Titanfall 2

That's actually good news for me. Now let's hope it will be decent and perhaps I'll dust off Origin again.

>>14349786
We gotta wait for the EA conference later today to find out more. They've teased some multiplayer stuff as well.

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Now if any here gives a shit about collector's edition crap, there have been a couple leaks. May not be true, but they look real enough.

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>>14349814
And there's this one, which I kinda want just for the helmet replica.

>>14349765
I love the fact robots are getting attention, but why no good design?

Hyyype!!!

>>14349765

designs are shit

>AI Titans
>he's a total bro to you
>they'll kill him later on in the campaign

>>14349814
>>14349820
>no robot in the collector edition
laaame

>>14349850
It's pretty much mandatory for the bro-tier robot to die. Even though I'm expecting it, I'm seriously going to cry bitch tears if it happens.

Brobot sounds like Optimus Prime.

>single player confirmed
Good, now I can explore the map and tryout different things and go to the bathroom without some kid jumping at me gunblazing telling me how much of a faggot I am.

>>14349824
Mechs are kind of a dirty word.

>>14349869
Confirmed for never actually playing Titanfall.

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So will BT be the new Chamber?

>>14349814
>not a bust of the brotitan
baka senpai

>>14349876
I mean multiplayer in general ya clever fuck

>>14349875
That's ok. I have a dirty mind.

>>14349820
Damn, This one will cost ya. I think this is the biggest accessory I saw with a game yet. That wasn't a controller or piece of clothing.

>>14349765
>xbone
whatever, hide thr

>>14349814
>>14349820
>ps4
yerwot m8

>>14349765
Things I hope for
>More titan types, though the main three are fine
>More titan customization
>More AI voices
>More SID
>Removal of that terrible CoD unlocking system (not even going to happen)
>More fast

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>>14349824
I feel like to original Titanfall had better designs. They had a very rustic and, in the case of the rebel Titans, cobbled together or salvaged kind of look.

>titanfall 2 confirmed for chest cannons

>>14349850
Dear Titanfall 2 developers: this one is free.
>go through hell with brobot all campaign
>final mission
>everything is fucking exploding
>it's time for a heroic sacrifice
>brobot is ready to place the value of human life above replaceable machinery and electronics
>NO, BROBOT
>WE'RE NOT DONE YET
>ONLY ONE OF US CAN GET OUT OF HERE
>YOU CAN DO MORE THAN ME
>YOU GO, I STAY
>human MC sacrifices himself for the sake of the mission because one man with a shitty jetpack and a gun doesn't stand a chance
>bonus mission where you play as the pilot-less Titan going fucking berserk with e-rage over the loss of his bro
>save the day as only a giant robot could

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>>14350187
I want this so bad

>>14350187
That's actually very touching.

It looks like literally every other shooter out there.

>>14349765
What about mechs? Have mechs been confirmed for this one?

>>14350289
Nope, just Titans.

>buying EA products first hand
>ever

No matter how good it looks.
No matter how fun it may be.

EA must die.

>>14350278
Yeah. Its so obnoxious that most shooters incorporate pilotable mechs and enhanced parkour movement such as wall running/mounting, boost jumping, and riding on ally mechs.

>>14350297
>enhanced parkour movement such as wall running/mounting, boost jumping,

Your farce falls drastically flat when half of your post is true.

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>>14349765
little bot a cute
A
CUTE

but i thought titanfail wasn't /m/, as admitted by the developers themselves?

>>14350329
new little robots are /m/
titans are not

>>14350294
They make more and better games than Valve

>>14350318
Titanfall started the trend recently. Brink was the first to try and it fell flat on its face but if Titanfall did anything right it was incorporating parkour with the modern FPS. The game felt like a modernized and somewhat watered down arena shooter ala Quake 3 and UT. It was definitely well done even if the game lacked content overall.

>>14349765
>AI bro
Guess I have to give this a chance

>>14350187
>such a great idea in so few words
You put oc anime plot essay writers in shame

I heard the the probalem with the first titnafall was that the mechs were just a big target and the foot soldiers could easily avoid them with the parkour moves. the new game looks no different, judging by the multiplayer trailer.

>>14350187
Nah

>human MC goes into final stage to shutdown generic doomsday weapon
>dies in final battle against generic evil general

>brobot waits outside to stop pursuers from coming
>fight till limbs break and chassis is broken but kills everyone
>goes into low-power mode to wait for broman
>waits for all eternity

>no one ever knows their sacrifice

>>14350347
reminds me of those dead tank threads on /k/
they forever wait for their crew to return, even as nature begins to reclaim it

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>>14349814
>no titan figure

FUuuUUCKk
I just hope they sell some cheap ones. I love the design sense of this shit.


>>14349824
>>14349849
>bad designs
http://www.essilor.com/en/EyeHealth/LensesForYourVision/TestyourEyes/Pages/home.aspx

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Not gonna lie I wouldn't mind playing it, even if the campaign is a set piece stretched for 4 hours

>>14350187
>>14350347
Both of these are great anons, pretty sure I'm going to be disappointed by the ending now

Yeah, sure. If the reviews come in actually good, I'll check it out.

>>14349765
So Chamber?

>>14350335
Valve doesn't make games.

HOLY SHIT THAT GIANT ELECTROSWORD.

>>14350343
Only shitty pilots make that excuse. If you're good at the game and know the terrain and how to use it, you can easily outmaneuver human enemies and go entire matches without losing more than a couple titans. Only shitters get their titan blown up in 30 seconds.

The big problem is that most normies played this game like it was COD and didn't learn how anything actually works. That combined with potentially good players ignoring the game entirely because of memes has given the gameplay a really bad reputation since it's just retards repeating things they haven't actually experienced or things they don't understand because they're literally playing the game incorrectly.

Titanfall is seriously one of the best recent mech games to be released (yes it's a mech game even if the devs are retarded). This is coming from someone that's been playing Armored Core and Mechwarrior since I was a little kid. The only real downside to the game is that there's barely any content and there should have been more customization options, especially for the titans.

>EA

I guess people just dont learn.

Rolls

>>14349765
Mcfarlane toys when?

Now that there's an actual single player, I'm infinitely more interested in it. If it doesn't use denuvo, I'll give it a torrent to try it out, then throw money at it if I like it.

>>14349941
No exclusivity deal this time around

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>>14350781
anon, don't give me this feeling
don't give me this burning desire

also pic related: are we going to be able to be robopilots?

>>14350873
You could in the first one, so I don't see why not.

>>14350878
true, but that was just a burn card, right?

>>14350329
Fuck off already, that shit's getting old. Even the devs didn't push it that hard.

>>14350879
Yeah, so we will have to wait and see if they're going the same route with that, or doing different kinds of customization.

Wasn't a big fan of burn cards, so I do hope they change it up.

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I don't know how I feel about the X-men Cyclops beam for the titans. But I totally dig that shoulder laser.

>>14350873
what am i looking at here is that a pilot with prosthetics jumping into a roboto

>>14350187
>after all is set and done everyone gathers around bro bot to see who the brave pilot that saved them is
>cockpit opens to an empty seat
>blood stained dogtags are all thats left

>>14350946
based on the arms and the head i'd say it's a full-on Marvin or Spectre or whatever the hell kind of infantry drone

>>14349765
Excited for bunnyhop the game?

>>14349765
Is this the sequel to that game the devs said they aren't "mecha"?

>>14351132

Yeah

For this sequel they added giant electric blades (which are not swords), chest lasers (which are not breast fire) and other non-mech things

>>14351114
I played Natural Selection. It was full of dog-sized enemies who could run about 30% faster than you (60% faster with an upgrade) and could bunnyhop to be more than twice as fast. They had unlimited wall/ceiling climbing/jumping/clinging, could see you through walls, and clear whole rooms with a single jump.

Shootymans with bad jetpacks and parkour skills mean nothing to me.

>>14351132
Yes. We're discussing it ironically, obviously.

Did any of the Large Bipedal Metalmans perform any physical actions that a normal flesh-human couldn't, like swinging its arm 360, rotating its wrist all the way around, bending its legs the wrong way, etc? I was very disappointed to see the LBMs in the original game handled just like their operators.

>>14351165

They're synced to the pilot, so wrist rotations would probably be extremely painful.

You can see the degree to which they're synced in the Scrappy Good Guy final battle, where Grizzled Rebel Leader is encouraging you and the other troops with his cockpit hatch open and his LBM's movements mimic his.

>>14351188
I remember joysticks and a seat in the first game. I'm not sure how those are supposed to translate to 1:1 man:machine movement. And even if they've "upgraded" for the sequel, kind of an enormous oversight to completely limit your robot's motion to ONLY what a human could possibly do. It's one thing to give it a human form factor for the sake of familiarity and ease of use, no reason you can't go a step beyond as well.

>>14351208

I figure it's because they're essentially supposed to be Marauder suits. They make the infantryman tougher, able to carry more ordnance, but in the end are still boots on the ground.

>>14350187

wow did you almost come up with the plot to gargantia yourself?

>>14351263
Did you even watch Gargantia, mate?

>>14351290
I think he means the not!Chamber robot

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>>14351208
they show that they're capable of doing things beyond normal human motion, but for the most part they're basically powered armor derived from bipedal construction units. I'll give it a pass as believable considering that it seems perfect for the weird fucked up terrain of the frontier worlds to just take an existing machine that's worked flawlessly to settle the area and turn it into a strike machine

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>>14351263
yeah but Gargantia sucked

caveat: I watched it while recovering from surgery, so maybe I wasn't in the best mood for the bullshit therein

>>14351391
horrifically shit taste

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>>14351615
>underage girls drawn overly sexily and differently than the rest of the humans on the show, with that weird shiny red skin effect
>terrible plot twist
>god-awful CG main mech


The only good things in that show were that it was an example of the underused maritime show and that it had those cool little worker mechs the Gargantia's citizens used.

>>14351702
>underage girls drawn overly sexily
How is that a minus?

>>14351702
>god-awful CG main mech
WEW LAD. Those are some shit opinions you got there.

>>14351728
It's very difficult to spread word of the show and indoctrinate new followers without looking weird to normies.

>>14351728
He's clearly into ara ara.

>>14351757
not everyone likes flying bobbleheads, man

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>Protocol 3. Protect the pilot.

>>14349765
I am slightly hyped for it because of the Titanbro

>>14349765
Hmm....so tempting, to forgive them for last time as optimus brobot adventures looks awesome

Still, its EA....

>>14352409
this is the purpose of advertising, to make you feel good about making a purchase. What happens after you make the purchase doesn't matter. They already have your money.

>>14350187
>>14349863
>>14350347
Might be some Iron Giant feels in here. Watching the trailer, there's a brief glimpse a cutscene where Titanbro is missing an arm and having stability issues. It hasing to brace on the wall with its remaining free arm. Pilot appears to be walking casually so it's unlikely the ground is unstable or moving
brace for manly tears I guess
maybe if the machine bites it, the pilot will rip the memory core for placement in another titan so in a way titanbro has an offspring

>>14350343
If you are playing against non shitters it's almost always better to just have your titan follow you around in AI mode.

The mechs still look awful. They really should just pony up and hire one of the big Japanese mech designers.

>>14352459
lol fuck no

jesus god fuck no

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>>14350347
>>14350187
>>14350962
Fuck you /m/,I did not come here for feels.

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>>14349765

not /m/

devs said so themselves

>>14352468
Okay, so titanfall keeps its horrific, utterly shit designs when they could look more like Armored Core or Front Mission.

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>>14352468
>>14352459

The reason this will never happen is that a lot of gamers hate anything anime since it's gay and lame and for turbo faggots.

If you want to the COD fanbase, they had to put in a sick burn against anything from Japan.

>>14352409

Buy a key from G2A if you feel bad about supporting Satan.

>>14351149

So sad NS2 died off due to mass stupidity.

>>14349765
What's the story,Mark?

Are there Aliums? [/spoilers]

>>14352459
Actually your comment got me thinking. Has there ever been a game/anime series where one side has more traditional Japanese styled mechs vs. one side had more traditional western styled mechs? Not really so much super vs. real, but just aesthetically?

>>14350347
Hol up that's Dragon's Heaven

>>14352761
Well fuck the devs, they should jest keep making great games

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>>14352766
>>14352785

>Armored Core

buddy, as much as I like Armored Core, this style WORKS for this setting and this mech scale

Armored Core is just classic outlandish japanese scaling and shapes, and it just doesn't look ruggedized. Still great, but it's not something to shove into everything.

Front Mission is alright, but a lil bit bland.

Also I don't think burning glorious nippon does anything to the average COD player.

>>14353017

Normie COD player logic:

>I love COD because of its "gritty" action movie logic

>Robots are dumb goofy things because I saw Voltron and Gurren Lagann

>therefore, I will not like giant robots in my COD

Look at the reaction to futuristic Call of Duties as an example of it. They went out of their way to justify exposed body exosuits as a totally real military project.

>>14353043
...because they are?

>>14352766

>Horrific and utterly shit

Based on what? The average Titan not looking like Fragile or White Glint?

The presentation is entirely different with the possible exception of V/VD - ACs are highly fine-tuned, heavily customized and extremely unique weapons that can also spew magic, world-killing particles depending on the universe and that's without getting into things like NEXTs and Human Pluses. Titans are disposable, quickly-manufactured yet all-round effective scaled up foot soldiers. Of course different designs are called for, they're two different beasts.

>>14353077

Yes, they are, but only as prototypes. And the application is very video gamey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNDX9MDH9nk

>>14352761
>mech is a dirty word

Fuck this shit game

Single player trailer looks like garbage anyways

>>14351761
>Normies

That's the reddit approved version
>wanting people to accept your shit

Just no, talk to them about the show, if they ask about the character designs bring them up and explain the context, don't act like an aspie

>>14353079
this

they're not shit designs, they're just not the godmachines you like, as befits the setting

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>>14352997
Yes, 40k does it.

Tau are the "jap" race with flat/angular, monoeye designs and big colorful railguns.

Imperium (titanicus) is western guts & greeble, gunmetal and chainsaws with a bit of catholic ornamentation.

>>14349814
Sandnigger terrorist scarf. Sure...

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>>14354756
>>14352761
>Devs
>Plural

One person. There's a mech in this game called fucking Ronin and he has a sword. But that's not like anime at all. Neither are all the Japanese influences in the maps

Guess you guys can play the other mecha games coming out, oh wait there are none

>>14358482
>Tau are the "Halo" race with blocky futuristic robots, railguns and working lasers, marathon logo plastered everywhere, and a variety of aliens divided by caste not unlike the covenant

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All the map and mode DLC will be free

>>14362674
Aren't tau from before halo?

>>14362693
Oddly close together

>>14352761
>Titans are armed with powerful weapons that make most mechs look like toys
What the fuck kind of "most mechs" are they talking about?

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>>14362791
Titan's are pretty similar to AT's from VOTOMs in the weapons they use. Honestly, don't avoid the series because of that 1 guy. He seems like a retard to me for saying that, the other artists and designers clearly do like mecha. I mean how many times do you see swords in western mecha?

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>>14362807
Also you can have your Titan OS voice be a Japanese girl

>>14362791
They're talking down 'mechs from Mechwarrior, because MWO's their other major competition as far as the west goes

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>>14362813
Kek, maybe at the time. Nobody cares about MWO anymore. Really I think EA just saw other games marketed as mech games didn't do well and so they shouted down to avoid using the term. If you play the game it feels more like Japanese mecha (Votoms in a way) than stuff like mechwarrior/battletech does

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>>14363100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sqe3KKy00Q

They did another one of these for this year but I can't find it. They're a bit bigger or the same size than an AT I think

>>14362791
In-game, billboards are made of the hardest metal known to man, apparently.
They figured that autocannons and non-destructive terrain was a good combination.

>>14363119
Yeah, the fact that weapons don't really penetrate bothers me. Not sure if TF2 will have it or not. At the same time from a gameplay angle if a Titan's 40mm could just go through all the buildings the pilots wouldn't have as much chance to escape if they get noticed. I may prefer that in theory, but in practice it could get annoying.

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These sound interesting. Wonder if you can lob them in buildings and gun fire ignites them

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Here are all of Ronin's abilities

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Ion's

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Scorch. There are 3 more Titan's to be revealed

>>14363131
>>14363130
>>14363129
For those who maybe haven't played the first game. These "Cores" are like big power attacks on a timer. Killing enemies and doing the objective lowers the time

Basically

>Spawn as a pilot
>Get kills/do objectives
>Titan time goes down faster, when it hits 0 it's ready to be called in

>Get in Titan
>Your power core is now on a similar timer
>Get kills/do objectives
>Core gets ready faster
>Activate it anytime

In the first game there were 3 titans and they had

>Damage core: Increased damage

>Dash core: Unlimited dash

>Shield core: Increased shield

So it looks like they are doing more with the cores in this game, not just pretty generic stuff.

>>14363121
that's probably the main reason that destructive terrain wasn't in the first one, and if it were included in 2 it'd probably be relatively limited in nature

>>14363131
>There are 3 more Titan's to be revealed
I'm assuming that's on top of the three from the first game, so totaling 9, which would make for a decent amount of Titan types, allow for some real variety compared to the first game

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>>14363157
6 in total

The player count is 8v8 now, 6v6 in some modes. There are also modes without the AI grunts (For all the retards out there)

>>14363157
>that's probably the main reason that destructive terrain wasn't in the first one

Usually it's safe to assume that missing features are 100% due to console.

Plus it's not like infantry play wasn't all about wallrunning and making impossible jumps already.

>>14363169
Titanfall is on a heavily modified source engine. Consoles have done destruction in the battlefield games and red faction. This type of feature really is not because of them

>>14363169
I think certain points being breakable would be cool. Like certain walls and stuff

>>14363165
if true that's kind of lame

>>14363168
>There are also modes without the AI grunts
that's silly, the AI grunts were one of the better ideas the first game had in the first place, the game's maps would feel too empty without them at the amounts of players it allows per team

>>14363186
It probably took them no effort to make them. Just like the No titan/titan only mode of TF1 they will be dead.

Good news: The servers are dedicated servers now instead of the microsoft cloud thing of the first game

>>14363186
It's twice the Titans of the first game, why is it lame? Maybe I would like 2 more. So in the 8v8 mode there's the possibility for no titan repeats per team. Too many can complicate balance

>>14349765
i dont really like the imitation optimus prime voice. it feels too put on, i think its the slight gruffness, it just feels odd for a robot

>>14363212
Here's all the OS voices of the first game, in MP you can choose yours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCAke-rmOkg

>>14363189
>Good news: The servers are dedicated servers now instead of the microsoft cloud thing of the first game
probably cause 2 is no longer a Microsoft exclusive

>>14363192
just feels like they could have done more is all, although between this and Hawken coming to consoles(and the various Bandai-Namco /m/ games getting either American or Asian English releases), I'll be more than satisfied in terms of mecha gaming soon enough, only thing that would be better at this point(at least that I can think of at the moment) would be a console port of MSGO, or a HD Remix of Lost Planet 2

>>14363226
I want to try Hawken more. I just didn't get into it last time I tried it a couple years ago. People still play it?

>>14363100
What is the name of the mecha which is third from the left and where does it comes form?

>>14363231
The tan one? I think it's animatrix?

>>14363229
it's one of those games that's still going, but in a somewhat stillborn manner, I imagine the Console version will breathe some life into it though(assuming they don't pull a Loadout on us anyways)

>>14363231
it's from Full Metal Panic, but I can't remember what it's called

>>14363236
Any tips? Installing now

>>14363231
Wasn't that one the frog or the Savage from FMP? I only remember the M series mostly.

>>14362791
Whole article reads like someone who doesn't know anything about mechs trying to sound like an expert.

I don't trust anything mecha related made by people who don't know anything about mecha.

>>14366933
They interviewed 1 person of a 100+ dev team

>>14366994
That's still one mecha illiterate person too many.

>>14350329
Literally one line from a retard artist

>>14350384
http://mcfarlane.com/toys/brands/titanfall/#
They're making brobot

>>14363231
A frog from FMP!, badass, goofy looking grunt.

>>14363189
They only said they won't use Azure exclusively, that this time they'll use more services like the ones Amazon and Google offer all together, in order to have more coverage I guess. And technically they were always "dedicated" servers, as in having a dedicated (virtual, in this case) machine handling all the server side stuff as opposed to a host-based architecture. Problem is that you didn't have the classic server list where you could handpick where you wanted to play, you (or your group) were just thrown in a lobby with little saying in the matter and I don't think things will change this time around.

>>14352803
What exactly happened with NS2? Because it was the best Aliens game to come out in years.

>>14350187
If the climax goes any other way, I'd be dissapointed

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>>14368341
>It's got a human next to it for scale

Nice. I may get this

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>>14369640
Oh they have a better image

>>14369647
>>14369640
Also apparently buying the figures gives you a code for nose art on your Titan in-game

>>14369103
It's a RTS/FPS hybrid, it's a genre basically engineered to be as unfun as possible and bound to fail. The engine they spent so much time and resources on is underwhelming, since it's heavy on scripting and takes ages to load, which is bad for a multiplayer only game. They tried real hard to pander on the comp scene, which uses a dull 6vs6 format and where tactics are a lot less varied than a regular game (you won't see an exo in a comp game, same for gorges actually doing something else than putting tunnels somewhere and changing class) and changing frequently the mechanics of the game ironically put off many players since it meant you had to relearn everything every few months. They didn't have a combat mod at the beginning, the only thing people played of the first and had fun with since the main mode can become a hour long slugfest where a team can be clearly losing but the game just refuses to end. They kept an update "hostage" behind donations, until it was clear they would never see the fundraising campaing to succeed since there were no players to speak of. Now the game is mantained by the community, which means it's handled by cluelesss spergs that wonder why their game is not popular at all even with the token QoL improvements for new players. And that's probably the most successful game of the genre. I'm kinda glad they went on to another game, because NS2 was a bog they were slowly sinking in.