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veni veni veni posted:Panic melee is a new term to me, but it perfectly describes the bane of every FPS for me. Mapping melee to the loving R3 makes me accidentally click it when someone slightly startles me by popping out of nowhere and I die because of it at least once or twice a round and games rarely let me remap it. Once in a while it makes me look like an on point badass though when I jump off a building and someone is running below me or something though. absolutely, i don't understand why i cancel shooting or reloading into melee so often and it saddens me. the execute / backstab is a good mechanic to shame roof / corner campers but the melee being a 1 shot and as slow as it is to balance that out feels bad 
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zolthorg posted:the melee being a 1 shot and as slow as it is to balance that out feels bad At least it's faster than the glacial twinkletoes skip-kick of TF1
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I had a video of another pilot and I frantically trying to melee each other for fifteen seconds that I seem to have deleted. I did find this, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QVDvAihGmQ
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I'm a console baby but I'm trying out the video features on this Xbox One. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCAFTecXJrk Yes I'm using tone. I do love Ronin right now though. Finally getting the hang of Ronin and its a lot of fun to charge someone. E: The worst feeling as far as loving up melee's goes is when you try to sneak on a guy and miss, then you still get a second chance to melee and still miss.
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RE: Low Profile talk Here the first ejecting pilot equipped cloak but didn't have low profile.  This pilot cloaked with low profile and I was only able to catch him through tracking him before he hit cloak and mostly luck. 
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soggybagel posted:E: The worst feeling as far as loving up melee's goes is when you try to sneak on a guy and miss, then you still get a second chance to melee and still miss. I managed to sneak up on someone and miss an EPG shot and then a melee, we both danced and jumped around for a good 5 seconds trying to melee each other with him somehow ending up behind me and doing an execute. Demicol fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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I had that same situation party night except i was the one that somehow ended up doing the execute from the front. That's how it seemed at least in my screen.
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Condoleezza Nice! posted:I use Kill Report
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Demicol posted:I managed to sneak up on someone and miss an EPG shot and then a melee, we both danced and jumped around for a good 5 seconds trying to melee each other with him somehow ending up behind me and doing an execute. I basically had the same things happen minus the execute. Neither of us could land hits and we were just running around and bouncing off the walls of this tiny room, wiffing melees It was pretty hilarious. On a separate occasion, some dude managed to trigger an execution from the front, causing the game to awkwardly teleport him behind me so the animation would play right.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I bought this game because they released a video and blog where they touted their new, superior matchmaking and specifically called out their new skill component - and IMO it's an almost total failure, making good matches about 1/6th of the time. I would prefer that be around 50%. I'm not asking for miracles here - matchmaking is hard and there are temporal and geographical realities - but it's a continuum and they're on the wrong side of it. When there's 2k people active in my region and mode and they put me into yet another stomp match I have to wonder what the hell is going on. I'm curious how you think match making should play out with modes like BH and Attrition where the robots are there to almost help you balance out the differentials. I get it for Pilots vs Pilots or LTS but most of the other modes feel like they would be difficult to balance. Even then for LTS what are you using to evaluate? KD/R with a particular titan? Efficiency? It would surprise me if the addition of the stats page indicates they are working towards something, but there are so many variables.
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^burtle posted:Even then for LTS what are you using to evaluate? # of times you've picked Tone.
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Lumpy posted:# of times you've picked Tone. Just trying to let my besties play Northstar. 
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^burtle posted:I'm curious how you think match making should play out with modes like BH and Attrition where the robots are there to almost help you balance out the differentials. I don't follow this. AI is there as a bone for the bad players so that they can feel they contribute. This was a stated design goal all the way back on Titanfall 1. They don't skill balance anything and aren't a threat to anyone but the most rank amateur, newest player. (your occasional buck-wild Reaper excepted). They are there for ambiance and to help bad players feel good about themselves. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this but calling them a "balance to the differentials" is wrong. The answer to your question is "match making should play out by matching players of similar ability together". Regardless of mode, regardless of bots on the field, your opponents should be *relatively* near your skill level. There should not be huge intra-match variances in skills. For example, if each team has one guy with 35 kills and 90% of the team's points and the rest of the team has made no meaningful contributions, that is a "balanced" match in terms of player skill at the team level, but at the individual level it's an utter failure. Again, I don't expect miracles. I would expect to see balanced matches 50% of the time. With a huge influx of players over the free weekend, my matches actually got substantially worse and I spent nearly the entire time getting matched against stacks of players who were individually better than me by a lot, better than anyone on my team, and as a group were absolutely unstoppable. And I'm totally at the mercy of their matchmaker...which is why getting it right is so important. There's no alternative. It's not like in the old Quake days where I could have a list of servers with decent opposition while clans kept mostly to their own servers for scrimmages and tournies. Edit: I was wrong, there is an alternative, I could do private matches with 9 other players of similar skill. Pretty drat tough though. Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Northstar's really starting to grow on me, actually. Her railgun really ought to be hitscan but there's nothing more satisfying than one-shotting an overconfident doomed Titan from across the map.  Plus, you can make her look like Mike Wazowksi:
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Bought game because Titanfall was fun even if there were less than 300 people playing at a time. Having fun, tons of poo poo everywhere, shotgun is enjoyable, still have no idea what to do in Titans. 7/10
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ninjahedgehog posted:Northstar's really starting to grow on me, actually. Her railgun really ought to be hitscan but there's nothing more satisfying than one-shotting an overconfident doomed Titan from across the map. Northstar is really fun and the viper thruster changes have made it my favorite Titan
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I saw someone say that LMG's do straight damage to titans, is that true? Does the Kraber? Or are they both crit-only like other guns? I feel like if the Kraber isn't effective anti-titan, it's way outmatched by every semi-auto rifle, including the Hemlock.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:A lot of complaining Possibly this isn't the game for you
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ZeusCannon posted:Possibly this isn't the game for you Equating matchmaking with the actual gameplay is very interesting.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I don't follow this. AI is there as a bone for the bad players so that they can feel they contribute. This was a stated design goal all the way back on Titanfall 1. They don't skill balance anything and aren't a threat to anyone but the most rank amateur, newest player. (your occasional buck-wild Reaper excepted). They are there for ambiance and to help bad players feel good about themselves. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this but calling them a "balance to the differentials" is wrong. The system definitely got hosed during the free weekend, but this is a side effect off there being a massive influx of zero skill players. I don't mean people were bad, but they have no skill history. I play solo, and I watch the matchmaking. I'm one of those 30 pilot kills 5 titans kill players. 99% of the time, I see a player of equivalent skill on the other team. In my experience, overall the matchmaking is pretty good
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Skyscraper posted:I saw someone say that LMG's do straight damage to titans, is that true? Does the Kraber? Or are they both crit-only like other guns? I feel like if the Kraber isn't effective anti-titan, it's way outmatched by every semi-auto rifle, including the Hemlock. They're both crit only. The Kraber was bugged for a while and could shoot through Titan dome shields but that has been fixed.
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Aw. Well, that's unfortunate, but about what I had expected. Thanks!
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https://twitter.com/SixerMason/status/806218131081428993
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The fact that everyone continually preaches "going fast" as the cure for everything in this game is really annoying. Go fast to get a better position. Shoot, then get the gently caress out of the blip that some dummy is definitely running straight toward. Fast aiming is for youngins, fast positioning is for smarties. Avoid those that are both.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Northstar's really starting to grow on me, actually. Her railgun really ought to be hitscan but there's nothing more satisfying than one-shotting an overconfident doomed Titan from across the map. Northstar 100% has the coolest nose art.
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I wish I could buy this 
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zolthorg posted:kill report tells you literally nothing interesting because in the time you can get to any location of an orange skull they might have actually respawned in that exact corner/hallway and ambush you Kill report is really useful. If your chasing a guy down and notice a death marker on your screen around a corner you lost him behind you know he's dead. I also use it often with pulse blade to get a better sense of who's dead and who's still kicking. You can see bodies through walls then see if they're dead with an icon. Very useful perk.
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Antoine Silvere posted:I wish I could buy this I will wait forever for a hoodie that looks like Tone with a matching t shirt with a pilot sitting at the controls.
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Antoine Silvere posted:I wish I could buy this You can make it for like, $40. 
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Lemon-Lime posted:You can make it for like, $40. Is there a guide up somewhere? If I knew what parts/kits to buy I would definitely do it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfL-_3rpIaw Nobody gets out on my watch.
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Antoine Silvere posted:Is there a guide up somewhere? If I knew what parts/kits to buy I would definitely do it No, but at a glance that's a Ball on top of most of a Graze, with maybe some Barbatos parts, so fairly easy to make. The backpack looks like it's kitbashed using some of the weapon addon kits.
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Skyscraper posted:Aw. Well, that's unfortunate, but about what I had expected. Thanks! Ya it's pretty ineffective. Even the devotion with a-wall hardly does anything. I only do it to distract/annoy or if they're really low
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Athanatos posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfL-_3rpIaw My favorite part about denying extracts is you don't get a bonus for doing so, you just deny a merit from the other guys
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Lemon-Lime posted:No, but at a glance that's a Ball on top of most of a Graze, with maybe some Barbatos parts, so fairly easy to make. The backpack looks like it's kitbashed using some of the weapon addon kits. Ugh I don't want to have to use my brain to make this  (Thanks)
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Ball is the best gundam
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I'm at work but someone should post those awesome lego titans.
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veni veni veni posted:I'm at work but someone should post those awesome lego titans. please
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Demicol posted:What's the best Titan to just leave on Auto while I go around killing other Titans? depends on the game mode but for amped hardpoint once i get a titan, i just rock defence and drop scorch nearby to chip in
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Wazzit posted:Passed 5000 laser shot kills with the Ion Laser this weekend. Jesus Christ Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The fact that everyone continually preaches "going fast" as the cure for everything in this game is really annoying. Situational awareness is really important. Stopping anywhere that's exposed for more than a moment is a good way to get killed from across the map, but not all engagements require you to jump around on walls. The more you move while you're trying to shoot someone, the worse your aim is going to be.
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