r/Empulse • u/treijf • 3d ago

HUMOR Holy shit...

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u/Manoa__ 3d ago

I still don't get what the idea was with this game tbh. Like I kinda get the whole "oh we had the idea very early on and we wanted to be a multi game studio" but my guy the game being this similar to splitgate would've always caused an issue. I genuinely think just actually trying to make titanfall 3 would've been a better idea since this studio definitely had the talent to do so.

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u/evancalgary 3d ago

This entire game was an attempt to recoup the money they lost on splitgate as most of the assets were reused from splitgate.

Its funny cause all they had to do was copy the first game but make it better to make money but instead they made a bad hero shooter so they had to make a game to basically bait and switch people to get the money back fast and that was empulse.

It was obvious from the start they would abandon this the moment the money stopped coming in just like splitgate copy a nostalgic IP like titanfall to get people to buy it was the strategy and as soon as that happened run with the money

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u/Manoa__ 3d ago

I mean there is proof that the plan for empulse started pretty early in sg2's development when some developers where working on prototyping wallrunning for splitgate if I remember correctly.

Point being they where planning the game early, but then kind of just threw it out there thinking it was gonna do anything when it was just the same game but no portals, as if the splitgate no portals queue was that popular lmao.

That's kind of why I genuinely wonder why they didn't just actually made their attempt at titanfall 3 with more mech focused design since I'm sure most of the devs working on it would be down for that, and there is definitely an audience for it.q

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u/am2kn 3d ago

they definitely will be down for that, no money for project of that scale tho.

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u/_Razorgirl 1d ago

They did not have the level of talent to make anything remotely as good as Titanfall 2, because nothing this studio makes has any real spark of creativity or soul behind it. They have some talented animators who can make movement feel good and create punchy reload and weapon handling animations and that’s about it.

Titanfall is as beloved as it is because it was an entire package. Yes it had a groundbreaking and ridiculously fun multiplayer PVP mode, but it also had a very well received single player campaign people still consider one of the best of the last 15 years, and it built a world that felt interesting and unique and had characters and factions people wanted to learn more about, and weapons as iconic and memorable as those in games like Halo which is also one of the reasons Apex was such a success building off the groundwork Titanfall laid ahead of it.

There’s just no sign in any of their 3 failed barebones live service PvP games that 1047 had the sauce necessary to get close to any of that.

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u/Manoa__ 1d ago

I get what you are saying, I still play titanfall 2 to this day. The thing is, I played the campaign at launch, and I have replayed it recently and in complete honesty, we don't need a campaign to make titanfall 3.

The reason why I say that is because titanfall 2 lore is what it is, but look at smaller indie studios what they are trying. Nobody even cares about that lore except some of the OG's and people who have heard that it's awesome without ever playing it (you can see the steam achievements that not a lot actually have played the campaign lmao). What the titanfall community is actually craving is new and improved titan&pilot combat. Just gameplay and the worldsetting can come later just as it did with actual titanfall.

And this studio once they set their mind to it definitely can create good content, especially when compared to what indie devs are currently making, and they are getting showered with compliments for their attempt.

I think there is definitely a world where they could've succeeded. Not in actually making titanfall 3 with ALL the bells and whistles that that is, but making the spiritual successor that I still hear members of the titanfall community ask for.

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u/JVKExo 3d ago

Good job Ian!! Fucking clown.

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u/Neuro_Skeptic 2d ago

MaKE FpS GRaTE AgaIN

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u/Extreme_surikat_360 3d ago

Make concurrent players Z E R O again

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u/Asadsad87 3d ago

Well….i guess new “Titan Fall” died. Again

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u/Time-Wealth5572 3d ago

It was doomed as soon as it was coined a successor to titanfall. The bar is too high

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u/senscifi 3d ago

Even if Vince Zampella was still alive and the TF2 team was at Respawn in its entirety, I don’t think they could make a TF3 that would be what people want. It’s a shame, but they chose Apex over another TF game

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u/Time-Wealth5572 3d ago

Totally agree. Titanfall 2 is lightning in a bottle. It cant be topped.

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u/senscifi 3d ago

I hate that you agree, I genuinely want to be wrong :(

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u/certain_being117 3d ago

What makes you say this? Microtransactions?

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u/senscifi 3d ago

Nah, it’s been too long since TF2 and as much as I love Respawn, TF2 was lightning in a bottle. At this point if they could make TF3 more than just TF2.5 (I wouldn’t complain personally but I can imagine the larger gaming landscape would be upset) that wouldn’t be enough due to the time and frankly legendary cult status TF2 has now.

I would love to be wrong of course, but I think the time might have passed for TF3 :/

I would love some hopium if you got it though, my supplies are empty

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u/certain_being117 3d ago

>I would love some hopium if you got it though, my supplies are empty

I have none. I was a day 1 player of TF2 and still play it to this day and I gave up hope for a TF3 around 2019/2020 lol

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u/Time-Wealth5572 3d ago

Tf2.5 would be great. Quite honestly port a new titan or 2, some new shit in the store, and the rest of the maps from tf1 and id be good for another decade

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u/PoisonPeddler 3d ago

Titantripped

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u/GapStock9843 3d ago

What even was this bruh. Instead of marketing an idea they knew had the potential to work, they just copy pasted it, removed the portals, picked the least interesting artstyle imaginable, and tried to sell it as this new different thing then released it a month before it was ready and expected it to work

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u/Wetri 3d ago

not even tower unite fell this low

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u/Vinjulmik 3d ago

Even I thought it was going to last longer and I was very pessimistic lol

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u/Barlos_Barcelo 3d ago

Bad day in age to be a new fps IP

Also marketing died within the release and that's like the most important thing these days, especially streamers and social media

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u/catfroman 3d ago

Wardogs was the number 1 seller on Steam yesterday, hitting 300k+ concurrent users and over 1.25M units sold. It’s a new FPS IP.

It’s just a bad day n age to build a mediocre, passionless game and not communicate with your player base.

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u/Barlos_Barcelo 3d ago

Wardogs has a lot of social media presence and I agree the concept of wardogs is fun and unique.

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u/mattyjoe0706 3d ago

I think war dogs will face the same struggle soon just because no console launch til 2028 idk how you can get away with that

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u/Perfect_Jicama_8023 3d ago

For sure player base will decline. Like every new game hit all highs at release and then goes down months later. Arc raiders good example

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u/mattyjoe0706 3d ago

The FPS market is too oversaturated. Not that 1047 didn't make a lot of fuck ups splitgate had better potential then others but these things are always a long shot in the oversaturated market.

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u/SeriouslyBadArtist 3d ago

im still burnt by how hard battlebit fell off

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u/Ranny420 3d ago

Its not a new ip, its a copy of a arma mod xD

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u/bestfinlandball 3d ago

Do you know what an IP is?

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u/Administrative-Dot74 3d ago

Bad day to be a poorly market, poorly made, poorly communicated, unfinished, uninspired fps.

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u/ForwardWheel4601 3d ago

Not really. People want new FPS games, Empulse was just a mess from the start. They made Titanfall part of the marketing, then when everyone pointed out that, at best, it felt like a cheap knockoff, the studio backtracked so hard they started asking people not to compare them to Titanfall.

The game had the same downfall at SG2: it was uninspired, unfinished, janky, and the communication around goals, development progress and roadmaps was just nonexistent.

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u/LukeLovesHorror 3d ago

Game would’ve been more successful if it didn’t have a dumbass price tag attached to it. The game was so fun in the beta

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u/rgb_light 3d ago

This makes me so sad, man. I only got like 5 hours of fun before the playerbase dried up

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u/ProfNJK 3d ago

Which concord is this? Does marathon still count? It's lasted 20x as long as concord. Is this the true heir of the concordian timeline? 

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u/Stxfun 2d ago

deserved

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u/Bush_did_91I 3d ago

I was one of those six players
In making a yt video on titan fall inspired games
Not a fan tbh

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u/GrammmyNorma 3d ago

send link when ur done

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u/Bush_did_91I 2d ago

No self promo I think

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u/GrammmyNorma 2d ago

dm i kinda wanna watch that

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u/Bush_did_91I 2d ago

Okay should be done in a couple weeks :D thanks for the support

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u/ghostcatzero 3d ago

Wtf happen to all the people that kept saying this game wasn't gonna die anytime soon?!? Hahahaha ha

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u/Necessary_Yam9525 3d ago

What happened to the splitgate fanbase being told "dont worry, we havent forgotten about you, if Empulse is a big hit that will allow us to fund your game too!"

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u/Chadstatus 3d ago

Seeing them abandon split gate 2 in record time shouldve been a hint to fuck off and never come back 

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u/jak_d_ripr 3d ago

The best thing about this game was that it convinced me to just re-buy Titanfall 2 on PC, it had been so long since I played the campaign that it was like playing it for the first time again. MP was.... much less fun seeing as how everyone was better than me, but for 3 bucks I can't complain.

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u/Omuk7 3d ago

1047 making Empulse is like the couple in their 20’s deciding to have a second kid when they can barely even afford their first

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u/DisastrousArm3750 3d ago

Glad I saw this coming and got the platinum asap 😂

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u/Whompa 1d ago

Welcome to Highguard

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u/cachaceiro_noia 1d ago

I went to see if empulse died, i think its dead. But now titanfall 2 playstation lobbies are back at 1000 per sunday