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What is the best multiplayer shooter of 2016?

Titanfall 2. When it comes to movement options, it's unparalleled. It's got pretty much all of the key mechanics. Wall running, double jumps, bunny hops, boost slides, grappling hooks, speed increase, and hover.
 
Theorry said:
Cant decide really. BF1 and Gears i enjoy alot. Someday i want to play Gears and the next day BF1. Overwatch is great also when i take it abit less serious and play alone without friends. So they all have something.
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Agreed. Threads like these are nothing more than exercises in opinion making. I'll tell you this, in the technical sense, I think Overwatch is the strongest shooter of the year. Subjectively speaking though? Most fun I've had with a shooter this year has been Until Dawn: Rush of Blood. Not multiplayer though.
 
Titanfall 2 for me.

Overwatch has great design and such, but often I feel like I'd rather watch it as a show than play it. Something about it's mechanics don't completely feel good to me. I also feel that value is iffy for a full price game. It needs a SP campaign or a non trash permanents horde co-op mode.

TF|2 feels simultaneously like it has a higher skill ceiling, while being more forgiving of just loading up a few matches solo. The game needs a little more tuning here and there, and more maps, but the bones are solid. I don't think I've enjoyed a MP shooter as much since Quake 3.
 
Overwatch

- Great characters with their own personalities and play style.
- No season pass for maps, characters, guns, etc.
- Bright and colorful graphics with a nice aesthetic that's easy on the eyes.
- The maps feel really well thought out with character mobility and choke points.
- Don't have to grind for unlocks like guns, perks, etc (This is actually a HUGE plus for me).
- No micro transactions that make your character better.

I haven't really enjoyed online multiplayer shooters since Bad Company 2.
 
Overwatch

Feels like the Smash: Melee of shooters. Accessible as fuck yet so much depth [if you choose to go down that path] that doesn't just come down to whoever sees who first wins.
 
I guess I'd have to give BF1 a try on PC. Shit is just so jenk anytime I try and play. The load times, the still poor matchmaking, the unstable framerate, the huge maps. The lack of direction or awareness of what is happening in 64 player matches. It's just not a good competitive game. It can be incredibly fun playing with a few friends and I absolutely understand why people like it because of squad spawn. I just don't get any sense of depth with it.
 
You should really make a list OP


1) Overwatch -- free map and character DLC. Team oriented hero shooter

2) Battlefield 1 -- Large scale war game; team oriented, vehicle focus. Season pass

3) COD IW -- fast paced arena like shooter, hero based.

4) CoD4 Remastered -- classic war shooter. free maps, no dlc.

5) Titanfall 2 -- fast paced Arena shooter with mechs, free maps

6) Gears 4

7) Uncharted 4 -- team based 5v5 TPS

8) Battleborn

9) Paladins
 
overwatch
battlefield 1
black ops 3
Destiny (even with all its balance issues RoI is great)
titanfall 2
Gears of War 4

would be my ranking, might add Uncharted 4 MP at the end but I didn't really play enough
 
Battlefield 1... because it's the only one I've played, lol.

Well, that's not technically true. I did play and like the Overwatch beta, but to me it felt a bit too "been there, done that" to persuade me to buy it. I'd rather just fire up Team Fortress 2 for that kind of experience.
 
Overwatch. It's so satisfying to play, lots of depth but also open to casual players. A diverse cast of heroes with very unique playstyles. Free updates just about every month. It's been fantastic and I've enjoyed every minute of it.

Also BF1 is pretty good but it's not better than Overwatch for me.
 
Titanfall 2, easily
I got tired of overwatch pretty quickly anf BF1 can be pretty unfun at times, especially with a crappy squad . TF is pure fun even if i'm losing and i love how quick the matches are compared to BF1
 
Edit:I actually forgot about Gears4 that's my actually pick.

Titanfall 2 is pretty fantastic and overwatch is pretty fun as well. Sombra is great :)

Don't care for WW1/2 settings and tired of cod.
 
When I have friends online to play with nothing beats BF1, playing alone TF2. Who I think will win, Overwatch.
 
Gears of War 4 is my favorite of the bunch. Overwatch is cool I guess but it needs more content, only 2 modes that I'm aware of and only a few maps.

If we're talking best multiplayer shooter still around in 2016 though, CSGO still takes the cake imo.
 
Overwatch. Feels like an accomplishment in game design man it's pretty incredible. They took what TF2 did and turned it up to 11. All those characters...one of the reasons I can keep playing is because there's so many characters and they keep adding more. On top of that all the characters feel distinctly different. So different it's like playing a different game sometimes.

Can't wait for 3v3 and arcade mode.
 
I'm going to go with Titanfall 2.

The movement feels absolutely fantastic and fast, the shots satisfying, and at least for me, the maps are an absolute joy to run around.

I also enjoy how (on at least most modes) the gameplay suddenly shifts when Titans start to appear on the map.
 
Titanfall 2 out of the box. Love the accurate controls, subtle implementation of aim assists and smooth framerate. BF1 would take the prize if the unwieldy analog stick acceleration was removed, the was frame-rate improved, and they tone down the fog and weather.
 
BF1.

Already bored with Titanfall 2.

Overwatch is mostly an exercise in frustration as somebody who queues solo. No fun losing as many or more games than I win. Compare that with Titanfall 2 where I probably win about 90% of my matches or BF1 where even if I lose I can still score as many points as most of the players on the winning team and feel comfortable that I was doing my part playing the objective.
 
Lots of good contenders, with different flavors

Overwatch- casual/team focused
BF1- large scale combat
Titanfall- faster paced combat
Throwing in R6 siege- tactical, team focused plus new content for 2017

All have good gameplay and mechanics
Most do feel like you often need a team to have fun at times
 
titanfall 2 hands down, overwatch second. titanfall 2 has the perfect phasing for me , and even in loosing the escape to the dropship is genius( sometimes you feel like winning if your team got extracted lol) and its the only fps that has no bs rng loot boxes that they exploit for micro transactions.
 
Overwatch is my new favorite multiplayer shooter ever, not just of the year. I love the characters, I love how uniquely many of them play, I love the nail-biting Overtime moments, I love seeing Plays of the Game, I love that it has a ranked Competitive mode, I love how different team compositions can make a match feel so different from the last, and on and on. It's not perfect, but what's there is a ridiculously solid base to be built upon for years.
 
As of now, Battlefield 1. It´s rather conservative in mechanics, but the grim, brutal, "realistic" WW1 environments make every other look too cartoony in comparison. It´s just satisfying to play and incredible to look at, and it´s safe to expect an evolution with each DLC.
I´ve been reading a lot about WW1 recently, so that strengthens my choice.

I also loved the few minutes I played of Titanfall 2.
 
Battlefield 1 is great if you like the large scale warfare type of games. If you play BF before, similar stuff but the Operations mode is amazing. It reminds me of BF:BC2.

Titanfall 2 is great if you like those fast pace twitchy shooters. It has free DLC, created by the true CoD devs before they left. The cat and mouse between players and titans is fun.

And Overwatch is also great if you are into..it has free DLC and alot of people like it!
I like my ADS and jelly too much, so Overwatch is not for me. I still get why alot of people like it

Overwatch and BF1 community will be alive for a good while. Titanfall 2..welp it could get better?
 
Overwatch for me. I still play it almost every day since release and it's still as fun as ever (and I usually don't even like multiplayer shooters). The objective-based gameplay and different heroes make it different from most shooters and very fun.
 
Overwatch for me (ignore the avatar).
Only MP game in quite awhile that I can enjoy playing solo. Playing with friends just makes it even more fun.

I would have maybe gave it to Gears 4, but they didn't do anything too new with the formula.
 
Overwatch and Titanfall 2 are the freshest takes on the genre in a while. Other shooters, while still great, feel too much like "been there, done that".
 
Gears 4. The multiplayer is so addictive. Winning a gnasher duel is so satisfying, 1v many situations are even better. Nothing else like it.
 
jem0208 said:
Can I say Halo 5?

Because it's still the best.


Even with the faults in its matchmaking, BTB levels and playlist management the gameplay still keeps me completely hooked. No shooter has ever been able to replicate the satisfaction in outshooting someone in Halo.
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I agree.

Halo 5 is the gold standard. I like the maps and gunplay of this iteration.
 
Overwatch. Despite some issues, it's mostly the second coming of early Team Fortress 2, with the competitive focus on balance that hopefully avoids it falling into the mess that game did. Plus all gameplay-affecting content being free and unlocked for everyone is a big deal for me, and makes the aesthetic stuff easy to ignore (especially as it's whole skins and not silhouette killing mix and match clown outfits, despite a few questionable ones). It also keeps revealing new depths to me, and even many of the characters I initially wrote off as having a low skill ceiling start to develop incredibly complex interactions once you start facing better players. It's managed to overtake Dark Souls 3 as my GOTY, which I never expected.

Titanfall 2 is probably the most fun in terms of pure movement, but it's unfortunate I find the pilot time to kill as offputtingly short as the first game, along with the hitscan focus, as it kind of pulls me away from it a bit and it feels contradictory to the movement mechanics. It's pretty much unmatched when you're on a roll though. It also has the unlock system issue, although it's on the inoffensive side and at least all future content will be free. There's also the great campaign, but I guess that's besides the point in the context of this thread.
 
1. Overwatch
2. Battlefield 1 / Titanfall 2

I enjoy BF1 and TF2 both pretty equally. Different gameplay styles, but both a lot of fun.
 
Overwatch would have been first if it had a quality story mode.

But Titanfall 2 did it for me with that sweet campaign.

Overwatch an obvious second, with Doom coming in close behind that.
 
Overwatch by a country mile.

I have bought doom, dues ex, battlefield, titanfall 2, and gears 4. Together I have probley but about 6 hours into those games since overwatch came out, while I have put 200 hours into overwatch.

This game is the literal definition of addicting. If you get bored of one character then you can just switch to another and spice things up.

GET THIS GAME!!!!!
 
For me Overwatch. I must say I was quite burnt out on shooters in general. Buying Call of Duty and BF games, and just getting bored with them after several hours. Surely this says something about my interest in the genre in general too, and perhaps I should have stopped buying those games.

But that aside, Overwatch has been fun since launch, and it still is. I really enjoy it a lot.
 
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