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Eyud posted:I think this means Titanfall 3 will be awesome, then EA will start meddling, then West and Zampella will give em the birds and walk out to start a new studio where they make an even better series. West has been long gone before Titanfall 1 ever came out. Jason West clashed with most of the studio and uh, gave the studio the bird and split. It's been Vince Zampella running the show from since then on. It was mentioned in the Making of Titanfall documentary that's only available in some lovely app by Geoff Keighley that is actually pretty interesting and shows that Titanfall 1 was barely a game 3 months before launching (They only had 1 Titan type in December before their March launch). Also I guess Polygon has an article about the West and Zampella fallout. quote:A person close to the company says that revelations about West's erratic behavior at Activision, which came out during the depositions, upset Zampella. "Vince felt that Jason was sabotaging the company," says the source. As the Respawn team scrambled to finish Titanfall, West was barely coming to the office. In March, he officially parted ways with his longtime partner, moving his family to North Carolina and leaving Zampella in control of Respawn. In an interview in April, Zampella refused to elaborate on what had separated them-except to say, "It's hard to work with one person for 15 years." Wazzit fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Nov 10, 2017 |
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# ? Nov 9, 2017 23:58 |
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https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/928746577174282240 All of these replies are just all "rip" "condolences" "don't do it" "should we get the shovel ready?" The only congratulatory reply that I've found was: https://twitter.com/johntdrake/status/928751395406151680
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 00:04 |
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I wanted to say "Man, that sucks." but I won't. I can be optimistic.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:
This is in my opinion true. TF2 while not having the playerbase of the last CoD (basically due to all the parents buying it to their screaming kids), was better in everything and even kept a small but solid playerbase. The SP is still important for players and being honest, last CoD with a "fun" SP or at least enjoyable was black ops 1 because of the vietnam setting and the silly number poo poo. And that was 2010 (MW3 in 2011 was loving poo poo and everything after).
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 00:09 |
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Not everyone is despairing https://twitter.com/TheMasterHunt/status/928747175013740545
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 00:12 |
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https://www.pcgamesn.com/titanfall/titanfall-online-nexon-cat-mech What is going on. I love this but, what is going on.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 00:12 |
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Clearly it's an attempt to siphon some D.Va players from Overwatch!
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 00:26 |
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Obviously the they were in talks for a while, but it's just really weird timing what with Visceral being shuttered, and the Bioware studio that made ME:A being torn apart recently.
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Mordja posted:Obviously the they were in talks for a while, but it's just really weird timing what with Visceral being shuttered, and the Bioware studio that made ME:A being torn apart recently. Visceral wasn't a brand name in the same way as the other studios, I think, but yeah, in the aftermath of the Andromeda mess I think EA is feeling like it wants to lock down some assets...and their portfolio isn't so hot this year so I'd say Respawn probably came into this game with a good hand.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 01:05 |
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Just watch, Anthem is going to bomb, because it's a Destiny trendchaser rather than being a game made for its own merits, and then the entire Bioware name will become history.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 01:37 |
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Titanfall 3. Powered by Frostbite 3.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 01:58 |
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Visceral wasn't a brand name in the same way as the other studios, I think, but yeah, in the aftermath of the Andromeda mess I think EA is feeling like it wants to lock down some assets...and their portfolio isn't so hot this year so I'd say Respawn probably came into this game with a good hand. And of course there'll be no reflection on how EA corporate culture played a role in the Andromeda mess. Or Visceral and Dead Space 3.
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Alehkhs posted:Titanfall 3. Powered by Frostbite 3. Oh god. I forgot about their across the board Frostbite engine requirement for all studios. I hope this isn't a loving thing and replaces the 4 years of work they put into the Source engine but jesus, what a loving bummer.
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Alehkhs posted:Titanfall 3. Powered by Frostbite 3. Yeah, this would be the worst result of it all.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 02:03 |
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Titanfall is a multiplayer first person shooter with vehicles though so it would fit the bill for what the engine was made to do, unlike mass effect
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Wazzit posted:Oh god. I forgot about their across the board Frostbite engine requirement for all studios. I hope this isn't a loving thing and replaces the 4 years of work they put into the Source engine but jesus, what a loving bummer. the priorities of Frostbite are very mismatched with Respawn’s historical priorities of a responsive, smooth experience The EA buyout reminds me of this quote from Zampella around the launch of the game.
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Digirat posted:Titanfall is a multiplayer first person shooter with vehicles though so it would fit the bill for what the engine was made to do, unlike mass effect No, actually it's a total mismatch. The physics properties of nearly everything in TF are very carefully tuned, it's not just about looking good...it's also about crunching numbers in a way that yields predictable results for the player.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 08:02 |
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what does that sentence mean
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Wazzit posted:Oh god. I forgot about their across the board Frostbite engine requirement for all studios. I hope this isn't a loving thing and replaces the 4 years of work they put into the Source engine but jesus, what a loving bummer. Wait what? EA seriously forces everyone to use Frostbite? I mean, Frostbite is amazing in BF1 but I don't get why this is a thing. gently caress this.
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s.i.r.e. posted:Wait what? EA seriously forces everyone to use Frostbite? I mean, Frostbite is amazing in BF1 but I don't get why this is a thing. gently caress this. From the profile about Visceral Games's failed Star Wars project: quote:There was the engine, Frostbite, which had never been used to make a third-person action-adventure game. In the video game world, an “engine” is a collection of code that is reused across games, often including basic, boring features like physics simulators, graphics renderers, and animation systems. For the past half-decade, EA has mandated that all of its studios use the Frostbite engine, which was designed by the EA studio DICE in Sweden to make Battlefield games. Also I think I'd rather have EA's negligence compared to Titanfall suffering the same fate as LawBreakers, also published by Nexon. https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/928752593354059776?s=17
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Godzilla07 posted:From the profile about Visceral Games's failed Star Wars project: Wow, that's incredibly hosed.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 08:28 |
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it was blamed for a huge amount of the trouble in mass effect andromeda's development since a tool designed to make large-scale multiplayer first person shooters is perhaps not the best tool for making like half of mass effect's bullet points, such as detailed animations. I wonder how much time they had to spend reinventing the wheel on things that unreal already provided.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 08:37 |
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I wonder how much water that theory that EA pushed TF2 out the door at a bad time in the year all to lower the price of Respawn holds. It's really but also EA has a long record of sucking poo poo so it makes it a little believable.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 08:39 |
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Digirat posted:what does that sentence mean What does anything ever mean?
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 08:57 |
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I know it's kotaku and whatever but I guess Titanfall 3 is confirmed?? https://twitter.com/seamoosi/status/928745995151822848
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 09:08 |
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Better get the shovels out. Respawn is as good as dead.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 09:51 |
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MechaSeinfeld posted:I know it's kotaku and whatever but I guess Titanfall 3 is confirmed?? And if you want a reason to believe: https://twitter.com/GameAnim/status/928754900393062400
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 13:45 |
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Does this mean when TF3 has tons of bugs due to using Frostbite we'll see a lot of in the thread? EA can't be stupid enough to impose Frostbite on them, can they? Yes, I know they can and are.
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Lumpy posted:Does this mean when TF3 has tons of bugs due to using Frostbite we'll see a lot of in the thread? Maybe having two semi successful games on the source engine will be enough to keep them from doing it. The idea of blowing up bunkers to get to the soft chewy pilots inside is kind of seductive though...maybe they'll fix the bugs in frostbite this time, and [studio becomes defunct]
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Lumpy posted:Does this mean when TF3 has tons of bugs due to using Frostbite we'll see a lot of in the thread? EA's made it very clear they want all their studios using Frostbite. It was brought up in regards to ME: Andromeda's development.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 16:53 |
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Respawn. Doesn't matter if it's next year or next decade, they're doomed. They're already on the long slippery slide toward being shut down for not making googolbux because EA's hamfisted cashgrabbing bullshit sours their fanbase.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 19:02 |
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I was interested in Star Wars Battlefront 2 and then I watched a quick preview and right there on the main menu screen is a big button that says "GET MORE CRATES" and it's like SEE YA! Not gonna do this poo poo anymore, sorry.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 19:06 |
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I guess this means I'll be able to microtransact my way to the best Titan before even playing multiplayer.
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 20:02 |
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well gently caress. this is the first time a studio I've really loved since the start got sucked into the EA black hole. hope they manage to stick around and keep doing cool poo poo but
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 20:03 |
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It usually takes awhile so I wouldn't worry. Like Visceral got to make 4 and a half games over around 9 years, the industry or EA could change massively in that amount of time.
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Yeah let’s pump the brakes a bit and not freak out yet, at the very least we’ll be able to enjoy a TF3 albeit with some loot 📦 It’s an inevitable slow death, see how long they can ride it out
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# ? Nov 10, 2017 20:49 |
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They may even create another studio called Respawned and make good stuff after that, or EA changes... Who knows.
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Maybe the devs will leave and start their own studio and give us FitanTall: Space Frontier pilots Battle Evil Corp
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