Unfinished: Titanfall 2 Technical Test 08/17/2016

2 minutes in and I cannot get past the menu robot. Why does it have knee pads? Shouldn't a robot that is built for combat be made out of materials that are sturdy enough that knee pads are not needed?

That is a sick WuTang Giants collabo shirt.

Yay for more rorie!

giant rorie.com

Nice Alfredo Diaz cameo about five minutes in.

Awesome!!! Wish I could get an early access code :<

@revenantxenos: Why risk getting something wedged into the joint when you can at least mitigate one such impact with a simple knee pad?

@revenantxenos: Yeah I see your point. Though there's a lot of concept are out there that makes a lot of sense that robots that are designed like humans could just wear the same gear and get the same benefits (like vests, backpacks, etc.)

Though I think this robot design is just kind of lanky and weird; I much prefer the specters from Titanfall. Heck, I'd pay a couple bucks to have the old specter available as a character...

Aside: I *hate* the swtich to a third person camera during certain actions (Titan mounting, etc). Really takes me out of the game, feel like I'm watching someone else doing a cool thing instead of me.

edit: Also I don't like the default Titan OS voice as much as the default in TF1... ugh, I feel like such a 'It's not as good as the first one!' stan.

This game comes out in 2 months. There is absolutely nothing "pre-alpha" about this "tech test".

I really hate the bastardization of the term "alpha" that has happened in the gaming industry over the last generation or so.

"He's a keyboard turner!"

Oh Rorie.

It's Rorie Week on Giant Bomb!

Looks like a better Titanfall. Skipped the first one and I'd get this if it wasn't for Battlefield.

I honestly have no idea why they're so close together. Very different games, but still competitive multiplayer shooters. Having a hard enough time juggling Halo and Overwatch over here.

I agree about that part in Superman 3 being scary!

Titans seem more like Dota-pattern heroes over the traditional, customizable light/medium/heavy 'mech this time around. You have the ability to change certain aspects of the titan but the active abilities are set and fall in-line with the titan theme and their core abilities are more like Dota-style ultimate abilities rather than a huge buff to their primary aspect (that is to say, "Ion's all about lasers, Scorch is all about fire, and Ronin is all about having a sword and being as annoying as Overwatch's Tracer and Genji" as opposed to "Stryder's the fast one, Atlas is the damage one, and Ogre's the defense one!"). I get that it makes the titan stand out more from the others and allows Respawn to add additional titans in the future that fill specific roles with unique themes but I'm going to miss customization and using a shield wall/slaved warheads/40mm cannon Ogre.

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At 1:17... was that Nolan North?

@revenantxenos: because body armor on humanoid robots is RAD AS HELL

The day one patch is in pre-alpha.

Never enough Big Chomp.

Definitely read that as "Testical Test".

I keep forgetting this game is coming to PS4 this time. Might check it out.

@creepingdeath0: Actually this is supposedly a pretty old ass build

@creepingdeath0: Please do enlighten us about what "alpha" means. I'm curious.

This seems like a nice improvement. The mechs seem stronger and the areas seem larger. And the single player campaign seems promising.

Wait, are the first person animations gone? Titanfall had first person animations for mech entering, I'm remembering that correctly right?

Yeah, been following the development for a while, and this tech test build is only to stress-test their new Azure/Google/Amazon and Multiplay "dynamic, cloud server hosting stuff."

The game itself is definitely further ahead of what we're seeing here, visually and mechanically.

WOO THEY GOT RID OF LOBBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Been waiting so long for them to die, CS:GO led the way and it seems like everyone else is following suit.

+ Is the game still using Modded Source? I hope so as Frostbite games just feel like crap.

Dunno how people play FPS games with a controller, it's so bad seeing how slow he aims because of the analogue sticks.

Did a double take when I saw the name AlfredoPlays. That's all I have to say in this comment.

@fightingchance said:

Agree with this. One of the cool things about the first one was that they never broke perspective as the titan crammed you into itself.

This has come around quickly. Feels as though only last year I was watching Jeff talk about the Titanfall 1 Beta.

@nagafen:Come to think of it Jeff seems to be pretty ambidextrous with controller/m+k. I've spent 98% of my gaming on console, so a lack of analogue movement feels weird to me. But using a key board to play games feels weird to me just in general.

TItanfall was March 2014. 2 and a half years is a pretty good chunk of time for a sequel, I think.

FYI, per a supposed dev on reddit, the Smart Pistol isn't a selectable weapon anymore. It will be occasionally available as a killstreak reward in your loadout if you have it selected as a perk, and it will have limited ammo/use.

It's a bummer, because I'm think 99% of the Smart Pistol hate was from people who don't realize that they nerfed the hell out of it in the first game after it was initially OP, and post-nerf, it was actually a 100% fair weapon that was near-useless in a straight-up firefight and took some real strategy to use effectively against pilots.

Once you get used to it though, it's so much better and you cannot ever go back.

@adequatelyprepared: i hope you can turn off the perspective shift

@revenantxenos: I asked the same question of the robot doing warmup drills during NFL commercial break bumpers. He's a fucking robot why does he need to do high knees

Hello everyone. My name is Kurt and I love mechs.

I haven't really put in much time with an online FPS game since Bad Company 2 which I loved. I'm always looking for something to pull me in like that though, something I'll play consistently for a year or so. Maybe this can do it. I'm looking forward to seeing more of the progression system with the guns and more modes. Hopefully, they can integrate some progression and customization into the campaign as well but that might be asking too much. If the campaign is good and they integrate the customization into the cut-scenes, I'll play and watch it over and over just for fun. That's what I did with Reach back in the day.

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tempted to reinstall titanfall 1 on pc but it's apparently a ghost town?

maybe the xbone one if cheap.

Can never watch fps QL due to back seat driving mode.

@ripelivejam: Game is super cheap on Xbox. Like ten bucks used at Gamestop.

This game looks cool and it looks like I'd be terrible at it.

@mub said:

Looks like that's not an option, that's really shitty because after the E3 reveal somebody at EA said the third person was only for "trailer purpose". I doubt we will see a toggle any time soon, because they most likely don't even have any first person animations :(

My question is, why would a robot have idle animations? A robot could easily stand perfectly still.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...

@voodoopc: Because it's fun to anthropomorphize robots. Would you really want a perfectly still standing robot? I'd consider that kinda creepy, I'd rather have something more human like and fun, think Bender ;)