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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 28, 2014 14:01:08 GMT -5
www.titanfall.com/game-update-sixMy notes: 1) New featured game mode: pilot skirmish. No AI, no Titans, just pilots, 8v8. "People" (aka CoD fans) asked for it, so their wishes are granted. This is not available in variety pack. Looks like a noob manget... Could mean shooting fish in a barrel (aka pilots sprinting around on the ground) from parkour supremacy... Of course, this could also be camp er heaven; 2) Marked For Death earned its spot as a permanent play list; It's a fun game mode, good addition. 3) The ability to buy individual burn cards from the Black Market; Great, I can finally put my 500K+ credits and counting into good use by buying the cards I want specifically for the next game. 4) "Roll the Dice" burn card: "a new ultra-rare Burn Card that gives you the ability to tap into your entire deck from inside a match. It’s the Fabergé Egg of burn cards if you will." Not sure what this means, the ability to pick any card from my deck in the middle of the game? 5) Burn card auto fill option, when enabled, will make sure that you always have all slots filled before going into the game; 6) Join game late will not count if you lose, but will count if you win! Hopefully this will reduce the chance of shorthanded team staying shorthanded, due to players joining late choose to leave immediately; 7) Drastically decreased the chance of lopsided games; Great, 3v6 LTS games have been quite annoying; 8) Alive pilots will be shown in LTS as well; 9) Titans no longer show up on the minimap when they dash. This is HUGE. More power to the Stryders! 9) Premium pack is now more attractive: "Black Market we slightly reduced the chance to get rare cards in the Standard Pack, and increased the number of rare cards in the Premium Pack from 4 to 5." 10) Rare cards can now be sold for 400 credits; Bye bye, Spectre Camo. (In Brown's case, bye bye, Echo Vision ) 11) Nerf to Stryder Big Punch. This along with 9 above = replace "Big Punch" with "Core Accelerator" 11) the Bonus XP-to-Credits conversion rate for max level players has been adjusted to slow down credit earn rates; 12) Fixed the shotgun, vortex fireback, and arc cannon bypassing Titan shields when used against a Pilot doing a friendly rodeo. Titan riders: Giants' shoulders are now much safer; 13) A future update is coming, including the Wingman LTS game mode;
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 28, 2014 14:02:04 GMT -5
Another huge updates packed with goodies. Good job, Respawn.
That said, I am disappointed that the "tracked challenge not working" bug did not get fixed.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Aug 28, 2014 14:26:09 GMT -5
I wonder how Pilot Skirmish will work out. Since people can't look up your K/Ds and that there is no killstreak rewards I would hope people will move around, not corner camp, and generally make it an awesome playlist. I'm excited for it. Just last night I was lamenting with you and Dumien that there's nothing we can do in a 3v6 party situation once the Titans show up. I think Pilot Hunter will completely dry up outside of Variety Pack with this update. I should really hit that playlist and get the last level I'm missing for the "I've Seen It All" achievement. Anyway, another sexy update, though I'm a little disappointed that they didn't add some sort of FFA mode. 11) the Bonus XP-to-Credits conversion rate for max level players has been adjusted! Woohoo! More credits to us Gen 10s. I think they mean you will get fewer credits.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 28, 2014 14:31:08 GMT -5
They don't have a release date for this yet. I will be pissed if this does not come out before 09/08, after which I am going to be AFK most of the time for a month...
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Post by wittyscorpion on Aug 28, 2014 14:38:28 GMT -5
11) the Bonus XP-to-Credits conversion rate for max level players has been adjusted! Woohoo! More credits to us Gen 10s. I think they mean you will get fewer credits. Looks like you are right, hey want to limit max level players from having lots of rare burn cards. Interesting... OP updated.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Aug 28, 2014 14:39:24 GMT -5
Well, looks like the last notes went up 2 days before the update went live. Though I think updates typically hit on Tue/Thur, and with the holiday weekend coming I expect it to launch on Tue, Sep 2 at the latest.
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Post by Will on Aug 29, 2014 3:22:26 GMT -5
When the game first came out, and I got hooked on the parkour drug we all now know and love, I wanted nothing more than a pilot-only mode. But now, as my parkour skills peaked early on, I am finding myself to be extremely overpowered in a Titan. I don't think I can let my big sexy hunk of metal go, so I probably won't be playing the new gamemode much after trying it a couple of times.
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Post by mannon on Aug 29, 2014 12:06:20 GMT -5
I'll try it, but they don't call this game Titanfall for nothing...
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 2, 2014 12:45:41 GMT -5
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 2, 2014 13:30:29 GMT -5
Rolling out now:
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 2, 2014 13:35:12 GMT -5
Starting update right now, 426mb
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 2, 2014 13:39:27 GMT -5
Starting update right now, 426mb Did not expect the patch to be this big, interesting. Any bros who want to see what the game play is like, check out this live twitch stream.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 2, 2014 13:43:06 GMT -5
I think the title updates for current gen games have all been a little huge compared to last gen, and the sizes reported aren't necessarily accurate. Anyway, trying to search for a Pilot Skirmish lobby and it is not going anywhere Black Market Daily Deals appear to give you a list of cards with a price in credits, and you can buy exactly one card, so I just bought an echo vision for like 6600 credits, not a great deal. But the amped EVA for like 800 seems more like it. Basically expect to pay out the nose for rare cards that you actually want. Probably still worth it though.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 2, 2014 13:52:20 GMT -5
Game loading Pilot Skirmish War Games on PC, put me in lobby by myself instead of getting stuck on the searching screen though. On the PC version I was offered different cards, including a Spare Stryder for around 5,500, and the new "Roll the Dice" card for almost 50,000. So I'm guessing the rarity for pack drops for it will be in the neighborhood of 1/10 the normal rare cards.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 2, 2014 14:10:45 GMT -5
PC version seems to be a batshit insane smart pistol clusterfuck. I didn't think 8v8 would be this hectic.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 2, 2014 14:12:58 GMT -5
Starting update right now, 426mb Did ,not expect the patch to be this big, interesting. Any bros who want to see what the game play is like, check out this live twitch stream. Watched a couple of games fron the stream, first team to 100 kills for the win, game play very fast paced and shoot anything that moves simplifies the thought process Charge Rifle is probably the only anti titan weapon worth using in this lobby…
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 2, 2014 14:21:06 GMT -5
PC version seems to be a batshit insane smart pistol clusterFoxtrot. I didn't think 8v8 would be this hectic. PC players can parkour and bunny hop much more effectively and I can imagine 8v8 games will be like pack of wolves converging on any red dots on the minimap.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 2, 2014 15:06:51 GMT -5
Seems others have the same issue as me with the Xbox version. Hopefully they sort it out soon.
Sound whoring gameplay is back, run stealth kit or risk being camped like a boss.
A couple of disappointing things.. no extra custom slots for "Pilot Skirmish", so you need to mess up your regular classes to get something decent for the mode. The mode is stupid in that it still has you picking your Titan class even though you can't get your titan. The autofill burn cards thing is also stupid in that it gives you crap that doesn't apply to the mode. No, please do not fill my slots with Super Charger in the Pilot Skirmish playlist. It really wouldn't have taken much effort to blacklist some cards based on the mode that's loading. Just poorly thought out and implemented.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 2, 2014 15:30:40 GMT -5
Seems others have the same issue as me with the Xbox version. Hopefully they sort it out soon. Sound whoring gameplay is back, run stealth kit or risk being camped like a boss. A couple of disappointing things.. no extra custom slots for "Pilot Skirmish", so you need to mess up your regular classes to get something decent for the mode. The mode is stupid in that it still has you picking your Titan class even though you can't get your titan. The autofill burn cards thing is also stupid in that it gives you crap that doesn't apply to the mode. No, please do not fill my slots with Super Charger in the Pilot Skirmish playlist. It really wouldn't have taken much effort to blacklist some cards based on the mode that's loading. Just poorly thought out and implemented. They put the Pilot Skirmish in the "featured playlist", which is designed to be a rotation of different game modes. Certain configurations are probably attached to the playlist, so not easy to change. Does Marked for Death finally get its custom loadout slots?
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 2, 2014 16:01:06 GMT -5
MFD now has its custom slots. I don't think it would be hard to have custom slots for the featured playlist. What's the worst that would happen? They'd rotate in the new game mode and you'd have to change your classes at that point or they'd just be reset. As for the rest, I don't think it is that hard. But either way it comes off as sloppy. Once it becomes a 'permanent' playlist (I really think this will be popular and bring back some of the guys that prefer COD to Titanfall, at least until AW hits) then what... will they have 2 extra custom titan slots for a game mode that doesn't support titans?
Finally got into skirmish on Xbox One. Not sure if it's the maps (I got Lagoon and Airbase on Xbox, and War Games and Dig Site on PC) or the platform, but my entire team was tactical loitering with G2s, and Longbows. It was ridiculous. Despite my 30-13 performance on Lagoon they still got wrecked. And I'm ok with that. It's not worth me winning if it meant those players would have to win too. Not that the other team was a whole lot better.
As for the performance improvements.. it's hard to say. Lagoon felt like a pretty solid 60fps, but that was 8v8 with no grunts, and no Titans. I would love to hop into a regular playlist and see what's up, but the search is still screwed up after I backed out of that one lobby I managed to get into.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 2, 2014 16:11:47 GMT -5
It probably will take a couple of days for the player patterns to emerge.
Have you tried the "tracked challenges" feature and see if it is still broken?
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 2, 2014 16:27:06 GMT -5
Tracked challenges look fine.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 2, 2014 17:42:14 GMT -5
Hard freeze while playing new mode Did get one game on Dig Site that had an ok amount of movement. Aside from that nobody is parkouring on Xbox in this mode, lol.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 2, 2014 18:17:31 GMT -5
Hard freeze while playing new mode Did get one game on Dig Site that had an ok amount of movement. Aside from that nobody is parkouring on Xbox in this mode, lol. That's pretty sad. What does the lobby composition look like generation wise? Lots of high gens? Lots of low gens? Pretty evenly distributed?
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Sept 2, 2014 19:07:33 GMT -5
Pretty even distribution it seems like. A little Gen 10 heavy now that I'm hooked up with Fatso and Pr00toss.
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Post by ortus on Sept 3, 2014 0:53:58 GMT -5
As with every update, it's dumping all the Australians on the wrong server cluster And for some reason they decided the credit earn rates needed to be at something like a tenth of what they were?
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Post by Usagi on Sept 3, 2014 23:14:14 GMT -5
And for some reason they decided the credit earn rates needed to be at something like a tenth of what they were? They nerfed the conversion rate only for G10s.
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Post by ortus on Sept 4, 2014 0:01:47 GMT -5
And for some reason they decided the credit earn rates needed to be at something like a tenth of what they were? They nerfed the conversion rate only for G10s. For anyone who doesn't have the new burn card yet, it's permanent and will put a random card from your deck in the slot every 90 seconds.
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Post by wormyxl on Sept 4, 2014 8:04:54 GMT -5
Having only played a few games of this, I can honestly say this is the most adrenaline I've had in a shooter in a LONG time. It is crazy fun and a good break from titans... It's like playing a different game wherein all of my previous game knowledge/skill has transferred 100%. Also, snipers... snipers EVERYWHERE!!
Also... this should be helpful to people wondering about the "Roll the dice" cards
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Post by wittyscorpion on Sept 4, 2014 13:05:50 GMT -5
The game mode does provide a fresh experience vs. the "classic" game modes, and is much more fun to play than CoD TDM for sure. One unique trait the game mode has is: no matter how dominant the other team is, the battlefield stays even for all players. There are no helpless moments resulted from the other team controlling the map with complete Titan dominance.
However, it becomes a bit boring after a while and veterans start to miss their Titans. The biggest problem it introduces: it is now quite difficult for matchmaking to find games in other lobbies. As a result, even players who want to play something else are forced to play this, causing a snowball effect that makes things even worse.
If this situation continues: it will accelerate the death of Titanfall once Destiny comes out.
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