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What was your favorite Titan from Titanfall 1?
gundam
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that russian robot from pacific rim
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cock hero flux
Apr 17, 2011



Olympic Mathlete posted:

Back when you could give him 2 boosts via the turbo engine kit it was a lot more fun for you and a lot more terrifying for other titans on the receiving end of a Scorch dashing with a flame shield extended. Of all the titans to get nerfed in that way, the two fuckin' slowest??

if a scorch gets into melee range with more than one pip of health you literally just die so it's okay that they made it slightly less easy to do that

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Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:

FastestGunAlive posted:

Scorch should be immune to his own fire by default. Also immune to execution during his core animation. Imo. :smugjones:

I have absolutely hosed myself wading through my own flaming traps to further melt someone with flame shield which I have the extended kit on usually. I might try the tempered plating kit, I can't remember how it was to just run through fire.

And the executions being immune to damage was always a bit poo poo on titans, you're not invincible as a pilot when performing them...


cock hero flux posted:

if a scorch gets into melee range with more than one pip of health you literally just die

Yes. If you're dense enough to let Scorch creep up on you, you deserve to melt.

BitBasher
Jun 6, 2004

You've got to know the rules before you can break 'em. Otherwise, it's no fun.


Proletarian Mango posted:

Is there a way to.filter matches by difficulty? I'm getting nothing but easy mode frontier defense even tho I have hard unlocked.

IMHO hard mode frontier defense is a complete waste of time unless you bring all 4 players. Randos are not remotely competent enough to do it consistently and the extra rewards are not worth it. Easy rewards are crap and also not worth it. Medium is the way to go.

Proletarian Mango
May 21, 2011

A bunch of salty fuckers today. Had someone calling everyone a loving idiot in FD for "kill stealing" and then he quit and the guy after him was just as toxic cuz we "sucked" but we won?

Josherino
Mar 24, 2021

Proletarian Mango posted:

A bunch of salty fuckers today. Had someone calling everyone a loving idiot in FD for "kill stealing" and then he quit and the guy after him was just as toxic cuz we "sucked" but we won?

Kinda figures you'd start to see more of asshats like that being found more often in matches now that the free weekend is over.

Sorry you had that experience friend.

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine
It only took a couple days this time for me to be done with this game's bullshit, and this time I think it's for good

sigher
Apr 22, 2008

My guiding Moonlight...



Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

I agree with the poster who said they miss the grunts: TF1 made me feel like I was doing so much more because canon-fodder was everywhere. It made combat feel like the big 64v64 maps from games like BF2, but with a tenth of the players.

I miss the optional Turrets and poo poo you could hack to mow down grunts and poo poo for you.

Proletarian Mango posted:

Is there a way to.filter matches by difficulty? I'm getting nothing but easy mode frontier defense even tho I have hard unlocked.

Yeah, before you search for a match you can click on the different difficulty icons to search for whatever difficulty you want.

drrockso20 posted:

It only took a couple days this time for me to be done with this game's bullshit, and this time I think it's for good

What bullshit did you encounter?

cock hero flux
Apr 17, 2011



there's a lot of stuff in this game that is actually aggressively unfun and should not be there, which was not impacting the game previously because the remaining playerbase were mostly people who were really into the game's unique and fun gameplay and therefore had no desire to use any of it

the influx of new players do not share this view and are very much using it, which is why you get teams that like, all use the Northstar and just form a clump in the biggest open space in the map to camp it forever, or people who actually use the smart pistol

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.
I’ve never used it but lol at getting mad about the smart pistol. Vets get extremely mad about it all the time. Doesn’t bother me that much.

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

sigher posted:

I miss the optional Turrets and poo poo you could hack to mow down grunts and poo poo for you.


Yeah, before you search for a match you can click on the different difficulty icons to search for whatever difficulty you want.


What bullshit did you encounter?

Pretty much everything in the loving game, though weapon balance and Titan balance in the regular MP, and basically everything about how Frontier Defense works were the big ones that ultimately broke me

Stan Taylor
Oct 13, 2013

Touched Fuzzy, Got Dizzy
lol if you get mad at video games

Rockstar Massacre
Mar 2, 2009

i only have a crazy life
because i make risky decisions
from a position of
unreasonable self-confidence
the smart pistol is awful at killing pilots, but a work of art when it comes to killing PvE mobs so it's very good actually

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

Stan Taylor posted:

lol if you get mad at video games

That's actually part of the problem, the issues I have with the game result in me getting incredibly unreasonably angry and it's just not healthy for me, which was also why I stopped playing Overwatch a couple months ago

Paul MaudDib
May 3, 2006

TEAM NVIDIA:
FORUM POLICE

Rockstar Massacre posted:

the smart pistol is awful at killing pilots, but a work of art when it comes to killing PvE mobs so it's very good actually

the thing with the smart pistol is that yes, in a square fight where both pilots see each other at the same time, you generally lose. but the 'timer' on the smart pistol starts running as soon as they're in your field of view (at any range), and all you have to do is wave your reticle around and it starts locking, so there is no chance of missing a pilot in the blur of combat. effectively it all means you have an awareness advantage that often means a fight is not a fair one where both pilots see each other at the same time.

of course in some of them the other pilot would have lost anyway because they just didn't see you at all.

also the enhanced targeting is basically a mandatory upgrade and it substantially improves the lockon speed. It's about 2 seconds from start to full lock, each lock is less than a second.

but yeah generally the people still playing tf1 are unreasonably mad about a weapon that's optimized for pve and not really all that great against pilots.

Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 00:55 on May 7, 2021

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph
I've died a lot in this game and very few of those times have been from the smart pistol, or at least very few for what you would expect from a gun that auto aims and one taps people that anyone can use

Toxic Fart Syndrome
Jul 2, 2006

*hits A-THREAD-5*

Only 3.6 Roentgoons per hour ... not great, not terrible.




...the meter only goes to 3.6...

Pork Pro
I feel like the smart pistol actually took a bit of skill: I could never get the rhythm down versus pilots. Having to patiently wait for the third lock seemed endless, to me.

I was a middling TF1 player and I never thought the SP was an ~oh poo poo~ danger. That was always reserved for the G50 with an EVA flying around deleting heads with a 25:1 kdr. Those dudes were what the opening trailer in TF2 was about...

Maybe on consoles this was a bigger problem, but I never experienced it.

Wowporn posted:

I've died a lot in this game and very few of those times have been from the smart pistol, or at least very few for what you would expect from a gun that auto aims and one taps people that anyone can use

:same:

I really think they balanced the gun perfectly in TF1 and it was a fun moment when it showed up in the TF2 campaign!

Guillermus
Dec 28, 2009



drrockso20 posted:

That's actually part of the problem, the issues I have with the game result in me getting incredibly unreasonably angry and it's just not healthy for me, which was also why I stopped playing Overwatch a couple months ago

It's fine if you stop playing if you don't have fun really. Not all games have to click for everyone and the most important thing regarding video games is to have fun with them. Just switch to something else, relax, enjoy your time and if you feel like it, try again. If you have fun keep going, if not, then it's understandable to uninstall and spend your time with any other stuff.

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013
friendship ended with tone, now scorch is my best friend

throwing a trap and and a flame wall and walking away and watching my flame core build up is the funniest thing ever and i love it

Kazzah
Jul 15, 2011

Formerly known as
Krazyface
Hair Elf
I played nothing but Scorch back when the game first came out, but when I came back to it I found him unplayable. You're just so slow, and your gun is just so slow. Forget shooting pilots with that thing. Anyway Ion rules.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:

Wowporn posted:

I've died a lot in this game and very few of those times have been from the smart pistol, or at least very few for what you would expect from a gun that auto aims and one taps people that anyone can use

The times I've died to it have been when I wasn't moving fast enough which is the game's entire MO... I get the indication that someone's locking and you best believe I'm out of there. I actually ran smart pistol for mobs recently and like mentioned, it's absolutely perfect for that.

cock hero flux
Apr 17, 2011



Kazzah posted:

I played nothing but Scorch back when the game first came out, but when I came back to it I found him unplayable. You're just so slow, and your gun is just so slow. Forget shooting pilots with that thing. Anyway Ion rules.

I've actually gotten quite good at nailing pilots with the scorch cannon. the hitbox is incredibly generous and it always one-shots them even if you just barely clip them. in fact, it's titans that I tend to avoid shooting with it: the damage it does is not all that good and it is painfully slow to reload so for anything other than occasionally taking potshots while maneuvering I avoid getting into any kind of shooting exchange. Actually killing enemy titans is all about forcing them into a rock and a hard place: traps and firewall behind them, inferno shield in front. If you back them into a corner, ambush them at close range, or cut off their retreat you can disintegrate them rapidly while taking minimal damage yourself. If you get into a fight where they have room to retreat and they spot you while you're too far away to dash into melee range, then just back off. Don't push it. Also, if an enemy is caught in a fire trap, don't be afraid to charge into it with them. The combination of fire trap damage and shield damage will melt even a Legion in 2 seconds, at which point you can start the execution animation and dodge the rest of the damage. The traps will have burnt themselves out by the time the animation is over so you're able to wipe an enemy titan in a second while taking maybe half a pip of self-damage in the process. And save your flame core for the ones that's get away: don't spend it to initiate a fight, use that time to get into melee range and melt someone, then if they're able to dash back out of range hit them with the flame core to finish them. It goes quite a distance.

Field Mousepad
Mar 21, 2010
BAE
No one here has mentioned my dude Ronin and that makes me sad. Most fun, best lines, he rules.

Stan Taylor
Oct 13, 2013

Touched Fuzzy, Got Dizzy

Field Mousepad posted:

No one here has mentioned my dude Ronin and that makes me sad. Most fun, best lines, he rules.

Ronin’s my most played dude by a slight margin. Love going Warpfall with nuke eject and just rolling right into a clump of enemy titans.

Proletarian Mango
May 21, 2011

Wow the Cold War is incredible and I never see it used. Is the 100 credit buy price really that much of a gatekeep? Using it in conjunction with the Wingman to finish off the rare pilot I didn't 1-hit KO made me feel like John Wick. And what's going on with the Alternator? The range on that thing is crazy good and the accuracy seems to hold up too but everybody uses the Car.

cock hero flux
Apr 17, 2011



Proletarian Mango posted:

Wow the Cold War is incredible and I never see it used. Is the 100 credit buy price really that much of a gatekeep? Using it in conjunction with the Wingman to finish off the rare pilot I didn't 1-hit KO made me feel like John Wick. And what's going on with the Alternator? The range on that thing is crazy good and the accuracy seems to hold up too but everybody uses the Car.

everybody uses the CAR because the CAR is the weapon that everyone knows is generically good, but the Alternator and Flatline are also generically good in pretty much the same way and which one you want to use is up to preference more than anything else

Mae
Aug 1, 2010

Supesudandi wa, kukan-nai no dandidesu

Imo the flatline is the coolest looking sci fi AK around so it's my main weapon here and in Apex

Blind Duke
Nov 8, 2013
Flatline is real cool and nowhere near as powerful as the CAR/Alternator. The alternator kicks around wildly but it can be tap fired for long range engagements. CAR is a laser no matter what you are doing. It’s less interesting a gimmick in 2 where SMGs are much more viable at range but it’s close enough in accuracy/TTK with the alternator to not matter much.

Flatline gets real wild in a way the alternator doesn’t. Certain amount of luck in hitting heads or not.

Megaman's Jockstrap
Jul 16, 2000

What a horrible thread to have a post.

Proletarian Mango posted:

Wow the Cold War is incredible and I never see it used. Is the 100 credit buy price really that much of a gatekeep? Using it in conjunction with the Wingman to finish off the rare pilot I didn't 1-hit KO made me feel like John Wick. And what's going on with the Alternator? The range on that thing is crazy good and the accuracy seems to hold up too but everybody uses the Car.

It's actually not a good gun if your opponents use the movement system and are equal to or better than you. It also has a nasty-long reload.

It feel great to zoom by a sniper and one-shot them, or rain hell on NPC spawns with it, but somebody actually good will kill you before the gun completes its charge cycle.

Proletarian Mango
May 21, 2011

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

It's actually not a good gun if your opponents use the movement system and are equal to or better than you. It also has a nasty-long reload.

It feel great to zoom by a sniper and one-shot them, or rain hell on NPC spawns with it, but somebody actually good will kill you before the gun completes its charge cycle.

Yes I did start to notice this in my last match which is when I switched to the Alternator for probably the first time in MP lol.

There's not like a Titanfall discord set up is there? I'm assuming most people are probably hanging out in the Apex Legends one, right? I only recently discovered what the heck networks are lol and I saw that there's a goon network. It'd be cool if we could get people to populate every now and again for a game or two.

FastestGunAlive
Apr 7, 2010

Dancing palm tree.

FastestGunAlive posted:

Another vtuber is playing titanfall 2. You love to see it. Btw the marvel heroes discord has had a few folks playing over the past week. Join us, pilot https://discord.gg/2YFPebB8

Slim Pickens
Jan 12, 2007

Grimey Drawer
My favorite part about ronin is half the pilots think they can just run up and spam their weeb sword on my scorch like I'm a tone.

Alkarl
Aug 26, 2011

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Slim Pickens posted:

My favorite part about ronin is half the pilots think they can just run up and spam their weeb sword on my scorch like I'm a tone.

I love it. I also love being Ronin, popping sword core and then blocking ten billion damage while enemy titans get mad and tunnel on me so my Scorchbros can get all up behind them and give 'em the old spicy keychain.

Titanfall is good.

Blind Duke
Nov 8, 2013
A few years back there was a video showcasing how much damage the Ronin block could absorb with and without core active. By the end of the video you had like 4 legions unloading their whole magazines into the Ronin and not killing them.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS
what is this iron cross bullshit ion skin and how can I automatically ban anyone who uses it


e: it appears to be a Battlefield 1 tie in?

Psion fucked around with this message at 05:39 on May 11, 2021

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine

Psion posted:

what is this iron cross bullshit ion skin and how can I automatically ban anyone who uses it


e: it appears to be a Battlefield 1 tie in?

Yeah it's supposed to be a Red Baron style skin

Thumbtacks
Apr 3, 2013
I had no idea it existed until just now, looks pretty sick though.

Field Mousepad
Mar 21, 2010
BAE

Slim Pickens posted:

My favorite part about ronin is half the pilots think they can just run up and spam their weeb sword on my scorch like I'm a tone.

If you're going at scorch head on you deserve to die. You will die.

Guillermus
Dec 28, 2009



Papa scorch is going to cook some nice BBQ.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:

I should probably learn some other robots than Scorch and Ion, I lean on them more than any of the others with Scorch being the largest chunk of my robot use.

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Stan Taylor
Oct 13, 2013

Touched Fuzzy, Got Dizzy
Played a round on my new pc last night and had to rebound all my controls in the middle of the match. Who knew crouch and ADS are set to toggle by default?

Still won. :smuggo:

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