Zank Frappa
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Don't you play Attrition?
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TITANFALL 2 |OT| Don't Misgender Tone.
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Don't you play Attrition?
Chaos2Frozen
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How's the Double Take?
TITANFALL 2 |OT2| Don't misgender Tone
Ha
I do, but still
Is it a faction thing?
it's one of those games where I wasn't feeling challenged but didn't really want to bump it up above hard because hitscan enemies can get obnoxious when scaled up high enough.
Slowly turning from a "always last" Pilot into one that is mostly in the middle.
Still having a lot of fun but I wish I was more willing to take risks when it comes to the Titans.
I tend to stick to ION because I'm afraid to fuck up with someone I have not learned yet.
(ION seems well rounded)
The single player is not long enough to let me experiment, some sort of VR room like a fighting game (with bots) would be neat to just run around and test a unknown Titan.
Still having a lot of fun but I wish I was more willing to take risks when it comes to the Titans.
I tend to stick to ION because I'm afraid to fuck up with someone I have not learned yet.
(ION seems well rounded)
The single player is not long enough to let me experiment, some sort of VR room like a fighting game (with bots) would be neat to just run around and test a unknown Titan.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
Tried it for the first time last night. I did not like it at all. Projectile based meaning you can forget hitting moving targets at range and usually takes two shots to down someone.
IISANDERII
Member
Yea I just unlocked Tone and she does seem the best so far but still meh. I think I will try more auto titan stuff.
I think I've become that guy who gets 2500 in bounty hunt. I always wanted to be that guy.
It's funny because my last couple matches started off with the usual spawn fuckery and I still pulled it off. It's hilarious to me that the most annoying respawn mechanics I've ever been subjected to are in a game made by a company called RESPAWN. I understand a lot of that is because players move around so fast and since 99% of players are solo and uncommunicative, people are all over the damn place and there is no spawn delay. But it doesn't make it any less irritating when I shoot someone, he reappears behind me while I'm reloading, and when I respawn it drops me in a little canyon with 3 enemy titans in front of me. And then I go from $450 to broke.
Anyways, I run the extra battery boost and frequently am trying to give batteries to people in order to get the MASSIVE amount of titan charge from doing so. What does the 'call out to ally titan' prompt when you have a battery even show to said player? Because I was spamming it on an Ion in a safe area trying to get him to stop and take my damn battery. Instead he turns towards me and starts backpedaling while frantically shooting at me. I had to tell him to calm down on voice chat in order to give him the damn battery.
It's funny because my last couple matches started off with the usual spawn fuckery and I still pulled it off. It's hilarious to me that the most annoying respawn mechanics I've ever been subjected to are in a game made by a company called RESPAWN. I understand a lot of that is because players move around so fast and since 99% of players are solo and uncommunicative, people are all over the damn place and there is no spawn delay. But it doesn't make it any less irritating when I shoot someone, he reappears behind me while I'm reloading, and when I respawn it drops me in a little canyon with 3 enemy titans in front of me. And then I go from $450 to broke.
Anyways, I run the extra battery boost and frequently am trying to give batteries to people in order to get the MASSIVE amount of titan charge from doing so. What does the 'call out to ally titan' prompt when you have a battery even show to said player? Because I was spamming it on an Ion in a safe area trying to get him to stop and take my damn battery. Instead he turns towards me and starts backpedaling while frantically shooting at me. I had to tell him to calm down on voice chat in order to give him the damn battery.
Yup, that'd be great. 400 players on Attrition in Germany last night. It's kinda worrying.
Which console?
xxRONN1Nxx
Member
Enjoying this game so much. I'm about 2 missions from finishing it. Dabbled in MP for the first time. I'm a person who really isn't a fan of the FPS genres, but I loved TF1 and this game is really scratching my shooter itch. All my friend play BF1.
Looking for some gaffers to play with on PS4.
xxRONNNxx
Looking for some gaffers to play with on PS4.
xxRONNNxx
I just use a private bounty hunt game. You can kill all the grunts in first wave and get your Titan to 1v1 the ai Titan in the second wave. Attrition might work also but you don't get any ai Titans to mess with in that.
Even better if you get a friend to mess around with on the opposing team.
erotic grandpa
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Even if some of my map concerns remain, man I am so glad I was so wrong about this game. Blowout losses suck, but I feel like more often than not most games come down to a narrow win/loss. It's a blast.
Also noticing less map hack users of late. Feels like the nerf might have done its work.
That said, boy does Phase Shift feel only about half useful. Can't keep track of how many times I've died from gunfire after shifting. Hope they work that latency out, otherwise I'll go back to Stim :/
Also noticing less map hack users of late. Feels like the nerf might have done its work.
That said, boy does Phase Shift feel only about half useful. Can't keep track of how many times I've died from gunfire after shifting. Hope they work that latency out, otherwise I'll go back to Stim :/
the way Devotion works is the recoil/accuracy improves as you fire it. So yeah I often start off just hipfiring. I don't expect to beat an SMG in close quarters but sometimes jumping around throws off their aim just enough for that gun to start crapping bullets all over the place and take them out.
I use extra ammo + faster aim down sights with the stock sights. This setup helps support the playstyle of ramping up your firing speed and going to town on anyone else who joins the fight partway.
And yeah I use Thunderbolt too. People like to huddle together for warmth or something in Titans and it's funny how often I hit more than one with the orb.
Pc population seems to have stabilized from what I have seen. Every night when I get on its between 5-6k and I never have issues with getting a game. Attrition, bounty and mixed mode are always populated. Hoping between black Friday and Christmas sales through population stays stable or increases in the coming months.
PS4. Even with the Sony dominance in the mainland EU.
That sucks dude, how's the lag on the US servers?
excaliburps
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That's odd. I kinda am digging the Titan combat a lot. I mean, I enjoy the gunplay a lot, too. But I find that I work on it so I can get my mech and just tear shit up. Use Ion or Tone in bigger maps and just kill enemies? I don't see how that can not be fun.
I'm Gen2.48 now, and will regen again later. I honestly have not been burned out since I play it whenever I can (to the point I haven't played my other games), read the TF2 subreddit, watch vids and of course, read the thread here. Maybe it's due to me mixing stuff up a lot? I switch Titans almost every game (depends on the map) and even my entire loadout.
Surprisingly, I've played in 200+ms games and it's OK. Not good, but good enough that I can play it. I find that a constant 200ms game is better than something that fluctuates. Connect to Asia Data Centers? You can easily back out if it's a hassle.
I think there is. On any given time, there's 10-12K players on PS4, with that number at 16-18K on weekdays even. More than enough, but think they're matching people based on connection which is better.
First time I played BF1, I experienced that menu lag and thought it was my HDD being too full, or there was something wrong. Turns out, it's normal. That camo bug goes away if you're on PS4 Pro for some reason.
- Play the objective
- Adjust your loadout, Titan choice, etc. based on game mode and maps (contrary to CoD where people choose one "first-tier" weapons, etc.
- Help your fellow Titans when they're against another Titan. Firing anti-titan weapons, rodeing and the like will help a lot
- Don't blindly rush in when you're in a Titan, they can easily get taken down by two Pilots or even by a Titan that has its ulti ready
- Mobility is key BUT don't wallrun aimlessly and know when to stop and survey your surroundings. I find that I got killed a lot during my first few days since I wanted to be Mr. Johnny Wallrun.
- Don't be afraid to experiment, there's no "best" weapon, anti-titan weapon, etc. It's all a matter of preference
Nope. I played it on Hard right away and found that a bit too easy even. Combat is super easy since enemies are a cinch to flank.
Yep, PS4 as well. I haven't seen it dip below 15K all throughout the weekend. Mostly around the 17-20K range even. Once Black Friday and Christmas rolls around, I expect that number to spike.
This is kinda good.
Haven't tried it. Sometimes I get lag on the german servers. The ping is 50+ so I'm not sure it's worth it.
10K total. On each play list that's significantly lower. As I said, Weekend, 400 players on Attrition in Germany.
excaliburps
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My ms is constantly at 90-100 and I don't notice any lag. I get like 120-170 points in Attrition mostly, even.
From what I've asked Respawn, it migrates people to another Data Center's playlist if the wait is too long or something. 10K total for a weekday at 9:30 am ET, 6:30am PT is definitely OK. It'll reach 15K and more once afternoon US time rolls in.
The numbers aren't so low I don't get games, I just think it makes it incredibly hard to do skill based match making with 400 people in a playlist. Sure it's possible, but I don't want to wait 30 mins for a match.
I'm like level 20 and I'm coming across people who have regen'd once or twice already. Kinda frustrating because they're WAY better than me, but doesn't ruin the game.
I'm like level 20 and I'm coming across people who have regen'd once or twice already. Kinda frustrating because they're WAY better than me, but doesn't ruin the game.
Alx
Member
There must still be a bias towards Xbox for that IP, since I get consistently 1300-1500 players online for Attrition on Belgian servers, whatever the day of the week.
BlackGhost
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Garrett Hawke
Member
We're 200 pages away from OT2, why are we planning this now? 😂
I noticed this last night too on PS4, NY data center if that makes a difference (I am in NY).
Hitting playing who weee boosting and wallrunning was very difficult because they were teleporting slightly.
I like how much salt the OT title produces. The second OT should keep it.
TakeItSlowDude
Member
It feels like this game has a difficulty curve that is unfortunately similar to CoD. The second hardest difficulty is too easy but the hardest feels cheap, wish more games had difficulty curves like Halo which get both Heroic and Legendary right most of the time
RichiRamjag
Member
We'll be there before ya know it!
yeah on PC I find games about as quickly as I do with Overwatch if not faster. But you go into a competitive match in that game and it's almost always very close in terms of player rating and whether or not they are solo/grouped. Titanfall, you never know what you're gonna get. I can't think of many games that feel as bad when a steamroll happens, they've got a full organized team with 5 titans up and you have joe goober hiding in a corner with 0 points. It's possible to carry a bad team if the other one isn't organized, at least.
molnizzle
Member
Because the current title is so bad. lol
It's terrible lol. I've played a ton of the game and never even thought about that.
Zank Frappa
Banned
Um.. I have thousands of people online every evening in Amsterdam. I even connected to the Frankfurt server once and found over 1000 people on a random evening on Attrition. It might be your NAT.
The game has plenty of players on PS4 in Europe.
I'm not sure, but the grunts yell it every time you're around them, it's pretty funny.I do, but still
Is it a faction thing?
I northstar sniped a cloaked pilot yesterday by catching a glimpse of his jump jets and predicting where he'd be when he landed. I felt like Neo.
I'm getting pretty good at dealing with pilots as Northstar. I sometimes have some annoying streaks where I can't hit a damn thing though. Kinda funny thing I've noticed is how efficient she is at running shit over. No point shooting grunts one at a time, just dash over them.
edit: Tone is a problem for Northstar if you try to fight them like any other titan. I try to flank around the shields and absolutely never fly because you will be dead in a second from missiles. Tone will win in a straight up fight vs your core ability too. But it can't out-snipe you and I'm pretty sure the burn from your rockets can get around the barrier.
I'm getting pretty good at dealing with pilots as Northstar. I sometimes have some annoying streaks where I can't hit a damn thing though. Kinda funny thing I've noticed is how efficient she is at running shit over. No point shooting grunts one at a time, just dash over them.
edit: Tone is a problem for Northstar if you try to fight them like any other titan. I try to flank around the shields and absolutely never fly because you will be dead in a second from missiles. Tone will win in a straight up fight vs your core ability too. But it can't out-snipe you and I'm pretty sure the burn from your rockets can get around the barrier.
