One of the things that has me thinking the most about Titanfall is, “Is there a story?” We haven’t really heard much, but with Militia, IMC, Titans falling out of the sky and more, it would seem strange for there to be no story. Well luckily, the folks over at Major Nelson’s blog were able to sit down and ask Respawn dozens of questions. Not just any questions, but questions from the community.
One of the questions from a man named Adam Bankhurst had to do with him loving a story based game and losing interest in multiplayer only games. Respawn’s answer has me hoping for a good story while still enjoying one of the best multiplayer games I have played.
We have a variety of classic modes, three which we’ve shown so far, there’s some that we haven’t talked about yet. That’s if you wanna hop in with your buddies, get into a quick match, skip the story elements of the game. With the campaign multiplayer, you’ll play once through as the IMC and once through as the Militia. Because it’s a multiplayer game, it’s always moving. It’ll start out with these scripted sequences, and there’ll be way more dialog and characters and way more context for the world than you would otherwise get in the classic modes, but it’s not a single-player game. It is still a multiplayer game with story elements woven in.
Not only will your reason for defending, say an area in Hardpoint, be the fact that you need to win the match and level up, but there will be story elements introduced into the game that will push the narrative along.
Now, coming along to the topic of the bots present in the game, I know some people have been put off by the bots. I actually like the idea of them being there, for a couple of reasons. But regardless, one of the questions was asking whether or not players can interact with them passed just killing them. Short answer no, but you can hack the opposing teams Spectres and pull them to your side.
Then there’s Spectres. Spectres are much tougher, much more dangerous. You can hack them to turn them to your side with the Data Knife. They’re way more powerful, way more deadly, and they also move differently. They can jump up multiple stories. So sometimes you’ll catch one out of the corner of your eye, you’ll think it’s a Pilot. They’re way more mobile and scarier.
There are many more questions answered along with some video of the interviews over on Major Nelson’s Blog.
