Titanfall

[Abraham Smashington]

Yep. This deserves its own thread. Played a ton of this game this weekend.

Curious to see how the devs support this game going forward. The "single player" is laughable which was to be expected.

Attrition is nice to level up quickly with and Hardpoint is always a fun mode to play.

I wish there was more customization in the mechs/pilots in terms of looks/colors/etc.. but it's still pretty fun.

[BillyG]

I think you're doing it a disservice calling it single player. Even the tutorial checks into the servers. I wish there was more scripting, or something, during the campaign so I got a better sense of the world.

I've only been playing Attrition, just a little bit of Hardpoint. I need to play some of the Pilot Hunting still, which seems like it should be a ton of fun. I wonder if they're not going to add in additional game types with DLC, it seems like they might be.

[Abraham Smashington]

I'm not doing it a disservice, the game is.

It's kind of lame that there isn't a more fleshed out single player game. I have no idea why I'm doing what I'm doing. At least I'm having fun though.

But if this is like any other FPS, I'll get bored within a few weeks. I'm hoping that won't happen as I'd like to find a new game that can keep my attention for more than a week or two.

[BillyG]

They're not doing it a disservice though, because they've never said there was a single player campaign. It's definitely underwhelming, but they never said it was single player. They also never talked about the campaign as being a selling point to the game, so they didn't hype it up at all. They've always been all about the competitive multi.

The COD games kept my attention for a pretty long while, but I am wondering how long Titanfall keeps my attention. There's a ton of other stuff coming out, so I won't need to focus my attention on it completely, but it's pretty perfect for a pick it up and play for an hour or two then do something else experience. I just really wish there was more weapon/perk customization, if so I would probably want to play a ton more.

[gravedigger]

I'm happy not to be overwhelmed with choice re: perks and weapon load outs. I've been trying to achievement whore the "win all campaign matches with both sides" achievements and basically run one Attrition class that works well and one Hardpoint class that is Beast Mode. I really wish the game would tell you which missions you've own and with which side. Based on the Achievement app, it looks like I'm only missing one, maybe two, victories on each side but I have no idea which. Plus "quick match" always puts me on Militia and one of the last three missions. I could summarize the las third of the Militia campaign for you pretty well at this point.

And now that the newness has worn off I virtually never pilot my Titan. Maybe it's because I suck with it but I rack up many more kills and assists with the Titan set to follow me around. It usually provides a good diversion for me to shoot other people.

And I don't think even Respawn thought about the campaign. I assume they threw it on there so they could tell people "see, we have a story!" It's definitely not the draw of the game.

[BillyG]

Yeah, I almost never actually pilot my titan. Only in very specific situations. I found myself loving the following Titan more than riding it during the beta.

[Abraham Smashington]

You guys are nuts. I"m a goddamn beast with my titan. PUNCH ALL OF THE THINGS ALL OF THE TIME.

[gravedigger]

It seems like I get a big target painted on my back whenever I jump in. There could be no one within three miles of me and as soon as I strap in I have three enemy titans shooting at me and a guy rodeoing my back. If I leave the Titan on follow he lasts almost the whole match.

[Abraham Smashington]

Gots STRIDE ALL OVER THE PLACE. Also my burn cards help haha.

[Abraham Smashington]

I wish I could kill you guys

[gravedigger]

I was all excited to use the cool cloaking burn card but as soon as I activated it I spawned right in front of a bad guy and died instantly.

[BillyG]

Shock Rocks is the most OP burn card there is. Pair it with a sidewinder and get up high and out of view of most titans? ALL THE KILLS.

[gravedigger]

I thought the sidewinder was garbage compared to the Archer at first but I spent some time with it yesterday and it was the bomb dot com, as the kids say.*. I just wish you could use it while you're rodeoing someone without blowing yourself up.

*the kids don't say that, do they?

[B_Metal]

I thought the sidewinder was garbage compared to the Archer at first but I spent some time with it yesterday and it was the bomb dot com, as the kids say.*. I just wish you could use it while you're rodeoing someone without blowing yourself up.

*the kids don't say that, do they?

Only Guy Fierri says that.

[Abraham Smashington]

had some decent matches tonight with some people chatting. Good stuff. Hoping to have some highlights up on youtube in a day or two.