When Respawn couldn’t afford the cash or manpower to acquire the hundreds of thousands of servers necessary to put players in dedicated servers, the Xbox group came back to the gaming company to run all of these Titanfall dedicated servers in the form of the cloud. Windows Azure has push games with more server CPU and higher bandwidth, which lets the developer have a bigger world, more physics, lots of AI, and potentially a lot more than that!
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Although the late 2000s Turok wasn't my favorite, I would love a new entry. Open world survival with shotguns and dinosaurs. Not sure how we'd get the fusion cannon, but that would be pretty sweet too.
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All of these games are pretty much universally praised. Outside of Timeshift I literally own all of these.
XIII, The Darkness 2, Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Timesplitters: future perfect, Bulletstorm are awesome games
I played them all, they are all good in their own way
I used to be obsessed with FPS games
Windows Central: "Titanfall 1 is being sunset, taken off storefronts by EA. While the servers remain live for now, one has to wonder just how much time it has left. I look back and pay tribute to the last "twitch"-styled shooter I ever truly loved."
Sales for the original Titanfall are being discontinued.
It will be pulled from subscription services on March 1, 2022.
Physical media. Unfortunately the way games are going these days game servers will eventually be shut down and you can stare at the menu and wish you could play the game again.
This is why reading is so important. Nothing to do with digital or physical media. The game, which is online only, is being delisted because of DDOS and other hacker attacks. The case got so bad that only six players in the world log on. For PC. Rather than fix it, they continued to sell the game, broken as it is, and only now just decided to call it quits. But please, go on thinking what you will.
I'm aware of the DDOS attacks and that this case is not typical. This game would eventually have it's servers shutdown regardless of the current situation so that is a moot point. My comment was in a general sense and that there are instances in which games can be preserved physically when official support ends.
Let's recap your first sentence. I said, "the way GAMES are going these days" indicating a broader stroke than just this game. I agree, reading IS important. I was simply stating the obvious downsides of the digital marketplaces and online only trends in games these days. I could even make the argument that the online only offering which has allowed hacker manipulation has impacted the preservation of this great game. My comment is valid in the general sense and thank you for your permission to continue to think what I will.
10ms FTW
Can't wait :)
Dunno if the PC servers were using them too but I have to admit that I was really impressed with the netcode. One of the few games where I could play with my Canadian friends with pings of 120 and not actually feel handicapped.
Azure servers are great, Microsoft opened the Titanfall beta to everyone on live and hardly anyone had issues.
Yes the cloud is a gimmick a lie?
As for Titanfall it was ok game i don't like the lower player count, but i still get the game.
BLACK@ x box 1 was build for the future. Microsoft is planning ahead to what might be possible in a few years from now. Just because cloud computing is low key now doesn't mean it will not be happening!
Windows azure has crappy 1.6GHz AMD cpus of which 8 cores are equivalent to 3 of my 4 intel i5 cores.