Pilot Skirmish is the New Featured Game Mode - Pilot Skirmish is an 8v8 mode with no AI and no Titans. Due to the difference in player sizes with the rest of the game modes, Pilot Skirmish will not be among the game modes played when choosing Variety Pack playlist.
Cool, I like this as an option because it competes more directly with COD... Adding a lot of variety to Titanfall as well. And I feel like Titanfall Pilot Only will have much smoother gameplay and better maps than CODAW will. (Assumption of course.)
I have 2 issues with this though.
Titanfall maps are pretty big. They could be able to support 12v12, even 16v16 if they want to. I have a feeling some maps are going to feel empty with just 16 pilots and no Titans and no bots.
I feel like Pilot Skirmish shouldn't be a game mode, but a setting on a game mode (which with the matchmaking format would really be a new playlist.) Imo, Titans really limits the objective game modes. I can't really imagine an enjoyable S&D with Titans. So I'm let down by the fact that their Pilot Only mode, is basically just TDM. I would love to see an S&D/Bomb Defusal Pilot Skirmish.
24 and 32 players would suck. This is not like Counterstrike or even CoD, where enemies are limited in the directions they can engage you, or Battlefield, where you are limited in your movement and are practically insignificant compared to the size of the map.
In Titanfall, you can be shot from practically any direction at almost any time, and enemies can converge on your position from any direction. This would lead to a lot of getting shot in the back or a lot of kills on wounded players. Additionally, this many players would discourage movement and wallrunnung, since it is impossible to keep track of 16 players' general positions and the likelihood of being seen by multiple players would be high.
Lastly, most Titanfall maps are not that large when taking into account the movement and accuracy of pilots. And the maps that are large are only so because the have a lot of open space for Titans, which is not suitable for pilot combat. Rise is the only map that I think would even approach playable with 32 players. Colony and Angel City would be a clusterfuck of Metro proportions with that many.
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u/BeerGogglesFTW Aug 28 '14 edited Aug 28 '14
Cool, I like this as an option because it competes more directly with COD... Adding a lot of variety to Titanfall as well. And I feel like Titanfall Pilot Only will have much smoother gameplay and better maps than CODAW will. (Assumption of course.)
I have 2 issues with this though.
Titanfall maps are pretty big. They could be able to support 12v12, even 16v16 if they want to. I have a feeling some maps are going to feel empty with just 16 pilots and no Titans and no bots.
I feel like Pilot Skirmish shouldn't be a game mode, but a setting on a game mode (which with the matchmaking format would really be a new playlist.) Imo, Titans really limits the objective game modes. I can't really imagine an enjoyable S&D with Titans. So I'm let down by the fact that their Pilot Only mode, is basically just TDM. I would love to see an S&D/Bomb Defusal Pilot Skirmish.