Titanfall 2 Catch-All

Putting out feelers for a possible Titanfall Tuesday play time for PC. If we get enough people to turn out, we could even set up private matches. How would 6pm pst/pm est work for people?

Having played a bit more of the multiplayer now, I'm not sure how much I like it anymore. It's lost something in the transition to the sequel, though I'm not quite sure what it is - maybe I just changed as a player since the first game. There don't seem to be a lot of maps, and I don't particularly like the ones that are there. Too many kills (both mine and my opponents') stem from getting the jump on someone unaware. I don't feel like I have much of an impact on the result of any match, unless I happen to kill the whole enemy team by myself once or twice. I don't like Bounty Hunt at all, Attrition seems toned down from the original, and the amping mechanic of Hard Point encourages sitting near a point the whole match a bit too much.
That all said, I mostly enjoyed the couple of hours I spent with it, but I don't think this is going to be a mainstay multiplayer title for me, I'd rather spend my limited gaming time on something else. The campaign was also fantastic. I never would have thought that I'd enjoy the campaign so much more than the multiplayer.

Here are my issues with the MP

-sights: the graphic design and functionality of the sights are all terrible. it's a world with holo projections and helmet HUDs.. why does my gun need such a thick sight structure that blocks a sizeable portion of my view?

-powe curve: in TF1, when you levelled up and unlocked new weapons, it gave you access to new play styles. the guns weren't strictly better, just different. in TF2, the higher level guns are more powerful versions of the lower level ones.. same type of gun but with better stats.

-titan waves: I'm not sure what's causing this, but the snowball effect of one team getting the edge on titan numbers is way too strong. I think the changes to the rodeo system might play into this as it's much harder to get a rodeo kill now.

there's an incoming patch that's supposed to nerf maphack/sonar effects and balance the Titans but I worry that all they can/will do is tweak numbers.. I don't know if they can address the issues I have with it.

Amoebic wrote:

Putting out feelers for a possible Titanfall Tuesday play time for PC. If we get enough people to turn out, we could even set up private matches. How would 6pm pst/pm est work for people?

I'm down and know a couple others that my be able to join as well. This week though I'm out for work.

I work half days every other Tuesday so I can't make it this week, either!

So is this Tuesday night bad? Is anyone else available?

Activated phasewalk just as at titan exploded. You can see me take damage during the phase, but not die. I like the fact the game allowed that.

http://xboxclips.com/IDg4f/0bf997e9-...

I should be on tonight given the election is happening and the results could be terrifying.

Northstar's railgun has one of my favourite gun noises of all time.

Anyone around at 10pm EST?

Any way we can change the happy hour time on XBL GWJ network? It's like 5PM central, so no bonus merit ever.

Also, I see almost no Xbox players. Is everyone on PC for this one this time around?

I join a bunch of networks to the times when I play. Easy happy hour merits.

Hemidal wrote:

Any way we can change the happy hour time on XBL GWJ network?

PC network as well please, I don't think anyone ever makes the current 1-2 pm slot

Dakhath wrote:

Anyone around at 10pm EST?

I'll be on shortly.

Holy crap! Single player spoilers:

Spoiler:

Press L1 to Time Travel

Aristophan wrote:

Holy crap! Single player spoilers:

Spoiler:

Press L1 to Time Travel

Yeah, the single player campaign is amazing. It's like they made one level each of a a bunch of slightly different games that are all thematically similar. Kind of like the whole Final Fantasy experience squished into five or six hours.

Thumbs up.

Just finished the SP campaign. Really well done if a bit short. Hoping for a story DLC perhaps?

Had a great time playing with you all last night! Maybe we'll try and maybe this a regular Tuesday event.

Dakhath wrote:

Had a great time playing with you all last night! Maybe we'll try and maybe this a regular Tuesday event.

I would be down for this. Last night was just me drinking and sobbing but in the future I will be around.

Apparently this is 35 dollars at target for ps4 /Xbox one.

1Dgaf wrote:

Apparently this is 35 dollars at target for ps4 /Xbox one.

Went to store. Product priced $60 on shelf. Told if I go to customer service they'll price match. Customer service desk won't price match unless I buy online and wait 2 hours for "store pickup" system to catch up.

f*ck you Target, f*ck your marketing manager that decided you won't price match your own product and f*ck a custoner unfriendly culture that let me walk out with no sale. Bunch of f*cking amateurs. Seriously.

Man that sounds stupid as hell.

Don't worry, it's $35 on Amazon as well.

Top_Shelf wrote:
1Dgaf wrote:

Apparently this is 35 dollars at target for ps4 /Xbox one.

Went to store. Product priced $60 on shelf. Told if I go to customer service they'll price match. Customer service desk won't price match unless I buy online and wait 2 hours for "store pickup" system to catch up.

f*ck you Target, f*ck your marketing manager that decided you won't price match your own product and f*ck a custoner unfriendly culture that let me walk out with no sale. Bunch of f*cking amateurs. Seriously.

Not a guarantee, but you might want to say something to this effect (less colorfully of course) on Twitter to see if you get some sort of response for your trouble. My gf has had a positive experience or two by doing so, most recently when she posted tasteful, yet negative comments hash tagging a national car rental chain.

Top_Shelf wrote:
1Dgaf wrote:

Apparently this is 35 dollars at target for ps4 /Xbox one.

Went to store. Product priced $60 on shelf. Told if I go to customer service they'll price match. Customer service desk won't price match unless I buy online and wait 2 hours for "store pickup" system to catch up.

f*ck you Target, f*ck your marketing manager that decided you won't price match your own product and f*ck a custoner unfriendly culture that let me walk out with no sale. Bunch of f*cking amateurs. Seriously.

My wife ran into issues at Target as well. She was able to get them resolved after explaining their own sale to them!

My copy should be here Saturday. Looking forward to playing!

SallyNasty wrote:

My copy should be here Saturday. Looking forward to playing!

It is suuuper fun. I'm finally getting the hang of the mobility stuff and I'm flying around in the single player just punching everyone in the face, then I go stealth while the rest of the enemies scramble around. It's a great feeling.

EDIT: Oh hey hello wrong thread don't mind me just not paying attention to what page I'm on.

cartoonin wrote:
Top_Shelf wrote:
1Dgaf wrote:

Apparently this is 35 dollars at target for ps4 /Xbox one.

Went to store. Product priced $60 on shelf. Told if I go to customer service they'll price match. Customer service desk won't price match unless I buy online and wait 2 hours for "store pickup" system to catch up.

f*ck you Target, f*ck your marketing manager that decided you won't price match your own product and f*ck a custoner unfriendly culture that let me walk out with no sale. Bunch of f*cking amateurs. Seriously.

Not a guarantee, but you might want to say something to this effect (less colorfully of course) on Twitter to see if you get some sort of response for your trouble. My gf has had a positive experience or two by doing so, most recently when she posted tasteful, yet negative comments hash tagging a national car rental chain. :)

I actually was thinking about this as I walked back to my car. Unfortunately I'm too old for the Tweets.

I put TF2 in my Amazon cart last night (thx for the heads-up!) but when I woke up this morning to add some other household stuff it's back to regular price. Oh well.

I'd just like to add that this is why retail is dying and I for one welcome our new Amazon overlords. All hail Lord Bezos and his glorious, new regime!

So I think there might be a fundamental flaw in the matchmaking process.

I just noticed that it makes teams based on faction, and then sets up two teams of different factions against each other.

except that.. faction are unlocked by level, which means that the matchmaking system is making unbalanced matches by design.. wtf?