Respawn Entertainment's - Titanfall

    First day I get a beta code and the servers are down for hours and hours and hours and hours. Can't say I'm totally full of shit


    On the positive side, the download was surprisingly light and Origin setup (or re-setup?) was pretty painless.

    Decided that if even FMPONE is trying it (sell out) so should I. Wanted to sign up for the beta, needed to make an Origin account, did a Google if I could remove the account afterwards, many pages of people raging on Answer HQ, only solution is to call EA, mission aborted.

    Played it for a couple of hours yesterday, really good stuff! And yeah, so fucking fast paced, much faster than I'd expected really, both in terms of gameplay and round time, makes it pretty easy to always justify just playing another round

    It was fun while it lasted, played a couple of rounds but it started to feel boring after that. It felt like I was revisiting a game I've played before. Probably because Titanfall is a mashup of today's most popular fps games(BF, COD) and adding some robots to the mix.


    Not saying it's a bad game. Every aspect of the game is really well done. I wasn't even annoyed that it's missing a server browser. It just isn't for me. I'm glad I got to test the beta.

    Quote from dux

    Four rounds in and this is fucking sweet. I love it. I need a new graphics card though, my 560 is chugging like nuts with this

    Yeah, I had to drop textures down to medium for it to run at 30 fps even. Source Engine is really showing its age.

    Man I just sat playing this straight for over an hour, the rounds are really fast which I like.


    So my thoughts:


    Pros:


    • Very smooth and seamless. The walljumping and transitions are neato.
    • Nice and smooth gun combat.
    • Good, simple easy to navigate menu. FOV Slider that goes to 90! GOTY
    • Good maps! The two I played were really easy to navigate, looked nice and flowed well.
    • I like the little burn cards feature that give you little buffs.
    • Shooting the baddie AI is actually kinda fun too. They're dumb as bricks but it's satisfying to blow them apart as well as real players.
    • Ermahfuckingurd giant robots are cool I'm 12 go away.
    • Watching your mech drop into the battlefield is fucking sweet.
    • Ripping some poor asshole out of his mech is fucking sweet.
    • Getting into your mech is fucking sweet.
    • Having a 5 ton giant mech chaingun that sprays tank shells is fucking sweet.


    Cons:


    • That lock on pistol can sod off
    • Surprisingly low FPS for a source title. I'm packing a water cooled 4.2ghz FX8350 16gb ddr3 and a 560gtx... yeah the 560 is letting me down, but I was surprised at how much my FPS tanked in combat. Wasn't expecting that. Must be all the smoke and stuff, as a lot is going on.
    • A little bit laggy. I've had several moments where I'm shooting a baddie and he just disappears. Literally, poof, gone. This hasn't happened enough to ruin my enjoyment of the game though, but has occurred a few times where I could of killed them. No biggie though.


    Moments that made me squirm with a little girl:


    I'm in my mech being a boss, I'm on an 8 kill streak and feeling good! Come across a baddie mech who I start to bust chops with. Stuff is going well but then a second baddie mech turns up around the corner and starts touching my butt without permission. Stuff is going bad, my shields are gone, I'm on fire, sirens and shit is going off all around me, my mech is calling me a terrible pilot and that I should kill myself but I'm like STFU I got this. I get some serious damage into one of the enemy mechs but can't hold off the second. But just before I think it's all over and my 8 kill streak is done, two friendly mechs come fucking storming past me all guns and rockets blazing, shields flaring up and bullets flying everywhere and save my broken, smoking, on fire ass. But to make this moment even cooler, just as the friendly mechs are pushing off the two enemy mechs, a third friendly mech drops in from the sky directly into the fight and then there's a huge explosion from one of the enemy mechs going nova. Fucking. Cool.


    I'm usually a moody cynical asshole about most things. So yeah. I'm having fun. A lotta fun. I even forgot about Origin.


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    Glad people are giving it a try. Its great to get feedback, good or bad.


    If anyone is having problems getting a code, PM me and Ill see what I can do. It might be a slower reply because of the weekend.

    I hope the release version will have more weapons.

    also I like that because the mechs are so big sometimes you will have this shuffle match with friendly mechs trying to walk down a road.

    Quote from CompoSITe

    Glad people are giving it a try. Its great to get feedback, good or bad.


    If anyone is having problems getting a code, PM me and Ill see what I can do. It might be a slower reply because of the weekend.


    Or you can go to EA Live Chat support and ask nicely, and you get access. Like I just did. Downloading now!

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