Titanfall Devs Reveal New "Ogre" and "Stryder" Titans At VGX

[Steven Bogos]

Titanfall Devs Reveal New "Ogre" and "Stryder" Titans At VGX

The Ogre is a heavily armored, but slower alternative to the standard Titan, while the Stryder is faster, but weaker

Titanfall developers Respawn Entertainment dropped some new information relating to its hotly anticipated shooter at this year's VGX. The first trailer, which you can see to the right, takes the form of an advertisement from "Hammond Robotics," the company that manufactures the Titan mechs within the game world. It unveils the new "Ogre" Titan, a defensive focused alternative to the vanilla "Atlas" Titan. A second trailer also reveals the "Stryder" Titan - the Ogre's polar opposite which is faster, but less armored.

The Ogre is a heavily armored mech that can deliver a powerful finishing move that rips off an opponents arm and beats them to death with it. The trade-off of all that extra armor is that the Ogre moves a bit slower than the standard Titan.

The Stryder trailer, which you can see below, shows the Stryder in a "live field test" facing off against an Atlas Titan. As you can see, he is quite nimble and maneuverable.

Despite this being a "Microsoft" exclusive, the team stressed that Titanfall would feature absolutely no Kinect integration across all three of its platforms, as it doesn't "fit with the game."

Respawn also confirmed during its VGX presentation that the game is "content locked" and the team is now in the final stages of balancing and refinement, in preparation for the game's March 11 release date.

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[1337mokro]

This would make for a pretty awesome metagame if both sides had different companies building slightly different bots. Like how BF for a long time had asymmetrical vehicles. With different nations having different tank designs, buggy designs, hummer designs and even different jets and choppers.

 

[mattttherman3]

I love how they called 2 robots WORLD REVEAL, this was WORSE than the VGA's. Far worse. No entertainment value whatsoever and they hired the biggest douche in the acting industry to co host. Where were the triple a game reveals? Sleeping would have been a better way to spend my time. I actually took a half hour nap in the second hour I was so bored.

 

[Glaice]

I'm not so sure if I'll even play Titanfall because it's published by EA.

 

[Sight Unseen]

I love how they called 2 robots WORLD REVEAL, this was WORSE than the VGA's. Far worse. No entertainment value whatsoever and they hired the biggest douche in the acting industry to co host. Where were the triple a game reveals? Sleeping would have been a better way to spend my time. I actually took a half hour nap in the second hour I was so bored.

IDK, the witcher video, the two telltale reveals and the Broken Age stuff was way more interesting than I thought that VGX would be. And I kind of liked Joel McHale even though he was trying way too hard to be inappropriate/"funny"

 

[Link XL1]

wow, a fast light robot or a heavy slow one. really thinking outside the box here guys

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

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The youtube videos have been deleted. :/

OT: This sounds like the standard "Fragile Speedster" and "Stone Wall" we see all the time. Still, it will be nice for variety.

 

[The]

How awesome would it be if there was a 50 foot tall mech for each side. No, I don't care if it's overpowered, just give them one each.

 

[delroland]

A real mind trip would be if they implemented combiner mechs.

 

[Dark Knifer]

How awesome would it be if there was a 50 foot tall mech for each side. No, I don't care if it's overpowered, just give them one each.

That would make me far more excited for the game. Maybe a big team where one team is the crew of a giant mech and the other must take it down with smaller mechs or just two big mechs fighting each other.

But sounds too complicated for a cod with robots and a bit of mirrors edge.

 

[Steven Bogos]

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The youtube videos have been deleted. :/

OT: This sounds like the standard "Fragile Speedster" and "Stone Wall" we see all the time. Still, it will be nice for variety.

Just updated the videos!

 

[ActionDan]

Doesn't mean shit to me, since it's being published by EA, and only on Origin for the PC. I'll keep to Hawken, thanks.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

Does this mean that if I play this game, it's possible for me to get...

... Ogre-kill?

Also, I think the second video got deleted.

 

[Erttheking]

I guess I'm still in the minority on this website of thinking this game actually looks really cool. Oh well.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

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The youtube videos have been deleted. :/

OT: This sounds like the standard "Fragile Speedster" and "Stone Wall" we see all the time. Still, it will be nice for variety.

Just updated the videos!

First video is awesome!

Second video removed by the user. X_X

 

[Yoshi4102]

Titanfall exclusive means Xbone wins!

The console war is ogre

 

[EffectiveKill]

I guess I'm still in the minority on this website of thinking this game actually looks really cool. Oh well.

Careful if you say any Microsoft game is good your post will be banned, idk why people are so critical of this game, it looks quite good, guess their letting their fanboyism control their decisions

 

[Vigormortis]

I guess I'm still in the minority on this website of thinking this game actually looks really cool. Oh well.

That surprises you?

This is The Escapist. If a game isn't an RPG like Mass Effect, Dark Souls, Fallout, or Elder Scrolls, or isn't some pretentious "art" game, than it's viewed as garbage or "just another brown shooter".

Regardless, you can count me among that minority.[footnote]Though, I still worry about the possibility of EA tacking some superfluous bullshit onto the front-end of the game.[/footnote] I think the game looks incredibly fun.