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What was your favorite Titan from Titanfall 1?
gundam
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that russian robot from pacific rim
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veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


It's fun in TVT

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BeanpolePeckerwood
May 4, 2004

I MAY LOOK LIKE SHIT BUT IM ALSO DUMB AS FUCK



Good map for LTS, PVP, and CTF.

Haven't played attrition on it yet.

Wazzit
Jul 16, 2004

Who wants to play video games?
Is the map even in the regular playlist rotation?

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

Good map for LTS, PVP, and CTF.

Haven't played attrition on it yet.

Whoops meant LTS I don't know where I got TVT from.

From what I played last night the only thing I didn't like was Live Fire, but I hate live fire anyways so...

Wazzit posted:

Is the map even in the regular playlist rotation?

I haven't even checked but didn't the other maps, or at least Angel City take a few weeks to go into the rotation?

Condoleezza Nice!
Jan 4, 2010

Lite som Robin Hood
fast inte

veni veni veni posted:

I haven't even checked but didn't the other maps, or at least Angel City take a few weeks to go into the rotation?

Yes. Angel City was added to the regular map rotation after two weeks of only being available in Angel City 24/7.

The Iron Rose
May 12, 2012

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
The map is definitely in regular rotation.

Insert name here
Nov 10, 2009

Oh.
Oh Dear.
:ohdear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhLEn0jtqC0
:saddowns:

Darth Nat
Aug 24, 2007

It all comes out right in the end.
I really love the new map, my only complaint is that the 24/7 playlist seems to disproportionately put me in live fire or pilots vs. pilots matches, and I'm useless at those modes.

Also, I noticed they finally changed the Titan difficulty rankings so they actually sorta make sense now.

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


Why aren't the new modes in the game yet? That VIP one sounds super fun.

Darth Nat
Aug 24, 2007

It all comes out right in the end.
I just really want to play the Titan deathmatch one so I don't have to bring the team down as a pilot anymore. :ohdear:

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


I'm just confused because both of those modes were supposed to be in the update right?

boz
Oct 16, 2005

veni veni veni posted:

I'm just confused because both of those modes were supposed to be in the update right?

I believe they are going to rotate them.

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

veni veni veni posted:

I'm just confused because both of those modes were supposed to be in the update right?

From the notes

quote:

New Featured Modes [we’ll be introducing these at different times in the near future]

Glitch 24/7: Get a feel for the new map by playing a variety of modes on just the Glitch map
Marked for Death: 6v6. One member of each team is Marked as targets and both teams must defend their target while trying to kill the other team’s target. Once one of the marked players are killed, the surviving Mark’s team is rewarded a point. After a few seconds, new Marks are chosen. First team to 10 kills wins.
Titan Brawl: Think of this as Team Deathmatch with just Titans. 5v5 mode with Titans only [no ejecting] and respawning. Each kill counts for 1 point and first team to 30 points wins.
Iron Last Titan Standing: It's the Last Titan Standing you know and love with a few new rules. 5v5 with no ejecting and no batteries.

Wazzit
Jul 16, 2004

Who wants to play video games?

a mysterious cloak posted:

My competence with laser shot is pretty reduced with the patch, my spaz hands were happier with the old hit box :(

Yeah the smaller hit area is making it difficult to hit faster moving pilots and at longer ranges I find myself being forced to use the zoom to hit targets. Leading targets and waiting for them to get to your reticle is still the best way to land the shots, the timing feels a bit different now though.

http://i.imgur.com/R19mOAM.gifv

http://i.imgur.com/4g8nfHx.gifv

Also here's this cool guy trying to save his Titan by jumping out and slowling climbing back into his doomed Titan. :downs:

http://i.imgur.com/rbaxVaj.gifv

a mysterious cloak
Apr 5, 2003

Leave me alone, dad, I'm with my friends!


I'm compensating by getting good with Tone, rodeos, and pilot executions. :Woot:

The G2 seems to be my gun du jour too, which is a change from the usual R201 or CAR.

Inspector Hound
Jul 14, 2003

Glitch is great, it's totally different from any other map. The multi level labyrinth aspect really reminds me of Quake or Unreal Tournament. Played CTF, Hardpoint, Attrition, PvP, and Live Fire on it so far, and while I find Hardpoint frustrating as poo poo on any map, they all work strangely well. CTF is especially fun; I liked going for the flag low in one of the trenches, then coming in the flag room through the back to surprise everyone turtled up in there. Worked more than once.

I did not expect there to be titans on it the first round I played and got the poo poo scared out of me when a Ronin phased in right in front of me and meleed me while I was just plodding along

Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Apr 28, 2017

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

yooo ps4 let's group up later tonight

Kithyen
Oct 18, 2002
I DON'T KNOW THE BBCODE FOR BIG RED TITLES SO I CAN'T FIX THIS FUCK
Feel free to message me (PS4 GT - Kithyen). I have the app on my phone so even if I'm not online I can generally get on pretty quickly. School is finally winding down and short of work, I'll just be catching up on my backlog of games.

Magnus Condomus
Apr 23, 2010

Finally picked this game up again after playing way too much Andromeda. Relearning the controls was a trip and a half! Glitch is an amazing map with great flow. I actually really like it even for Live Fire.

Couple clips:

My Final pulse blade kill to unlock the execution:
http://i.imgur.com/noojBcZ.gifv

Triple Kill in Live Fire
http://i.imgur.com/iYM8WLh.gifv

Phase shift makes you drop the flag now, which has surprising utility as a distraction
http://i.imgur.com/Quwsyd7.gifv

EnterTheFoo
Jul 3, 2007
I'm big down under.
I do not like the new ion laser update. When I try to goose people I can barely see the crosshair :(

Godzilla07
Oct 4, 2008

It's really fun making people eat their own tracking rockets

https://giant.gfycat.com/FatalAmpleBigmouthbass.mp4

and here's a play that shows why I like pilot gameplay so much

https://giant.gfycat.com/TotalImaginaryChrysomelid.mp4

a mysterious cloak
Apr 5, 2003

Leave me alone, dad, I'm with my friends!


Godzilla07 posted:


and here's a play that shows why I like pilot gameplay so much

https://giant.gfycat.com/TotalImaginaryChrysomelid.mp4

I would have died at least twice right there.

Udenpah
Mar 26, 2007
To see the mote that I preferred to all the lists of clay
Man, I picked this game up in January but the MP only started clicking in March, but now y'all prodigal sons have been kicking my butt since the DLC dropped. Is the match making skill based or on your level or what?

Also, glitch is rad as hell but bad for trying to level my rarely used assault rifles.

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

I'm not sure if they ever publicly said how the matchmaking works, I'm guessing definitely not skill based

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph
Every match I play has like 3 brand new people and 3 G10+ people, if it is supposed to be skill based it sure does an awful job at it

BeanpolePeckerwood
May 4, 2004

I MAY LOOK LIKE SHIT BUT IM ALSO DUMB AS FUCK



Hehe Score 152 Kills 15 Titan Kills 6



Scorch melts faces.

Megaman's Jockstrap
Jul 16, 2000

What a horrible thread to have a post.

Wowporn posted:

Every match I play has like 3 brand new people and 3 G10+ people, if it is supposed to be skill based it sure does an awful job at it

The way they try to do it is if there's two great guys and 4 bad ones they put the great guys on opposite teams to each other. So each team is one pro + 2 cannon fodder.

It's "balanced"...from a certain point of view

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph
In attrition at least having less bad players is better than having better top players cause the bad ones just feed the other team kills over and over. It's great to win a match by like 200 because two people on an otherwise good team just keep flinging themselves at my titan and never even manage to kill it

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem
The reality is, there just aren't enough people for skill based matchmaking to be entirely effective.

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

Mordja posted:

The reality is, there just aren't enough people for skill based matchmaking to be entirely effective.

Yeah, pretty much this. I'm sure most people here can attest to getting stomped by a team, then subsequently going against them three more times

Jamwad Hilder
Apr 18, 2007

surfin usa

Wowporn posted:

In attrition at least having less bad players is better than having better top players cause the bad ones just feed the other team kills over and over. It's great to win a match by like 200 because two people on an otherwise good team just keep flinging themselves at my titan and never even manage to kill it

It feels like any time I solo-queue for attrition I'm guaranteed to have a few games where I score 120-160 points in a 500-330 loss.

a mysterious cloak
Apr 5, 2003

Leave me alone, dad, I'm with my friends!


Matches definitely feel uneven. I had a match where we got stomped like 250-400, then a couple after that where we rolled over the other team and I got a couple of decent Tone rampages going. Still didn't score even 100 points, and score-wise it was pretty even on our side, so I guess the other team was just that much worse than us?

BeanpolePeckerwood
May 4, 2004

I MAY LOOK LIKE SHIT BUT IM ALSO DUMB AS FUCK



Mono and I played on Sunday afternoon and every game we had was extremely tight.

Try queuing up with just 1 other goon and see if that helps.

Wazzit
Jul 16, 2004

Who wants to play video games?
Jon Shiring, one of the software engineers at Respawn did a talk a few months before the announcement of Titanfall 2. He talks a lot about the design decisions for managing data across servers. He starts to talk about matchmaking around 27:30 for anyone interested. Unless I misunderstood, it seems to check by latency first and funnels the players into a server and I assume thats when it does skill based matchmaking. (At least, he mentions that there being skill based matchmaking somewhere)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayF8e8q_aA8&t=1669s


He does specifically say that having all 3 of these be true at the same time is basically impossible.




I'm also kind of assuming this all stayed true for TF2, since that was only less than a year away.



Also, forgot to post this, Gamesager had some really impressive CTF caps on his feed and he made a guide for some of his routes. The first one in particular, climbing up and boosting your way the heck out of there is some real magical poo poo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pMPPLio-QU

Wazzit fucked around with this message at 21:30 on May 1, 2017

mentalcontempt
Sep 4, 2002


Having some trouble finding games on PS4 despite swapping between various US servers from the main menu (I assume that is the purpose of the "data center" selection?) Tried Oregon, Salt Lake, Dallas, Virginia... Are there any recommendations or does it take awhile to find games no matter where?

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

What's your NAT type of whatever show? The population is low but you shouldn't straight up be having trouble finding games. Every so often I know someone just can't get their ISP to agree with TF2 and they have to gently caress with ports

Wazzit
Jul 16, 2004

Who wants to play video games?
Titan Brawl is the next featured gamemode, out soon if not sometime today.

https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/859167933737586688

Stan Taylor
Oct 13, 2013

Touched Fuzzy, Got Dizzy

Wazzit posted:

Titan Brawl is the next featured gamemode, out soon if not sometime today.

https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/859167933737586688

What's Iron LTS on that poll? I don't really like the Titan modes so I'll probably just hit up brawl for my double XP happy hour game. I've been loving glitch 24/7 though.

Wazzit
Jul 16, 2004

Who wants to play video games?
Iron LTS is just Last Titan Standing with no ejecting and no batteries.

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Stan Taylor
Oct 13, 2013

Touched Fuzzy, Got Dizzy

Wazzit posted:

Iron LTS is just Last Titan Standing with no ejecting and no batteries.

Ah. That explains the low votes. :effort:

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