People moving on to the next f2p flavor huh.

Task wrote on Feb 5, 2019, 10:20:
People moving on to the next f2p flavor huh.

For a week.

That was my thought exactly, but I predict it will last more than a week and dissipate in a market already becoming saturated with these types of games.

Task wrote on Feb 5, 2019, 10:20:
People moving on to the next f2p flavor huh.

Its what you call desperation mode.

Weird thing is, they will probably make more money selling little cosmetics than trying to pry $60 up front sale for the game....


..and get some illegal money laundering running thru will help also - ALA' EPIC/ Fortnite style.

eRe4s3r wrote on Feb 5, 2019, 10:22:

Task wrote on Feb 5, 2019, 10:20:
People moving on to the next f2p flavor huh.

For a week.

With enough cosmetic sales in that week to fund the whole development of the game.

Tried it for kicks. The three party random PUB mode will kill it. You NEED to have at least 2 other friends to have fun with this.

It's very team based, and getting stuck with a team that doesn't use voice, or are retarded in some obvious way is basically game over.

User rate will drop off drastically simply because of this one thing. I sure as hell won't play it again without a couple of friends on my team.

With that said, the basic underlying gameplay is smooth, slick and could be quite a bit of fun. Wish PUBG ran as good as this, or had these production values.

I had immense trouble seeing players, especially in ADS, versus other BRs (PUBG/Blackout). It also feels really slow paced despite all the powers, grappling, climbing etc.. and no wall running in a titanfall game!?

Yes, yes, free to play game in a popular genre gets a ton of players off the bat, NEWS AT 11!

Let's see how many players you have two months from now.

Was interested to have a look but I didn't want to install Origin.

Creston wrote on Feb 5, 2019, 11:43:
Yes, yes, free to play game in a popular genre gets a ton of players off the bat, NEWS AT 11!

Let's see how many players you have two months from now.

Yuuuup. RADICAL HEIGHTS was the number one game on Twitch for like, one day...

jacobvandy wrote on Feb 5, 2019, 12:24:

Creston wrote on Feb 5, 2019, 11:43:
Yes, yes, free to play game in a popular genre gets a ton of players off the bat, NEWS AT 11!

Let's see how many players you have two months from now.

Yuuuup. RADICAL HEIGHTS was the number one game on Twitch for like, one day...

Yeah, but that was also 12,500 players. One million is a pretty nice number in 24 hours, even if free.

I played it a bit last night. Won one of my games because my team had a beast on it.

What I like:
* New Battle Royale Mechanics!
* Drop system is superior to other BR offerings (leader-led drops preventing that one dumbass that always seems to drop away from the rest of your team)
* Rez/Respawn Mechanic Points where you trade in your dead buddies badge adds a new strategic facet to the game play
* Gun play feels the best out of all the BR games
* Unique classes makes things more interesting and encourages team play with your randoms

And the aesthetic in general is great, feels very hunger games. The random announcements for new kill leaders, when the previous match champion gets taken out, how announcements are made in the arena in general. And I love the little touches like showing random players stats with their portrait on the big banner screens throughout the play field.

I am really enjoying the game so far. Have about 15 matches in, playing solo (going to play with friends tonight) and getting matched with pubs so far hasn't been the worst thing in the world... yet.

It's actually pretty good but there's no titans or wall running... that really would have separated itself from other battle royale games.

Creston wrote on Feb 5, 2019, 11:43:
Yes, yes, free to play game in a popular genre gets a ton of players off the bat, NEWS AT 11!

Let's see how many players you have two months from now.

They also paid Ninja to play it which pumped the Twitch numbers.

I think it looks like a genuinely good game though.

i've been watching some twitch streams and so far it seems much more interesting to play than most the other big games in the genre. The map is a bit smaller, which means fire-fights are common. There are cool weapons, consumables, class abilities. The mechanics look very solid.

It's probably the first game I've seen of this genre that doesn't boil down to long stretches of nothing happening or 'who can build walls faster and snipe everyone else from 300 yards away'.

The really puzzling thing here is Respawn launching this when Anthem is only a week or two away. I guess they are a wholly owned subsidiary or perhaps EA just deemed it different markets but I can't help feel like there's some overlap.

Here is what I can't (or won't) get over...the thing that made Titanfall unique, and even fun, was mechs. So here they are, launching a new game in the franchise in an extremely competitive genre and they leave the one thing that makes the franchise unique out of the game? What am I missing?

Kain wrote on Feb 5, 2019, 13:02:

Creston wrote on Feb 5, 2019, 11:43:
Yes, yes, free to play game in a popular genre gets a ton of players off the bat, NEWS AT 11!

Let's see how many players you have two months from now.

They also paid Ninja to play it which pumped the Twitch numbers.

I think it looks like a genuinely good game though.

Oh, it very well might be, and two months from now they may have 5 million people playing it. But we've been through the "OMG WE GOT A MILLION PEOPLE ON DAY ONE WE'RE THE NEXT BEST THING TO SLICED BREAD!" hype before, and a month later nobody is playing that shit anymore.

Jivaro wrote on Feb 5, 2019, 13:29:
Here is what I can't (or won't) get over...the thing that made Titanfall unique, and even fun, was mechs. So here they are, launching a new game in the franchise in an extremely competitive genre and they leave the one thing that makes the franchise unique out of the game? What am I missing?

That it's EA, and their suits are literally retarded?