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Titanfall Beta now taking applications, the thread of begging and whining

I still find it very interesting that they will not do an real open beta a month before the game comes out. Do they think the first couple of days after the game releases will be stress free? The game looks great and all but I have plenty of FPS's on PC, if I don't get a chance to demo it, I'll wait till it's $20 on Origin, which actually usually isn't that long of a wait. I got BF4 a month after release for $20 with a coupon code, I can wait.
 
I still find it very interesting that they will not do an real open beta a month before the game comes out. Do they think the first couple of days after the game releases will be stress free? The game looks great and all but I have plenty of FPS's on PC, if I don't get a chance to demo it, I'll wait till it's $20 on Origin, which actually usually isn't that long of a wait. I got BF4 a month after release for $20 with a coupon code, I can wait.

Dko5 said they're expecting "hundreds of thousands" to play the beta so I think no matter what EVERYONE here will play Titanfall before March 11th.
 
I still find it very interesting that they will not do an real open beta a month before the game comes out. Do they think the first couple of days after the game releases will be stress free? The game looks great and all but I have plenty of FPS's on PC, if I don't get a chance to demo it, I'll wait till it's $20 on Origin, which actually usually isn't that long of a wait. I got BF4 a month after release for $20 with a coupon code, I can wait.

That's kind of how I feel. Titanfall isn't my number one for March, even though I'm interested in it. I'd like to make sure it plays well. Reviews and player impressions are not good indications of if I'm going to like it and want to buy it.
 
When I select the top of Demo / Beta and go to the next screen I just get an "Email Us" option and as such cannot complete the steps any further.

Anyone found a fix for this?

Poor instructions, you have to email them, click the next screen and you should be able to enter your details.
 
Poor instructions, you have to email them, click the next screen and you should be able to enter your details.

I feel stupid now, clicked back from the Email Us screen countless times, hahaha

Thanks for that mate, hopefully I can get this sorted now and jump into the chaos with y'all!
 
I still find it very interesting that they will not do an real open beta a month before the game comes out. Do they think the first couple of days after the game releases will be stress free? The game looks great and all but I have plenty of FPS's on PC, if I don't get a chance to demo it, I'll wait till it's $20 on Origin, which actually usually isn't that long of a wait. I got BF4 a month after release for $20 with a coupon code, I can wait.

There's still time, maybe there'll be an open beta closer to release
 
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Oh damn, does the PC version use that Azure cloud as well because that map is terrible for 2014. "North" Europe server cluster is located in the UK? That would triple my latency immediately compared to ACTUAL North Europe. In fact, that other European server cluster might be 10ms closer. I mean surely they have more server clusters all around the world for actual gaming purposes because having "less than 100ms" as a criteria for gaming purposes would have been fine in the mid 90s.

This is why we need actual dedicated servers you can run or rent and none of this matchmaking & locking you into one service provider crap.
 
People redeeming codes from Twitter are so fucking fast.

Or they are giving out already redeemed codes...

I spent hours trying to snipe codes, piece jumbled chunks of codes together, and do contests and it never worked out. I would advise not even bothering as it's frustrating as hell and incredibly unlikely to work out, too many bots running through swiping codes immediately.
 
But there are loop holes. Pre-ordering doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to buy the game. It's easy to pre-order something for free on Amazon and then cancel after playing the beta. I guess they were avoiding this scenario.

But it's better than giving codes to random people via email, isn't it?
 
I had to start Battlefield Chat Support to get in. Basicly guy told me that there are some issues with PC codes. X1 mistake and others. Also he told me that if i had received X1 code instead of PC one to Start new case and follow procedure that have been posted in this topic already and that i will receive new code.
 
Here in France, I received an Xbox one key instead of a PC one, *sigh*.
I requested another one...

I'm really looking forward to play Titanfall tonight (valentines day... whatever) :D
 
Didn't receive any codes :(

Signed up to both PC and Xbone betas using different email addresses and countries (PC Finland, Xbone US)

If anyone has extra keys for either platform I would be more than happy to grab one, really looking forward to trying this out.
 
Yea they're not really handling this in the best manner. If they were even thinking about this, they should have just tied it to preorders.

Probably a multi-purpose beta, in that they want to also try and get people who aren't already committed to buying to try the game and get excited for it.
 
At the end of the chat the rep said this: Thanks for contacting us about your Issue. Our studio will review your provided information (be sure this is completely accurate) so that we can get this resolved for you. These claims are taken seriously and if the provided information proves to be false or fraudulent, necessary action may be taken against your account as a phisher/phishing attempt.

all I did was post 2 screen shots of someones beta email, and a screen shot of my Alpha email with the beta key photo shopped into it.

And you think this is not fraudulent on your part?
 
I have already preordered the PC version digitally, but I would like to confirm it will run well on my PC. I will not buy an XB1 to play this game. Now, if EA wants to get Respawn my money, they should at least treat PC owners the same as Xbox One customers. If they don't give out a beta between now and March 11, I will likely cancel my order.
 
I spent hours trying to snipe codes, piece jumbled chunks of codes together, and do contests and it never worked out. I would advise not even bothering as it's frustrating as hell and incredibly unlikely to work out, too many bots running through swiping codes immediately.

How are you making the distinction between bots redeeming them with the fact that literally hundreds of people are all fawning over the same line of text within seconds of it getting out? Even if there weren't bots, the odds that your twitter client queued in and updated at the precise right time and the authorization check with origin worked out that such you're within seconds of dozens of other people.
 
Any Europeans got in? Especially the countries that the Xbox one didn't launch in?

I really hope that's not the case. If this is happening, I'm not going to play the beta from my Tier 3 country. :(

On the other hand, someone posted that they got their beta from EA-Poland. Was that for PC or XBO? If the latter, then we're still in game.
 
I really hope that's not the case. If this is happening, I'm not going to play the beta from my Tier 3 country. :(

On the other hand, someone posted that they got their beta from EA-Poland. Was that for PC or XBO? If the latter, then we're still in game.

Yeah.. who knows :(
 
This is the first time I've been checking my inbox every five minutes without even realising I'm doing it in so long I can't remember.

I know no codes are coming yet, but I can't help myself.

The hype has got me.
 
But it's better than giving codes to random people via email, isn't it?

Not necessarily. If someone already made up their mind that they want the game and pre-ordered, what's the use of a beta code to that person? I'm not judging, I'm genuinely asking those in that situation.
 
checked my email, had an email from simplygames about TITANFALL. Safe to say i squeeeeeeed initially thinking it was my pc beta code lol :(
 
This is the first time I've been checking my inbox every five minutes without even realising I'm doing it in so long I can't remember.

I know no codes are coming yet, but I can't help myself.

The hype has got me.

If you have Google Chrome and use gmail, use the gmail plugin. It will notify you if you have any new emails.
 
If you have Google Chrome and use gmail, use the gmail plugin. It will notify you if you have any new emails.

I do. It's not stopping me checking. I am fully aware it's pointless.

I hope this game is rubbish or I'm in for a very unproductive March...
 
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