Ivory Samoan
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Use enemy minions to get your Titan.
Monitor your minions to ID the enemy position.
Minions, IMO, are one of the most essential strategic tools in the game.
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Use enemy minions to get your Titan.
Monitor your minions to ID the enemy position.
Minions, IMO, are one of the most essential strategic tools in the game.
TrueGrime
Member
The art of killing players and farming minions to get your titan quicker and more times than your opponent will be the difference between games. Especially attrition. It's also the difference between average and way above average players. I've found that there's no fine line in this game.
hoyalawya
Member
Got to gen 9 yesterday, found out that getting MVP is quite easy in hardloint. Forget killing and just rush the enemy's handprints. I got 4 MVPs in a row with like 8 kills and 30 deaths. And I thought that I was gonna be stuck in gen 9 forever as I am not a very good FPS player.
Chain gun with cluster missile and electric smoke in a Stryder is unstoppable.
Extended Mag is good for pilots as it's accurate but the Accelerator chews up Titans. You also get double the extra ammo that the Mag gives you.
Chaingun with extended mags is a wonderful anti-pilot weapon. I never got the hang of accelerator it takes too many bullets to hit a small target.
hoyalawya
Member
Played against a guy in LTS on Saturday night who used Stryder with triple threat, mine field mod, smoke, cluster missile, and dash accelerator (I think). The dude was impossible to kill in non-wide-open maps as we couldn't just go after his Stryder because of the mine field & smoke. My team all wanted to rip him out of his titan after two matches but we couldn't get near him.
hoyalawya
Member
I use that combination too as I found that it is easier to hip fire with extended mag than accelerator.
CouchMaster
Member
I never used chaingun with Stryder, that weapon is too weak for hit n run strategy you need with Stryder.
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Accelerator is better for LTS, extended magazine for Attrition. I prefer the accelerator mostly though because I tend to seek out fights with other Titans.
That's why I love it.
I have to use the Arc Cannon now. It feels like it doesn't do much damage at all to titans. I use it as a minion popping device
Circle strafe. Also why would you get in close with a Stryder they are weak, I use their mobility to get around the map crop dust bigger Titans with electric smoke and to do executions on doomed titans.
CouchMaster
Member
Interesting strategy, but I've personally never seen anyone use chaingun with Stryder. You need a weapon you can unload quickly before the other titan even turns in your direction, then dash away while reloading and rinse/repeat. I personally use it only with tripple threat or quad rockets combined with guided rockets and electric smoke.
TrueGrime
Member
On Gen 5. I will be learning how to use the Suck Cannon myself. Can't be worse than the Plasma Suckgun as most people have let on.
Thank you both, now it makes sense. =)
BTW. How many players can play on one system (X1)?
Edit: after a quick Google search, one player pnly on one console, well, that's bad, really bad for me, it will kill the soon for me. :/
TrueGrime
Member
You mean at the same time? 1.
Yup, just noticed that, that's really bad for me.
TrueGrime
Member
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why satchel charges are a beast.
In spawning on the opposite side during the IMC portion of the campaign those guys didn't get 4 seconds out of their spawn before I ruined their party. There were also a gun kills after that got cut off because I froze in the excitement of it all and recorded wrong. The 6th guy ended up killing me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FxNqYSADVQ&feature=youtu.be
Edit: A gun kill, not two kills. My bad.
In spawning on the opposite side during the IMC portion of the campaign those guys didn't get 4 seconds out of their spawn before I ruined their party. There were also a gun kills after that got cut off because I froze in the excitement of it all and recorded wrong. The 6th guy ended up killing me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FxNqYSADVQ&feature=youtu.be
Edit: A gun kill, not two kills. My bad.
IOU a Beatn
Member
NICE!
PaulSancheezzee
Neo Member
What's the best game type to accomplish the gooser challenge? I only need 3 more to complete this stupid challenge. People aren't ejecting nowadays
That was pretty cool. I would have been pretty pissed at you if i were on the receiving end though.
TrueGrime
Member
Attrition or LTS.
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Some actual screens of the new maps. War Games looks cool as fuck
Just screens though, no other info (Release, patches, etc)
Swampland :
War Games :
Runoff :
Just screens though, no other info (Release, patches, etc)
The Driver
Member
Well, I got to Gen 8 today and a few ranks in before I'm guessing Bluepoint pushed out a update kicking everyone off the game. Got some error afterwards for about 15 minutes about "new player developer error" or something that wouldn't allow me to join a game. Sucks. Oh well.
Vincent Alexander
Member
Just had one of my best nights. I think we won just about every game for the night, minus one or two.
My favorite game though had to be this one. At the end, we had 5 titans, and were stomping their ship. Then an enemy titan sprinted between all of us, got a nuclear ejection (I didn't notice) and decimated our 5 titans. The 2 titans that survived must of noticed and sprinted away. It was a damn good move by whoever on the enemy team.
My favorite game though had to be this one. At the end, we had 5 titans, and were stomping their ship. Then an enemy titan sprinted between all of us, got a nuclear ejection (I didn't notice) and decimated our 5 titans. The 2 titans that survived must of noticed and sprinted away. It was a damn good move by whoever on the enemy team.
The Driver
Member
Apparently it's finally the fabled gooser update.
Looks like I'm not alone with the connection errors.
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Titanfall/XBOX-360-quot-Disconnect-DEV-ERROR-quot/td-p/2752660
Seems it was still acting up as of 3 hours ago so it might take another mini patch to fix this crap again...
While that's nice, I'm a little frustrated they haven't brought us into parity with XO and PC players. For example, multiplayer is still called Classic, which I take to mean we're still behind them.
We do have private matches, however, so I'm a little confused as to what version we're at compared to them.
That sucks about your connection issues though, I didn't run into any.
The Driver
Member
Lol yeah I'm not really expecting us to be up to speed till after the first map pack drops. Even then I'm expecting it to be on a delay. Have they even said formally if the pack is coming to the 360? I mean, I figured it will make it's way to us eventually but...
wsoxfan1214
Banned
Yeah, it's supposed to come out this month but we still haven't been graced with a solid date yet.
Regret Upon Approval
Member
Reminds me of when my team lost and was attempting to hold the exfil site. We had a few titans. An enemy titan came at us full bore and dodged about our titans to get right up to the ship. And then promptly went nuclear.
It inflicted enough damage that the enemy managed to destroy the ship. I was impressed and disappointed I didn't realize sooner and attempted to block his path.
Impressed because that is also a favourite little tactic of mine.
ajim
Member
can anyone help out with this? Really annoying. My best data centre is east Asia at 167ms and my local Australian one is at 217ms.
anyone else experiencing this or can I fix it? I was averaging 50-60ms before.
TrueGrime
Member
I've been killed that way before. What makes it worse is that I've had teammates do that too! Unless you're paying attention you have no idea who is doing it and it's best so just get the hell out of the way anyway.
I play variety pack and use them when Pilot Hunter comes up. They are most useful in that mode in my opinion because you are dominating early game and not giving the other team 5attrition points when you die. It's also keeping you from dying.
Has anybody encountered this glitch? I finally beat the militia and IMC campaigns last night ( just been playing general multiplayer since launch)
After unlocking the Stryder (played one match and switched back to the Atlas), my Titan ordnance ability is always the Vortex Shield. I've tried different load outs and ordinances, different custom Titans and I can't use anything else.
I'm going to try the Ogre tonight and see if that does anything.
Also is the season pass for sale? I can't find it on the store.xbox.com
After unlocking the Stryder (played one match and switched back to the Atlas), my Titan ordnance ability is always the Vortex Shield. I've tried different load outs and ordinances, different custom Titans and I can't use anything else.
I'm going to try the Ogre tonight and see if that does anything.
Also is the season pass for sale? I can't find it on the store.xbox.com
TrueGrime
Member
I have sort of run into this and it mostly deals with when I am using the default class. I use this until I can customize my titan and when I finally reach the level to do that when the game starts I have to manually choose that custom titan or it will remain on the default. Sometimes when I switch it anyone it remains on the default so when I want to use smoke I get a goddamn vortex shield. This only has happened on the stryder for me.
Just had one of my best nights. I think we won just about every game for the night, minus one or two.
My favorite game though had to be this one. At the end, we had 5 titans, and were stomping their ship. Then an enemy titan sprinted between all of us, got a nuclear ejection (I didn't notice) and decimated our 5 titans. The 2 titans that survived must of noticed and sprinted away. It was a damn good move by whoever on the enemy team.
Based on those scores it's like you are bragging about kicking the shit out of a dead body.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Some games you just don't want to end:
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Poor admiralhonybuns and his shitty ping
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Holy shit, I didn't even notice that. Sad that he did better than a fucking gen4.
Yeah. What the fuck was that gen4 doing that he wound up with 13 deaths and 0 kills!? How does that happen. Must have been a long trek to gen4.
Didn't notice our team deaths on this one. If I hadn't had my neck snapped while hacking a turret we would have had three people on our team with no deaths.
I've been REALLY enjoying the g2 whatever semi auto rifle. Dunno if match trigger is worth the limited ammo. It already fires pretty fast.
Anyway I'll be on today after 4 est hit me up if
You plan on xbone I wanna run in a communicating party.
Also is it just me or are frags useless.
Anyway I'll be on today after 4 est hit me up if
You plan on xbone I wanna run in a communicating party.
Also is it just me or are frags useless.
I admire you sir. I am Absolutly awful with the G2. My K/D actually dropped when I was doing the Gen challenge for it.
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