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[Titanfall]
Quid
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Titanfall is a first person shooter available on the PC and Xbox One now and Xbox 360 on April 8th. It's been a huge hit for two major reasons:
1. Big ol' robots. At least once every match you get the chance to have an automated mech shot out of orbit to your feet. Sometimes on to an enemy if you're lucky. This robot can either operate on its own AI or you can hop in and take control. These mechs are not unstoppable killing machines but rather more like very large, very powerful glass cannons. Well, maybe more like lead cannons. You sacrifice mobility and small target size for firepower.
2. Ridiculous mobility. Ridiculous. Wall running, double jump, and endless sprinting are the standard abilities. You do not just putter around the streets peeking around corners. You sprint along walls, leap through windows, and on to the backs of both friendly and enemy titans to rain hell on your enemies. A player skilled at using their mobility will literally run circles around an enemy titan.
If that sounds like your kind of thing I highly recommend picking it up on one of the systems mentioned above. If your main draw to games is the story... not so much.
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Yeah, you won the lottery in the second way... a lot of people have similar stories. Yet to hear of someone say I KILLED ALL THE MANS.
Also annoyed at the respawn system spawning me in the line of sight of an opponent four times in a row.
edit: upside is I dropped my titan on teh dude.
edit2: I'm not overly concerned with it at this point since I'm not even Gen10 yet. It's just those 5/6s that aggravate me.
That's me, btw.
So yesterday I was playing with a buddy and died, for the first time, to a fucking grunt. And not just to a grunt. To a melee from a grunt. I got grunt-punched to death. So embarrassing.
...got put right back in the same lobby, on the other team, the team that had curb-stomped us the match before.
If the player population on PC is this low less than one calendar month after release, then I think this game is basically doomed as far as having any long-term community beyond the most hardcore diehards. It pains me to say it, but the writing is on the wall.
Steam: MightyPotatoKing
But yeah, I really can't imagine playing this on PC. Maybe I'm weird, but the game just screams console game to me. I may pick it up when it goes on sale as a novelty, and to play with a couple friend that have it, but it was definitely an XB1 title for me. I'm guessing I'm not alone there.
EDIT: No offense to my PC brethren, obviously. Hope that's clear.
Arguably that could mean the player population was dangerously low to begin with. Also, that was before the supposed "improved matchmaking" patch.
True, it's entirely possible that something in the underlying matchmaking is designed to discourage "lobby shopping."
Because nothing keeps people playing like trapping them in the purgatory of unbalanced lobbies where they aren't having fun!
I've had it happen to me. Both with games I've won and lost. If you change gametypes or "datacenters" you will get put into a different group though.
You can't balance a 6 person pre-made group with 6 randoms who have roughly equal skill coefficients. It's the coordination of the pre-made that makes a stomp a stomp. Hell, whenever we played battlefield it would turn into stomps if we all got on the same team even though a good 80% of us are pretty awful at the game. Just being on vent and optimally filling vehicles was enough to make it damn hard for the other team to come back from.
Except he uses Vortex Shield to kill me with my own Sidewinder shots on the way down.
Em. Barassing.
Oh, for sure. I'm not advocating for such a thing.
At least in CoD you could go into Ground War, where it was at least less likely that 2-3 players in a party could entirely swing the game. Though man, I remember some 9-man Ground War groups we got together back in the PAMW2 days...that was brutal.
And even the slightest coordination can swing things. A buddy was still low-level, didn't have smoke or clusters, so when he yelled "oh no I'm rodeo'd" I know to swing my gun over and take care of it for him. Little things like that can add up to huge imbalances in a game. Sure, you can talk to and coordinate with randoms, but how often does it happen? I'd bet 50% to 75% of random solo players either have their headset sitting on the couch next to them (because it's easier than muting everybody), or just mute everybody. Of those that remain, half are people who aren't going to be worth talking to anyway (since most of the decent mature players opt-out to begin with).
So yeah, get 3 players or more in a party, and that team will stomp. Almost guaranteed.
It's kinda like when you've got two guys in a MBT/IFV in BF4 that are talking. The effectiveness goes up significantly. Just calling out enemies/kills is huge (because each time you say "got him" because you saw the points pop your partner knows he can move on).
Yeah I think I'm done regening. With no addons the pistols suck. I don't like not having a silencer on my weapons.
Steam: MightyPotatoKing
dude, it's really not that bad. just ambush people with headshots.
ediT: also, I hate when I find a fresh drop of grunts, call my titan for the titanfall kills for my regen challenge... and hten some dude on my team just MOWS THE ENTIRE SPAWN DOWN FFFFFFFFFFFffffffff >(
The Autopistol is just an SMG with a small mag. Once I started treating it that way and used it as my primary weapon, I actually got through that challenge real fast; the Amped Autopistol cards help as well, since the small mag stops being such a concern. You can entirely go head-to-head with most weapons in SMG range and come out ahead with the Autopistol.
I was legitimately surprised at how competent the Autopistol is as a main weapon; I was fully expecting that to be a horrible challenge.
That's me. I'm the guy doing that.
And I'd argue that is is that bad, because it makes you completely alter your playstyle to something that you may not find particularly fun. Sidearms aren't meant to be primary weapons, so requiring that many pilot kills to regen basically means you're having to play Clowntown-style. It's just another in a proud tradition of achievements/challenges in multiplayer games that require the player to essentially troll, and not play as effectively as they should.
Of course, I'm in the minority that rarely ever uses my sidearm, which I realize is also suboptimal. I'm halfway through Gen2, and I have (I believe) precisely zero pistol kills on pilots. I kill with my primary, and failing that with melee. Seems to work, given a positive K/D, but it means that regen will be particularly painful for me.
The point of the challenge is to do just that though. It makes you play a weapon you don't usually use, or go for a thing that you don't usually try to do in order to progress...
Steam: MightyPotatoKing
Meh, I still say that playing with a secondary weapon as your primary is generally suboptimal gameplay. Though I suppose the DMR/sniper argument holds some weight. I don't tend to play with long rifles, which is why I tend to view my sidearm as superfluous.
You don't have to do the challenge though. And playing with the autopistol as your primary is simply expediting the completion of the challenge. If you swap and kill (which is faster than reloading) in combat, you'll get the challenge completed over time anyway.
Well yeah, you don't have to, it's just required for regen. Nobody has to complete any achievements ever, but most people will try to. Of course, Gooser is worse, so whatever.
360 footage. I had honestly never seen that path at 38:00 before.
Someone linked me to the Kotaku article with a few streams in it. I scrolled down and went blind from the visceral gore going on in the comments. People will use any excuse to start an internet slap fight.
I've never seen anybody up there a single time besides myself in 100-something hours of playing.
There are actually a number of useful spots that aren't at all a secret, but almost nobody knows about because everyone gets used to approaching certain levels in certain ways.
Other than the muddy textures, sub-720p blurriness, and the lower framerate, that looks pretty much like Titanfall. Considering how old the hardware is, I'm fairly impressed. It looks like those who are still sitting on the the next-gen fence could grab this and have a pretty decent experience with it. Though how it actually performs in the wild will remain to be seen, hopefully that lag was only a result of it being too early for the full compliment of servers to be up and running.
It'll be really interesting to see what the 360 sales numbers look like, since they've been advertising TF so heavily as an "XBOne" game.
I have seen enough gen 10s to know this won't be an issue. I am almost gen 4 and I have won ~200 games. It can not possibly take more than a month to complete unless you lose on a consistent basis.
I have no doubt there will be a big outcry. And for someone who only pubs, it would be a fairly daunting challenge. For those of us who regularly group up though, it really isn't more than just a normal time-sink.
Otherwise yeah, the rest of the Gen 9 challenges are surprisingly easy.
Hell, case in point? I got to Gen 5 a few weeks ago, got 9 Gooser kills in the first week, gave up the challenge due to sheer randomness, have had 2 Gooser kills since then as part of normal play, and am now waaaaaay closer to finishing "get 100 wins" than I am to Gooser. Even if I'd kept up trying, the numbers say I would very likely only be at 30-something Gooser kills, except I would've also gotten a shit-ton of frustration at the same time because trying to finish a challenge which has ridiculous conditions.
So one challenge would've been a massive load of frustration and weeks to try and finish, and the other is just from doing whatever I do normally. I don't see any problem with that at all.
Oh, I only pub. I haven't had problems with the challenge.
That said, this challenge isn't an "immediate gratification" kinda thing... so... I expect there to be whine. I just hope they don't cave again.