Titanfall Beta

[Gelston]

You can get it on XBox One right now. Any of you in it?

[Taernath]

I have a PC key... installing it right now.

[SHAFT]

I'll be logging in a few hours. Cutting my 4 day weekend short to play titanfall.

[Taernath]

Played a few matches... holy shit is this fun.

[Taernath]

So, here are my beta impressions after a few hours and making it to rank 10:

PROS
- Very fast-paced infantry combat like the arena shooters of yore
- Parkour is effective and fun
- Titan combat is slightly slower paced, and is effectively a different game-within-a-game
- Graphics and animations are amazing
- No lag or server issues
- Feels fairly well balanced, i.e. Titans aren't a godmode killstreak
- The 6v6 works well due to the size of the titans, and plays similar to tower defense games where the AI controlled enemies are like creeps

CONS
- Content feels a bit light for the $60 price tag
- No single player
- Only 3 game modes (attrition = deathmatch, last titan standing = deathmatch in titans with no respawns, hardpoint domination = capture objectives)
- Titans tend to bunch up on smaller streets
- Enemy AI is pretty terrible

[SHAFT]

Every time I put in my code I get an error message. Im using xbox one. Says something went wrong, try again later. That sucks.

Now I'm reading you don't actually need a code for Xbox one. Except the titanfall icon on Xbox one takes me to a screen with no option to play, start, or install.

[Ashliana]

So, here are my beta impressions after a few hours and making it to rank 10:

PROS
- Very fast-paced infantry combat like the arena shooters of yore
- Parkour is effective and fun
- Titan combat is slightly slower paced, and is effectively a different game-within-a-game
- Graphics and animations are amazing
- No lag or server issues
- Feels fairly well balanced, i.e. Titans aren't a godmode killstreak
- The 6v6 works well due to the size of the titans, and plays similar to tower defense games where the AI controlled enemies are like creeps

CONS
- Content feels a bit light for the $60 price tag
- No single player
- Only 3 game modes (attrition = deathmatch, last titan standing = deathmatch in titans with no respawns, hardpoint domination = capture objectives)
- Titans tend to bunch up on smaller streets
- Enemy AI is pretty terrible

The content is light because the beta was only a fraction of the game. There are like 2 maps in the beta, but supposed to be about a dozen on release, as well as other modes (Team Deatchmatch, CTF) and a single-player campaign. The AI on the minions is supposed to be bad--it's to give low-skill players something to do, and decent players something to do while searching out other people.

My only con would be that the in-client voice chat is really low quality, and people will just end up using Skype/etc instead.

[Taernath]

There is 100% for sure no single player campaign except for some narrative thrown into the multiplayer games, sort of like Brink or maybe the last Halo.

CTF is a new mode, but team deathmatch is just another deathmatch skin. I would really like see something like Battlefield's Rush mode, where you've got to defend some objective against the enemy team

[Gelston]

The content is light because the beta was only a fraction of the game. There are like 2 maps in the beta, but supposed to be about a dozen on release, as well as other modes (Team Deatchmatch, CTF) and a single-player campaign. The AI on the minions is supposed to be bad--it's to give low-skill players something to do, and decent players something to do while searching out other people.

My only con would be that the in-client voice chat is really low quality, and people will just end up using Skype/etc instead.

They've said multiple times that there will not be a single player campaign.

[SHAFT]

BWAHAHAHA. My dude goes "I'm almost done with this build. I wanna oc the hell outta this desktop. Titanfall is about to drop." And I'm like What is that, a game...it sounds like a game. And he like starts mouth breathing angry words in my general direction and rants about it being the most anticipated blah blah blah. And I'm like so....it's a game. So I came here to see what you guys say about it. So I guess it's a game.

The end.

Just say yes.