On January 20 2014 18:29 rebuffering wrote: I know it shouldn't bother me, but it does. The game is using The Source Engine. Now, i love Source, i think it does a lot of things well, but seriously? They are using a 10 year old engine, for the "next gen" of consoles, its shallow of me to say that it bothers me, but im sick of getting the same recycled engine, over and over. None of the videos, or screenshots look impressive at all, im sure they've done it because it would cost far less to use a pre-made engine, rather than building a new one, or rather, buying a license from Crytek or Frostbite for example. The gameplay doesn't even seem that great in the 1st place, and we're supposed to play it with an outdated engine? It shouldn't surprise me tho, since the lead Dev's are former CoD devs, so they probably love to recycle. Does anyone else have an opinion on this? Im kind of a stickler when it comes to game engines. I can play games like Terraria, or Minecraft, which really have no graphical fidelity, graphics don't make good games, but im sure there a certain limitations imposed on using these old, and tired engines. As broken as something like BF4 is, at least its graphically stunning, and has tonnes of physics at play all the time. Apparently this game doesn't even have Ragdolls, which we all know is easily supported by the Source Engine. Seems all very lazy to me.
The game looks good. It runs smoothly. The gameplay looks like alot of fun.
The opinion that graphics need to be absolutely top of the line for each new "big" release is actually very damaging for the gaming industry, since it costs so damn much for things that are completely unrelated to gameplay, which is what games should be about.
Indeed. Respawn has its ducks in a row. I'd rather play a game that functions well than one that simply looks pretty.
Looks pretty solid. My only gripe would be with the map. I watched the dude play 3x on the same map and it just seems underwhelmingly small. 3 capture points and about a 10 second run from A to B and B to C. Maybe it's just the urban setting, but I hope this game will feature a few larger maps as well. Gameplay seemed fluid, fast-paced and fun. But yeah there will be the casuals running on the ground and those of us who will literally LIVE in the air :D even to a "touching the ground is shameful" point :D double jetpack jumping through every window ftw.
First game in a while I have been really excited about, missing playing the FPS series so much I have been playing a couple MW1 games each week.
I also think the 6v6+AI is great, I think of the AI more as space control not as "feel awesome" or something.
They are more like another asset the player has to combat some aspects of the game, since I imagine 6v6 no AI could put a too big focus on stealth, sneaking and ambushes than the game is going for.
6v6 is fine. The game is too fast paced to go any higher. As for the AI, they're like Dota creeps. They'll probably be useful for pushing points and such.
6 vs 6 is fine if the maps and everything are designed with that in mind. Games like Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike both use smaller team sizes for their competitive matches, and it's actually the higher player count matches that are played by the "casuals". Both high player count and smaller ones can work in different games.
Also found confirmation that the game will have dedicated servers for all platforms:
"We're using Microsoft's cloud compute initiative to run all our servers for it, so it's all running on dedicated servers," Owens said. "We'll spin up and spin down servers as necessary, and it'll do all the AI hosting and physics calculations and all matchmaking and all of that good stuff. It's all dedicated servers, all the time." Owens also confirmed the PC version would feature dedicated servers.
I can't get the beta sign up to work, it just opens a pop up window then immediately closes me and directs me to a page instructing me to sign in. Can't sign-up on the website either, I have pop ups enabled and ad block off.
On February 12 2014 14:04 Scrandom wrote: I can't get the beta sign up to work, it just opens a pop up window then immediately closes me and directs me to a page instructing me to sign in.
Happened to me too at first, though my problem was not logging into Origin. Turned out I was using the wrong e-mail.
On the actual Beta page, I input my info. but had to reload the page once and reconfirm for it to go through. Try that.
the hud seems filled with useless things, especially the titans' hud.
I really hope this game is gonna be as fast paced as it is said to be by journalists. Are betatesters allowed to spread feedback (videos etc... ?) cba with all the shooters being so slow :|
for people who are interested. this footage is from an event a few days ago. what you can see is that foot soldier combat seems to mostly revolve around killing the NPCs because the map seems rather large. Only in titan against titan you get consistent pvp
I also think the 6v6+AI is great, I think of the AI more as space control not as "feel awesome" or something.
Its for the fucking casual-scrubs, that go like 0-20 in BF4. 6v6 + AI is UNACCEPTABLE on PC.
My experiance is that big teams makes for poor ability to express skill. Having played primarly CS and MW1 and 2 I have always found games with teams over 8v8 to just be too much.
An AI is going to combat in a specific way, just like a guy mentioned they are like creeps in dota. If you don't handle them properly they will hurt you, and they provide a safety for the players. And much like providing gold in dota they, from my understanding of it, will help you get your titans faster.
Imagine every single creep in dota being a player, and then they just all fountain camp, and there are no neutral creeps. That is basicly what having 20v20 or 30v30 turns it into, in an extreme sense.
I also think the 6v6+AI is great, I think of the AI more as space control not as "feel awesome" or something.
Its for the fucking casual-scrubs, that go like 0-20 in BF4. 6v6 + AI is UNACCEPTABLE on PC.
I'd rather play 6v6 + some AI bots for fun than do 32v32 clusterfucks in Battlefield. The fewer players, the more room for displays of skill. There's a reason why, to this day, counter strike remains the most popular shooter out there by a significant margin.
On February 12 2014 14:04 Scrandom wrote: I can't get the beta sign up to work, it just opens a pop up window then immediately closes me and directs me to a page instructing me to sign in.
Happened to me too at first, though my problem was not logging into Origin. Turned out I was using the wrong e-mail.
On the actual Beta page, I input my info. but had to reload the page once and reconfirm for it to go through. Try that.
Hmm, still no luck, the xbox one sign up works unfortunately I don't have an xbox one.
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