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Meet the Titans in Titanfall 2
- Thread starter SmartWaffles
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7DollarHagane
Banned
wow, those other titans look great!
Making the titans a set and designed style is really preferable, I think. Gives them a bit of personality and allows them to be picked and counter picked like fighting game characters.
Making the titans a set and designed style is really preferable, I think. Gives them a bit of personality and allows them to be picked and counter picked like fighting game characters.
Jackbooted
Member
This is what I was talking about above, they take good stuff and then mix it with bad and that makes it balanced...but really it just makes it frustrating.
Broadbandito
Member
Gifs of the snippets of new maps
Yeah, it really did. They did a bang up job getting it where it needed to be, but the playberbase dropped off fast. I hope they can remedy things with this one.
Bruno_Arrais85
Member
amazing, day one.
You know... because of the executions... I don't think they have any plans to allow us to mix and match =(
40mm + Cluster bruh...
Also Tone's lock-on stuff kinda makes it solid that you won't be able to as well.
SmartWaffles
Member
Gifs of the snippets of new maps
Hey look a bunch of really long sight lines!
Stlunarick999
Member
I been hyped all year for this game, however after the tech test I'm left with not much hope.
TF1, after the beta, rushed out and reserved collectors edition
TF2, after tech test, rushed back to tf1 and not reserve tf2
TF1, after the beta, rushed out and reserved collectors edition
TF2, after tech test, rushed back to tf1 and not reserve tf2
Diablohead
Member
Now that I have seen the trainer video, all the titans feel so damn slow.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I think high mobility in a titan is always exciting.
Cluster Missiles though
I'm assuming the Plasma Railgun will be underpowered just like the original
They shoulda had Legion and Tone in the tech test. It was nice to play with some of the new stuff, but the familiarity of mowing down pilots with the chain gun, or thumping other titans with the 40mm would have mitigated some of the criticism, imo.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Yes, I am awaiting Northstar waifu fan art
sagat2036
Member
Yo but Pharah just stole that move from 80s anime. Ion gonna ruin their day when it all comes flying back at them.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Northstar looks cool, but it only hovers?
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Damn, Plasma Railgun was crazy good in titan v titan fights. If you crit hit full charge they're basically dead.
SmartWaffles
Member
Sr. Wiggles
Banned
I'm excited to experience all these cool finisher animations in 1st person...
RIGHT RESPAWN?!
(If not at launch, at least sometime down the road damn it!)
RIGHT RESPAWN?!
(If not at launch, at least sometime down the road damn it!)
All you had to do is dash into one of those Titans and they slowly walking back in fear while you turned them to rubble. Outside of LTS they were useless.
Like, the Cluster is probably the only way this Titan will kill any Pilots.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Gotta have some teamwork or excellent positioning. Wasn't a weapon I would bring to every mode of course.
I bet they tuned it a bit more for general play, and it will still be balanced because it's built around that specific titan.
SmartWaffles
Member
And you have to goose someone with it to get the 1000/1000.
I gave up after like 5 tries.
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Son of Sam, if you can hear me, it's good that there's no more super duper OP Arc Cannon anymore right?
Jackbooted
Member
That is a really huge IF. To get a full charge you had to be zoomed in thus slowing your movement and mobility and the round had travel time making it even easier to miss at range as small movements could cause a total whiff. The plasma railgun needed to be hitscan but since it wasn't that made it completely inferior to the 40 mm.
So I take it they won't have Big Punch and Nuclear Core perks then? :/ Neither were in the beta so I'm guessing they've been restricted to specific Titans or, worse still, taken out all together.
My main build in the first game was Ogre with those two perks so I can pretty much punch things and then explode when I'm done. Not necessarily effective especially in high level but at least I had fun playing the game how I wanted to play it.
No Titan custom loadouts has been a massive sticking point for me, I don't like being dictated how I use my Titans (or in this case, which Titans I have to use). In the first game I liked the challenge of trying to take on the more agile Atlas or Stryder mechs, in this they've simplified it in a hero format so it's easier to recognise the threat, rather than allowing players to try and figure out an opponent's build, which then encourages hard counterpicking rather than adapting against an opponent with your current Titan.
Shame 'cos all I really wanted was Titanfall 1 with more weapons, more Titan types and more content (with slide and grapple hook as welcome additions). Along with some of the other changes I'm not so keen on (changes to rodeo, no regenerating shields for titans, etc.), it's just gonna be a wait and see for me methinks.
My main build in the first game was Ogre with those two perks so I can pretty much punch things and then explode when I'm done. Not necessarily effective especially in high level but at least I had fun playing the game how I wanted to play it.
No Titan custom loadouts has been a massive sticking point for me, I don't like being dictated how I use my Titans (or in this case, which Titans I have to use). In the first game I liked the challenge of trying to take on the more agile Atlas or Stryder mechs, in this they've simplified it in a hero format so it's easier to recognise the threat, rather than allowing players to try and figure out an opponent's build, which then encourages hard counterpicking rather than adapting against an opponent with your current Titan.
Shame 'cos all I really wanted was Titanfall 1 with more weapons, more Titan types and more content (with slide and grapple hook as welcome additions). Along with some of the other changes I'm not so keen on (changes to rodeo, no regenerating shields for titans, etc.), it's just gonna be a wait and see for me methinks.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I disagree about making it hitscan. That would kind of make it bland imo. Landing crits across the map would be much easier and less exciting/rewarding to do so.
Slammin_Hammon
Member
I wonder how all of these titans and their abilities will affect single player.
TimeEffect
Member
So angel city is in december. I just dont know if I trust the rest of the maps to hold up, but here's to hoping
The Antitype
Banned
In the same way that Overwatch is a Waifu Team Fortress mod?
Girl; Angel City never left.
If only the people working on it agreed and had then spent some of these last few years making it sing. >_>
Easy target; that can be true, but remember that North Star is a malicious long-range god. A sniper. It can do some truly evil shit with that hover in the right hands, in the right situations.
Even short range, you can pull off some nice ambush vectors & other surprises.
https://youtu.be/_DHRGrIqmb0?t=25s
But sure; North Star is probably least effective at short range. Do not play rock-em-sock-em with Scorch.
"Outrun.
Outlast.
Hit 'em quick, get out fast."
In my entire life, whenever anyone anywhere has said "giant robots", my brain's chemical response is an immediate "-that-fit-together-like-voltron??". Before I'm even aware; like picking up a hot potato.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwbutTQ8Yow
he looks customisable or he gets different abilities throughout the game. He is seen using sword block and other abilities in this trailer.
Would be nice if BT(?) is unlockable, and simply has generic executions so he can have any combination.
But really, Tone's abilities all complement each other with the lock-on mechanic, so I'm not sure if that could work.
Am I suspecting a hover + plasma charge from afar to be the BnB of this Titan? I can see that causing them to steal so many Bounties lol
sagat2036
Member
Watch this official campaign trailer That titan seems to be carrying the Triple Threat titan weapon from the first game too.
rakkadakka
Member
If you look at the single player gameplay trailer the Titan has a regenerating shields and can pick up other weapons.
Doesn't look like it will affect the SP design at all.
The Antitype
Banned
Is it just me, or have they made the Atlas model that a few of these Titans are based on a bit bulkier than the first game?
Jackbooted
Member
How would it make it bland? It would make it useful. What makes a weapon rewarding is for it to be actually useful and not frustrating to achieve its full potential. As was pointed out previously, it was hilariously easy to shutdown a Plasma Railgun user thus turning it in to a non-rewarding weapon to use.
Rayme: You will have to had made some pretty damn big changes to the Railgun in order for it to be more than an "ooh snap I pulled off a sick trick-shot (but pay no attention to the other 50 times when I got totally shutdown) type of weapon". We'll see.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Another thing I thought of is that Titans have less dashes than before and in scorch's case he has no dash. Looks like Northstar could absolutely counter scroch since scorch's shots are slow at long range, no dash, and northstar just hoves above a lot of his ground based AOEs.
I think the trailer did a little to show some of the potential interplay between the titans, such as the ronin kicking scorch's ass after it teleported - aka tracer blink
- past his core attack.It was actually useful. I already pointed that out. It was just not a general use weapon. They've taken to a completely different titan design this time around so it's largely irrelevant as I have already pointed out several significant differences.
Slammin_Hammon
Member
Thanks for the responses. I had forgot about that trailer. Looks like there'll be opportunities to fiddle around with some of the different abilities in the campaign. I'll be interested to see if Respawn is able to come up with some really memorable encounters.
Bless you. We can add an additional dash on all Titans.
edit: nvm wrong video
sagat2036
Member
Ion (tr2 atlus) lost a dash, but you could swap auto titan AI for a dash in the tech test.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Fair enough, northstar has a dash too. And if you're using a dash on scorch you're not really min-maxing his play, giving up a tech slot just for a dash could be underwhelming unless for some reason extra dash ends up being the only useful tech choice.
Jackbooted
Member
Well, Rayme said they spent time changing it so I'm guessing it wasn't quite as useful as you're making it out to be...
as per my edit, that wasn't scorch, but it does look the same.
Nah, the tech slot had the option for increase targetting with Auto-Titan. I forget what the other option is, but dash + scorch was super important, especially for flame wall lmao
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not sure if you saw this video but, 3 minutes on I'm using dash with Scorch here https://youtu.be/7_PTYa9cKWo?t=3m
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
As I said they probably altered it to be of more general use and to make northstar more viable without making the weapon OP compared to the 40mm.
Well we do know not all the options were in right?
Jackbooted
Member
Scorch was nigh unplayable for me without the dash. Pretty sure I couldn't play any Titan without any dashes at all. Might was well just charge at any Titan you see because you sure as hell aren't going to dodge any damage.