12-08-2016, 02:08 AM
(12-03-2016, 11:59 AM)Surge Wrote:
So...guess what's free this weekend?
Titanfall 2 is the sequel to Titanfall, which features the titular titans falling on things, usually just the ground. Moving onto some quality commentary Titanfall 2 is one of those FPS experiences that just works, like Modern Warfare 2, it is fast, fluid, and satisfying, with an emphasis on spatial awareness and pathfinding. On foot you are highly agile, double jumping and wallrunning and popping special abilities like candy to make yourself even more unrealistically agile, essentially you are playing one of the new Call of Duty games. Not that that is explicitly a bad thing, the Call of Duty formula is tried and true, just simply stagnant, which is why Titanfall adds titans and NPCs into the mix, non-wallrunning infantrymen and warbots roam the battlefield, doing battle as you and other pilots zip about like flying squirrels, providing good cannon fodder and an exciting sense of pandemonium, as well as the occasional humiliating demise. Most importantly though, once you have proved yourself by murdering enough NPCs (or actual players, you filthy tryhard) you can call down your chosen titan from orbit, it will land at the nearest open spot and await your input, you can either climb in and command it yourself, or set it to automatically attempt to maul anything it can see.
In the titan itself you are much more lumbering, capable of rapid movement only in quick bursts, and the jarring shift of mobility options creates a very sink or swim situation where the titan leverages enough firepower to instantly end most pilots who challenge it directly, but not enough armor to be terribly forgiving of mistakes, pilots with anti-titan weapons can quickly wear you down, and enemy titans can lay down excessive punishment in very short order, so to survive all of this the titan has a more diverse toybox than most pilots, with 3 different abilities, EM smoke, an "ultimate" core ability, and a meaty gun. You must leverage all of these abilities effectively if you want to come out on top consistently, and once you learn to use them effectively they can very well take you far.
Titanfall 2 is then, for most intents and purposes then, Call of Duty with a much cooler toybox for you to play with, you can sacrifice your own titan as bait while you jump onto the enemy titan with your jetpack and rip its power core out, teleport directly through an enemy to catch them off guard, or simply pump yourself full of steroids and give a good rambo impression. The possibilities are quite extensive, if you have any fond memories of the glory days of Call of Duty and don't mind getting used to some verticality, you can play Titanfall 2 multiplayer for free all weekend.
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So do you like it or not like it?
I personally wish I could play it, but
money and PC limitations ;w;
Ronin and Tone seem super fun to play though
to me, at least. I like Tone's mechanic of "build up the homing thing and BLAST THEM TO PIECES WITH WAVES OF HOMING ROCKETS" and Ronin's... well...
...it's a mech with a giant fucking sword and a ghost dash. what more could you want?
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