It does about the same damage as a Charge Rifle if you hit a crit
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Titanfall 2 Multiplayer Technical Test Impressions (XB1/PS4)
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It does about the same damage as a Charge Rifle if you hit a crit
AgentOtaku
Member
Lol and people complained about smart pistol
optimus8936
Banned
It's the maps. They weren't built with the movement system in mind.
In T1, you were as light as a feather.
The Antitype
Banned
Im in an abusive relationship with this tech test.
I dislike so much of it, but I keep pushing myself to try loving it. Because the TitanFall I knpw and love might still be derp inside somewhere. Behind the hurt.
Dear god, who proposed getting rid of Titan shields? Can they please not have decision making powers anymore?
I dislike so much of it, but I keep pushing myself to try loving it. Because the TitanFall I knpw and love might still be derp inside somewhere. Behind the hurt.
Dear god, who proposed getting rid of Titan shields? Can they please not have decision making powers anymore?
curiouscharles
Member
holy shit that was boring to watch.
tried forcing myself to play an hour again this morning, hoping something would click and i'd start liking this game.
didn't happen
The Antitype
Banned
Sarcastic post?
It's COD Lite, at best. Like, the mission statement for that mode is very clearly 'Take everything special about TitanFall and remove it.'
Haha you are probably right, but I was having a blast playing it. I definitely prefer the mode to Bounty Hunt.
I really like COD
Anyway, I'm just saying there is fun to be had there even if it isn't where Titanfall gameplay shines the most.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
You know, without AI grunts and specters running around, and NPC dialogue in the windows, this really feels more like Advanced Warfare than TF.
I loved me some Advanced Warfare mind you. But for entirety different reasons than I loved Titanfall.
Playing this is just making me sad. Jumping back into some Deus Ex.
I loved me some Advanced Warfare mind you. But for entirety different reasons than I loved Titanfall.
Playing this is just making me sad. Jumping back into some Deus Ex.
Nizz
Member
I see. Yeah, it's like there's a bit of floatiness to the character's movement. The maps are also pretty open, Boomtown (I believe that's the name) seems like the main map where I can experiment a bit with the wall jumping/parkour. It caught me off guard a bit with the weightiness, thought I would feel way more nimble.
TheCanisDirus
Member
Exactly
Did feel like playing Quake3 at times tho, which I loved
YES! lol i want a custom game mode for shits and giggles thtats perma amp with just the EPG! fuck that would rock!
AgentOtaku
Member
It's crazy because other than the need for things more random bots, more "war zone" sounds coming from the battlefield, AI commentary, attrition mode, etc., I'm happy with how it's turned out thus far
Seriously, I can't stop playing it
SmartWaffles
Member
Oh hey look I've been playing Destiny and WoW instead of Titanfall 2 all day and I'm a much happier person as a result.
Which is fucking sad.
Which is fucking sad.
I use to play Titanfall 1. Now, it has been a while but, I can't help but feel something is off about this. I feel like my character is way too "sticky" or magnetized to walls. Like in Titanfall 1 I never had problems going in and out of windows. But in this my character wants to stick to this corner and that corner and it takes me a couple tries to get out a window or direction I want to go.
Is it just me or is the wall running too magnetized and automatic compared to the first game?
Is it just me or is the wall running too magnetized and automatic compared to the first game?
What is there to explain? You can't tell me that's not OP. That first shot wasn't even close.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
I don't know why it's so hard for some of you to understand that some people actually enjoy simple deathmatch in lots of different types of shooters. It should actually make sense to you that some people who like PvP enjoy the game more than others is because it seems the Titans themselves are one of the biggest issues people are having with the test. Those who like the on-foot gameplay seem to like Pilot vs Pilot. Yes, we get that you hate this game because it's not like the original and I totally get it, I played the first a lot. But even in the first one I loved the combat of the Pilots more than the Titans, although the Titans were still fun.
And Modern Warfare or say COD2 is COD Lite by today's standards, so I don't see that as a bash necessarily.
I wouldn't buy the game for only that game mode though, partially because I think the population may suffer like it did in the first.
7DollarHagane
Banned
Yeah I'm there as well, this feels like when battlefield 4's beta came out and I played like 40 hours of just that one map.
Finally unlocked the alternator, thats really fun to use on hipfiring.
I think that organized teams are going to utterly crush other teams in bounty hunt. If people work together it makes it really hard to even stay in the dz.
RichiRamjag
Member
What kills me. I posted it earlier, but if you ever read the final days of titanfall, they looked at this system and decided against it as they considered the shields more fun.
SmartWaffles
Member
Yeah in the initial design Titans have health regen and it was deemed too powerful and adding a shield turned out to be fantastic, and now...
Static Veins
Member
As someone who loved the original game, I have decided to cancel my pre-order. Too many changes that suck so much of the fun of the original out of this one. Will play the trial that comes with EA Access and decide if it'll be worth a purchase once it's released.
AgentOtaku
Member
It's called splash damage
7DollarHagane
Banned
Its like people are looking for reasons to complain or something? No, no one would ever do that.
Team Deathmatch is the only mode I really play in Shooters.
Complicated
Banned
That time to kill is so bad. They might as well just take the melee out. The animation is twice as long as the TTK with any gun.
Man, why do Pilots get the 40mm and not Titans?
7DollarHagane
Banned
This guy posted some good tips and musings on the new rodeo and batteries.
https://m.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/4zudoc/youre_playing_the_game_wrong_hear_me_out/
Ive been rodeoing a lot more lately and it really does feel like a key goal for any pilot once titans are on the field. If you're a pilot and dont have a battery, you should be trying to rodeo.
The stim and grapple are both really useful for rodeoing, the stim lets you get away quick and heal up.
Calling a Titan without a battery seems like a bad idea unless it's just to farm the dz in ai mode or there are no other titans on the field yet.
https://m.reddit.com/r/titanfall/comments/4zudoc/youre_playing_the_game_wrong_hear_me_out/
Ive been rodeoing a lot more lately and it really does feel like a key goal for any pilot once titans are on the field. If you're a pilot and dont have a battery, you should be trying to rodeo.
The stim and grapple are both really useful for rodeoing, the stim lets you get away quick and heal up.
Calling a Titan without a battery seems like a bad idea unless it's just to farm the dz in ai mode or there are no other titans on the field yet.
Bright-Light
Member
Still having issues getting into game with friends. 
My main problem with the new rodeo is that it feels restrictive after Titanfall 1.
Maybe after you pull the battery out, and you jump on that Titan, instead of doing the grenade animation where you jump off the TItan, give the player 3-4 seconds of free reign on the Titan to do damage before the ... eh ... Titan rodeo defense mechanism pushes them off. I think people would prefer that to having a canned animation play.
Maybe after you pull the battery out, and you jump on that Titan, instead of doing the grenade animation where you jump off the TItan, give the player 3-4 seconds of free reign on the Titan to do damage before the ... eh ... Titan rodeo defense mechanism pushes them off. I think people would prefer that to having a canned animation play.
AgentOtaku
Member
Cause Respawn decided to put the more specialized titans in the tech test :/
Sr. Wiggles
Banned
I had some time to kill and was about to try more Titanfall 2 and went to Destiny instead... It's just not what i was expecting and it really pisses me off.
In all honesty had I not played this tech test i would've purchased this game day 1, with a lot of my core friends following. I've been hyped for a while, dying to see footage of Titanfall 2 and then eventually play it. I just can't believe Respawn would go and fuck it up like this.
They split from Activision and made something magical, easily my favorite mp game this gen. They went through a lot of pain in getting the game made and i kept thinking "now that they have a solid foundation, titanfall 2 is going to be absolutely epic." Instead, we basically find out that Titanfall was a mistake and they have no idea how to take what made the first so great and improve upon it.
I'm curious to see what else they address before launch and some of the other map reveals. They REALLY need to push some classic looking maps to get people like me back on board. And that's if they even exist, which seems unlikely at this point.
I disagree so much. If you played in a premade, you always stuck together in a group of at least two in a Titan. Nothing has changed here. There was always encouragement for teamwork.
R2 Rodeo is by no means better. It's very different and it removes the number of options and strategies for a simpler version where the Pilot is never solely taking out a Titan.
I mentioned this before. There is no David vs. Goliath. Pilots are worthless to other Titans, and the best they can do is assist another Titan or fight with their own. Even if you Doom a Titan, what's the reward? A very small number of Bounty that comes with destroying them?
If you doom a Titan and the Pilot exits, then someone else takes out the rest of the health, do you get the reward? It's nothing like getting +5 Attrition Points.
I disliked Pilot Hunter mode because Titans were expendable af and no one stayed inside to fight with one since there was no gain for the other team if they beat yours up. R2 feels the same way, except outside a Titan there's no way you're taking out a good number of AI to rack up the Bounty. The best you can do as a Pilot is steal other people's Bounty.
That makes R2 Titans the only real way to get Bounty, and yet they can only be taken out by other Titans the majority of the time.
The battery system means that it's either personally under-utilised, or rather OP for someone who knows what they are doing. Not to mention, if you're in a pickup and you go against a pre-made. What do you do if your team doesn't cooperate?
I have posted these videos before, but there's more variety in this clip (my R1 Titan clip):
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Cobalt Izuna/video/182984
Than this (my R2 Titan montage):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgw5-xrnSYE
There is depth in R2. It's just no entertaining. I should not be able to do more with my first Titan in R1 than an entire gameplay session in R2. That's just so sad.
You can disagree with me wholeheartedly, but please show me a slip of a Pilot having a good fight against a Titan in R2. I haven't been able to do so myself or find anyone else's clip that shows this.
-- edit: pro-tip, use the Pilot Smoke grenade after a rodeo, so you have a way to escape since the maps are ass
R2 Rodeo is by no means better. It's very different and it removes the number of options and strategies for a simpler version where the Pilot is never solely taking out a Titan.
I mentioned this before. There is no David vs. Goliath. Pilots are worthless to other Titans, and the best they can do is assist another Titan or fight with their own. Even if you Doom a Titan, what's the reward? A very small number of Bounty that comes with destroying them?
If you doom a Titan and the Pilot exits, then someone else takes out the rest of the health, do you get the reward? It's nothing like getting +5 Attrition Points.
I disliked Pilot Hunter mode because Titans were expendable af and no one stayed inside to fight with one since there was no gain for the other team if they beat yours up. R2 feels the same way, except outside a Titan there's no way you're taking out a good number of AI to rack up the Bounty. The best you can do as a Pilot is steal other people's Bounty.
That makes R2 Titans the only real way to get Bounty, and yet they can only be taken out by other Titans the majority of the time.
The battery system means that it's either personally under-utilised, or rather OP for someone who knows what they are doing. Not to mention, if you're in a pickup and you go against a pre-made. What do you do if your team doesn't cooperate?
I have posted these videos before, but there's more variety in this clip (my R1 Titan clip):
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Cobalt Izuna/video/182984
Than this (my R2 Titan montage):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgw5-xrnSYE
There is depth in R2. It's just no entertaining. I should not be able to do more with my first Titan in R1 than an entire gameplay session in R2. That's just so sad.
You can disagree with me wholeheartedly, but please show me a slip of a Pilot having a good fight against a Titan in R2. I haven't been able to do so myself or find anyone else's clip that shows this.
-- edit: pro-tip, use the Pilot Smoke grenade after a rodeo, so you have a way to escape since the maps are ass
The complete and total lack of Titan customization is abominable. I loved being able to switch gear on the titans in 1 and that's one area where I hoped they were going to open even more customization, maybe even mech creating instead of just choosing between small, medium, and large. Nope, complete opposite direction.
Really wishing I would've skipped these two tech tests for TF2. I skipped last week's, and from the sounds of things I made a good decision. Playing it yesterday felt terrible, and I was a huge fan of the core stuff going on in TF1. I know it's not a beta and has a small amount of the content... but some of these mechanics and design choices, man. Ugh.
Diablohead
Member
"New Rodeo vs Old Rodeo : Let's face it guys, the old rodeo wasn't that good, it's okay to admit it. There were very limited ways to effectively rodeo someone."
How can I continue reading after seeing them write that, I can't take them seriously.
You know what I used to do sometimes? the moment I heard enemy feet on the hull I would force eject and kill them in the air, a waste of a titan? depends on what's going on but boy did they shit their pants and leave me alone after that.
Lol. I'm betting there will be customizable Tiatns in the final game.
thebesttheworst
Member
Me. ;-)
I've got no time for shooting bullet sponge 'anything' in an FPS - also can't see the fun in killing bots that are no threat and stand around in the open.
I'm semi enjoying 'PilotFall 2' though but can't see me buying it when the novelty and new-ness of it gunplay and mechanics wears off, might pick it up cheap further down the line one day IF Pilot V Pilot is still populated.
If the final game is like this, I would have to agree.
curiouscharles
Member
see, posts like the one you quoted from reddit do nothing but show me those people didn't understand the depth of gameplay the ostensible "simplicity" of the rodeo system offered.
firstly, not everyone rodeo'd simply to shoot a titan's brains out, it was also to bait titans into expending their smoke or cluster [both effective against rodeos, even particle wall if you knew how to use it, which many high level PC players did].
also, for modes like LTS, you had to make the choice whether to spec a "pilot-safe" titan with smoke or cluster, or whether to spec something more "titan-offensive" with particle wall, vortex shield, and/or some sort of other missile combo.
they literally are quoted as saying they tested this new mode in the last days of titanfall, and found it un-fun - which i whole-heartedly agree with right now.
i don'd find the battery game fun at all so far, despite trying it myself quite a bit, and noticing everyone else doing it as well.
encouraging teamwork was never an issue in titanfall 1, teams with higher cooperation and coordination always stomped those with less - there's all the encouragement anybody needs.
Diablohead
Member
TBH it sounds like you would be better just sticking with call of duty if you dislike doing anything else then shooting another player quickly.
thebesttheworst
Member
Really ??? On NeoGaf of all places that's the cliche response I'm getting ... ** Katie Waissel Voice ** ... WOW !
I've been playing FPS games since Doom/Wolfenstein era across PC and consoles ... Project IGI, Quake, Soldier Of Fortune, XIII, Counter Strike, SWAT 4, BF1942, Halo etc.
I just don't like bullet sponges in my online shooters these days - I'm sure I am not alone or we would all be on Destiny and The Division instead of TF2.
I've also put 290 hrs into BF4 on PS4 - doing many other things than "shooting players quickly"
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
The battery thing isn't quite as bad as I initially thought. It does add some cool dynamics. Although, I think the first rodeo should still be shooting like in TF1.
Not only does it look and feel cooler to perform, but it makes sense that you would have to shoot the hatch off.
What kind of imbicile pilot leaves the battery hatch just unlocked on their billion dollar walking tank that has an AI they supposedly care for? I don't even leave the door on my fucking Jeep unlocked. Hell. We chain our bicycles up.
Ridic.
Not only does it look and feel cooler to perform, but it makes sense that you would have to shoot the hatch off.
What kind of imbicile pilot leaves the battery hatch just unlocked on their billion dollar walking tank that has an AI they supposedly care for? I don't even leave the door on my fucking Jeep unlocked. Hell. We chain our bicycles up.
Ridic.