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Hi there, I bought the game some month ago, because I like SciFi settings with mechs and a good story. I hope RE will continue the game in the future and keep with such good story mode. After I play...
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So - as someone who's been playing Titanfall and active in the community for many years ...
I don't like the bunny-hopping stuff either. It's an exploit of the STEAM engine, and originally wasn't developed into the game, people just discovered they could do it. I'm on the PC, and as someone who's been playing since launch day in 2016, I still have trouble making it work. It's just a mechanic that was in the STEAM engine by accident, was fixed in games like Counter-Strike and TF2 and others, but apparently wasn't fixed in the SDK that Respawn has used for the games. To me, it's reminiscent of the "dolphin diving" technique that was in Battlefield 2 (or maybe 3, been a while) where a soldier could jump up, and at the apex of the jump go prone, and get the benefits of being prone while in mid-air, meaning they got the stability bonus as well as being harder to hit.
To me, all of these types of exploits are cheating, but at least in Titanfall 2, it's something I felt I needed to learn. However, my understanding is it's much easier to learn on consoles or with a controller on the PC.
As far as updates go - Respawn made the decision to stop supporting the game after its first year. They pushed out one last content patch in Dec 2016/Jan 2017, and it's been radio silence since. Though all the DDOS attacks, the nearly game-breaking bugs, etc - all had been promised to be fixed and the game balanced better, but they stopped supporting the game instead. The final nail in the coffin was when Apex Legends launched.
The game is the best FPS type game out there, IMHO. It *could* be a complete masterpiece had they continued to support/work on it. Instead, they sabotaged it from the get-go, launching it in 2016 in between two juggernaut franchises - COD and Battlefield, then cried when it didn't sell as well as expected.
Then - Respawn and EA merged in .. 2018? I want to say that's when it was. Between the launch of Apex Legends and that merge - they finished what Respawn started with the botched launch of TF2 - and that's screwing the Titanfall fans.
Bottom line is, while I have this very stubborn piece of hope in me that TF3 will be created, or at the very least, they'll pick back up support of Titanfall 2, I don't expect that to ever happen. EA won't comment on anything, won't fix the servers for TF2 with whatever is going on at the moment, and just doesn't care about any of their fans, it being Titanfall 2 or any other games. (For example, putting Vince Zampella in charge of the Battlefield franchise - I'm expecting what happened to Titanfall to happen to Battlefield now. Bad support, lots of promises to the fans that aren't kept, and downright lies and mismanagement.)
Play the game for what it is, and enjoy it. Despite my frustrations, the game is still spectacular for the most part. You get hooked on it, and then any other FPS feels bland in comparison.
Indeed. For a time, EA Games was one of the most disliked publishers on the market among gamers. I do not know, whether it is still the case. But personally, I still do not like the company, because I have many bad experiences with them, regarding the quality and the management of games. It hurts too much, if you like and dive into a game and see it such poorly handled by the developpers and the publisher. There was a time, where "EA" was a "no way" for me.
Ever developper company they sucked in, they also destroyed and with it the product. The product and the idea behind it became cheap, badly implemented and short lived, although the potential was there for to be a good franchise. It is really a shame, that so many good ideas simply vanish in the trash, because they run under EA. Let it be Anthem, Titanfall, Need of Speed or Command & Conquer.
As for bunny hops, yes. Players in other games exploit the mechanics on the same way and I hate it. I want to have fun playing realistic and how a game is intended to be played, and some guys with too much time before the PC or the console, constantly jumping around like crazy and destroying the gameplay for me. It destroys the immersion of the setting, what is the reason why I like to play solo mostly. I hate that people running and jumping around (except for, that it actually is a parkour game with such mechanics, which you have to use) and I have to do the same to compete.
