/tfg/ - Titanfall General

HAH I honestly forgot Pilots are a thing in this game since I've only played Titan Brawl for quite a while, sorta forgot about 1 shotting pilots but I've seen complains about it go way down after the projectile size was nerfed.

You know user, if you keep dying to Tones, you can dash away and avoid the tracker rockets. It might be mentally taxing to time your dashes to a flurry of rockets coming at your face but it takes as much focus as your well used "get out of jail free for being caught out" phase dash.

The one shots still happen far too often, and Tone is more effective than scorch for flushing pilots out of cover too

>dying to tones
Fucking kek, do you die to scorch as well?

>first mutliplayer fps in 10 years
>multiplayer is filled with skilled veteran players who will eat me alive
How long do I need to suffer before I get good?

Make a game out of seeing how long you can not touch the ground and you'll get a good feel for the movement system, knowing how to use the movement in this game is probably the biggest factor between being bad and being fast.

eternally

half of those people that stomped you were probably not skilled veterans, but average players using the R97 or CAR. SMGs are horribly overpowered, besides the Volt.

You'll always suffer because Respawn can't balance a game to save their fucking lives.
Granted, a new patch is coming Soon™ and it'll have high TTK and aim assist changes which will hopefully fix such issues. And yes, the balance situation used to be even worse (looking at you, Tone), but it took them only eight fucking months to get to this point.

took me a day or two before I started getting the hang of it, but I play fps games a lot

mostly need to get out of certain fps habits when you play tf2

>need to always be moving, be on walls as often as you can
>a lot of guns don't need to be ADS'd to fire accurately
>learning wallrunning routes on every map
>learn how2grapple
>learning titan picks and counters

once you actually get the feel and git gud it's a blast to play
but that initial learning curve is pretty hard, I know a few of my friends and roommates who dropped it because they didn't want to spend the time to git gud with the game mechanics

start out using the stim pilot class and the car, both are pretty basic and easy to get the feel for
once you start to understand the game more, branch out to other weapons and classes

>start out with stim
>not grapple

stim is better for shitters

stim is good for starters, grapple has a much higher skill ceiling

>mostly need to get out of certain fps habits when you play tf2
Think this is the major problem for me since I'm not used to run and gun. Also, should I turn on auto-sprint for this "Bunny hop"?

you don't run and gun, you wallrun and gun
no, auto-sprint is shit

I personally keep it off, the slide-hop isn't very difficult to do
it's doing the air-strafe that is actually a bit more difficult to get the hang of

>but I've seen complains about it go way down after the projectile size was nerfed.
I like tone a lot more post nerf but I miss having a go to titan for ez butthurt. People make the mistake of thinking Ronin or monarch take any skill so no one seems to get mad now if you pick one of the two easiest titans in the game other than tone and tone doesn't get nearly as many [you]s

Load up a custom match and practice grappling for like 5-10 minutes focusing on slinging yourself into a high speed launch. Grapple is the most busted tactical aside from phase and it's better than stim since you'll be able to maintain that speed more effectively

I can't wait for HTTK nerfs to come into play so people have to actually move on their own more often because their cop out button for being slow got nerfed.

post bad memes

youtube.com/watch?v=cviVhtoAiME
here, take this

>phase
>busted

Busted in a balance sense.

says hes not there

Like how? You can predict where phase shitters will come out like 90% of the time, it's annoying yes but far from busted

SYAMPUUH, GIVE ME JAP PACK V2.0.6.1 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>Return to battle

maybe offline or already left. thanks for lookin

The problem with phase is when they chain it, having to wait on phase once isn't a big deal, having to wait on phase twice because you don't instagib them 100% of the time the second they get out of it just makes it tedious to deal with. Considering most people who chain phase will go into the second phase the second they hear fire come their way on exit HTTK was on point with nerfing it down to 1 longer charge.

Quoted the OP rather than your post.

everything about Scorch prime is superior to original

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Newpilot here, help me out
1.Whats HTTK?
2.What makes Phase busted?

1. a gamemode where you don't get melted by fucking carbines in fraction of a second
2. see

High Time To Kill (HTTK) was a recent test Respawn did that ultimately increased the TTK more than is seen currently. This included changes like nerfs to most every gun and reduced effectiveness of a few tacticals, allowing fights to last just a little bit longer.

In its current state, Phase Shift is the closest thing to a get-out-of-jail-free card in the game. For two seconds, you are completely invincible and intangible, leaving an enemy unable to do anything but try and track you through phase space. This gives you a chance to get away, reposition, reload, prime a grenade, whatever. It's most commonly used as a panic button; the moment the Pilot takes damage from anything at any range, they immediately pop phase shift to force a disengagement, or give them time to loop around and counterattack.

And the best (worst) part? You currently get TWO charges of it.

1. high time to kill
2. it's an oh shit button that makes you basically invincible

Where are these Scorch buffs I keep hearing about?

in 5 days

Where can I read about them?

The devs confirmed them in the AMA.

Respawn did an AMA yesterday or so. They directly confirmed Scorch is getting more buffs.

in patchnotes when they release

>Scorch """"""buffs"""""" are just going to be fixing the bug where you slam a theirmite grenade into a titans face and it all falls off after dealing two ticks of damage.

I hope it's something along the lines of faster dash recharge or faster movespeed in general whenever somebody is taking fire damage. He's bad because he's a close combat Titan with zero dashes by default and the slowest run speed.

>ogre
>mobility
lmao no

>no titanfall game/mission where you're in space vietnam burning jungles down in your titan while "it ain't me" plays from your cockpit speakers

>faster dash recharge or faster movespeed
lol no, scorch is an ogre

IMCuck please

>Can only do any kind of damage when close to somebody
>"No he doesn't need mobility he has a lot of health to soak up damage as he waddles into damage range it's fine"

Ronin is a close combat titan that can't do shit at range, and you know what he has? Several things to help him get in range and keep people in range. You know what Scorch doesn't have? That.

Pissdrinker please.

It has tools to block the retreat paths so it can get close. The problem is that those tools suck. It's also a mystery of the century how a titan which uses fucking fire is not immune or extremely resistant to at least his own fire.

>The problem is that those tools suck

Exactly. Incendiary Trap doesn't slow, neither does Firewall. Unless it's a tiny hallway map like Complex a Titan is almost always gonna be able to just walk away from the giant areas of flames.

>not immune or extremely resistant to at least his own fire.

Just another aspect like his shit primary and his lack of decent kits that make him the worst Titan in the game. I mean find me any one person that's ever used something besides Thermal Shield or Wildfire Launcher unironically.

I hear about a scorch buff, but best boi is already a best.

Especially in these noob farming times. I keep decimating the shitscan babbies with scorch.

I was running thermal plating for a while and it actually makes a huge difference in playstyle.

Poppa Scorch can just create an area of denial with it, but you're still vulnerable to plinking if you don't space it right.

I think that's my biggest complaint about scorch if anything. Even if you play angles with him, people can still outmaneuver you with their normal run speed. Even if you have some cover, a NS or Tone can just casually jog into sightlines and there's nothing you can do to break it.

where has a scorch buff been confirmed??

Literally how would you buff Scorch? It's his very concept that sucks ass, not the execution.
>a close range titan
>but slow as fuck and no gap-closing abilities

In the Respawn AMA yesterday.

So /tfg/, what would you say is the #1 most difficult weapon to use in the game and do well with? Pic unrelated.

Reduce the damage of flame wall and give it a slowing effect.

If you can get the drop you're good, but you shouldn't be chasing people in scorch, he's an area denial specialist.

Almost certainly the SMR.
Also what the hell is wrong with whoever choreographed that shit?

It's a Resident Evil movie. Don't worry about it.

Just make him immune to his thermite.
It's absolutely ridiculous that he has to maneuver around his own abilities.

memeball

>CQC with Pilots is literally flying at hundreds of miles per hour to kick or punch someone in the face
I really wanted to see two Pilots go hand to hand in campaign.
I honestly can't say I'm bad with all weapons. Most of my kills are luck.

Pilot gameplay is pretty much CoD but with wallrunning, so that happens.

I'd elect the filename but it's a secondary, so I'll have to go for SMR. I guess it's no surprise that it'd only be good against titans, seeing as it was an AT weapon in the first game.

I'm so trash at fighting in titans, how do I do it lads? Or should I just stick to fucking tone or something.

>so I'll have to go for SMR
What? I'm a braindead idiot and the SMR is fairly easy. It's like a much faster L-STAR.

Hit targets
Don't get hit
Git gud

>Hit targets
How am I supposed to hit targets with Northstar's aiming reticle?

Literally point it at crit zone and shoot. Remember northstar projectile has a travel time.

lower rate of fire and lower magazine size says hello, I'd imagine most people have a harder time with it.

You think something else is harder?

New Player how do I git gud? How can I get my own robot?

Softball

Maybe? I used it a ton on launch and did okay, it's splash is pretty forgiving, but it's the next best thing to useless against people who know how to move.

It's basically an EPG but with a projectile arc. Even if you can't lead for shit you can still do okay with a bit of air and carpet bombing. That's what I feel, at least. It's pretty damn hard to get a good feel for it, though.

Go fast
Kill baddies
Praise Viper
Love Sniper-chan

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Ogres look so odd now without the "backpack" Legion and Scorch has

How do I get a robot? Do I have to buy one from the shop first?

Everybody's saying SMR, but that's just a projectile assault rifle. Once you learn the lead it isn't much harder than the other ARs.
Double Take is the hardest primary.

>Just got the EPG to G2 for the death from above patch
>Started working on the Coldwar
>mfw I realise I am terrible with grenadier weapons

What? No. you have a meter ingame that builds over time and goes faster as you get kills and participate in the match's objective. When the meter is full you can summon your "robot".

You start the game with three Titans unlocked; you can buy the other four with credits later. Select the Titan you want before entering a game.

When playing a match in a mode that allows Titans, there's a gauge in the bottom left corner of the screen. This is your Titan build meter. It slowly fills up by itself over time, but you can speed it up by destroying enemies or completing objectives. When the meter is full, the game will tell you your Titan is ready, and you can call them down to the map via Titanfall.

>Scorch has a shitty thermite grenade launcher and ground pound instead of a mech-sized flamethrower
What the fuck is this
I can't make my enemies FEEL THE POWER OF THE HEAT with this

Thanks guys

>double take
Speaking of, does anyone have any tips for it? I feel like it's basically a kraber with no bullet drop and less damage and yet I'm struggling with it.

Do you guys even stacc

I only get matched with much better guys is there even somekind of matchmaking going on?

Nope. Maybe you'll want to go back to the campaign to get a better feel for the game?

So I'm on the fence about switching to the L-star because a) it's cool and, b) it doesn't hitscan.
Is this the slowest decision of my life Fast Guys?

Why don't you just put it in one of your loadouts and play it when you want to?
The game doesn't force you to use only one weapon, you know.

any ps4 pilots up for playing?

@shampooh

I noticed that in your Monarch's Reign patch notes you mentioned all the possible names of Monarch bounty Titans in BH. Do you have a list for the other six Titans in the game?

I know that I should really just try it out and see how I like it, but I don't want to sink hours of practice into a weapon that's always gonna get outdone by cars and alts. I'm mostly just curious about whether it's viable at all.