Titanfall 50 combatants on maps, aka RESPAWN are CLUELESS!

@blackace: it says it in the article i linked, 12 bots per team in addition to 6 human players

How would you know? have you played it?

The same way you would change them in other multiplater FPS. Pick different maps, change how many players can join, change whether only soldier, titans or both can be used, whether you can respawn after being killer or not, etc.. A lot of things could be changed in a game like this. Different rules. time limits, number of kills a team gets, etc...

By who? If they're just official hosted servers, players have no control over the game mode besides those provided by the developers. It would be like COD matchmaking you just click the game type and it matches you with players and connects to an available dedicated servers. Different from something like BF4 with third party hosted servers which can have custom rulesets

Yes, but dust has been released and reviewed and you can view final gameplay of the game and see a vast number of opinions. Titanfall has not been released yet. Perhaps wait until release before making a decision

@Evo_nine:

And the only people hyping up Tiranfall regardless of any news are Lems. Titanfall could be 2 vs 2 with a room full of bots and it would still be "t3h gr3At3sT G4m3 eVa"

And what you said doesn't even make sense. If sniping sells copies, why would they care about your fun? If you are having problems with snipers/campers in battlefield, play a different gametype. A team full of snipers doesn't win objective based games.

I was actually considering Titanfall on the 360. If the bots cannot be turned off however and the game ends up being made completely for casuals, I will not buy it.

I meas seriously. Could anything possible happen to Titanfall that would make the Lems say something bad about it or expect something to change? Or do you guys worship no matter what?

Except some people do find it interesting or fun. Actually quite a lot of people seem to find the game compelling

They've made a game that, in my opinion, looks fun. Simple.

The difference is, i'm not an entitled whinge-bag.

Prove it

Opinions are like assholes...

I've been gaming since the early 90's. I think i'm good.

@lostrib:

Prove me wrong. No matter what kind of news that is released about Titanfall, the Lems continue to worship because they are fans of corporations and not games. The bots could be obese lumberjacks dressed up in drag and it would still be the greatest game ever made.

There's a pretty good reason for this. The bots won't have the ability to call titans into battle but every single actual player will. You don't want an entire battlefield of titans running around. Gotta throw in some on foot soldiers nomsayin'?

A youtuber named Matt Lees explained it pretty well. Cba to link it so go find it yourself op.

It's not my job to prove you wrong, you made the claim. You prove it's true

So many mad people. All over Titanfall not being on the PS4. Go cry and sign another petition.

You never know, you may get your wish.

This should help in the meantime. https://www.kleenex.com/

No difference then Cows hyping the shit out of KZ:SF. Acting like it would be better then any FPS on a PC. Then it gets released and it's pretty much the same game it was on the PS3 with better graphics. Well the 6 v 6 seems to be an issue with some lems, so yes gamers have certain concerns about how the game will turn out. You really won't know how good or bad it is until you play it yourself.

@lostrib:

Look around all the boards. Its proof enough. Its especially funny how these people hype a game they have never even played.

Also, if the game was on PS4 and not Xbox, the same mindless Lems would be exposing the exact same disappointments. I mean funny how the opinions are only different based on which system its on. And had the game been a console multiplat, they would ignore it just as they do with Destiny which looks like a far better game than Titanfall. You best believe though that if Destiny was M$ exclusive, all the Lems would be swinging from Bungies nuts just as they did with Halo.

And what if Titanfall does completely suck and ends up being a Brink or Homefront? Would drones like Blackace and Kuu2 ever admit it?

If Titanfall ends up being good, I certainly have a platform to play it on. We don't know this though and the idea of bot saturation does sound very lame in a competitive environment. I suggest though that the fanboy drones just wait and see if its any good before claiming this lame ass superiority.

But titanfall has 12 mechs per match. How many mechs does The Last of Us have per match? That's right. None.

We can naturally deduce that Titanfall is 12x better than The Last of Us as the number of mechs is directly proportional to game quality. Better luck next gen sony.

Greatest game of our time?! It hasn't been released & no one's played it.

1. Apparently you work at Respawn. Thanks for the inside info, junior.

2. Parkour makes Titanfall successful? lol. Have you ever heard of Brink? Titans are the game's bonus, which has nothing to do with customizable gameplay. Titans are merely a "type" in Titanfall. In contrast, let's look at games like Section 8 or Section 8- Prejudice. These games feature vehicles, Titan-esque mechs in addition to other perks such as turret bots or a bot team. The mechs and turrets as well as vehicles enhance the gameplay, but the WAY THE GAME CAN BE PLAYED ultimately contributes to why they're enjoyable titles.

3. See 1. Though to elaborate more on why you should see 1 is simply because you've basically confirmed all the modes of play that Respawn has yet to discuss. Dat inside scoopz. Mmmm.

This is a new era of multiplayer mixed with AI+ campaign, Its something different to the rest of the games on the market.

Who decided that 64 players and huge maps = more fun? I sure as hell don't find it fun, infact the most played online game in my library was mass effect 3 with only 4 players.

I honestly hope it is targeted at casuals because that would mean it will be more fun and I wont have to grind for 400 hours to get the gun I want.

I was interested in this early on, but it's going to have to win me back on this bot thing. Waiting on Demo or Beta. I'm also not really that excited about everybody getting Titans, but perhaps that is the only fair way to do it. Definitely getting a BRINK vibe with this game, partly because that game talked about having "plot" with multiplayer but it ended up being no different than normal mp modes.

2142 had walkers (mechs) and it was glorious.

Decent read.

No. Brink just hyped the heck out of parkour and the entire game was a botfest with bad graphics, shitty control and brought nothing new to the table. Titanfall is the definitive experience; although it will never trump Halo.

Also, no one who played Brink said it was spectacular. People often forget that anyone who's played TitanFall has loved it. All journalists do, all gamers like you and I do. I think people need to play TitanFall to get the fact that it's just not like any other shooter. If you think TitanFall is CoD with mechs and bots that is your problem, TitanFall is its own totally unique game that you have to look at as its own game.

I feel like a lot of people just don't understand what the game is doing, they should make a video covering all the specifics of the gameplay, just to clear the air.

I don't think we'll be getting a beta, a demo maybe, but I doubt a beta personally since we haven't heard anything at all about one.

And I wouldn't compare it to Brink honestly. Brink was a parkour fest and that was about it. TitanFall may have a "plot" with Multiplayer, but lets not forget that we saw footage of the game and this story in game looks pretty decent. I'm sure we'll have a ton of different modes to differentiate from normal MP, and also some that are like normal MP, but again, we still have had yet to try it ourselves.

Until then, I'm not sure if we can judge it fairly.

BRINK had good hype pre-release and it turned out bad:

"From our eye-watering and ear-popping first look, it seems that Brink is fully capable of fulfilling Splash Damage's mission in blurring the lines between single and multiplayer, and doing so in a way that's fast-paced, gutsy and full of thrills. Brink is more than just noise – it's also shaping up to be one of the definitive shooter experiences of next year." - IGN Preview (march 2009)

Journalists are not trustworthy. They hype things to kingdom come and along with many gamers often lack free thought. So impressions mean little to me unless they are from people I trust. This player count issue has stirred the hornets nest and introduced the issue of bots online. It's something they really need to clarify via demonstration or through an in-depth interview.

Bots are there to add the feeling of being in an actual war. If its only 6 humans vs 6 the map would feel empty and it would be like a minor skirmish instead of a battle.

I'm sure there will be a mode where you can turn bots off for competitive play, though competitive play on consoles makes me laugh XD.

@DefconRave: You can't turn them off.

You're right, custom matches would be amazing - but they aren't going to be in this game. If you're going in expecting the breadth of options from an MP classic like say Halo or Goldeneye, this just won't have that. It has a few pre-determined modes, all of them have bots, thats about it.

I do agree, this game would do really well from having some customization, or even some randomized or event-driven custom playlists a la Left 4 Dead. Unfortunately, it just won't happen.

The game is very fun still. I enjoy it tremendously.

Unlike in most games where you can sit there and guard the two ways in, in Titanfall the guy can come in through the window right behind you, he can come from the window to your left, he can come from straight ahead, he can come in from the stairway and he can come in from the doorway, or whatever. Essentially there are five directions you can get killed from and the higher that player count, the more likely you are to get killed from behind and the more difficult it is to kind of manage your surroundings. Titanfall started with 12 players on each side at the beginning of its development, but the number was slowly whittled down as the developers tried to create the right balance and feel. At one point, the number was even fewer than six-a-side, but Respawn eventually came to believe that having 12 human players was the "number that felt best" for the game it was trying to make.

@Evo_nine:

Yet 90% of the time, you are going to be killing AI. I dont really see the point of Vs multiplayer when it is mostly AI.

Nothing wrong with 4 vs 4 or 6 vs 6 games. I however expect these kind of matches to be a bit more personal. I was really set on buying this on the 360 and was even going to extend my Gold subscription just for this game. I might give it a chance. I will say however that I don't expect it to be this incredible game that everybody is making it out to be before even playing it.

Whats the point of single player when you are just fighting AI?

To be honest when I first saw titanfall, i thought it looked like poop. I hate everything mechs.

But with the overwhelming critic response to the game its certainly piqued my interest. The idea of a mass conspiracy/bribery plot of game journalists just sets my BS detector to overdrive. Given the amount of positive response... the odds of it being good seem very likely. And lord knows im itching for someone to mix up the stale gameplay of modern fps.

I may be crazy, TC, but I'm going to trust the developer's , and thousands that are having fun playing titanfall over your opinion. Don't like it? Don't play it.

@SEANMCAD: I trust Naughty Dog to make great, fun games; Bungie as well. Any game getting this much positive press deserves my attention. You do you, i'll do me. We can lol at each other........... another day on SW

And I wont disagree to an extent. I'm a 41 year old gamer, been at this a long time. Long enough to trust my instincts regarding what I like. I don't tell people what is GOTG, or what is good or bad, because I can only speak for me, and that, like all of this is subjective. I like what I am seeing from Titanfall, reading about it, and am going to play it. I'm certainly not going to take the opinion of the TC seriously when he has shown massive amounts of fanboyism to a company. The one that isn't getting Titanfall released on their 4th console.

The dynamics of the industry are absolutely irrelevant to how good or bad a game will be. The simple fact is a large number of "hands on" reviews are praising Titanfall a great great deal.

A great game is a great game, being 46 and playing a wide variety and attending lectures about indie developers really isnt something that holds any baring.