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Keasar

Member
Why does the Attrition mode have to be so popular? The most boring mode in the game where everyone defaults to four items, Smart pistols, Electric Smoke, 40mm cannon and cluster missiles. It is annoying and boring to go through it all the time. Hardpoint should be the true mode of the game, concentration points where you will know other players are and with more varied setups of weapons and gear.

I just get sad to see that there is always about 1000 players or more in Europe playing attrition and barely a 100 playing Hardpoint, even though it is the more fun mode.
 
Why does the Attrition mode have to be so popular? The most boring mode in the game where everyone defaults to four items, Smart pistols, Electric Smoke, 40mm cannon and cluster missiles. It is annoying and boring to go through it all the time. Hardpoint should be the true mode of the game, concentration points where you will know other players are and with more varied setups of weapons and gear.

I just get sad to see that there is always about 1000 players or more in Europe playing attrition and barely a 100 playing Hardpoint, even though it is the more fun mode.
Attrition is such a shit mode and the people that play it are shit. Hard point is good, but CTF is the best mode ;)
 
CTF IS the best mode. MFD is a close second.

How's the population on PC these days?

Low, but enough to get into games consistently without waiting. Albiet, in playlists with more than 10 people. I play variety and it usually has ~50-60 players, but matches come quick.
 
Attrition is such a shit mode and the people that play it are shit. Hard point is good, but CTF is the best mode ;)

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manfestival

Member
smart pistol is possibly the worst idea ever for FPS. anyways, I really hope they dont include it in titanfall 2.

on a positive side. its nice that it doesnt feel awful when im doing bad cause I can just kill grunts and spectres lol
 

turcy

Member
LTS continues to be amazing. Pulling out a win in a 1v3 scenario really gets your heart rate going :D

agreed.

can't get enough LTS.

when bad CTF maps, or attrition / MFD get too much play in variety pack - LTS is always my favourite fall-back for some good ol' games.
 
Any advice for using Titans? I die instantly every single fucking time in a Titan. I think the longest I've ever survived in a Titan was a minute. It's getting really annoying, I like being a Titan but it's frustrating that every time I try to use one I die almost instantly.
 

manfestival

Member
Any advice for using Titans? I die instantly every single fucking time in a Titan. I think the longest I've ever survived in a Titan was a minute. It's getting really annoying, I like being a Titan but it's frustrating that every time I try to use one I die almost instantly.

I would suggest waiting for a couple of friendly titans to be nearby and sticking by them. That way you can help one if they get rodeo'd or likewise. I will also try to keep my distance from buildings since its easy to be surrounded by pilots who will unload on you if you are alone or in a tight spot. I will hold my titanfall for a while sometimes till I feel its a decent time but when i get impatient it gets dusted pretty quick
 
Any advice for using Titans? I die instantly every single fucking time in a Titan. I think the longest I've ever survived in a Titan was a minute. It's getting really annoying, I like being a Titan but it's frustrating that every time I try to use one I die almost instantly.

Are you getting killed by pilots or titans?
 
Man over the past two days I have went from diamond tier 5 down to tier 2 thanks to what has to be the biggest stretch of garbage teammates I have ever had. 99% of my friends have moved on from this game so I am almost always playing solo and it sucks when you go up against even 2 or 3 partied up players in LTS.

I didn't lose any battlemarks for these two games, but at one point I back to back had 18 titan kills and still lost both games. Fuck. I wish they could implement a mercenary LTS mode. I guarantee it would be very popular.

Still never seeing any DLC in the LTS play list. Is it just not activated for DLC at all? Surely sometime I'd think I'd be in a lobby where everyone had some DLC.
 
Any advice for using Titans? I die instantly every single fucking time in a Titan. I think the longest I've ever survived in a Titan was a minute. It's getting really annoying, I like being a Titan but it's frustrating that every time I try to use one I die almost instantly.

What modes do you play and what set up do you use?

Maybe you're using the Stryder? It's weak as fuck, gotta use that boost to avoid getting demolished.
 

Shpeshal Nick

aka Collingwood
Can any of the Respawn guys let us AusGAFfers know if the game will support the new Melbourne and Sydney servers?

Would be fantastic to get ping as low as 10.
 
I guess I just suck at this game? I'm done using a Titan. Every fucking time I die almost instantly. How the fuck can Ogre Titans using the chaingun take my shields and HP down in 1 fucking clip? It's insane. I'm using an Atlas and die too funding fast to do anything. How is even using a Titan worth it? it's not.
Are you getting killed by pilots or titans?

Both.

I would suggest waiting for a couple of friendly titans to be nearby and sticking by them. That way you can help one if they get rodeo'd or likewise. I will also try to keep my distance from buildings since its easy to be surrounded by pilots who will unload on you if you are alone or in a tight spot. I will hold my titanfall for a while sometimes till I feel its a decent time but when i get impatient it gets dusted pretty quick

I try but I always get killed almost instantly. Liek just now I had a titan and instantly not even a moment after I enter it I'm downed by an enemy titan. Not even a minute after entering it an enemy Titan 2 shots me. That's fucking insane, and yet I can barely touch enemy Titans. What am I supposed to do? My machiine gun does jack shit damage to Titans.
 

Izuna

Banned
130-1, about to get battlemark, game crashes and resets everything (even my burn cards)

126-1 about to win and get battlemark. What? Less than 75%? Oh yeah, someone joined at the end of the game...
 
I just joined a game of LTS and was there for one round and lost a battlemark. Shit is just so dumb sometimes.

Also I was accused of using a mod tonight because I killed a cloaked ejecting pilot with the arc cannon LOL.
 
This game is just too damn good. Playing in the CTF playlist at night will really test your mettle.

I guess I just suck at this game? I'm done using a Titan. Every fucking time I die almost instantly. How the fuck can Ogre Titans using the chaingun take my shields and HP down in 1 fucking clip? It's insane. I'm using an Atlas and die too funding fast to do anything. How is even using a Titan worth it? it's not.


Both.



I try but I always get killed almost instantly. Liek just now I had a titan and instantly not even a moment after I enter it I'm downed by an enemy titan. Not even a minute after entering it an enemy Titan 2 shots me. That's fucking insane, and yet I can barely touch enemy Titans. What am I supposed to do? My machiine gun does jack shit damage to Titans.

Enemy titans are probably getting crits on you. Notice the glowy red bits on Titans when you take their shields down? If you hit those you do significantly more damage. They are probably also dumping their secondary on you. As far as pilots are concerned, they will be tossing arc nades and hitting you with all kinds of ordinance, so you gotta shoot them down first. Really, you just need to stay mobile, juke, and get behind cover when appropriate and give your shields time to recharge. If a pilot rodeos you (listen for the sound, since the warning doesn't come up until they've already torn your hatch) be ready to use electric smoke, or the cluster missile to get them off. Failing that, you can pop out of your Titan and try and shoot them off, but that's a risky move. Instead, try crouching and looking towards the ground for a moment. Since this motion is very similar to the movement that occurs when you get out of your titan, most pilots will jump off instinctively. When they do, you can quickly pop up and blast them. But don't think that a Titan will last a significant amount of time anyway - they are disposable tools and should be used situationally to your advantage.
 
anyone else experience pretty frequent hiccups with this game on PC?

[ie - every few seconds it freezes momentarily, then resumes]

i've tried all the fixes online, but it's still happening for me - any insight would be most appreciated.

my specs;

4770k
780ti classified
16gb ram

*side note - updating to the latest nvidia drivers allowed me to up my AA from 4xMSAA -> 8xMSAA, or 8xCSAA -> 16xCSAA with no performance hit!
 

Izuna

Banned
Season History bugged out. Waited for reset and saw my Diamond V get saved permanently as Diamond IV. Picture to show I never lost the rank. Lost all motivation to play now.

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This is a monthly Ranked Chip that resets you down about 10% of the way. I really hope someone from Respawn fixes this.

Yes I know, it "doesn't matter", but that's for you. For me I just bought a Titanfall controller which is just as important and awesome for me to use as it is to see a perfect record of Diamond V.
 
anyone else experience pretty frequent hiccups with this game on PC?

[ie - every few seconds it freezes momentarily, then resumes]

i've tried all the fixes online, but it's still happening for me - any insight would be most appreciated.

my specs;

4770k
780ti classified
16gb ram

*side note - updating to the latest nvidia drivers allowed me to up my AA from 4xMSAA -> 8xMSAA, or 8xCSAA -> 16xCSAA with no performance hit!


ummm... 16XCSAA is built to have nearly identical performance impact as 4XMSAA (with better IQ) it's been like that forever, a driver shouldn't change that because It has been this way since NVIDIA designed it.

In that same vein 8XCSAA is about the same IQ as 4XMSAA but with less performance impact.

Scroll to the bottom and check the last sentence:
www.nvidia.com/object/coverage-sampled-aa.html
 

Rayme

Member
Season History bugged out. Waited for reset and saw my Diamond V get saved permanently as Diamond IV. Picture to show I never lost the rank. Lost all motivation to play now.

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This is a monthly Ranked Chip that resets you down about 10% of the way. I really hope someone from Respawn fixes this.

Yes I know, it "doesn't matter", but that's for you. For me I just bought a Titanfall controller which is just as important and awesome for me to use as it is to see a perfect record of Diamond V.

....well that doesn't seem right.

Want to PM me your gamertag/origin name? If you're up for it, we'll pull your data next week, and see if we can see what went wrong (and, ideally, fix it on our end). Sorry for the trouble... consider it secret diamond 6, or something. =)
 

Granadier

Is currently on Stage 1: Denial regarding the service game future
....well that doesn't seem right.

Want to PM me your gamertag/origin name? If you're up for it, we'll pull your data next week, and see if we can see what went wrong (and, ideally, fix it on our end). Sorry for the trouble... consider it secret diamond 6, or something. =)

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Season History bugged out. Waited for reset and saw my Diamond V get saved permanently as Diamond IV. Picture to show I never lost the rank. Lost all motivation to play now.

YN0oTRN.jpg


This is a monthly Ranked Chip that resets you down about 10% of the way. I really hope someone from Respawn fixes this.
You get bumped down after each season. And you get bumped down one battlemark for inactivity each day starting at the seventh day (i think). When was the last time you played a ranked match in that season? Did you go to Diamond V with the full five extra battlemarks? It's hard to say because your picture is skewed but the line doesn't look quite straight. Not saying it's not a bug that got ya, just making sure you didn't turn off your ranked chip and accidentally let it decay at the end. I gave up on Season 1 when I realized that I was going to be away from my Xbox for the last two weeks of December meaning even if I maxed the thing out it was going to decay at least a rank.
 

Izuna

Banned
You get bumped down after each season. And you get bumped down one battlemark for inactivity each day starting at the seventh day (i think). When was the last time you played a ranked match in that season? Did you go to Diamond V with the full five extra battlemarks? It's hard to say because your picture is skewed but the line doesn't look quite straight. Not saying it's not a bug that got ya, just making sure you didn't turn off your ranked chip and accidentally let it decay at the end. I gave up on Season 1 when I realized that I was going to be away from my Xbox for the last two weeks of December meaning even if I maxed the thing out it was going to decay at least a rank.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=145690978&postcount=55

I made that post over at the gaming side. Pretty much my Last Game Summary shows I was still D5. The only proof I guess I don't have is that I played it on the 24th/25th, which is after the last decay. I also checked this a few hours before the Season reset so I was super sure I was still D5. If it showed D4 I would have kept playing.
 
I'm not accusing/asking for proof, just making sure that you understand the decay system. hadn't seen that thread on the gaming forum (though honestly, I think it's a bit much).

I'm not a huge fan of the decay system as it is. I mean, as it is the seasons are one month long... so it seems like the new season decay is plenty. What good does forcing someone to play once a week throughout the month really do? Why can't I just build up my rank at the start of the month and go home for Christmas? If I had access to my console literally all I would have done would be to play two more ranked games a week apart, and not decayed at all, losing two battlemarks at most if I sucked those rounds.
 

Izuna

Banned
I'm not accusing/asking for proof, just making sure that you understand the decay system. hadn't seen that thread on the gaming forum (though honestly, I think it's a bit much).

I'm not a huge fan of the decay system as it is. I mean, as it is the seasons are one month long... so it seems like the new season decay is plenty. What good does forcing someone to play once a week throughout the month really do? Why can't I just build up my rank at the start of the month and go home for Christmas? If I had access to my console literally all I would have done would be to play two more ranked games a week apart, and not decayed at all, losing two battlemarks at most if I sucked those rounds.

Yeah I know, I am just making sure it's known I understand the system and I wouldn't have posted this if there was a chance decay was responsible for this.

I mean, the only thing it affects is a Season History page only I can ever see. But it's just nice to have a personal goal. If it keeps me feeling like I have a way to progress until Titanfall 2 that would be awesome.
 
I'm making getting 3 stars on everything my Titanfall 2 goal. My season history was screwed from the first beta season where I got to Diamond IV with 4 battlemarks, and dropped a few tiers (i'm sure those struggles are well documented in this thread somewhere). I don't know if getting 3 stars on every map and mode is actually do-able, but at least once I get a 3-star done it won't decay on me!
 

Izuna

Banned
I'm making getting 3 stars on everything my Titanfall 2 goal. My season history was screwed from the first beta season where I got to Diamond IV with 4 battlemarks, and dropped a few tiers (i'm sure those struggles are well documented in this thread somewhere). I don't know if getting 3 stars on every map and mode is actually do-able, but at least once I get a 3-star done it won't decay on me!

Attrition will be ran, I have about 20% of the 3 stars. Thankfully all of the other modes have more simple ones other than Pilot Hunter I guess.
 
So I haven't played the game Much at all since launch day on PC. So, aside from the added maps, Titan voices, and gamemodes, what are battlemarks and what are their purpose compared to 'Gens' (should I turn the ranked thing on or off), what's the deal with this new ingame currency system, and are there now any actual advantages to going past Gen 1?

Anything else I missed that I should read up on or look into before getting into this game again?
 
The battlemarks thing tries to quantify skill. If you aren't really good, you're never going to hit Diamond V ranking. The gens are just the inexorable call of duty style prestige grind.

As for benefits of going past gen 1, each re-gen adds to the amount of burn cards you can have in your inventory. When you max out at gen 10 you can have 100 or so. I forget what it is at gen 1.

The purpose of the in game currency is to buy said voice packs, and to buy new burn cards. You can buy burn card packs, and there are also daily deals where you can buy specific single cards.
 
New patch today touting bug fixes and connectivity. 4th game I played tonight, boom, crashed. Lots of "Failed to join game (4)" messages as well.

Not to mention Time Warner is giving me horrible pings.
 

Izuna

Banned
Well, after what happened I got a reply on reddit.

Pretty much, they tested it resetting at DV with 0 marks and said then I must have lost a mark due to decay.

Annoying because I mentioned this but I guess there is no way for them to know. I definitely played after the last time it said it wouldn't decay, so I don't know if it was considered broken or something but whatever it is I was DV just before the reset.

I definitely played after the last time it said it wouldn't decay, so I don't know if it was considered broken or something but whatever it is I was DV just before the reset.

Looking at the graph now and the last game history, it seems that Season History it shows a dip because DV at five marks and 0 marks shows up differently. But the graph is a complete straight line from about half way to finish so it never shows a dip from DV :( it was just recorded that way.

Just going accept they won't fix the history.

http://imgur.com/a/GzqPP <------ This is the last time I can post this as my Last Game Summary will change.

In the above pictures it shows that my apparent DIV has a steady graph. This is my proof the only proof it is a bug. The Last Game Shows me with over 150 points and 1 Death. If Respawn could somehow find out when that game was played (it was 24/25th) and compare that to when the final decay was for December, they would know it would be impossible for me to still have this Summary and have had it decay.

I don't want to say they handled this bug badly, because I know they can't see what I saw (which was me being DV a few hours before reset). Still, If there is any chance this could be fixed I really want it to be. I love this game and the moment I get the Titanfall controller this happens. :(

Big bummer.

If it decayed at the same time as the reset and just didn't say it would, that would be the only thing I could imagine happening.
 
Ugh, I had a long thing typed out but apparently I accidentally closed the window, let me try this again.

Anyway here's a decay graph from my season. This is Diamond V, with 5 battlemarks decaying uncontrolled until that final bump up at the end where I regain all my battlemarks in one night. First decay takes 7 days, after that it decays after every day:

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It looks like they tried to make the graph pixel perfect at 1080p. That is, there's 126 states to represent (you can have 0 to 125 battlemarks by my count). Unfortunately when you take in account the borders, and the size of their data points, I count about 120 pixels that they actually use. So the scaling ends up being less than perfect. Notice that if you look at some of the decay sections in isolation, they're actually flat lines with the data points lined up with each other, even though they do represent at least one decay each. I say at least one because the X axis is compressed bizarrely as well. There's 27 data points to represent the 30 days of November here (and presumably the same 27 points to represent 28, 29, and 31 day months). So it seems likely that one of those data points would end up representing 2 decays worth in that 11 data point decay sequence.

On the PC version it's clear though that the 2 pixel line has some subpixel information in that the top pixel row gets lighter and the bottom pixel row gets darker when you lose a battlemark (line segment 1 is no decay, line segment 4 is decay but without the actual data point moving down):

danvGD0.png


Looking at your pic, it's clear that your line follows the no decay version the whole way, top pixel row slightly darker than the bottom pixel row, no change in color left to right. Also it matches the pixel distance of my decay when I would still be in the Diamond V range. Though I can't really be conclusive on that point because of all the scaling issues.

tl;dr - I agree your season history conclusively shows no decay (or other loss of battlemark for that matter) in the zoomed in section.
 

Izuna

Banned
Ugh, I had a long thing typed out but apparently I accidentally closed the window, let me try this again.

Anyway here's a decay graph from my season. This is Diamond V, with 5 battlemarks decaying uncontrolled until that final bump up at the end where I regain all my battlemarks in one night. First decay takes 7 days, after that it decays after every day:

kuD5Eai.jpg


It looks like they tried to make the graph pixel perfect at 1080p. That is, there's 126 states to represent (you can have 0 to 125 battlemarks by my count). Unfortunately when you take in account the borders, and the size of their data points, I count about 120 pixels that they actually use. So the scaling ends up being less than perfect. Notice that if you look at some of the decay sections in isolation, they're actually flat lines with the data points lined up with each other, even though they do represent at least one decay each. I say at least one because the X axis is compressed bizarrely as well. There's 27 data points to represent the 30 days of November here (and presumably the same 27 points to represent 28, 29, and 31 day months). So it seems likely that one of those data points would end up representing 2 decays worth in that 11 data point decay sequence.

On the PC version it's clear though that the 2 pixel line has some subpixel information in that the top pixel row gets lighter and the bottom pixel row gets darker when you lose a battlemark (line segment 1 is no decay, line segment 4 is decay but without the actual data point moving down):

danvGD0.png


Looking at your pic, it's clear that your line follows the no decay version the whole way, top pixel row slightly darker than the bottom pixel row, no change in color left to right. Also it matches the pixel distance of my decay when I would still be in the Diamond V range. Though I can't really be conclusive on that point because of all the scaling issues.

tl;dr - I agree your season history conclusively shows no decay (or other loss of battlemark for that matter) in the zoomed in section.

Thanks haha.

I wish that I was playing on PS4 so I could have just recorded the time it said had 3 hours left as a DV. That's what's so annoying, I am stretching for proof, where as I saw it with my own eyes. It's not something I just didn't understand.
 
man, getting into a full game on PC [in non-attrition game modes] is starting to prove HIGHLY difficult...

to make matters worse, everybody's just partying with their friends lists now so if you're not partied yourself, you'll likely wind up in an unbalanced match and get non-stop rekt.

tempted to double dip on xbone version, just to have people to play with, but can't let go of my 1440p anti-aliased graphics & kb+m controls...

need, more, people.
 
Well, a XIM4 can give you a decent KB+M experience, but the turn speed is pretty low. Not so much on the 1440p or rock-solid framerate but honestly it's not that bad. I'll say I've been getting mostly good games. LTS and CTF playlists have been pretty good for me playing solo. It seems like most playlists have enough people to make matchmaking work, in the US at least.

I don't see many 6 man roflstomp parties these days, more like 2-4 good players paired up occasionally. It seems like most of the hardcore Gen 10 players have moved on, it's pretty common for me to see the full range from noob to pro in lobbies now. I'd say it's worth a double dip on sale, after all people got the game plus all the maps for like 10 bucks in November was it?
 

Argonomic

Member
Annoying because I mentioned this but I guess there is no way for them to know. I definitely played after the last time it said it wouldn't decay, so I don't know if it was considered broken or something but whatever it is I was DV just before the reset.

I spent some time trying to reproduce this issue but could not. That doesn't mean you didn't have the issue, it just means that the issue was caused by additional factors that you and I are unaware of.

There might be a clue in your personal data, but I don't have the ability to pull it, and even if I did, the data I would need to look at was likely overwritten when the new season started.

So I don't have many options left to address the issue other than to ask QA to be on the lookout for issues related to season precision, which I have.

If you're able to reproduce the issue again, with more before/after screen shots, it's possible that I could identify the pattern, repro the issue, and fix it.

Thanks.
 

Izuna

Banned
I spent some time trying to reproduce this issue but could not. That doesn't mean you didn't have the issue, it just means that the issue was caused by additional factors that you and I are unaware of.

There might be a clue in your personal data, but I don't have the ability to pull it, and even if I did, the data I would need to look at was likely overwritten when the new season started.

So I don't have many options left to address the issue other than to ask QA to be on the lookout for issues related to season precision, which I have.

If you're able to reproduce the issue again, with more before/after screen shots, it's possible that I could identify the pattern, repro the issue, and fix it.

Thanks.

I know, sorry.

I knew from the moment that the graph is all that I had that I would be grasping at proof. It's not a big deal and I shouldn't make it so. I'm kinda angry at myself for waiting go play, I did just in case my JP connection wasn't good enough and I would end up losing a rank just before the Season would reset.

I really appreciate you took the time out and the team to look for an issue that it seems only affected myself. I love this game and this bug can't stop it being the most competitive fun I've ever had. I guess the best hope I have is to keep playing for next season and try to have the same thing happen (I hope it does).

I've been a little too OCD about this among other things. After all, I'm the only one that can see the Season History.
 

Tawpgun

Member
Is there a master list of all the changes this game went through? I haven't really played it since the summer.

I think I only saw the first map pack? The one with the VR map. Now I hear there's a horde mode and skill ranking?

I might pick this back up once the H5 beta finishes
 
Is there a master list of all the changes this game went through? I haven't really played it since the summer.

I think I only saw the first map pack? The one with the VR map. Now I hear there's a horde mode and skill ranking?

I might pick this back up once the H5 beta finishes

they're all posted on the titanfall website, here's the biggest one with the frontier defense mode [ie - horde mode], et al;

http://www.titanfall.com/game-update-eight

There's links for updates 1-7, & 9 as well.

Really tons has been added, and they continue to develop / support the title in small ways.

***Also, anyone playing on PC should add me - Origin ID is curiouscharles
 

Kordelle

Member
Anyone here who wants to play LTS/CTF?
going for the 2000G and need dem victories.

Europe would be fine, my Gamertag is: mrkordelle
 
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