Titanfall 2 Tech Test

W E W L A D S

A friend asked me what I thought about the tech test, but I care more about Titanfall that he does and I feel like I might be bothering him. He sold his xbox and everything, the cunt
WHATEVER
I really REALLY wanna get this down somewhere, so why not here

The good:

+The sound design is fucking fantastic. Gunfire echoes across the map beautifully, and has a heavy, realistic sound to it
+The power slide is really fun
+Ion's laser core is really, really fun. His main weapon's alternate fire is great too, and that shoulder laser? Fucking beautiful.
+Data centers have the potential to be really awesome, rather than kinda garbage like in the original
+The training was kinda fun, telling a little bit of a story and being a super cool simulation
+The pilot's Cloak skin has that really cool multiple eyed grunt helmet that Elliot wears, and thats awesome
+The other new pilot is super cyoot

The bad:

-29ms ping in the Salt Lake server and still getting fucking crazy lagspikes. I guess thats the whole point of this techtest, but still, other players had more ping than skill and I'm getting shafted
-The two maps we've got are really open and flat. Battling on the Y axis was a main feature of the first game, offering a hell of an advantage.
-Movement is so slow. On foot and in a titan, I feel like I'm crawling through molasses. Paired with big, flat maps, its really terrible
It encourages the grapple-hook, but thats a little bit wonky itself. I mostly found myself using the holo-pilot (which, again, sometimes would just stand in place, not doing anything). Pulse blade is my go-to ability until I unlock cloak (which has the multi-eyed helmet I so love)
-Titans are hilariously under-powered, especially against rodeos, the countermeasures being activated like a scorestreak is stupid as fuck. I had an Ion titan on standby and I just stuck to running around as a pilot, because I knew it wouldn't last. The Scorch titan itself felt really underpowered as well, I tried camping the grunt spawn zone in bounty hunt with its thermite and got more kills by running people over than with any of his incendiaries. The health seemed really, REALLY low for no reason. I'm far from a great player, but I was scoring on the top of my team and am well versed in the art of not-dying in a giant robot. These suckers have paper armor
-Titan build time being based on personal scoring is ridiculous. The chaos of having a bunch of titans everywhere was hilariously fun
-Bounty hunt was kinda fun, but I really hope it doesn't replace Attrition, it's not as good as attrition
-Pilot skirmish. With such a focus on ZOMG 6 NEW ROBOTS, you'd think there'd be more the giant robots featured
-And why the fuck does the pilot mode show spawn points on the minimap? Literally spent half the game getting spawncamped, and then spawncamping.
-I don't care if the mag launcher fires faster, it does like no damage to titans anymore. I was using it as a strictly antipersonnel weapon.
-I miss my Ogre. I miss Borak.
-Scorch is shit.

I fucking love Titanfall.
I wrote a goddamn horsefic based on it, and want nothing more than to have a fantastic game come october
But it doesn't feel like Titanfall. It feels like CoD with robot killstreaks

That being said, if anyone wants to play next week, and you're on the Xbox one, hit me up. I'm GardenGnostic. I'm not very good and I swear a lot but I mean its a lot of fun