A realist isn't a downer, I feel the same. Probably why I'm so disappointed in the announcement, haven't actually played Titanfall since. You would think with all the FPS and other AAA games like sunset overdrive, Assasins Creed and Dragon Age to name a few coming out before the year is out. Then starting 2015 with Evolve round the corner. The new game mode would be something to get us excited and keep us interested. But this mode just smacks of laziness in my opinion. Let's take out Titans, Grunts, Spectres and add 4 more players. Just can't imagine the brainstorming session for that one took too long. Remember when Vince Zampella was asked about this mode being a possibility before launch and he said something along the lines of how can there be Titanfall without Titans. This new mode is just going to be a Campfest of Snipers sticking themselves as high on the map as possible. And now I come to think of it has this new game mode been thought out in depth, because the pilot using Echo Vision is gonna have one hell of an advantage.
As a swan song to the game, I would have preferred something more than this too. Adding 2 pilots to each team at the cost of the games unique identifier seems self destructive to it as I reckon 75% of the map design had the titans in mind. I'll give it a blast before condemning it of course, but I would have thought a free for all with the grunts and spectres being neutral would have been better. Maybe not great, but at least we could use the titans!
Grunts always distracted me. And added when strictly looking for pilots. I'm too happy to hear of a pilot only mode! Good riddance to ai ;p
That's part of the whole idea with the grunts. They help lower the titan build time, but more importantly they can give away the position of pilots either on the map if they fire loud, or from the dots disappearing on the map. They can also be heard shouting out when pilots are near by. Love the cheeky little monkeys!
Is this going to be attrition only, or will they open up all the game modes eventually? I suppose it's already pilot hunter..
Yeah, its pilot hunter sans the other stuff. I've said it before, the maps are too large for it, they'll just be heaps of trolls on buildings with Snipers, cloak and that battery thingy that makes yr tac. ability come back faster, or worse still dudes just running wall hacks camping with scatter fire R-97's, just running for ages not being able to find anyone cause they are all stationary. Awful.
I don't care for this new game mode. Like said previously some maps are to big and it's gonna be piss easy if you using echo vision or ghost squad burn cards. But this update is coming today according to IGN
I don't mind a battle with no Titans. I can fully expect that sometimes titans are not an option. However, I am disappointed at no grunts. Grunts make you feel like your part of a bigger battle. There are plenty of other pvp games out there for people who just want that.
Yeah I just watched some gameplay of it. It looks pretty one dimensional. I'll give it a whirl but I can't see myself hanging around. They have removed the namesake of the game from the game. It's called TITANFALL FFS!
Surely rather than a pilot mode, an attrition mode with constant spawning titans which you couldn't get out of would have been better (the eject button has failed). They could have kept the spectres and grunts as core chargers.
So I'm not the only person who wants to play a mode like that. Although the idea me and friends were brainstorming was a Titan only batttle with spectres & grunts on the field. You got 3pts for destroying titans and 5pts for dooming and executing the pilot. It would of frantic and fast paced but most importantly it's a game mode that you could only find on one game. Although 12 titans on a field at once would of been chaos so even if the numbers were cut down 4v4 would of loved to of given it a go.
I haven't played the new game mode yet, but the Titan only attrition mode you guys are talking about sounds way better! No ejection allowed, but maybe they could add in a slow health regeneration for the Titan... Otherwise there is no way you won't die, and you can't really do that. There are so many possibilities with this game, and so many things they could try to implement, not just new game modes. They really did take a bit of an easy way out in terms of ideas with the new mode.
uurgh. Played it today and it's horrible. There is counter strike, blacklight,battlefield and any number of other games out there for people who just want to bounce around shooting each other. Boring, no fun, quit after 2 minutes. Wont go back
Play it, don't play it. There is a thing called choice, what you do is up to you. Sadly I have a x360 and can't even play Pilot Skirmish. So no choice here even if I wanted to pop into the mode.
I think we're all kinda peeved because after "Marked for Death", we're getting a new rotational mode that just isn't as fun or exciting. We don't have to play "Pilot Skirmish", but it is disappointing we had to get that in place of the many other better alternatives. I was personally hoping they'd make two modes that focused on AI and Titans respectively. Perhaps a mode where Pilots had to escort the AI as they completed objectives. Perhaps a Titan mode where teams had to protect their grunts and spectres from the wild life (the "flyers", etc). And of course the "Titan deathmatch" mode people are talking about also takes advantage of the things that made Titanfall unique. I'm just disappointed that before we may possibly get any of that, we have to wait out "Pilot Skirmish"'s turn in the rotation.