Titanfall (Respawn Entertainment's new IP)

K1LLSW1TCH · 13 Mar 2014 at 22:24

Gotta work tonight but I'll have a few cheeky matches when I get in at 7am.

Ampeg · 13 Mar 2014 at 22:33

Lord_ZED said:
Had a go on my mates account and solid game play but....

Bots are ****ING TERRIBLE !!!!!
I dont remember AI in any game so bad... You go on them and they ignore you and dont even bother to shot towards You when you are killing them .

The bots arent there for the challenge, they add a moba/ creep element, the other players provide the challenge. Of course with a higher player count they wouldn't be necessary but they were never supposed to be difficult.

Warbie · 13 Mar 2014 at 22:59

I think it's pretty good. A little bit too much like CoD - why do you just have to look at someone in pretty much every modern fps to get a kill? - but the rest is fast paced and arcady, and the ai running about gives it a novel, single player meets multiplayer feel. Still, with less CoD and more Quake it would have been a shed load better!

window · 13 Mar 2014 at 23:37

well this comes online in less than half hr. whats the betting we actually get online straight away. heres hoping

wnb · 14 Mar 2014 at 00:07

Warbie said:
I think it's pretty good. A little bit too much like CoD - why do you just have to look at someone in pretty much every modern fps to get a kill? - but the rest is fast paced and arcady, and the ai running about gives it a novel, single player meets multiplayer feel. Still, with less CoD and more Quake it would have been a shed load better!

Actually I would say its a combination of UT+Quake and one could say it resembles a little of Brink which had a similar parkour feel to it.

MissChief · 14 Mar 2014 at 03:24

They certainly start firing back at later levels and as a Titan you ignore Spectres at your peril.

K1LLSW1TCH · 14 Mar 2014 at 04:38

MissChief said:
They certainly start firing back at later levels and as a Titan you ignore Spectres at your peril.

Sounds good. Personally I'm glad they've put them in, makes the game fun for lower skilled players. I really like the way that everybody no matter how crap they are gets to have a play in a Titan as well.

aceytrixx · 14 Mar 2014 at 06:26

Aedus said:
Sure thing brah.

True, they do, but even when I had my first match I managed to get more than 1 grunt kill.

I am referring to getting more than a couple grunt kills. Not that I can do better than 100 points on my own in attrition. Just incase you thought I was attempting to say I was something special.

jas72 · 14 Mar 2014 at 06:37

well is it good?

Is it worth the hype?

VincentHanna · 14 Mar 2014 at 07:33

It seems to me that the best way to wrack up points in Hardpoint mode is to defend one of the capture points.

You get about 75 points every 15 seconds or so. Even better if you can put your Titan in guard-mode around the same area.

SarGara · 14 Mar 2014 at 08:40

VincentHanna said:
It seems to me that the best way to wrack up points in Hardpoint mode is to defend one of the capture points.

You get about 75 points every 15 seconds or so. Even better if you can put your Titan in guard-mode around the same area.

This. I've found I get more kills by camping a node and waiting for pilots to come to me compared with running around and occasionally bumping into the odd pilot. And as you said the +75 deffence points means you often finish top of the table regardless of kill counts.

VincentHanna · 14 Mar 2014 at 08:45

Usually i'd be all for this sort of thing (BF4 should give you more points for defending a capture point in conquest mode) as it's a team game and by holding down a capture point you are helping the team to win.

But it's maybe a bit too generous at the moment.

K1LLSW1TCH · 14 Mar 2014 at 08:55

Had a quick blast this morning, I like the fact you can hitch a ride on a friendly Titan, game doesn't seem very well optimised at the moment though. I can play games maxed out that are far more graphically intensive and impressive but on this there seems to be a bit of slowdown now and then. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

kedge · 14 Mar 2014 at 09:01

K1LLSW1TCH said:
Titan, game doesn't seem very well optimised at the moment though.

No nvidia SLI profile yet so i presume crossfire is not supported yet too?. I can't believe nvidia have this game on geforce experience without a sli profile, maybe it needs multi gpu support from both the game edvelopers and amd/nvidia gpu driver teams?. Think i'll wait till that is sorted out, and hoping that respawn will defend the multiplayer game with decent anti-cheat.

HeX · 14 Mar 2014 at 09:03

VincentHanna said:
Usually i'd be all for this sort of thing (BF4 should give you more points for defending a capture point in conquest mode) as it's a team game and by holding down a capture point you are helping the team to win.

But it's maybe a bit too generous at the moment.

Not really. It's the point of Hardpoint. Your teams goal should be to hold 2 out of 3 points at all times.

So ideally you want your entire team camping a couple of hardpoints and ignoring the other one.

We had 4 of us on teamspeak last night playing, and we split off into two teams of two and held A and B for the entire game. We had one person on each team wall hanging in the node room, while the other patrolled around the close area with both our Titans parked outside guarding.

We won every single round we played by a huge margin with massive defence scores.

Let the other team waste their time running about trying to cap

CTF is also really fun in a small group. We had 3 of us playing, two would go for the flag, one with a titan drop prepped would wait at a distance. As the flag was taken they'd drop their titan outside, the flag carrier would rodeo the friendly titan all the way back to base while the 3rd person hung around waiting to take the flag again, or provided covering fire.

We won 4 rounds in a row 4-0, 4-0, 4-1, 4-2

Great fun

VincentHanna · 14 Mar 2014 at 09:10

HeX said:
We had one person on each team wall hanging in the node room, while the other patrolled around the close area with both our Titans parked outside guarding.

We won every single round we played by a huge margin with massive defence scores.

When you say you had one person wall hanging, what do you mean exactly?

meandu229 · 14 Mar 2014 at 09:16

VincentHanna said:
When you say you had one person wall hanging, what do you mean exactly?

Guess he means when you wall run if you right click you can grab the wall and hang there.

BuffetSlayer · 14 Mar 2014 at 09:20

SarGara said:
This. I've found I get more kills by camping a node and waiting for pilots to come to me compared with running around and occasionally bumping into the odd pilot. And as you said the +75 deffence points means you often finish top of the table regardless of kill counts.

.......and so the camp fest begins.......

V-Spec · 14 Mar 2014 at 09:23

I had a few rounds of it last night and found it pretty fun

Unfortunately I found it far too easy to get kills, the shooting mechanics are very much like COD or BF3 - which is a shame, I can imagine once the eye candy wears off it won't really be any better than the current crop of big name shooters.

HeX · 14 Mar 2014 at 09:44

meandu229 said:
Guess he means when you wall run if you right click you can grab the wall and hang there.

Exactly. If you run along a wall and press mouse 2 (by default) you'll just 'hang' from the wall Spiderman stylee.

Great for hiding up in corners of a room, or above stairwells, or in the rafters