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Titanfall has maximum player count of 12 (alongside AI) [Respawn comments post #558]
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http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/9/529...packed-with-nearly-50-combatants-including-ai
I've seen tons of complaints from people about how there are too many ways to get into a room in CoD and makes it hard to defend anything. Oh joy! I look forward to hearing these same complaints again for TF.
It's Respawn, they've always been about making it easy and accessible to get into their games.
I've seen tons of complaints from people about how there are too many ways to get into a room in CoD and makes it hard to defend anything. Oh joy! I look forward to hearing these same complaints again for TF.
It's Respawn, they've always been about making it easy and accessible to get into their games.
My only issue with all this is that the game is artificially making the game look and feel that it is a big battle, when it really isn't at all.
Something about that makes me feel uneasy. It is to make every one feel a bad ass, but to me it all seems totally pointless. No match actually matters as you haven't really killed another player 90 percent of the time.
I will with hold judgement until i can play it tho..
Something about that makes me feel uneasy. It is to make every one feel a bad ass, but to me it all seems totally pointless. No match actually matters as you haven't really killed another player 90 percent of the time.
I will with hold judgement until i can play it tho..
The game seems to trying to focus around the singleplayer side of things, like having objectives and a narrative running through it, instead of a deathmatch style mode where people just chase top score or K/D ratio. It does not seem to be all about who gets the best kills and who is at the top of the leaderboard, since it is always focused around co-op play.
Yeah, and people made their own servers where they added more player slots!
I personally loved playing on 12v12 servers in UT!
Also loved the amount of mods the game got.
My favorite mod was strangelove.
Glad the devs didn't lock it down.
Great to have choice isn't it!
And the most fun I ever had in UT or Quake games was dueling it out 1v1. Timing for powerups/weapons and battling for map control was the best in those games.
I wonder if some people have forgotten this. That this is going to be a 360 game. I fully expect people to have a "fit" as well when more information about Destiny starts to come out. That's being released on the Xbox 360 and PS3 in addition to the PC, PS4, and XBO.
All of the belly aching about this is way too over the top for me. I mean, these are probably the same people that will say the game is set up for cheaters when they keep getting headshotted from a blindside...lol.
6v6 is fine for the level design they have, there's lots of cramped spaces, dilapidated buildings and low bridges/skywalks. I just can't wait for the sequel to show up on PS4. I'l play it on PC, but I've definitely lost some interest in the game concept as a whole since the original announcement.
6v6 is fine for the level design they have, there's lots of cramped spaces, dilapidated buildings and low bridges/skywalks. I just can't wait for the sequel to show up on PS4. I'l play it on PC, but I've definitely lost some interest in the game concept as a whole since the original announcement.
That's exactly right! Those gamers must suck! I'll add a lol at the end too, makes me sound better than others, lol
GuitarAtomik
Member
Your post is fair until that last paragraph. It's an extremely reductionist view that you could apply to anything. "Battlefield is just CoD with a higher focus on larger teams and vehicles" "Counter Strike is just CoD without killstreaks and you earn guns between rounds". You could break down many games that way but you'd be ignoring most of the stuff that makes each game unique and how much even minor tweaks when aggregated with others can affect the experience.
When people say they're tired of CoD it's because nothing or few things mechanically change significantly between 5 some odd sequels that are released every year. But if the next CoD had wall running, double jumping, AI npcs, and mechs in every game, wouldn't that be a big deal and significantly change the experience?
gaming_noob
Member
OMFG. Are we going in circles?
We are in the Groundhog Day of NeoGAF Threads and we cannot get out!
Fonz72
Member
HAHAHA what do you mean "All of a sudden"!!!????
Ryan Mccaffrey from IGN has a great theory about all of this anger/confusion over 6v6. On Podcast Unlocked he said it's just Playstation fanboys riling everyone up because they are upset about the Microsoft exclusivity!!!!!!
That guy............
gaming_noob
Member
Loved that movie.
6v6 with bots, that involves wall climbing/hopping, jet pack boosts is a lot of chaos. I have faith in Respawn in making the right decision to limit the number of players.
What a great gaming "journalist"
What about people that want the user slots moddable on PC?
Where the game is coming out...
I'm still interested in the game... On PC.
Just want some more details...
On console that might be a lot to handle on a controller where aiming is a lot slower than with a mouse...
Servers are using the Microsoft Azure dedicated server platform, aka The Cloud, so I highly doubt we will have able to own/rent our own servers for custom game modes or player counts.
I love the 6v6 idea, but I think it would be a missed opportunity by Respawn to not include a 12v12 deathmatch mode that removes Titans and bots from the field. Or allow us to do something similar on PC.
Sword Of Doom
Member
Their purpose is to make everyone feel like they're good at fps games
Edit: everyone knows the feeling. When you're constantly dying you hate the game but one match you get a kill streak and it's your favorite game ever.
If they offer some low-gravity Insta-Gib matches.
Yes!
Yeah, and people made their own servers where they added more player slots!
I personally loved playing on 12v12 servers in UT!
Also loved the amount of mods the game got.
My favorite mod was strangelove.
Glad the devs didn't lock it down.
Great to have choice isn't it!
Yes, They don't do games like that anymore.
Yup, it was so godly designed. Though you had to take a small map for duels otherwise you would look around for 10 mins for each kill.
It could also be a way for players to be able to contribute to the overall mission that does not just involve getting the most kills. It is still a MP game with SP built into it, so it more than just K/D Ratio.
Sure its cool getting those good Killstreaks but many players will never touch the high end stuff and most games are littered with all the bog standard stuff, which is still unbalanced enough to stop people having fun or to make people feel inferior when they get headshotted for the 100th time.
But that sucky player will still be one of the six on your team.
Coffee Dog
Banned
Valve didn't make modern warfare 2.
iJudged
Banned
Sorry if this has been posted already, maybe by mortimer himself:
https://twitter.com/atPeteDodd/status/421744858261237760
(How do you embed tweets as images lol?)
https://twitter.com/atPeteDodd/status/421744858261237760
(How do you embed tweets as images lol?)
What? But then it wouldn't be the experience the developers wanted to make. If you want 12v12 with no Titans or AI, just add double jump and wall running to CoD and you are set.
6v6 sounds fine to me.
Gears of War one of my favorite MP franchises left off on what, 5v5? Great flow to combat.
Titan Fall can most definitely succeed with 6v6 in order to have controlled chaos. I'd be surprised if this game comes out and doesn't still have BS "respawn" behind me kills like CoD is plagued with.
Multiple ways to die from? Sounds like a campers paradise... I hope they took efforts to keep the MP focused on constant alerts on where the players are. None of this "ghost" bs.
Gears of War one of my favorite MP franchises left off on what, 5v5? Great flow to combat.
Titan Fall can most definitely succeed with 6v6 in order to have controlled chaos. I'd be surprised if this game comes out and doesn't still have BS "respawn" behind me kills like CoD is plagued with.
Multiple ways to die from? Sounds like a campers paradise... I hope they took efforts to keep the MP focused on constant alerts on where the players are. None of this "ghost" bs.
Has there ever been this much of a shit storm over player count in a shooter before now? Cause i don't remember it ever happening before.
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diffusionx
Gold Member
BS. Halo is incredibly popular and plays great with a small amount of players.
Warhawk is a good game, Battlefield is a good game, doesn't mean that every game needs tons of players.
This thread would have 10 posts in it if Titanfall was coming out for PS4. It's an easy way for fanboys to take shots, nothing more.
PairOfFilthySocks
Member
There's nothing wrong with 12-player limits. None at all. The quality of a multiplayer shooter with regards to the number of players in a match is all about the map design/size per player count, it has nothing to do with the player count alone, so I wouldn't be concerned about that.
The reams of AI bots sounds quite shitty indeed, though. If we're looking at up to ~30 bots as some articles have suggested then they basically seem to be present for maximum 'everyone's a winner' effect.
The reams of AI bots sounds quite shitty indeed, though. If we're looking at up to ~30 bots as some articles have suggested then they basically seem to be present for maximum 'everyone's a winner' effect.
I guarantee that if Titanfall was multiplat the thread wouldn't have reached 3 pages.
No. Just, no.
EL CUCO
Member
Not sure if this has been talked about so forgive me if it has.
Source:http://www.oxm.co.uk/69185/first-ti...v7-battles-player-cap-isnt-a-tech-limitation/
I understand the "sweet spot" part, but I'm soo sceptical of the "isnt a tech limitation" comment. Especially since ALL that gameplay we have seen has been PC's. Has there been any Xbox One footage released yet?
Source:http://www.oxm.co.uk/69185/first-ti...v7-battles-player-cap-isnt-a-tech-limitation/
I understand the "sweet spot" part, but I'm soo sceptical of the "isnt a tech limitation" comment. Especially since ALL that gameplay we have seen has been PC's. Has there been any Xbox One footage released yet?
Sadly this is old news but people either think the developers are utterly lying and it must be the Xbox One that can barely string 6v6 matches together or they are telling the truth and they tested it and found that amount suited their game design brief.
We have seen PC footage with Xbox button prompts, so that could be taken a few different ways but nothing concrete has appeared for the 360 or Xbox One version.
Why would you think it's a technical limitation of the Xbox One? Is that the assumption? You got 64 players on Battlefield on huge maps. The difference is design and intention.
As much as I like BF4, technical problems aside (ironic conversation warning), I do also like squad based FPS combat. Even then this game sounds more of a hybrid/action/arcade than anything we've seen in the past.
Again what "tech limitation" is going to force Titanfall to be at 6v6 when ( again) on the very same console you have a 64 player shooter?
I think he might mean the 360, not the XBO.
Its being developed by a different studio, why would Respawn care
EL CUCO
Member
You got a point.
I guess I'm one of those that expected more players :/ I'd rather play with more friends than AI but that's just me.
I'll hold off until after its released and see how it goes.
Parity. I am just giving the guy the benefit of the doubt here.
EL CUCO
Member
This. I fear the "technical limitation" comes from developing for both generations.
Edit: Both of versions that we have yet to see running on the systems.
Turin Turambar
Member
But... then that "tech limitation" would limit the number of soldiers in game. AI soldiers are still drawn on screen, you know. It costs the same to render an AI soldier and a human pilot.
There's been multiple actual Titanfall coders and designers in this very thread among other places telling people very directly that this isn't any kind of tech limitation on any platform whatsoever. I don't know how much more clearly any of us can say this.
We haven't seen the Xbox One version yet, just the PC version.
I doubt they will even show the Xbox One version until the review copies go out, why not put your best foot forward?