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Post by malgato on Dec 2, 2014 11:42:08 GMT -5
So I am just about to jump into Titanfall for the first time. Any advice for a newbie?
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Den
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Post by Den on Dec 2, 2014 13:04:16 GMT -5
1. Jump on walls.
2. Jump off walls on to other walls.
3a. Grunt squads primarily carry R101 Carbines and Hemlok burst rifles. Spectre squads carry the R-97 SMG and sometimes the CAR SMG. The more titans on the field, the more NPCs will have rocket launchers in their squads.
4. Despite having been nerfed a good bit and other weapons buffed, the R101 Carbine is still one of the best all-around Pilot weapons. However, you don't need to start with it; take out an NPC grunt and put his R101 in your secondary slot, go with some less common weapon as your primary.
5. Weapons are not pinpoint accurate even when sighted. Shooting will expand your cone of fire even when sighted. Your stance (air, stand, crouch) has an effect on cone of fire, spread per shot and amount of recoil. R-97 and CAR SMG equally expand from 0.25 up to 1.75 crouched, 2.75 standing and 3.5° spread in air respectively, gaining 0.25° spread with each round fired. Firing in bursts recommended. R101 is more capable of sustained fired as it increases from 0.35 to a max of 0.85 degrees on the ground, 0.5 to 0.9 in the air. Hemlock Rifle has 0.35-0.85 ground, 0.5-1.4 air sighted spread, however it has time to recover during the 0.25 second burst delay. All semi-auto weapons - DMR, G2, pistols - do not gain any inaccuracy when shooting while sighted. Spitfire LMG has 0.25 spread on the ground and gains no extra spread, but has extra viewkick on the first few shots and a very slow sight time of 0.8 seconds.
6. If you are around enemy grunts, enemy pilots are very close by. Grunts spawn near the largest congestion of pilots and move in the direction of enemy grunts. 6a. The Minion Detector is among the most useful kits because of this, as seeing grunts on the map gives you rough idea of enemy pilot locations.
7. Spectres spawn in proportion to the number of Titans on the field and will spawn near allied Titans. In the beginning, it will be almost all grunts.
8. Titans aren't just some "you but bigger" killstreak, you need a very different strategy to perform well. There are many more threats to consider in a Titan and if you aren't aware of the little ants jumping around, you may as well call it a flimsy tin can like everyone else who sucks at Titans.
9. The Smart Pistol takes 0.37 to 0.65 seconds per lock-on to lock on to an enemy player based on distance and distance from center of crosshair. It takes only 0.1 to 0.2 seconds to lock on to NPCs. Players need three locks, Spectres two and Grunts one lock to get a kill. Smarty is the best at sweeping up lots of enemy NPCs, racking up some points and cutting off Titan time.
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Post by Pegasus Actual on Dec 2, 2014 13:22:49 GMT -5
9. The Smart Pistol takes 0.37 to 0.65 seconds per lock-on to lock on to an enemy player based on distance and distance from center of crosshair. Well crap, how did I not know that, about the crosshair modifier! Don't forget making people rage. It's definitely the best at that.
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Post by eLantern on Dec 2, 2014 13:26:53 GMT -5
I've found several weapon stat videos on Youtube, but given that some received patches for balancing purposes I'm guessing that those are probably out-of-date; is there a link someone could provide to an updated database?
Also, how do you wall hang? Is it as simple as holding the jump button as you leap and attach to a wall?
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Den
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Post by Den on Dec 2, 2014 13:44:36 GMT -5
Aim down sights button while wall running to stick to the wall. You can't actually sight up while hanging, so you have to fire from the hip. Also here's the latest bunch of scripts. Just about everything in there can be opened with notepad or whatever. .txt files in /scripts/weapons/ and the .nut files in /vscripts/weapons/ hold the weapon stuff. www.sendspace.com/file/m249m8
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Post by eLantern on Dec 2, 2014 14:03:11 GMT -5
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Post by mannon on Dec 2, 2014 14:11:38 GMT -5
I think you can (or used to) be able to ADS the LMG while wallhanging. Don't think I've seen it work for anything else, although hipfire is generally how you want to use the smart pistol anyway so it's probably the weapon that benefits most from wallhanging.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 2, 2014 15:02:09 GMT -5
Titanfall is a game that is easy to pick up (for either CoD or Halo players), but with lots of depths. It took me 2-3 full prestiges to actually understand how the game should be played.
I'll recommend reading through the posts on this board first. Lots of great discussions were had in the past. As a newbie, focus on threads that discuss the following:
1) Wall running; 2) Titan fight techniques;
At the beginning, keep your loadout simple so you can focus on learning and improving the 2 aspects above:
Pilot: R101 Carbine + RE45 + Stim + Arc Grenade + Quick Reload + Minion Detector Titan: Atlas w/40mm Cannon
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 2, 2014 15:03:39 GMT -5
The new coop mode, Frontier Defense, is an excellent mode to learn the game. I wish I had the option when I started
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malgato
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Post by malgato on Dec 2, 2014 17:50:07 GMT -5
Awesome. Great info here.
Now my only problem is trying to juggle so many games...
Destiny CoD AW Halo MCC Titanfall Borderlands TPS
Ack.
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Post by wittyscorpion on Dec 2, 2014 17:56:46 GMT -5
Awesome. Great info here. Now my only problem is trying to juggle so many games... Destiny CoD AW Halo MCC Titanfall Borderlands TPS Ack. Share your pain! So many games, so little time, and Halo 5 beta is just around the corner (12/29 - 01/18 for 3 weeks). The game play looks quite intriguing (as long as 343i applied their lessons learnt from Halo MCC Matchmaking fiasco): Then Evolve XONE exclusive beta (Janunary) and full launch (02/10/2015) are up next ( all DLC maps will be offered for free, that's awesome): Then in March, Destiny expansion pack 2 probably will come out...
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