Titanfall Beta Review: Good but still missing ‘it’. ( Raptgamersunited)

Titanfall has been one of the most hyped Xbox one games for some time now and going by the looks of the beta version, It certainly lives up to some of that hype although it leaves a lot to be desired.

[kingdip90]

8 would be a score you give to an 'amazing' or must buy game...

I would definitely hope that any games getting an 8 would have 'it'.

8 is damn near perfect after all.

[Insomnia_84]

The game is fun and an 8 seems like it fits the game but I would give it a 7 for the lack of a single player campaign considering it's $60 and that there is absolutely nothing next-gen about the game.

[kingdip90]

I am not knocking the game at all just to be clear just the 1-10 scoring method and what it has become.

5 is average and anything above that is a good game, if the reviewer genuinely believes the game is lacking then the score should reflect the reviewers opinion... He has a full scale to utilize.

But as always with reviews people seem to use the 7-10 scale 7 being average and 10 being awesome and anything below 7 needs to be used to insult a game for glaring flaws...

It's sad that reviewers have come to this...

[Jeedai Infidel]

kingdip90, I've been saying this for years, it's why I have more respect for those that use the 1-5 star method. 5=Great 4=Good 3=Average 2=Mediocre 1=Poor. So much simpler.

[JsonHenry]

The "it" they refer to would be 12-16 more human players per match.

[Jeedai Infidel]

If you played the alpha or beta, you would know how crappy that would be. I put in 100 matches between alpha and beta with player cap in mind, and never felt like Respawn was wrong in their decision to go 6v6. If they make larger maps, I could see this happening the way Halo does it, but how it is as of now seems the right balance to those that have played it.

[JsonHenry]

To each their own. I thought it was a let down and feels empty even with all the bots.

[jmc8888]

I did play the beta, and yes it would be better with more players.

Maybe it was more pronounced and noticed since in the beta I tended to play hard point the most, but with three points and only six opposing players, and some of them have Titans, often times you are just running to a hard point, capturing it, running to the next one...while you're capturing it, someone from the other team is taking a different one, and you go around and around in circles capping points like a dog chasing its tail.

Think about it, with 6 players and 3 control points and some outside in the mechs, you simply can't have many real people guarding points, at almost any given time one and sometimes two of them are unprotected.

So while all this happens in every FPS game, 6v6 matches, where people in mechs aren't usually capping points, there tends to be quite a bit more of it going on.

I actually expect it to get worse since as the beta moved on, more and more people were going to the tops of the 2-3 story buildings and sitting up there.

So roofs+distraction of playing mechs+ 6v6 means lots of unguarded hard points.

So I get that given the size of the maps and sight lines more then 6v6 mechs might be too chaotic, the flip side is the pilot level is quite barren.

This also does play into why the AI is so frustrating. Because it's barren you get antsy looking for something to shoot, and there's the AI. Sometimes you start shooting before recognizing they're bots, other times you shoot because you haven't seen anyone in a while.

So I don't know why they didn't fix this unbalanced nature of crowded mechs and barren wasteland for pilots.

It wouldn't of been hard. All they needed to do was up the player count but limit the number of mechs that could be called in at any given time.

Limit each team to having 6 mechs, but let them have 8 or 10 players on each team.

Just like Battlefield, you don't need the same amount of players in each type of game.

Last Titan Standing, okay 6v6 makes sense.

Rather then using a strict 6v6 across all gametypes, they should have used what was appropriate for each type.

There's fun aspects to the game, and a lot about it that leaves much to be desired.

Maps aren't vertical. People playing on 2 and 3 story rooftops has been done in MOST games. So no, the game isn't vertical.

Mechs don't hover. This actually a big thing.

I kept hearing about the vertical levels and the scale difference between pilots and mechs and both just are nothing like advertised.

The wall running, isn't wall running but Mirror's edge parkour. You're not running up walls.

It doesn't make much sense why they didn't allow the mechs to hover around and build bigger buildings so people are 10-20-30 stories higher and lower then each other.

[DOOMZ]

Not missing it at all, the game is a multiplayer masterpiece!!!

[SynestheticRoar]

Stop with all the hype. It's a ok game. I'm getting the PC version, but when it's on sale.

[Sgcrapmostank]

I loved the game personally I would like to see more real players but with that comes more titans so either they should make titans longer to get or maybe put a limit to the number of titans thatt each team can have at the same time. Others than that id be fine with the way it is.