sidestep a little of the artifacting issues that have been plaguing youtube Titanfall videos. I've been tearing my hair out trying to get my own to look nicer
That's all YouTube shit. I'm sure there are ways to fuck around with the videos to lose some of that, but it's a pain in the ass.
I'm in the same boat. It's great, but I feel it won't entertain me for enough hours to justify 60$.
Gareth Bale
Member
Is there any advantage to switching to an anti-titan weapon before jumping on their back and shooting them?
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Deleted member 22576
Unconfirmed Member
Switched from the carbine to the smart pistol. It's hard to get the hang of, actually.
Considering you can't fire the lockon launcher and the sidewinder missiles will blow up in your face...I'd say it's quite the opposite.
KolosLazar16
Member
If you want to blow yourself up, then yes.
It's disadvantageous to do that.
TimeEffect
Member
What are people expecting from the A.I? For them to annoy you with damage? To kill you?
Either of those would make the experience frustrating.
You can ignore A.I, which is well and fine, but people can also utilize them, offering an alternative method of scoring/building Titans, etc.
If anything, the A.I. is so painfully mechanical that they just come off as robotic. How would you guys feel if you could actually control the flow of the A.I? Direct them to take certain hardpoints, for example? Set them to defend, or distract, or something?
I wonder how much better this game would be if it made more unique modes that took from MOBAs. Having a base, or a tower that could be destroyed within a CTF mode, for example, that maybe beefed up the grunts (like in DOTA), so that they could take objectives faster, or destroy bases, etc.
I would have liked to see a mode where you destroy a base (like Titan mode in BF), and then utilize grunts to make them more meaningful in that way.
Either of those would make the experience frustrating.
You can ignore A.I, which is well and fine, but people can also utilize them, offering an alternative method of scoring/building Titans, etc.
If anything, the A.I. is so painfully mechanical that they just come off as robotic. How would you guys feel if you could actually control the flow of the A.I? Direct them to take certain hardpoints, for example? Set them to defend, or distract, or something?
I wonder how much better this game would be if it made more unique modes that took from MOBAs. Having a base, or a tower that could be destroyed within a CTF mode, for example, that maybe beefed up the grunts (like in DOTA), so that they could take objectives faster, or destroy bases, etc.
I would have liked to see a mode where you destroy a base (like Titan mode in BF), and then utilize grunts to make them more meaningful in that way.
Yeah, I've personally found my score suffers when I use it. I do way better with Carbine or Shotty.
Gareth Bale
Member
Makes sense! Although I did it once by accident with the sidewinder missiles and I don't think it killed me
lyrick
Member
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BackwardsSuggestions
Member
Didn't realize it was possible to make Source run this badly. Granted, my specs aren't great but daaaamn.
GTX570
I5-2500k
8GB RAM
SSD
30-45FPS everywhere.
GTX570
I5-2500k
8GB RAM
SSD
30-45FPS everywhere.
Downloaded the original video, threw it into Photoshop.