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Titanfall Beta (PC/Xbone) Impressions (No Key Begging/Trading or I will ban you!)

Orca said:
I don't see the issue with smart pistol really. It doesn't work at all when you're sprinting or aiming down sights, it has a short-to-medium lock range, and it takes ridiculously long to get three locks on a pilot - to the point you would probably kill them faster by using another weapon and just shooting them. After all, if you're getting three locks you're probably to their side or behind them and they're helpless anyway.

It's great for sweeping grunts while you're in motion, but that's about it.
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Agreed, it may have a lock on, but Respawn has been pretty good with the drawbacks - in a pilot on pilot fight at range a carbiner will win easily (as the smart gun simply won't lock), at close range the smart gunner has to avoid being shot while it locks on 3 times giving a very fair fight against the carbiner..

Its only really great when going against grunts, but anything kills them easily.
 
Anyone knows if I can get off the rodeo on a titan? Which button? multiple times the enemy knows I'm on his back, then he gets off and kills me. Don't know how to get off, leaving me unprotected.
 
fantomena said:
Tbh, I find it a bit boring. It's very easy too. Easily getting 50+ kills and between 4-7 deaths eatch match.

Playing on PC.
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I would say this is my biggest complaint so far. The game is just really really easy.

I've won 6 of the 7 games I've played by a huge margin and lost one but even then I never felt like we were getting beaten really. It's weird.
 
Don't have an awful lot to add other than this game is pure fuckin sex and I want the full release quite badly.

Also anyone have any issues with mouse judder ? Have this funny thing on occasion where the movement judders a bit when moving. I get the feeling it's a mouse thing more than the game itself.
 
Played it an hour ago on PC. The game is over hyped and looks terrible too. I did well though. I wan't an xbox one code to do a visual comparison
 
I'm enjoying the hell out of this. Call it CoD with bots and mechs, but it's fun. It feels familiar yet new and exciting at the same time. I tend to play a game's MP for a month or so before I move along but I think this is the one new MP game I might actually stick with alongside Battlefield.
 
D4Danger said:
I would say this is my biggest complaint so far. The game is just really really easy.

I've won 6 of the 7 games I've played by a huge margin and lost one but even then I never felt like we were getting beaten really. It's weird.
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Lol, the opponent teams sucked. Like any multiplayer game, some players are better than others.
 
So after giving it some thought Bumper Jumper really doesn't work with this game. Especially if you are in a titan and use the vortex shield. You can't aim with the right stick while holding down A (unless you claw of course but I don't like making myself uncomfortable) so it's back to default for me.

Jumping is not as essential in battle as in Halo for example so I'm fine with it being on A.
 
Doing the tutorial right now on PC, Vsync gives me bad stutter and makes it unplayable. Have to turn it off for now and deal with the screen tearing.
 
BigEvilTurtle said:
Yeah, you're killing bots. That's why you find it easy. Thought it was beyond easy my first game until I realized I'd killed 20 bots and like 4 real players. Real players have their name displayed above them.
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There was one match there were bots, 4-6 other matches where there were real people. Still I got about 50+ kills and 4-7 deaths in the matches.

Im not praising myself. But I simply don't find a multiplayer game worth 60$ if the beta shows how the final game is.

I feel it's all the jumping, the titans and the ease to kill a person which makes it easy.

The running and gunning also feels a bit like CoD to me. Not a bad thing, but I wish it was a bit more "heavy".
 
Spent an hour with the game now, and as it was already mentioned quite a few times in this thread, if you're into CoD you could like it. I think the hype set the expectation bar way too high.
 
fantomena said:
There was one match there were bots, 4-6 other matches where there were real people. Still I got about 50+ kills and 4-7 deaths in the matches.

Im not praising myself. But I simply don't find a multiplayer game worth 60$ if the beta shows how the final game is.

I feel it's all the jumping, the titans and the ease to kill a person which makes it easy.

The running and gunning also feels a bit like CoD to me. Not a bad thing, but I wish it was a bit more "heavy".
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All games have a mix of real players and bots. It's never JUST players. It doesn't make sense to call an online FPS "easy" since it really depends entirely on your opponents. The mechanics can be extremely easy to grasp and accessible, but that doesn't mean the game is easy in general. It's easy to kill bots, but that's on purpose. I'm just saying, once the game is out and more people play, it'll be harder to do really well every game since players will become acclimated to the flow of the game.
 
Impression!

This game is tight. It feels SOLID. The core mechanics are there, but now I am actually a little tempted to not play it until it comes out as not to make it stale for me.

QUESTION: does anybody know if the upgrades will transfer to the actual game or will that be a refresh?
 
I managed to get a few rounds in before the arse seemed to fall out of the servers then I couldn't find any. it is a lot of fun. Very chaotic. I will surely pick this up the moment they finally make Australian servers.
 
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