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What was your favorite Titan from Titanfall 1?
gundam
megatron
that russian robot from pacific rim
goku
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Enderzero
Jun 19, 2001

The snowflake button makes it
cold cold cold
Set temperature makes it
hold hold hold

Ineffiable posted:

Yeah and that's the thing, this game cab make you feel like a punching bag so much more than other games. Highly skilled players will literally run and phase shift in circles around a lower skilled guy. It can feel unfair.

And it was great playing with you rad valter, I think we all had our good and bad times but overall we did well. I never once though for a minute any of us was doing loving terrible. Just sometimes you don't know where the enemy is and they get a few lucky snipes on you.

Yeah, rad, I was worried I was doing the worst which means no one else stood out as being particularly bad or anything.

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Megaman's Jockstrap
Jul 16, 2000

What a horrible thread to have a post.
BTW I was checking an old Frothy vid and the Cold War, pre-release, had 20 shots in the mag. Do not get why they got rid of that. Huh.

Ineffiable posted:

Yeah and that's the thing, this game cab make you feel like a punching bag so much more than other games. Highly skilled players will literally run and phase shift in circles around a lower skilled guy. It can feel unfair.

They try to compensate by having low TTKs but unfortunately the mobility side of the game kind of undercuts this. In a slower game with low TTKs if you flank someone they almost always die, but in Titanfall 2 it's entirely possible for your opponent to defend themselves by pinballing around like a madman so that they are harder to hit. Thus, if you are not a good shot as well as a fast mover then you're in real trouble. That's why I've gotten kind of cranky that the catch all piece of advice for people is "go faster", because it's definitely an extremely important part of the game (and a lot of fun) but map knowledge, meta knowledge, and good marksmanship goes a long way, too. Ultimately it takes 40 hours of practice to move 90% as well as Frothy but 4000 hours to shoot 90% as well has he does.

BeanpolePeckerwood
May 4, 2004

I MAY LOOK LIKE SHIT BUT IM ALSO DUMB AS FUCK



blackguy32 posted:

For titans too. Not much of a score guy but it fucks with you being able to level up your titans.

Play Last Titan Standing

Kelp Me! posted:

IMO this game does parkour way better than Mirror's Edge which is literally Parkour: The Game. Yeah we get double jumps but drat does movement in this game feel so much more satisfying than in either of the ME games.

I've spent enough time platting both games to compare and I really feel like I need to stick up for Mirror's Edge here; I couldn't disagree more. TF2 is definitely streamlined and responsive, and it's easy to pull off over-the-top maneuvers which is good because you're usually doing 3 things at any given time, but the actual parkour feels super floaty and not tactile at all, even landing from an ejection has very little weight to it. During wall runs it barely ever feels like you're connected to the surface or that you're using skill or momentum to stay up there (in fact it's basically a 3-second sticky timer, and you can move backwards or forwards until it wears off). And don't get me wrong, I love TF2, it plays awesome for what it is...the best first-person shooter in years.

TF2 is not a compelling parkour game on its own though, there's just not enough depth. The intricacy of the controls in Mirror's Edge is absolutely phenomenal, the way in which every move in the game can be chained into every other move to maintain momentum, and just the general weight of every action feels like you're actually moving and interacting IN the environment rather than on top of it. In comparison MEC really rewards user knowledge of the interconnected moveset, while the upper tier of play in TF2 is less about mastering environmental parkour than it is mastering bunny-hopping and juxtaposition of weapons and cooldowns.

In Mirror's Edge when you pull off a really complex string of parkour moves it feels absolutely earned (like in a sim or a Darksouls game), and that's just not the case in Titanfall since there are so many other gameplay concepts being juggled at any given time.

Ularg posted:

I hate everything about the L-star, why the hell do I want to regen every weapon once?

Do you hate that it gibs people? :getin:

Hackan Slash
May 31, 2007
Hit it until it's not a problem anymore

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

BTW I was checking an old Frothy vid and the Cold War, pre-release, had 20 shots in the mag. Do not get why they got rid of that. Huh.

I guess people hate getting killed by explosives? The cold war would be balanced even if it never needed reloading. It's so slow and so little damage.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

Insert name here
Nov 10, 2009

Oh.
Oh Dear.
:ohdear:

Hackan Slash posted:

I guess people hate getting killed by explosives? The cold war would be balanced even if it never needed reloading. It's so slow and so little damage.
Things people hate and consider no skill in every FPS game, regardless of how hard it is to actually use: Shotguns, Explosives, anything that shoots lots of bullets real fast

Antoine Silvere
Nov 25, 2008

Are these soap bubbles?
Grimey Drawer

Insert name here posted:

Things people hate and consider no skill in every FPS game, regardless of how hard it is to actually use: any gun i'm not using and kills me

fixed that for you

Hackan Slash
May 31, 2007
Hit it until it's not a problem anymore

Antoine Silvere posted:


Insert name here posted:

Things people hate and consider no skill in every FPS game, regardless of how hard it is to actually use: any gun that kills me

fixed that for you

Fixed that for you

blackguy32
Oct 1, 2005

Say, do you know how to do the walk?

Insert name here posted:

Things people hate and consider no skill in every FPS game, regardless of how hard it is to actually use: anything that kills me.

Antoine Silvere posted:

fixed that for you

Hackan Slash posted:

fixed that for you

Fixed that for you. People will bitch about anything and everything, even if you loving sneak up on them and kill them with an attack that takes 5 seconds to charge to full power.

soggybagel
Aug 6, 2006
The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.
I don't have an issue with phase shift. What I do have an issue with and will never shut up about it is melee!!!

quite stretched out
Feb 17, 2011

the chillest
melee is really easy, just get in your titan and no enemy pilot will out-melee you again

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

I never get super frustrated about melee because whenever guns fail and it all comes down to melee, either one of us dies too quickly for me to register any problems with the situation or I'm too busy laughing at how awkwardly me and the other guy are dancing around each other. When that happens it's a total yakety sax moment and I appreciate that.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
The aerial kick seems to have aim assist but the punch doesn't. The punch has a cone.

soggybagel
Aug 6, 2006
The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.
Titan on Titan melee will get you killed if you've got any lag at all. Also northstars rail gun is amazing. Love that gun.

Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.
I feel like there's a sensitivity to how far you have to click the stick in to kick because I keep kicking whenever I get near an enemy and all I want to do is adjust my aim.

Flipswitch
Mar 30, 2010


For how long it takes to unlock it the Flatline feels a bit disappointing. Maybe I'm just not getting the recoil pattern as it's mostly horizontal.

Wazzit
Jul 16, 2004

Who wants to play video games?
The horizontal recoil is primarily for hipfiring. Same with how the Alternator works.

Megaman's Jockstrap
Jul 16, 2000

What a horrible thread to have a post.

Flipswitch posted:

For how long it takes to unlock it the Flatline feels a bit disappointing. Maybe I'm just not getting the recoil pattern as it's mostly horizontal.

It bucks wildly on the horizontal but it's COMPLETELY horizontal - no vertical movement at all. You can feather the trigger for a G2-like effect or you can fire it full-auto on your opponent's head level and it will kill them in two headshots. However it recoils so incredibly badly and becomes such a variable gun that past short range you are better off just tap-firing it IMO. It's better than people think but you do have to babysit it and if you do fire full-auto you can get some real bullshit kills (either pro or con)

Radical 90s Wizard
Aug 5, 2008

~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~
I tried to use phase shift but I couldn't see poo poo and was basically flailing around even more than normal :(

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


phase shift is how dogs see the world all the time :tinfoil:

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph
Every match I've played today and yesterday was a total Stomp (with us losing) with me and sometimes one other person getting 150+ points and the rest of our team less than 40, this game makes me want to die

Magnus Condomus
Apr 23, 2010

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

Get above your targets. The more mobile and airborne your opponent is, the less advantage these guns give you (NPCs being the ultimate ground-bound slowpokes means they really take it on the chin) and they become quite difficult to use against fast, wall-running/airborne opponents.

Softball is probably the more viable of the two although my heart lies with the 'War. Also I consider it a basic requirement to run Phase Shift with Cold War, it simply doesn't work in PvP otherwise.

Edit: My preferred Cold War loadout is:

Cold War + Extra Ammo and Fast Reload (two required mods, basically - it has a ludicrous base reload time and tiny ammo box on the base gun - you need these to make it viable)
Charge Rifle with Fast Switch and Extra Ammo: Cold War tickles Titans and is lousy at hurting them, Charge Rifle actually hurts them AND is a good pocket Sniper Rifle if you see someone camping
Phase Shift
Frag Grenades (they pair well with Phase Shift) but Arc Grenades also work as it slows people down to eat a burst from the 'War. However I found Frag Grenades could get me more kills
Low Profile (BUT some Cold War guys swear by Hover)
Battery

Zip around the map as much as you can, get above people, kill them at short to medium range. Use Phase Shift if caught at close range to escape, when you need to reload, or whenever. If you enjoy high mobility and a challenge this is a fun loadout without being too cheesy.

This is basically my load out right now. I use MGL at the moment though. Shooting titans with your cold war doesn't do a ton of damage, but it does fill up your titan meter pretty darn quick.

Here's some Cold War mobility in action:
http://i.imgur.com/VYIzedG.gifv

And here's some old fashioned cooking
http://i.imgur.com/hXUb950.gifv

Godzilla07
Oct 4, 2008

Thanks to PS4 crew for fun games tonight. The last $5000 to $148 in Bounty Hunt might be the most lopsided score I've seen in Titanfall.

Did this without Grand Cannon.

https://giant.gfycat.com/AngryThickEquine.mp4

I was also able to get points for another titan kill via rodeo after this, but there's a hard 15s limit for gfycat and I don't want to upload to YouTube. :effort:

https://giant.gfycat.com/PassionateSmoggyChimpanzee.mp4

boz
Oct 16, 2005
Watched FrothyOmen's tutorial for gravity star boosting then I did this. Felt real good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUIG1bbEUCY

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Kelp Me! posted:

phase shift is how dogs see the world all the time :tinfoil:

We must develop our olfactory senses to keep up

Wazzit
Jul 16, 2004

Who wants to play video games?
Lucky son of a

http://i.imgur.com/KP9rVhE.gifv

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Kelp Me! posted:

phase shift is how dogs see the world all the time :tinfoil:

Actually this was disproven; They have the optic cones for perceiving blue and yellow :eng101:.

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
Softball is good but wow that reload time

Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.

Anidav posted:

Softball is good but wow that reload time

I open palm slam a grenade into my softball...

soggybagel
Aug 6, 2006
The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.
Just ran a Cold War setup as a test and it's fun. A lot more fun than the softball I feel!

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


I'm sad that I couldn't get video because my PS4 decided it wasn't interested in recording more than a 2 second one but last night I was in the zone on a good few matches. Bounty hunt on Boom Town I spent the match running around clearing up the other team like a man possessed, ricocheting off walls like a ninja on a Red Bull enema. Another match on Homestead I got my Tone early (I usually main Scorch these days but he's not great on this map) and spent the next 10 minutes just destroying the other team's pilots, toying with them to the point where they seemed to single me out while my team was cleaning house on the objectives. I spent a while just strafing one guy's attempts to hit me with the Archer and then popped him with the 40mm. He eventually got a Titan and came at me, he wasn't the best Ronin player So I shot him to pieces, he ejected and then tried to land on me from above so I hit melee and my Tone hit him with a right cross and he exploded satisfyingly.

When you're on fire in the game it's just wonderful and I'm finding out where Scorch is effective, basically forcing the other team to avoid certain areas on maps like Dry Dock by getting in there first.

Rad Valtar
May 31, 2011

Someday coach Im going to throw for 6 TDs in the Super Bowl.

Sit your ass down Steve.
I want to apologize to Lord Snow, Tanning and the other guys I bailed on last night in the middle of a match. I had a baby emergency and was up all night so I had to just shut everything down.

ZenVulgarity
Oct 9, 2012

I made the hat by transforming my zen

Rad Valtar posted:

I want to apologize to Lord Snow, Tanning and the other guys I bailed on last night in the middle of a match. I had a baby emergency and was up all night so I had to just shut everything down.

Babyfall in ten

Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.

Rad Valtar posted:

I want to apologize to Lord Snow, Tanning and the other guys I bailed on last night in the middle of a match. I had a baby emergency and was up all night so I had to just shut everything down.

"Glad we got a dad like you on our team"

Flipswitch
Mar 30, 2010


I tried to use the Anti Titan Sentry last night, wow that thing is bad.

MarshyMcFly
Aug 16, 2012

Rad Valtar posted:

I want to apologize to Lord Snow, Tanning and the other guys I bailed on last night in the middle of a match. I had a baby emergency and was up all night so I had to just shut everything down.

Np bro. Nice to have to have you with us.

IronDoge
Nov 6, 2008

Flipswitch posted:

I tried to use the Anti Titan Sentry last night, wow that thing is bad.

The trick is to save them all until the end and put them next to the fleeing dropship. 3-4 will kill it super fast.

blackguy32
Oct 1, 2005

Say, do you know how to do the walk?
I don't think ronin is for me. My survivability is super low in it.

Enderzero
Jun 19, 2001

The snowflake button makes it
cold cold cold
Set temperature makes it
hold hold hold

Rad Valtar posted:

I want to apologize to Lord Snow, Tanning and the other guys I bailed on last night in the middle of a match. I had a baby emergency and was up all night so I had to just shut everything down.

First we fight, then we dri.....ah gently caress. gently caress. woke the baby up.

No worries dude, poo poo comes up sometimes and you gotta bounce quick.

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Ularg
Mar 2, 2010

Just tell me I'm exotic.

blackguy32 posted:

I don't think ronin is for me. My survivability is super low in it.

All the better for frequent and surprise nuke ejects.

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