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[SmartWaffles]

Such as? Haven't played TF, this is the first I'm hearing of massive disappointment for the sequel.

- Reduced the movement speed both as pilots and titans.

- Removed AI from the game. This is bad because it leaves the maps feeling extremely empty.

- Titans are no longer on a Time and are instead score based. This means far less titans from most peoples experience.

- Terrible maps compared to the original (obviously a small sample size due to just being a test but not a good sign).

Just a few of the things off of the top of my head. Read the impressions thread for more detailed posts. Almost everyone in there is disappointed

Plus

- Removal of Titan shields making Titan combat one-dimensional.

- New streamlined rodeo system practically removes Pilot v. Titan engagement balance.

- Removal of burn cards, in favor of Boosts, and it is essentially COD scorestreaks.

- Terrible UI clutter, and pilots have a red outline highlighting their position, further disencourages free running.

 

[belushy]

Anyone else think the gunfighter pistol looks cool as fuck?

 

[jem0208]

Anyone else think the gunfighter pistol looks cool as fuck?

Yes.

I’m curious what scoping is going to look like though. Is it just going to be a classic scope or will it be actual iron sights?

 

[SmartWaffles]

Yes.

I’m curious what scoping is going to look like though. Is it just going to be a classic scope or will it be actual iron sights?

Description says no smart link, could mean it can not zoom at all.

 

[op_ivy]

Description says no smart link, could mean it can not zoom at all.

That's what I was thinking.

 

[jem0208]

Description says no smart link, could mean it can not zoom at all.

Hmm.

That’d be weird, really weird. Especially considering weapons like the sword and hammer can scope...

 

[op_ivy]

Iron sights. Exactly the same ads as before, now without all the holographic display around it.

 

[Fuchsdh]

Hmm.

That’d be weird, really weird. Especially considering weapons like the sword and hammer can scope...

They say iron sights only, but I'm not sure what that means in differentiation from smart-link. Maybe it's more akin to ADS in other shooters and there's none of the holographic targeting stuff/reticule?

 

[jem0208]

They say iron sights only, but I'm not sure what that means in differentiation from smart-link. Maybe it's more akin to ADS in other shooters and there's none of the holographic targeting stuff/reticule?

That’s what I think it might be, iron sights like other games.

 

[Zoso Achilles]

Angry words

Good thing I wasn't there to mess things up further. I would have shot you I'm the back with incredible precision while you were in camo, of course.

 

[QuantumSquid]

are haloGAF custom game nights a thing? because they should be

 

[daedalius]

Good thing I wasn't there to mess things up further. I would have shot you I'm the back with incredible precision while you were in camo, of course.

You accidentally shoot him a lot too? I have that problem as well.

 

[Prinz Eugn]

You accidentally shoot him a lot too? I have that problem as well.

I think Exwife just has a propensity to jump into our sights.

check your subconcious breh

 

[jem0208]

Just got a double snapshot with the last 2 bullets of the sniper.


Not bad.


First match - all three of my team mates quit within a minute.

Second match - match a to4 with e high Onyxs anda champion, get destroyed in 3 minutes.

Let's see what the third match is like...


Edit: Huh, third match actually turned out pretty good even though I played like shit and we lost.

 

[wwm0nkey]

Okay so I know I've been talking about Halo 5 Forge for PC for awhile, but I was rewatching the RTX panel and they said the content browser launches with Xbox and Windows 10....soooo next update is probably when the Forge on Windows 10 drops too then since thats when the content browser comes out.

 

[Fuchsdh]

are haloGAF custom game nights a thing? because they should be

They have been. They might again, just need someone to coordinate regular times.

 

[Cranster]

So is there a general idea when we will be receiving our first Legendary Loot Crate's?

 

[YourExWife]

I think Exwife just has a propensity to jump into our sights.

check your subconcious breh

I am already dead.

And I'm not even playing Halo right now.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

So is there a general idea when we will be receiving our first Legendary Loot Crate's?

Didn't the order confirmation email say start of September to commence shipping? That's what I got, if my old man memory isn't betraying me.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

why must I always play against onyx players when I'm just a lowly diamond2.

>_<

 

[ZeezbruhTV]

5 man ffa on riptide...if we get maps like riptide, overgrowth, molten, empire instead of stuff like coliseum, truth, Eden for h6 I will flip. Alot of the sandbox complaints can be easily attributed to the dogshit close quarter hallway maps that litter h5.

 

[Trup1aya]

It's kinda funny that 343 is trying to fix overgrowth and Riptide by moving weapons around.

The block outs are fundamentally flawed, moving weapons and powerups is like putting a bandaids on a fatal gunshot wound....

 

[BizzyBum]

5 man ffa on riptide...if we get maps like riptide, overgrowth, molten, empire instead of stuff like coliseum, truth, Eden for h6 I will flip. Alot of the sandbox complaints can be easily attributed to the dogshit close quarter hallway maps that litter h5.

Made worse by the fact they made automatics and crouching much more effective.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

Spartan charged me off the map lmao

http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/SaMuRaI G0SU/video/20734427

 

[Forerunner]

Made worse by the fact they made automatics and crouching much more effective.

Hmm, how can we make camping less effective?

Let's make you move faster while crouching!

 

[YourExWife]

It's kinda funny that 343 is trying to fix overgrowth and Riptide by moving weapons around.

The block outs are fundamentally flawed, moving weapons and powerups is like putting a bandaids on a fatal gunshot wound....

More like forgoing a bandaid in favor of a smaller caliber of fatal gunshot.

Riptide in particular is such a damn joke. Blocking is the issue, as you noted. It's absurdly easy to hold off attacks from any approach, even with these weapon changes. Riptide and Molten (imo) are 343's "fetch". They need to quit trying to make them happen.

 

[Madness]

So people actually miss the AI in TitanFall 2? That was one of the worst parts of the first for me. Having these random meatshields there just so people feel special at getting kills. I get that it may make the map feel bare but that is the trouble with the crazy balance Respawn has to do. You don't want it to become 16v16 and you have 10 titans at once slaughtering the other teams pilots etc.

 

[Fata1moose]

We're finally getting an Arena Sangelios map!

Spoiler

But it's going to be a bunch of assymetric corridors.

 

[curiouscharles]

So people actually miss the AI in TitanFall 2? That was one of the worst parts of the first for me. Having these random meatshields there just so people feel special at getting kills. I get that it may make the map feel bare but that is the trouble with the crazy balance Respawn has to do. You don't want it to become 16v16 and you have 10 titans at once slaughtering the other teams pilots etc.

really don't understand how the AI could have bothered anybody.

they were a mechanic designed to help eat away at your titan timer - completely harmless, and just fun to have more stuff to shoot at.

also nicely balanced in that if you chose to shoot them, to reduce your timer, you'd show up on the mini map, making you extremely vulnerable.

they literally took away nothing, only added many things.

completely incomprehensible to me how they could possibly bother anybody.

they're not enemy replacements, they're a simply mechanic, not to mention they add ambiance to a game that sorely needs it considering you can't have too many actual players running about because of what you mentioned [too many players = too many titans running around].

 

[op_ivy]

really don't understand how the AI could have bothered anybody.

they were a mechanic designed to help eat away at your titan timer - completely harmless, and just fun to have more stuff to shoot at.

also nicely balanced in that if you chose to shoot them, to reduce your timer, you'd show up on the mini map, making you extremely vulnerable.

they literally took away nothing, only added many things.

completely incomprehensible to me how they could possibly bother anybody.

they're not enemy replacements, they're a simply mechanic, not to mention they add ambiance to a game that sorely needs it considering you can't have too many actual players running about because of what you mentioned [too many players = too many titans running around].

They also added immenimmensely to the feel of a larger scale battle than most fps, tf2 included

 

[jem0208]

really don't understand how the AI could have bothered anybody.

they were a mechanic designed to help eat away at your titan timer - completely harmless, and just fun to have more stuff to shoot at.

also nicely balanced in that if you chose to shoot them, to reduce your timer, you'd show up on the mini map, making you extremely vulnerable.

they literally took away nothing, only added many things.

completely incomprehensible to me how they could possibly bother anybody.

they're not enemy replacements, they're a simply mechanic, not to mention they add ambiance to a game that sorely needs it considering you can't have too many actual players running about because of what you mentioned [too many players = too many titans running around].

Exactly, I feel like pretty much everyone who criticises the ai in the first didn’t really understand them.

 

[Leyasu]

You haven't been in the impressions thread on gaming side then.

Jem summed it up rather well. Tf1 always felt like a cod- styled shooter but with it's own DNA. It was all about fast movement, verticality and freedom of movement enabled by parkour, massive scale battles with loads of ai fodder, and the regular inclusion of fun to use and useful titans all within very well crafted maps supporting all of this.

Tf2 removed virtually all of this and now feels like cod but with some parkour and occasional robots. It's lost what made titanfall it's own thing. It's slower, maps are wide open limiting the movement the amazing movement of the first game and promoting camping, ai bots are all but gone (at least in the capacity of the first), and titans are rare and shitty.

Such a disaster of epic proportions and I'm super sad.

They have changed it quite a bit... But yet again show devs how you give players the chance to play on low ping servers of their choosing. Unlike 343 and their fucking stupid ideas. Perhaps someone from 343 could ask respawn how they could come up with such an amazing idea as to letting people choose what region they play in!! Fucking 343

 

[RodanCeros]

Maybe the Gunfighter Magnum was developed to be part of the new BTB starting load out. Maybe they took issue to the regular Magnum as a starting weapon because the smart-link was "too OP"?

 

[Forerunner]

We're finally getting an Arena Sangelios map!

Spoiler

But it's going to be a bunch of assymetric corridors.

It can't be any worse than Molten.

Spoiler

It's going to be worse.

The only decent Arena map they released post launch was Stasis. Tyrant isn't too bad. All the others have sucked.

 

[Fata1moose]

It can't be any worse than Molten.

Spoiler

It's going to be worse.

The only decent Arena map they released post launch was Stasis. Tyrant isn't too bad. All the others have sucked.

I like Stasis and Tyrant, Torque would be fine with better lighting. Molten has really messed up spawns, it could be slightly better, I don't think it's Overgrowth/Riptide bad.

 

[Fuchsdh]

What's wrong with Molten? I've only played 2v2 on it but it seems fine.

 

[gamerguy2002]

I think they said they planned a social objective playlist some time ago.

Well at least Objective is being worked on, but what about Infection and firefight? any word on that and its issues?

 

[jem0208]

I just had an actually semi decent match of slayer on Riptide.

 

[curiouscharles]

i just... i just don't like assault

pretty much every game ends when the timer runs out, at which point i've just been bored of playing for a few minutes already.

precisely the same reason i don't like slayer :/

 

[YourExWife]

What's wrong with Molten? I've only played 2v2 on it but it seems fine.

The spawns are effectively fucked in every way imaginable. In 4v4, trapping people in the lava room is almost automatic. In FFA, it's practically the only spawn and the moment you move 10 feet from the spawn point, people spawn right behind you.

The map might be a decent assym, but the spawns are perhaps the worst in years.

 

[jem0208]

Whehey! I managed to get placed into Onyx in Team Arena!

Yeah, I only just finished my placement matches...



Another decent match of Riptide. That map has been massively improved. Also got matched against a to4 who were all champions and we didn't get destroyed. It was actually a pretty decent match. Still sucks that it happened when I was solo queuing but still.

 

[BradC00]

Whehey! I managed to get placed into Onyx in Team Arena!

Yeah, I only just finished my placement matches...



Another decent match of Riptide. That map has been massively improved. Also got matched against a to4 who were all champions and we didn't get destroyed. It was actually a pretty decent match. Still sucks that it happened when I was solo queuing but still.

will you partner with me? my group stopped playing or something.

 

[ATOMICJORGE]

Arena Sanghelios Map AWESOME!

 

[curiouscharles]

Arena Sanghelios Map AWESOME!

did i miss a blog post or something?

who? what? where? WHEN? [why not needed, the why is rhetorical]

 

[BradC00]

I just beat up on try hard uny.

 

[Samurai G0SU]

The spawns are effectively fucked in every way imaginable. In 4v4, trapping people in the lava room is almost automatic. In FFA, it's practically the only spawn and the moment you move 10 feet from the spawn point, people spawn right behind you.

The map might be a decent assym, but the spawns are perhaps the worst in years.

I agree. I've seen the other team spawn in my cross hairs in lava room while going through the hallway. It's bad. Lol

And ppl.spartan charge around corners like my.clip

 

[op_ivy]

Hannibal scorpion

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

lol it's like a baby opening its eyes for the first time

 

[NoLongerALurker]

Assault just isn't fun. It's 10 minutes of slayer and then once one team gets a cap it's over. I'm sure it could have been a great game mode for Halo 5 had they developed it from the start but nope. Had to make Breakout instead.

 

[Triscuitable]

Assault just isn't fun. It's 10 minutes of slayer and then once one team gets a cap it's over. I'm sure it could have been a great game mode for Halo 5 had they developed it from the start but nope. Had to make Breakout instead.

That's pretty much why it's not seen in HCS.