Hip Hop
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I don't think you show up on the map if you sprint.
Shooting without a suppressor might be the only thing (Anti-Titan and secondary weapons too)
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I don't think you show up on the map if you sprint.
Shooting without a suppressor might be the only thing (Anti-Titan and secondary weapons too)
Ryo Hazuki 117
Banned
You do. Thats why theres a perk which makes your steps unheard and stealthy. Check it out.
Hip Hop
Member
Yeah, it only makes your footsteps silent and the jump exhaust invisibile.
It also wouldn't make sense to have you show up on the map for running, when that is what Titanfall is promoting.
You don't, not even if you're stimmed. The perk removes the noise and makes the jetpack invisible. Some people get greedy and try to snap a pilot's neck instead of shooting, I hear them and turn around and grab the kill. That's what the perk is for.
Fun fact, boosting with a Titan makes you show up.
Shooting sans a suppressor/burn cards and if a minion sees you.
Cant tell you how many times i have ran into a minion without cloak and they have marked me, only to die seconds later.
Shake Appeal
Member
I'm halfway through Gen 2 and I did not know this.
Yep.
Ever see a titan disappear off the map for a bit while just moving? There you go.
Anyone notice more and more players using the auto pistol? Gave it a go for the first time and found it stupidly easy so put it away - it felt dirty. I know it's there to give players with controllers a chance but they went too far. Firing while jumping or wall-running is so much easier plus there's the added advantage it doesn't make a much noise. I really think Respawn need to look at this in an update. Maybe reduce the effective range or limit the XP gained for auto pistol kills.
I was using it for the gen 4 reqs-gen 5.
Against players that aren't bad, its bad.
If you miss one or two shots, you just lost the fight.
If you can get the jump on someone, sure you can kill just fine with it, but 1vs1 you need to land every shot relatively.
Woo-Fu
Banned
IMC deploys quite a few specters in the campaign missions. Just play a few of them as Militia.
Terbinator
Member
Yep, I posted a few pages back that people with dung connections seem to get the jump on people with better ones.
It is also harder to hit them. I have seen people use it actively as a sort of cheat. They change data centers to get a worse connection.
They should have just made it so that you can only connect to the nearest (or maybe the two nearest) data centers.
Shake Appeal
Member
Yeah, not looking forward to this. I think I've used it for <2 minutes in my first 20 hours or so.
They're coming soon, in a free update. Didn't make the cut for launch, but we're looking forward to having them too.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
It's mostly to allow you to play with who you want, would be kinda bullshit to have friends on origin or Xbox and be unable to play together because of a region lock.
Also it's pointless either way as a lot of people just have bad connections which that won't help at all.
eh, i got called poor on XB1 after i wrecked a guy because I have a 1 bar. My bad that I'm stationed in South Korea and like to play with my friends in the states. I asked if Im jumping around after seeing a 2 bar guy teleporting, my buddies said I looked fine.
Hello there and thanks for giving the question regarding the lobbies.
Were you thinking about some unninstaler, that would get rid of uncompressed audio for languages people don't use to reduce game space on HDDs?
Blue Ninja
Member
Dammit, I feel like I've lost my edge. Then again, the map I just played on was one I hadn't seen before, so that might have something to do with it, but still.
Did unlock the LMG, that thing eats Titans for breakfast. Killed six.
Did unlock the LMG, that thing eats Titans for breakfast. Killed six.
Shake Appeal
Member
It's what it's best for. I can't imagine the sheer terror of seeing my Titan's health bar get eaten that fast.
Blue Ninja
Member
Yeah, the moment you get caught out in the open by a Pilot, you're dead. The LMG's terrible for anything but killing titans and mid-range combat.
Switched back to my CAR, and maybe I haven't lost my edge after all. CAR + Radar Pulse (or whatever it's called) is awesome.
On the whole, the game is pretty good at avoiding the "bullshit death"-thing that got me so tired of post-Reach Halo multiplayer, but it has its moments. This one guy with a Smart Pistol I'm chasing cloaks and hides behind a wall, and when I spot him I start shooting him. I don't give him time to lock on, so he just cheeses me with a jump kick while I'm pumping him full of bullets. The melee feels so cheap in this game, especially when you're used to something like Halo where only an assassination is a one hit kill. Getting your neck snapped when someone gets the drop on you is fine. Getting killed by someone's foot while you're perforating the rest of his body, less so.
I'd say that and the shotty are my main two problems with the game.
wackojackosnose
Member
I'm really enjoying this game but yeah, the lack of (non mic) communication is quite disappointing. The last team based fps I really played, Quake Wars, had a really cool automated key based dialogue system where you could let your team mates know what you were doing or what you wanted to do (e.g. Attack Point B, Defend Point etc...) and it made team work so much more viable even without microphones.
(Holy shit, Quake Wars was 7 years ago. 0_0 )
The Librarian
Banned
I haven't had much problem with melee, but my two main problems would be shotgun and the see-through-walls perk.
Shake Appeal
Member
Ahaha, I was just in a game where the Milita team were screaming about the IMC being 'communists'. I set them straight on the game's politics, and one of them told me he was destroying their fighting spirit.
Ryo Hazuki 117
Banned
What? This is rubbish! 1v1 duels I always die to a better connection player.
Terbinator
Member
I think the image above is evidence above. Every time I get a questionable death and check the scoreboard their connection is always lower than mine. I've just played 5 games of Hardpoint and the guy on our team, lvl 11 was scoring ~4000 defence points every game and about a 6:1 K/D ratio - 1 bar connection.
There must be some heavy interpolation going on, though, as animation looks fine but the way I've been killed most certainly is not.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
I'm sitting right on 1.0, was 0.7 for a while there, then brought her back up.
Oh, why do you ask?
Stephen_drewz
Member
Damn. Didn't hit 50. 13k XP away from 49. Oh well, I got a few hours tomorrow which should get me there then thats it till next weekend. Challenges really start to slow down after 40. Maybe I should re-visit the Hemlock or whatever it is and get some quick easy challenges to speed it up. Have only enjoyed the R-101, SMG and CAR so far though. And the shotgun but I am not very effective with it.
The Librarian
Banned
To add to this (some thoughts I got after playing a match):
I don't like how pilots carrying flags can get in their Titans and run away. In the context of the game's gameplay, it just seems hugely unfair. If I'm the closest one to an opponent carrying the flag in her Titan, and I'm still only a pilot, I can't do much about it in terms of keeping pace and power to take the Titan down.
Most of the guns in this game I find boring to use. I have one more primary weapon to unlock I've just unlocked the LMG and most of the other guns are either too ineffective or plain un-fun to use. The weapons I do like currently are the CAR, Hemlock, the other SMG, the shotgun, and...um...that other really useful gun. Whatever it's called. I've forgotten! It's kind of like an assault rifle. Anyway, the rest of the primary guns are take or leave. It's the same situation with the Titan primary weapons. The only one I find that's all around effective is the chain-gun.
DryvBy
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I'm sitting right on 1.0, was 0.7 for a while there, then brought her back up.
Oh, why do you ask?
I was just curious. I haven't seen anyone post how sucky they are at the game.
Shake Appeal
Member
Coincidentally, apart from the Hemlock, these are all the ones that work well or decently from the hip. You are a Halo player.
I have moments of greatness, 11 kills and 1 to 2 deaths, but most of the time I tend to suck, 2 kills and 5 to 6 deaths.
I like this game because the times I only got 1 or 2 kills I still felt like I contributed to the team by killing bots or titans while in battlefiled it just led to frustration.
So before I get on this cruise ship I have to ask. Has anyone done well with the Ogre? Atlas I do well with. Stryder I do well with. Ogre? Not so much.
I have tried a lot (and separately have even gotten decent with the rail gun) but just can't find a good way to use that slow ass mech.
I have tried a lot (and separately have even gotten decent with the rail gun) but just can't find a good way to use that slow ass mech.
Shake Appeal
Member
Finished all the Gen 2 challenges, switched my loadouts to something more interesting... and my K/D fell off a cliff for five games. Need to get used to playing not like a shotgun maniac.
Yeah, I suck with Ogre. I don't think it gets enough of a health boost to make up for only having one dash. It's definitely the titan I go down fastest in.
Terbinator
Member
I've all but used the default Ogre exclusively. Tanks enough damage and has the nuke core for wiping people out.
Hip Hop
Member
It's my go-to Titan at the moment.
I use the Titans primarily for Pilot killing (Playing Pilot Hunter pretty much 99 percent of the time) so it comes in handy as I can take more damage than the other chassis.
Sometimes a Titan is head-on in front of me, and other Pilots try to join in on taking me down and it gives me enough time to focus on them with my Chaingun. Yeah, it's pretty slow but the benefits of taking more damage outweigh the cons for me. If I have to take down a Titan, I can do a good job at as well. Have taken multiple Titans out with it too, which I'm sure it came from the damage resistance.
Woo-Fu
Banned
You have to build the ogre for brawling if you want it to shine.
40mm+extended mag
Electric Smoke
Rocket Salvo
Whichever Tier 1 kit you like
Big Punch
Use your smoke offensively, especially in tight quarters.
Punch titans back into the smoke or off cliffs.
The key to the Ogre is making your shots count. If you don't like the 40mm then use the shield wall and triple threat. People are either going to try to get through the wall which means you punch the shit out of them or they're going to try to run away through your grenade spam.
Shake Appeal
Member
Yeah, this is what I'd advise, but maybe with cluster missile. I got the 40mm challenges for Gen 3 exclusively in an Ogre.
Hip Hop
Member
I really wonder how many people bought the game on PC.
Pilot Hunter is empty at the moment, it forced me to play Attrition and it only took a second to find one.
It seems like Call of Duty on PC (where the population is less than 8,000 or less at any time).
It will take a while (or sometimes never) to find a game in unpopular game modes, but Team Deathmatch is always there.
Pilot Hunter is empty at the moment, it forced me to play Attrition and it only took a second to find one.
It seems like Call of Duty on PC (where the population is less than 8,000 or less at any time).
It will take a while (or sometimes never) to find a game in unpopular game modes, but Team Deathmatch is always there.
BattleMonkey
Member
Yea I don't feel like it really is that much stronger than the atlas truly, it seems to take about same amount of damage. Only time ogre truly feels more powerful is when your shield core power is available to use on it, then yea you get a temp protection boost.
Me too actually. Sad to see challenges reset. I would like some global ones to keep track of my progress.
The Librarian
Banned
I rarely shoot any of them from the hip.
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