/tfg/ - Titanfall General

>The EPG is a crutch weapon for people who can't aim.
You sure you don't mean the G2?

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youll still lose. this has got to be the dumbest game mode they couldve possibly thought up. my confidence in respawn zigzags back and forth with every patch. i dunno whats goin through their minds with game modes like this

>mfw monarch jp va is shit

Explain splash damage

The EPG fires an explosive, not a bullet

>projectile the size of a truck
>even if you miss you still deal loads of damage because of splash
Nice crutch, shitter

stop responding you fool

Can somebody give me a quick rundown on the newest game mode?

Wasn't the IMC still relatively malicious in the first game? Blisk was testing out their new Spectres by siccing them on the civilians on Colony, among other things.

what perks do you guys usually run on your epgesus? i'm currently trying to learn the way of the epgesus, doing pretty well but im not sure if quickswap might be good to use for quickly finishing off non-instagibs or tactikill for going fast

it's shit

MacAllan crashed Graves' plane which was the flagship of the IMC fleet.

15 years later, the IMC find his colony after tracking a Militia fleet and falsely believe they're hiding the terrorists. His mutiny combined with (suspected) aiding of terrorists meant the IMC said fuck it and deployed combat droids. The ones that weren't killed or escaped were taken prisoner and sent to Typhon, where Marder experimented on them.

normies are brainlets who cant into objective so its bad, since slows wont be able to get batteries if you're fast and cant into titanplay either, you'll easily stomp and they wont know what to do and just quit the match making it boring

Doesn't the quickswap only work when you're switching to the weapon that has the mod?
I run tactikill with reload speed, the first because it lets me dump holopilots like they're flares and the second because I find the mag size on the EPG to be large enough without extended mags.

Pickups spawn at random locations on the map, get lucky and collect 3 without dying to get a titan. First to get a titan usually shits on everybody else so it's gg 5 minutes in

all you have to do is...use an AT weapon...woah...

good luck focusing down a ronin while 5 other pilots bear down on you for being distracted

that doesnt work. its ffa. the person that gets the first titan is going to camp batteries and easily heal what little damage you can do before you get blasted.
thats what everyone is doing and why the game mode is not populated. whoever drops first wins. its retarded

>hurr durr hurrrrrrrr

>play on console and see 99% of people use nothing but r201/hemlok/g2
>meanwhile i have all 3 of them at level 1 and weak memepistols at over 3k kills
a-are we just autistic?

>tfw I like to regularly switch up weapons to keep things fresh
>tfw it's that time of week where I have to use the G2A5
I-I'm sorry guys ;-;

do none of you pick up other people's weapons? i run smr but whenever i kill someone i take their stuff and use it to kill others, it's fun. i like to start with a grunt spitfire and see how far i can get

>do none of you pick up other people's weapons?
no

I honestly forget the feature exists then get confused when I get out of my Titan to find out I'm inexplicably holding a Longbow.

i never even see other peoples weapons, i assume you need to look at the ground to pick them up or something

I always have a turbo cancer G2+Phase+Arc Grenade build for when there's an acute need to purge roof shitters with their 5000 R-201 kills (this is on PS4)

Seriously, if you have that many kills on your weapon but the only time I see you use your grapple is to get to the highest spot on the map to crouch down I won't hesitate to try and out-cancer you.

right when the game launched I pretty much picked up the CAR and stuck with the CAR for a couple weeks, so I have a couple hundred kills with it. As such, I tend to not use any fancy camo or proscreen with it so to other people it looks like I've just picked up the weapon.

>when you die and hold down the respawn button, but the respawn button is also the reload button which is also used for picking up guns, and you end up respawning where some other guy just died at and your gun swaps with his instantly and you don't notice you're using some piece of shit's Hemlok until it's too late

proscreen looked like shite in CSGO and it looks like shite in TF2

Don't ruin your gunfu's aesthetics with an e-peen measurement device

S-shit someone link me to that archived tfg thread it's important

>learning the joys of the Stiff

I was blind but at last truly see

Are they gonna increase the ttk? The httk playlist was fun as fuck. What do you guys think?

it was trash

they've said they're going to implement changes in DLC7. They're going to be taking feedback from the low aim assist test occurring this month before that happens, however.

After hearing the pains of PC guys using assault rifles, I would definitely prefer an aim assist nerf to the ARs on console than a damage nerf, and then just a flat damage nerf to the SMGs.

Where my Oibois at?

>Aim assist nerf to ARs
Yes
>flat damage nerf to SMGs
How about a punishing damage falloff along with an accuracy decrease? It would give them a niche where they would excel (Close to mid range) but would be shit beyond that range

Also G2 needs a drastic decrease in either the mag size or the fire rate; preferably both

THIS FIGHT

OI

How does FFA factor into your win/loss ratio? Does it count as a loss and affect your record even when you come in second place?

Oi

why do you even care about stats

>Also G2 needs a drastic decrease in either the mag size or the fire rate; preferably both
I think the latter. Back in Titanfall 1, the main drawback of the G2A4 was that it had a fairly low rate of fire, and using the match trigger (Insanely fast ROF) would require sacrificing extended mags, suppressors and other non-scope kits for the weapon.

I think a drastic rate of fire decrease to solidify it as a battle rifle/ the stepping point between asault rifle and DMR woud work. The 3HK actually makes sense then. Maybe give it a 2HK headshot to reward accurate play and it's ok. The annoying thing right now is that it's essentially just doing what the Hemlok used to do; it can kill faster than anyone can react while dominating across the entire map.

I actually think the G2 could benefit from Wingman Elite-style projectiles.Keep the damage the same and you reward accurate shooting and leading more while soft-nerfing the range and raising the skill level required to use it.

If they did a G2A4 rifle in an upcoming patch with an AOG sight, I wouldn't mind it becoming projectile.

>tfw the best looking guns are all shitter weapons

I just want to use my spehss M14, man.

muh e-peeen

I don't, I'm just curious.

Weapon balancing ideas
Please give criticism

>SMGs
R97 should get a massive accuracy decrease and damage falloff, but keep its current damage at close range. This would make it a close-range bullet hose like it was always meant to be.
CAR should get a slight increase to damage falloff
Volt should get a slight damage buff under the assumption that it becomes a projectile weapon
Alternator's first-shot accuracy should be removed so script-kiddies can't magically tap-fire it to turn it into a fucking laser

>ARs
Hemlok should get a slight decrease in AA on console, slight damage buff on PC
G2 should get a significant nerf to mag size (8, 12 w/ extended mag) or a rate-of-fire nerf to compensate for mag size
R_01 should get a decrease in AA on console
Flatline should get a slight damage buff/accuracy nerf

>MGs
All MGs should have NO damage falloff to incentivize their use
Spitfire should act like it did in TF1 (Shit initial accuracy that actually gets better the longer you shoot it)
Devotion should be projectile; same speed as Wingman Elite
L-STAR should do a small amount of damage to Titans no matter where you shoot

>Grenadiers
EPG should be fine as-is
Softball is also fine as-is
Cold War shouldn't do less damage ON A FUCKING DIRECT HIT REEEE
Sidewinder needs a buff to the smoke effect

is 2xp only on gay agents

OI PCpilots, be ready for happy hour. We may do in-houses tonight, but it depends on how many pilots we get.

Honestly the hemlock is fine, it's nowhere near the bullshit it was before.
The g2 should be better with either magazine or rof nerf, not both. The aim assist playlist coming might even be enough, honestly.
The rx01s are meh, it only popped back up because the flatline got kicked in the dick.
Spitfire should have a larger magazine

Traffic makes me never watch to queue up for live fire ever again. What a garbage map. In fact I don't even want to play Titanfall 2 anymore in it's current state because it has become so grating but every other FPS out there manages to be worse or more dead.

What counts as a killing spree for titans?

Same as pilots. 3. No more, no less.

cold war does the same damage on direct and aoe you moron

hey xbox guys where you at?

Be on in a few.

I got shit to clear in warframe

I know for a fact I just got 3 kills in a row several times during my last few matches with my Northstar but the counter isn't going up any. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, it was easy to hit 100 with Scorch. I just want the 30 killing sprees warpaint but I'm stuck at 11.

Hey, so how active is the PC community/?

steady 2k-3k peaks

Man, messing with Tone knowing that Particle Wall glitch exists and holy shit
This really does nothing right now does it

Active enough we still have slows to feed on.

Man I hope Archon and Ramm are mentioned soon, I'm starting to get bored of the standard Titans. I just need to get the hang of Northstar and I'll be pretty much well-versed in all of them.

>implying we are getting more Titans

It took 8 months to scrap Monarch together, reused assets and all.

>arc cannon

Yeah I know, TF2 will probably die content-wise with Frontier Defense. It's just that it's so dull picking the same small pool of titans that have a perk you can change and that's it.

give me a quick rundown on "Archon" and "Ramm"

lightning based titan with no concept art
melee based titan with a single piece of concept art
neither is going to be implemented

a stryder with an arc cannon, an ogre with fist gauntlets and a grappling hook. ramm's model was recycled for scorch prime, so it's unlikely he will ever appear.

Oh, so that's why Scorch Prime looks fucking stupid

emilia is best girl

yikes

yep. his weird gauntlet things were originally only on ramm's right arm, they were for electric punches.

people cannot see your stats so that doesnt apply either.

it does not, or of it does then something is bugged. 4 direct hits will not kill a person, 4 splash damage hits will. this is why so often you will leave a pilot with a sliver of hp, even though all of your shots hit flush.
there is definitely something wrong with it, just hard to determine since its hard to see direct hits with the cold war to begin with

he's wrong, yeah. it's still a complete mystery if it's intentional, but explosives seem to rarely do full explosive damage on direct hits. the best example of this other than the cold war is the archer, which should kill doomed titans in one hit (2250 impact + 500 splash), but it almost never seems to.

>"We imagined that each of the Titans was spurred into development by some horrible battlefield defeat - 'if only we'd had a Titan that did X, we would have won that battle'"
That's pretty dope.

Things that TFG love to hate

>R-97
>G2
>Tone
> mommy briggs

>>R-97
>>G2
imba
>>Tone
easy to use but not really that OP
>>mommy briggs
I still don't know why we changed from mommy gates

>If only we had a Titan that can reload once a year and dies in every scenario except extreme close quarters
Hmmm

>there are people ITT that don't want best mummy as their faction

>if only we'd had a Titan that did X, we would have won that battle

Do you treat your trap pilots well tfg?

Mnhmhmhm

Do you ever stop being obnoxious?

I don't have one :^(

>if only we'd had a Titan that did X, we would have won that battle
What would a titan designed to take out roofcampers look like? probably an oversized reaper that can jump ontop of buildings and has a tickcore

Holy shit, you people weren't kidding about the Lone Wolf mode. It's a total shithouse, even with only about 6 players in a room.

I approve of anything to make shitscan less obnoxious
All they need to do is ease up on the nerfs for projectile weapons and I'll be perfectly happy to play TF2 for as long as the player base holds

I find it difficult to believe we'll get anything after Frontier Defense. It just seems like they've already put an admirable amount of content into a game that didn't set the world on fire, and that the wise move would be to move onto whatever possibilities exist for a TF3

BAKERS DOZEN BITCH.

>whatever possibilities exist for a TF3
None

>there are people in this thread that want to fuck dykes