Based on what I read, it seemed like Respawn is trying to make it fun for everyone, while still keeping skill important.
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Titanfall Gameplay Footage (Embargo Lifted)
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Based on what I read, it seemed like Respawn is trying to make it fun for everyone, while still keeping skill important.
Can't wait for all the CoD kids to not understand that you have actual magazines and not just bullets. See ya you every 3 shot reloaders.
What gave you that idea? Was it the aim assist on PC or the smart pistol that aims for you as long as you point it in the general direction of the enemy? I thought people had to earn Titans but apparently everyone gets one on a timer, and doing well decreases that timer.
Huh. I didn't know this. That's actually pretty cool.
We're not actually 100% sure that's the case, though, are we? Do we have confirmation one way or the other? It looks like your ammo resets after you reload, but does your extra ammo actually disappear?
HORRORSHØW
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looks fun.
NullPointer
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Nurturing new players while also fostering a wide skill gap for the best players seems like the very wisest of game design goals.
If they can manage to keep the game fun for newcomers, lower skill players AND the ultra competitive alike they'll have accomplished something that just about everybody else out there has failed to do.
FreddieQuell
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You're on a roll with these interpretations!
Which of those quotes are wrong or incorrect? I heard them say 3-4 times that it's call of duty and I thought that was funny. And they want as many players as possible to enjoy themselves, even if they're bad. Sounds like they would have to hit the lowest common denominator to make everyone enjoy themselves.
Fine by me, I know is hip to hate it nowadays but Call of Duty is fun. You don't get those sale numbers with a boring game.
My big issue with them is that while you're trying to kill them you may miss a human enemy that can get the drop on you or figure out where you are on the minimap due to your firing. I've seen a lot of gameplay vids where the player is killing an AI bot and gets build sided by a human player that was alerted to their presence. Seems super annoying to me, you save a few seconds on your Titanfall clock but get killed due to some dumb AI bot. Great.
COD players will be in for a serious awakening when they try to play Titanfall like it.
Exactly. Halo was fun for new players to mess around with; while also being really good for competition. Absolutely nothing wrong when game designers create a piece of entertainment that can satisfy a wide array of people.
ChoklitCow
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If this ends up the case, I bet they end up changing it because of the outcry. Even in Battlefield the whining was incessant until they fixed the "bug" where it impacted everyone not just hardcore servers.
qa_engineer
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Art directionReminds me of haze.
I don't know, I was taking racer's word for it.
You should watch the video. They point out what differentiates it from CoD and isn't much like what Freddie says.
Edit: Rereading his posts, I see that he is just laughing at the fact that they said or mentioned CoD a number of times.
Like what? An FPS where you run and gun? Sure Titanfall has vertical traversal and mechs, but I fail to see how it is widely different than games like CoD. Not saying TF is a bad game, just that it is very similar to CoD.
Jeff (GB) said that's the case. They're treated like proper magazines, an oddly sim-like aspect in this otherwise arcadey game.
Yeah you do call of duty has done it for the last couple iterations.
If you stay on the ground skilled player who use the traversal mechanics correctly will dominate you.
It has similarities, but the mechanics, strategies, and flow of combat is completely different.
I'm aware I was just pointing out the hyperbole. It is not Call of Duty that is blatantly obvious. but it does keep some of the best traits of a Call of Duty game.
Don't fix what ain't broke, IMHO Call of Duty has the best gunplay around, if they can build over that and get a fresh experience... like why wouldn't you?
yeah because it is exactly .. I mean exactly the same right guys!?
Does it really matter when the guns all reload as fast as they do? Don't think it will be a big issue for most.
I highly doubt you would have found the comparisons to CoD quite as amusing if you had kept them fully in context, and in the same way, summing up that entire post by saying "so they're going for the lowest common denominator" ignores, for example, the whole leaving room for skilled players to shine thing. Just strikes me as very...imprecise/selective/negative.
That's the last I'll say on this, though. This is only my own interpretation, and I barely know you, after all.
Hmm, that's a good point. I can see some people finding the bots a hindrance to the "real game", so to speak.
On the flip side, though, that also does two other things: highlights the need for situational awareness, and makes it more difficult for people to hide somewhere and camp.
statham
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I just want to give Abbie mush respect, Just listened to a couple of her interviews and she is open, knows most of her stuff and very likable. If she doesn't know something, she doesn't give you fluff, but just straight up says she doesn't know. and you can tell she plays this game daily. Respawn did good in getting her.
I'm not sure how I feel about the bots in the game. It makes it seem coming across real players is few and far between. I like knowing in BF or COD that every player I come across is real.
Just seems really weird in a multiplayer game to have some of the worst AI I have seen.
Hopefully I am wrong and get a chance to play it before the release date.
Just seems really weird in a multiplayer game to have some of the worst AI I have seen.
Hopefully I am wrong and get a chance to play it before the release date.
StormyTheRabbit
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I dunno if its Twitch acting up or XB1's streaming capabilities, but man these streams look like CRAP. All glitchy and pixelated.
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It was Twitch.
EDIT:
It was Twitch.
Dreams-Visions
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yea, it's almost always Twitch.
and keep in mind, the Twitch streams are limited to 30fps. That's not a small difference.
The sauce scaler looks sooo bad. Glad they want to work with MS to nix it.
Other than that, looks fun.
Its twitch.
It looks garbled as fuck because the max bitrate limit they put on it is probably making it look shitty.
The beta looks gorgeous on my screen, but you're right I have no idea why its ending up looking like that. Ill run a couple of bitrate tests before I go live with mine
It looks garbled as fuck because the max bitrate limit they put on it is probably making it look shitty.
The beta looks gorgeous on my screen, but you're right I have no idea why its ending up looking like that. Ill run a couple of bitrate tests before I go live with mine
Portugeezer
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That I don't understand. I watched an Abbie interview with Jackfrags, and she just said they want people do discover things about the game... I don't see what a hard number for maps has anything to do with that, that is working out value not discovering things about the game. I'm guessing there will be 6 maps, 8 if we're lucky.
-MD-
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They pulled it off somehow.
AllIsOneIsNone
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For those that have played the beta, how often do you get killed by the infantry AI? They seem duuuuuuuumb. It'll definitely bring the casuals out to play, but couldn't they have made them just a little more fun to play against?
Sorry if this has been asked (a million times) already, haven't gone through the thread yet.
Sorry if this has been asked (a million times) already, haven't gone through the thread yet.
She was great on G4, during her short time with Sessler and X-Play over there. She co-hosted Sessler's podcast and wrote some good reviews (one of the most accurate Other M reviews at launch).
Impeccable
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Why do people pretend like they haven't been given beta solely on their ability to stream or use social media heavily?
"I got it from a friend!" Okay then.
On the topic of the game it's not for me - it's not my style but it's kind of neat to watch and I hope I get an invite to give away.
"I got it from a friend!" Okay then.
On the topic of the game it's not for me - it's not my style but it's kind of neat to watch and I hope I get an invite to give away.
Really liked her coverage of L4D2 and that Other M review was pretty brutal.
When a Titan drops it also comes with ammo packs for your gun. And that makes perfect sense.
legacyzero
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Gotta top that Robert Bowling
SmackAttack
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Yeah, will second that I liked what she did over at G4.
On topic, this game looks like so much fun. Really excited for this.
Metalingus5150
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If they're going for the COD crowd with gameplay that might be difficult for the COD crowd then they won't win the COD crowd. lol
I think this says more about my ability than that of the grunts, but I sure do seem to get meleed by Specters a lot.
Diablohead
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I'm rather sure you can do 60 on twitch, it's just that flash can;t play HD video well at all and it has to be on source quality, not the transcoders.