He's still good, you just have to play him differently. Run Hidden Compartment, stay in long range mode and snipe Titans with double Power Shots. Play him like Northstar and peek around walls at a distance, but make sure that Gun Shield or at least one Power Shot are off cooldown before you do that (i.e. don't just stand there and hold down LMB without your shield available). The nerfs did nothing to hurt his anti-pilot game which is as strong as ever.
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TITANFALL 2 |OT| Don't Misgender Tone.
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He's still good, you just have to play him differently. Run Hidden Compartment, stay in long range mode and snipe Titans with double Power Shots. Play him like Northstar and peek around walls at a distance, but make sure that Gun Shield or at least one Power Shot are off cooldown before you do that (i.e. don't just stand there and hold down LMB without your shield available). The nerfs did nothing to hurt his anti-pilot game which is as strong as ever.
I'm still at work and will play on PS4 tonight lol.
Radical Edward
Member
Almost gen 5 and haven't seen the game played at a distance. Get your pvp crap out of here and play the modes with titans in it. The game is called titanfall not pilotfall
Yeah, I will have been meaning to get on there lol. Now that I hit gen 10, I can work on PS4.
I agree that normal modes are very fun and varied.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Does Northstar's threat indicator highlight cloaked pilots? I think I remember sitting on a kill cam that did
But you are playing the CoD mode...?
Radical Edward
Member
Ps4???
I am going to try them all anyway, but right now I am doing well with Tone. I love the game just the way it is so far and hope they don't change a damn thing, personally.
On a side note, nearly 26,000 on Xbox One a few minutes ago as well. That's not too bad.
You should read his posts from last month, he was probably the only positive guy on this forum lol. It's kind of weird seeing his posts now.
Bornstellar
Member
It's rather strange how our opinions have flipped since the tech test.
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Shit, I was just about to type this exact same post. I said bad things about the tech test but here I am, buying Prime titans and shit, having a lot of fun with the game.
What's your PSN?
Yeah I was left feeling ambivalent about tech test, but having the time of my life with retail.
Doesn't matter. Hemlock/g2a can be just as annoying and ridiculous in ctf.
my opinion changed when they decided to balance the game for the least populated platform while leaving people on console to deal with bullshit
UncleMeat
Member
Just found out the hard way that phase shifting into another titan is insta-death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZWyqS0DZGw
I was totally cool with it and not pissed at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZWyqS0DZGw
I was totally cool with it and not pissed at all.
Recently Regen'd for the first time and it feels really refreshing.
Actually quite nice that it forces you to refamiliarise with earlier weapons and Tacticals.
Forgot how much fun Grapple was. Works especially well on Angel City (what a map btw).
I'm also not as upset about losing my custom pilots as I thought I'd be. A clean slate is nice once in a while.
Can't get enough of this game!
Actually quite nice that it forces you to refamiliarise with earlier weapons and Tacticals.
Forgot how much fun Grapple was. Works especially well on Angel City (what a map btw).
I'm also not as upset about losing my custom pilots as I thought I'd be. A clean slate is nice once in a while.
Can't get enough of this game!
They wat.
You nerfed Volt because it was very strong on PC
this bro, this.
(posted by some user on reddit)
Leaving the hemlock/g2a unchanged while nerfing the volt which was the most mobile gun on console and making it useless.
Hemlock/g2a may not be that big of a deal on PC because of keyboard mouse but it sure is on console with aim assist. Just as volt must have been pretty OP on PC but it definitely was not on X1/PS4.
this bro, this.
(posted by some user on reddit)
Leaving the hemlock/g2a unchanged while nerfing the volt which was the most mobile gun on console and making it useless.
Hemlock/g2a may not be that big of a deal on PC because of keyboard mouse but it sure is on console with aim assist. Just as volt must have been pretty OP on PC but it definitely was not on X1/PS4.
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Tone Prime when
Psychoward
Banned
have they reverted weapon assists not counting towards progression yet
for some reason that killed a lot of motivation to play for me, mostly because I'm optimistic they'll change it in the future so I'm waiting
for some reason that killed a lot of motivation to play for me, mostly because I'm optimistic they'll change it in the future so I'm waiting
Psychoward
Banned
this bro, this.
(posted by some user on reddit)
Leaving the hemlock/g2a unchanged while nerfing the volt which was the most mobile gun on console and making it useless.
Hemlock/g2a may not be that big of a deal on PC because of keyboard mouse but it sure is on console with aim assist. Just as volt must have been pretty OP on PC but it definitely was not on X1/PS4.
CAR was and is more mobile
not on console it wasn't.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
My bad, Cobalt, was in a game. Definitely down to play more tomorrow.
Vital Tundra
Member
Poopy. Such an ugly filter.
Vincent Alexander
Member
Codeacious, when the heck we rocking some pilots again? Haven't caught you online for ages.
Psychoward
Banned
...what does being on console or not have anything to do with that?
It has the most accurate hip fire in the game on console and on pc
um that's debatable. the alternator is just as good or better.
whatever they did to the gun they reduced it's effectiveness across the board, rendering it useless for ctf and pvp.
Vincent Alexander
Member
Nope. But you will lost about 75% more matches if you don't roll with Barker. He is the best.
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
It affect who gives you an emotional beging of match speech and some banners and patches
SmartWaffles
Member
Can you stop giving me amped hardpoint again and again plz?
Bornstellar
Member
Volt is still incredibly effective and still probably one of the best all purpose guns in the game.
I do laugh when I hipfire goose people with the alternator though.
SmartWaffles
Member
Jesus christ SIX Amped Hardpoint games in a row????
Psychoward
Banned
it's not debatable, the car is the most accurate smg/ar while wallrunning
alternator does more damage and I prefer it but by definition the CAR is the most mobile, no?
CupONoodos
Neo Member
I don't normally do this, but man I just had a pretty awesome Pilot vs. Pilot game. If you have 7 minutes to spare, check it out had a lot of fun haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEoyhr7mIL8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEoyhr7mIL8
No it's not. Volt is more accurate than any other smg across the board.
Vincent Alexander
Member
While I disagree with Swol mostly, I feel like accuracy is the one particular thing the nerf hit on. The accuracy at a distance seems to drop off a lot more now, but I could be completely wrong. Everything else with the Volt still seems perfectly fine though.
Watched about 3 minutes. You're pretty damn good at quick fire with that gun to keep it from flying all over the place. I just recently started using the Flatline and nee to practice my short bursts.
CupONoodos
Neo Member
Thanks. The trick is that the first 2 - 3 shots are the most accurate so try to tap or do short burst if you need to shoot from a range. Up close you don't even need to worry just let loose. Also hip firing is pretty accurate on Flatline which is why it's my go to gun over CAR or Volt. The extra damage is just too good to pass up for me.
Vincent Alexander
Member
What mods are you running with it?
CupONoodos
Neo Member
Tactikill and Faster Reload. For all guns I always use those two, the others don't seem too useful to me. Gives me a bad habit though of constantly reloading after I kill someone which got me killed plenty of times haha.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion but I think it's a little elitist to think there is only one right way to play and I don't think that's what the devs envisioned when they included a variety of different weapons in the game. I also think that without some variety in viable play styles the game would be less popular.
Speaking for myself, I was LTTP on TF1, not having an Xbox One the first few years after it came out but I played the crap out of it this past summer and it turned out to be an all time favorite for me. So far I'm really liking TF2 and it's up there too among my top games of all time. I think they did an amazing job on the movement in both games, and I have my stretches where I'll jump around like a mad man for a while, especially when caught in the middle of the chaos and having to fight my way out, but I would not enjoy the game playing like that all the time. As I said in my prior post most of the time I prefer a little bit more grounded approach to the game and the AR weapon class best suits me on most maps. That's just my style and if it was made ineffective by wholesale catering to the extreme run and gun crowd I would probably stop playing. That's just me so I can't speak for anyone else. The things I like most in the game are the big maps (especially the swiss cheese style big maps with lots of ways to navivate...I'm so sick of the 3 lane bottleneck type map that COD is obsessed with), gun play, net code that feels fair to me, and the mix of pilot game play and Titan gameplay that has a very rewarding sense of progression for playing well. I could go on but the point is that there is a lot to love in the game besides just the movement so that's not necessarily the only thing that IS Titanfall.