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Titanfall Beta (PC/Xbone) Impressions (No Key Begging/Trading or I will ban you!)
- Thread starter Jarmel
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I mean, I think this is intended.
I believe the idea is that you never get into a state of "Oh my god I've been running around this map for 3 minutes straight and haven't seen or killed a single person oh my goooooooddddd."
It helps stave off that boredom of just running a circle around the map looking for someone because there's usually something nearby you can kill.
I don't hate it, it's still fun killing non-pilots.
That auto-pistol is SO broken though! You can straight wreck fools with it it's so wild.
Alright, got to play for a while. Short impressions:
Terribly unoptimized. Runs like shit on GTX 560 even on low - low-medium settings, and then it obviously also looks like utter shit.
Parkour stuff is a fuckload of fun, I absolutely love it.
Boring ADS weapons, I honestly think the game would likely be tons better if it had weapons like in Unreal Tournaments.
Titans are okay. Not that much fun to pilot.
Will get it sometime in March if they optimize it (and nVidia releases good TF performance improving drivers) but if not, I'll wait till summer or just skip the whole game.
Terribly unoptimized. Runs like shit on GTX 560 even on low - low-medium settings, and then it obviously also looks like utter shit.
Parkour stuff is a fuckload of fun, I absolutely love it.
Boring ADS weapons, I honestly think the game would likely be tons better if it had weapons like in Unreal Tournaments.
Titans are okay. Not that much fun to pilot.
Will get it sometime in March if they optimize it (and nVidia releases good TF performance improving drivers) but if not, I'll wait till summer or just skip the whole game.
Texture resolution was killing my framerate.
I mean, like most games, lower all the settings to as low as you can.
You should turn off V-sync as well.
Lower resolution.
You could also try going to
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I've got a 570 which isn't much better than your card.
You should try lowering texture resolution, and turning off V-sync.
I have a 120hz monitor and I felt like it was running really terribly but the issue was that it was actually just bouncing up and down between 30-70 if I had V-sync turned on in game.
I'm playing with all settings on high except shadows on medium and I lock 60 in game.
I just finished playing 3 matches on the PC beta, and was about to post my response, but you said it better then I could. Thank you. Let me just add on a few points:
-The graphics suck, there is no other way of putting it. Granted, this is a near-launch game. Granted, IW isn't Crytek or Naughty Dog and never has been. But still when your game is THE hot new FPS on the year, I expected more. I own a 2 year old Asus Laptop with a GTX 660M card. To put that in perspective, to even attempt to run Crysis 2 or 3 at 60FPS I have to knock res down to 720p and turn off ultra-high detail textures among other sacrifices. With TF I got 60fps at 1080p no problem
-Movement reminded me of Mirror's Edge but simplified and fun as hell. I had far move fun running around the maps than
-AI bots, I cannot stress enough how boring I found them.
-Its the same CoD "opponent just shoots in your general direction and you die" mechanic that is why I switched over to BF4.
-Titan combat was boring. It controlled far too much like a human. Where is the sense of power? Of brute strength and several thousand tons of steel? They should have differentiated the experience far more than regular controls.
-Smart Pistol will need massive toning down from what I saw.
TL, DR: Is it a fun game? Yes. Does it deserve any of its hype? Not in the least. Will I buy it? Only when it hits $40 or less.
That is what I assumed. It makes the battle feel more epic, you get kills, and access a Titan quickly. I don't have an issue with it as it keeps the game moving at a nice pace - 250 kills per TDM would be insane, otherwise.
I love the pacing of this game. Maybe it's the way I'm playing it, but being able to traverse the side of buildings so quickly is pretty awesome.
I find it better to run around trying to get pilot and specter kills so I can get a Titan as fast as possible, then have it follow me as I use my anti-Titan weapon to take down enemy Titans while they're distracted by my Titan.
I find it better to run around trying to get pilot and specter kills so I can get a Titan as fast as possible, then have it follow me as I use my anti-Titan weapon to take down enemy Titans while they're distracted by my Titan.
I enjoy how responsive some of the stuff feels in this game but the visual noise in battle is unbearable. It's kind of fun when it's limited to just titans and people but the addition of the bots makes things so messy. There is nothing worse than walking into a room, killing a bot chain, and having some dude run up on the side of you to kill you while you were distracted with the game's fodder. Didn't care for the spawning either, and there were definitely instances of, "Oh wow I just spawned with three bots two feet in front of me. Thanks for the kills I guess." The maps are pretty bad too. The enclosed city one is really bad at facilitating Titans, and there is loads of dead zone on both maps that the fight never seems to shift to because everything gets clogged in one area.
Some of the best players I've seen have just gone with hyper mobile builds and the smart pistol, and they just jump around like a crazy person shooting people up. Mobile enemies aren't a disadvantage to the smart pistol.
What I was surprised by is that it will continue locking on while sprinting and jumping around.
So you can totally run at a fool, Jump over and around him while still aiming at him and then just unload and kill him.
It feels a little overpowered right now.
It's pretty awful for 1v1 but if you get the jump on them it's pretty much a guaranteed kill.
Weird, the difference shouldn't be that big. Maybe I'll mess around with it more later today or tomorrow. I also already had V-sync turned off, I always do since I get massive mouse lag with V-sync in most games. Still, thanks for the advice
Well, you're not mentioning whether or not they're fighting similarly mobile enemies.
It feels like everyone in general matchmaking are still running on CoD fumes and are, for the lack of a better description, moving around too damn slow.
Arrogant Bastard
Banned
After playing more, auto-follow titan is way too OP. Once the new factor of piloting a titan wears off you can expect everyone out there to just set it to auto follow. Why wouldn't you? You are just as deadly if not more so as a normal pilot, with increased mobility plus you get the bonus of having an AI titan follow you around and just auto wreck shit. Really bad design.
One of the loading tips actually mentions that if you jump right when you hit the ground you maintain your forward momentum.
Is it weird that I like being on foot more than being in a Titan? Parkour is so much more fun.
I wish this game was filled with people instead of bots. But it's nice to encounter a scenario when you get to rescue your own bots from the enemies.
It's a fun game, but I doubt I would play this for more than 2 months at most. Being a multiplayer game only really limit the fun. (I'm a single player kind of guy) no story really sucks.
I wish this game was filled with people instead of bots. But it's nice to encounter a scenario when you get to rescue your own bots from the enemies.
It's a fun game, but I doubt I would play this for more than 2 months at most. Being a multiplayer game only really limit the fun. (I'm a single player kind of guy) no story really sucks.
CheezyMac88
Member
Can I get more than three custom class slots or is that's the limit just for the beta?
dragonelite
Member
Dam multiplayer feels nice.
Tutorial would be nice if you could skip it in the release version not like there are that many options to remember. Just make the training modules an main menu option.
Tutorial would be nice if you could skip it in the release version not like there are that many options to remember. Just make the training modules an main menu option.
Deputy Dangle
Member
Anyone want to get some late night/early morning games going?
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Autotitans get wrecked by real players. They don't dodge attacks or use their abilities.
Yup. Timing jumps, chaining wallruns, and using stim makes you go FAST.
ChosenPredator
Banned
I am trash and the smartgun doesn't make you better unless your aim is dead accurate on them so if you're like me and have shakey hand and can never center it you'll die 100 percent of the time but I did improve vastly with it and I seem to get the most kills with it to if im lucky enough without the other pilots noticing me
Arrogant Bastard
Banned
I'm sure they do, it doesn't change the fact that Titan+Pilot>Piloted Titan.
GHG
Member
Turn the texture setting down. You'll be hitting the actual 1.5GB Vram limit on your card and it'll be crippling the performance.
Arrogant Bastard
Banned
Cloak.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Still stuttering on High. :\
Game is so good though.
Game is so good though.
Stim on everything except a sniper class with cloak.
It is. There's an ogre too.
Mr. Enigma
Member
Smart Pistol is BULLSHIT. Get that shit the FUCK out of here.
Regular acquisition time is garbage, need to grind for faster and see how it is
TechnicPuppet
Nothing! I said nothing!
Only got to play a couple of games because I am going out now but what a game. I'll be buying it digital, no way I would trade it in anyway, I think me and TF are going to be spending a lot of time together over the next few years, I want it at my fingertips.
I am pretty rubbish at it, the only online shooter I have spent much time with is Halo. I keep forgetting about all the options I have and just running along the ground straight into people.
I am pretty rubbish at it, the only online shooter I have spent much time with is Halo. I keep forgetting about all the options I have and just running along the ground straight into people.
Deputy Dangle
Member
You really blow through the 14 levels fast. Feel like I've only just started.
I've played about 10-12 matches so far and I have to say that Titanfall is very fun. I rarely ever play online FPS MP (I wouldn't even say I'm an average player) so I'm a little surprised at how much I ended up liking it and how easy it was for me to get into. I'm not sure how long I would play something like this though so I'm hesitant to say this is a must buy for me. It would probably be a much easier decision for me if it had a SP campaign.