Titanfall 2 is enjoying a second wind thanks to Steam By Fraser Brown June 22, 2020 The 2016 shooter has become a top seller, and the concurrent player numbers aren't too shabby either. Titanfall 2 is a science-fiction first-person shooter video game and a sequel to Titanfall. It was developed by Respawn Entertainment and was released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows on October 28, 2016. It was released on Steam on June 18, 2020. 1 Campaign 1.1 Characters and setting 1.2 Campaign 2 Gameplay 2.1 Pilot gameplay 2.1.1 Weapons 2.1.2 Tactical Abilities 2.1.3 Boosts. Titanfall 2, the best shooter ever made, EVER, is now 75% off on Steam. That puts it at just $7.49 USD, which is the cheapest it has ever been on the platform. If you haven’t yet purchased this game, please do so now. Titanfall is on sale as part of a big EA event on Steam. You can also find Crysis 3 and a bunch of Battlefield games for super. R/titanfall: Titanfall community. Warning: Titanfall 1's servers are broken. Nice to have it in Steam again. Yeah, I was impressed when I saw with a recent wine version that Titanfall and Titanfall 2 where finally working. Especially Titanfall 1 being an online only game. I used Lutris for it and had this 1s hiccup as well. Looks like Origin is writing a file to disk every second.
This week saw EA bring a number of its games to Steam, releasing existing titles like The Sims 4 and Dead Space 3 for one of the PC platform’s largest marketplaces, and from the looks of it, none of these games are benefiting from the increased exposure quite like Titanfall 2.
It’s no secret that Respawn Entertainment’s sequel hasn’t seen the popularity most major first-person shooters have seen. Released in late October 2016, it had the unfortunate honor of launching right between two of that year’s biggest FPSs, EA’s own Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. It was a move many felt was EA effectively gutting the game's sales potential in order to avoid any competition with Battlefield 1.
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In the years since, the game has tended to be played by only the most loyal and hardcore of players, but this week’s Steam release appears to have led to a large influx of newcomers. In fact, as of this writing, Titanfall 2 is currently the top-selling game on Steam, beating out perennial hits like The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and hot new titles like Hardspace: Shipbreaker and Satisfactory.
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Eurogamer also reports that the game has attracted nearly 7,000 players on Steam. That number may be pretty insignificant next to the concurrent user counts of the most popular Steam games, but it’s still enough to place Titanfall 2 among the 100 most-played games on the platform. Better yet, 7,000 players is still large enough to make Steam a viable platform for newcomers to try out the game’s multiplayer.
This is hardly the first time this has happened, though, as Titanfall 2 has seen occasional bursts of increased popularity throughout the years, like when the massive launch of series offshoot Apex Legends led to increased interest in Titanfall 2. Most recently, the game saw an explosion of new players on console when it was included in PlayStation Plus’ selection of free games for December 2019.
It may be a bummer for Titanfall fans that the game never really got its due, especially since the general consensus among those who have played it is that Titanfall 2 is one of the finest shooters of recent years, with rich and fluid multiplayer on top of one of the most memorable single-player campaigns in a shooter. If the Steam launch so far is any indication, though, there’s a fair chance plenty of new players will soon be trying it out for themselves.
Titanfall 2 is available for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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Source: Steam, Eurogamer
UPDATE 23RD NOV 2020: Respawn appears to be sorting out Titanfall's rough launch on Steam.
Late on Sunday the developers issued an audio issue patch, which fixes the awful audio issues the game had at launch. I've tested Titanfall on Steam this morning and confirm the audio is now as it should be. Music library for mac. 'Thanks for all your patience,' reads a note.
Meanwhile, while some are still reporting matchmaking issues, I've found the game relatively stable since Sunday, and I've been able to complete the training. It looks like Respawn is getting on top of Titanfall's issues, and its 'Mostly Negative' Steam user review rating has improved to 'Mixed'.
ORIGINAL STORY 21ST NOV 2020: Titanfall surprise-launched on Steam last night - and it was met with an immediate 'Mostly Negative' reception.
Respawn's multiplayer-only shooter came out in 2014, and six years later it seems it is struggling on PC not because of a dwindling playerbase, but because of severe technical issues.
Customers are reporting matchmaking issues. Some have reported the game thinks they don't have all the DLC map packs installed when they do. There are also audio issues that cause extremely loud static.
The video below reveals the typical experience of playing Titanfall on PC right now:
'Respawn/EA are basically selling us broken abandonware on Steam,' one irate Steam user, Matoro Zeliph said in a review.
'Sadly, the audio does not work and nine out of the 10 times I clicked play it booted me to the main menu,' added Steam user Elemental.
'The one time I did manage to get into the training, which I played through with a static-y noise every time a sound was supposed to happen. I restarted the game hoping that would help, which it didn't.
'I'm really hoping this will get fixed either by Respawn themselves or with someone finding out how to fix it. If that happens, I'm 100 per cent certain the gameplay will hold up to this day and I'll swap this over to a recommended review instantly.'
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The issue is exacerbated because Titanfall is an online-only game. Its story is told through multiplayer. Even its tutorial is played online.
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So what's going on? Users on reddit familiar with Titanfall on PC spoke of an infamous hacker who had at one point used a script to boot players from matchmaking.
'It's been going on for years and I just verified that it's still a problem,' redditor capn_hector said.
'Respawn is just putting abandonware on Steam and hoping that a few per cent of the players don't refund it.' Best subcompact suv 2020 luxury.
This is not a new issue, either. Here's a post from redditor Hiticonic - dated a year ago - that details the same problem:
'Right now the game is basically unplayable and this has been going on for many months. Through simple exploits in the Titanfall servers and clients this person can crash game servers, end matches early and crash game clients. Slowly the playerbase has been dwindling even more because it's simply not fun to crash out over and over again. Respawn should either fix the game and servers or enable the dev console and release server binaries if they don't have the resources to fix these issues.'
Whether Titanfall's struggles on Steam are the result of the same hacker or group of hackers is unclear. But what is clear is the game has suffered a rough launch. I've had a go at playing Titanfall through Steam this morning (Saturday, 21st November 2020), and I have to say it's a broken mess. As well as blisteringly-loud static bursting through my headset (something to do with the audio installation failing), I can't even get into the training. My one success at jumping into a multiplayer game booted me out after about 10 seconds.
It's a shame Titanfall was released on Steam in this state, as it probably hobbles any chance of reviving the playerbase for the game. Titanfall does not show up in Valve's official top 100 games by concurrent player count right now. Hopefully now the game has launched on Steam, Respawn will sort its online out so people can actually play the game.