Titanfall 50 combatants on maps, aka RESPAWN are CLUELESS!

seriously wtf is wrong with these cu*ts, there will be 12 bots on each team. i play multiplayer to play against humans!! why the fu$k would i want to play against bots. and if 6v6 players is enough why the f^ck are u filling each game with 24 bots?? makes no fu$kin sense. they better have a playlist without all this nonsense

http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/9/5292474/titanfall-maps-can-be-packed-with-nearly-50-combatants-including-ai

and before the lem brigade start flaming, "The higher the player count, the more uncomfortable the game gets''

this is gona be a fu&in bot fest

'Take the game's AI-controlled characters. They aren't there to fill in the roster or load out a map that only supports six players per side. They're meant to serve several different functions. On one level, the AI characters are there as fodder for players who simply aren't good enough to kill other player-controlled characters. They also serve as an easier way to load up on the experience needed to call in a Titan'

yep thats repawn dumbing down the formula so everyone feels like a fu(kin pro

so its a mix of offline and online play? hmmm

A 12-player headcountin matches of Titanfall is the sweet spot for the game, the title's lead designer tells Polygon. Any less and things threaten to get boring. Any more and the game becomes so intense it's off-putting.

Really, until we actually play the game people are just bitching for the sake of bitching.

if 12 players is enough wtf is up with 24 bots on a map then??

The Ai units are likely just fodder and hardly a threat. The real targets are the human players.

Cows looking for any reason to downplay the greatest game of our time.

Side note: Titanfall will not be playable on the PS4.

I don't understand why everyone is up in arms about playing against bots. Some of the best FPS's of our time had bot play...Timesplitters, UT, Counter Strike....! Why don't we wait and see how the game plays before we bash it?!?

the bots on those games were filling spaces until real players joined. here we have bots on matter what. it destroys all the competitive aspect of a game

Your answer is in your link:

"Why not make Call of Duty 256 players, or Battlefield 256 or 512? Maybe that would be awesome. Maybe that would be awesome for that type of game built around that, but you can't just jam players into a game and say this is what is ordained."

so technical limitation then? if 256 players was possible u best believe dice will be on that sh^t. bots in a competitive game is a fu*in joke

You base that on your time spent playing the game?

i dont need to play the game to know bots will ruin the competitive aspect. they are pure cannon fodder for casuals who suck at games. this is coming from cod creators so i dont even know why im suprised

Where are you getting technical limitations from? Titanfall was built for 6v6 -- reread the link you provided, everything is in there:

By design Titanfall is meant to be a game that while easy to drop into, is hard to master and understand the nuance of.

"When people start playing Titanfall like Titanfall, the player count becomes a non-issue," he said.

and

So player count, while important, became less about delivering a number to match other online shooters and more about finding what felt the most fun and the least overwhelming.

Throughout development, Hendry said, the team played around with a wide variety of team sizes. The game started with 8 or 12 players per side and slowly drifted down to eight, seven, five even two per side before the team eventually settled on six versus six, he said.

"It's been this number for months," he said. "We are pretty avid players in the studio. People speak their minds and we listen and make changes. This is the number that felt best.

Yes coming from the team who built the Modern Warfare 1&2 multiplayer....two of the most successful and highly praised multiplayers of last generation, if the not the most.

why have bots then? im ok with 6v6 but remove those damn bots. obviously they felt 6v6 wasnt enough but due to technical limitations they couldnt make the maps any bigger to facilitate more titans and run at 60fps so they filled the damn maps with bots

cod sucks. halo 3/gears1/bad company 2 destroy it. fu$k cod

So more than 6x6 is too intense but there are 50 combatants?

Come on, Shitspawn, get your damage control in order. It's making you look bad.

Lol Titanfall on Xbone, will play the superior one on PC.

And Titanfall 2 will come to PS4. Anyone remember what EA did with Mass Effect? Indeed

According to the link:

On one level, the AI characters are there as fodder for players who simply aren't good enough to kill other player-controlled characters. They also serve as an easier way to load up on the experience needed to call in a Titan. And they're meant to provide a sort of backstory and narrative to a game lacking any sort of single-player element.

Essentially, they're there so everyone has a chance to feel like a hero, no matter how good or bad they are.

Then there's another type of AI in the game, the one that can control your Titan. While the Titan is a walking tank that players can board and directly control, you don't have to. Instead, a player can put a Titan in guard mode, hop out to capture a hardpoint, and then return when they're done, knowing that the Titan will mop the street of enemies while you're gone. You can also place the Titan in follow mode, either to have it find you after you respawn, or to be your building-sized back-up as you make your way through a map.

All of this, the player count, the variety in play, the AI, the Titans, is also designed to be welcoming to both hardcore shooter fans and folks just dipping their toe into the often daunting genre. There are even gadgets and weapons designed specifically for those players not as dexterous as long-time fans of the genre.

Everything in Titanfall is meant to broaden its appeal "By design Titanfall is meant to be a game that while easy to drop into, is hard to master and understand the nuance of."

This is sounding like a game where you absolutely have to have eyes in the back of your head to be good at, solely because of the sheer amount of angles and random trajectories that players can traverse to reach their goal.
Being in a room and having the doors covered doesn't mean as much when your opposition can come through the windows or drop through the roof.

Your opinion on the matter doesn't change that the Modern Warfare multiplayer set the standard for the entire generation to follow -- hell I don't care for Call of Duty but it doesn't change the impact it had on video games. These guys know what they are doing.

You're so great at debating.

Lol, so angry.

A first person shooter with some mechs, is the greatest game of our time???? really what planet do you live on.

it's a simple fps which looks good. there is no doubt in my mind it's going to be good, but it is just another shooter and it's only online. But really 6 v 6 is off putting, esp when there are AI bots on, very intense is what the fps genre wants, it isn't off putting.

Lets wait to see the reviews of the game. 6vs6 might be entertaining.

Maybe I sounded a little too serious. I wasn't. It will def be GOTY 2014 though!

Chess is two players.

TC, do you have brain problems?

How many titanfall threads do we need?

Seriously?

Will be playing Titanfall with the Master Race. AI may have improved a lot over the last couple of generations of games hardware, but it’s certainly no match for real players. Anyone picking up Titanfall at release is going to have to hope Zampella is right and the real player vs. AI balancing works, otherwise we’re going to see a lot of new and used copies of the game gathering dust on store shelves later this year.

Bots aren't players, bots are easier than player and bots don't want to call in Titans. That's the biggest problem here, if you had 24 extra human players you have 24 extra Titans and that would be ridiculous, especially considering you can leave the Titan and have it patrol around, thus doubling the player count again.

Or they could limit the number of players allowed to call in Titans, and then it would just be like a killstreak from CoD or people would quit the game and join one where they could call in a Titan. They don't want that clearly, the game is called Titanfall, everyone should be able to call them in.

And maybe, juuuust maybe, this isn't your typical deathmatch game and they actually want to do something new and different with it by having the AI on top of human players.

" On one level, the AI characters are there as fodder for players who simply aren't good enough to kill other player-controlled characters. "

**** that noise.

lol fair enough, can never tell on system wars lol some people are very serious.

anyway why do you think it will be game of the year??

Only list Titanfail will be on this year is "most disappointing game."

Looking forward to the games media totally losing their credibility over this. "Bu bu but Arthur Gies said it was good!!!!"

This is a weird one. Gameplay alone seems like it will be fun as hell. So fun that it may even overshadow whatever story is there. So can a game win GOTY on gameplay with little or no story? Has it ever been done? I don't know.

Does Titanfall even have a SP campaign?

It will be original, it's a new way to play multiplayer games with smart A.I. for sure. Cows in denial again.

Then don't buy it!

You can't play it on your PS4 anyway.

small servers.

That's all.

You already know the answer.

Not sure I can bring myself to buy it now. Thanks for the heads up TC.

to those complaining about the player count have you ever thought they want to make the game feel more like a warzone were you have the six human players on each team acting as force multipliers for the AI behaving like grunts.

As a single player I will have 6 human enemies, six Titans to battle and bots. That's a great mix in my view between human and AI opponents. Its supposed to be a fats paced battle and that's what it will be. TC does his best to find fault with anything Xbox One related, which is fine cause some things are true. But in this case the player count, which people bitched about was too few and now its too many when we all know its 90% Sony fans complaining the most about a game they can only play on a PC or MS system making the most noise. TitanFall from all videos is a fast paced action multiplayer and I think Respawn made a good call with the player count only after testing it to see what works best.

As a single player I will have 6 human enemies, six Titans to battle and six bots. That's a great mix in my view between human and AI opponents. Its supposed to be a fast paced battle and that's what it will be. TC does his best to find fault with anything Xbox One related, which is fine cause some things are true. But in this case the player count, which people bitched about was too few and now its too many when we all know its 90% Sony fans complaining the most about a game they can only play on a PC or MS system making the most noise. TitanFall from all videos is a fast paced action multiplayer and I think Respawn made a good call with the player count only after testing it to see what works best.

com the **** down...

I pretty positive there will be multiple game types and this one could be the main one with the story tied in

They are probably sick of a sniper fest and campers that suck the fun out of the game like it does with battlefield

I personally cant wait, the only ones talking down titanfall are the cows. Surprise surprise lol