Titanfall

[harv]

What are the online numbers like for the Xbox One SKU now..? I've seen a fair few complaints that the numbers for the PC SKU have dropped off a cliff these last couple of weeks.

[Late]

I'm not sure it tells you anywhere, tbh. I've had no problems finding games though.


Excuse me posting this, but I find it handy having the requirements and memos at the top of the page


Generation 7
EXP Modifier: x 2.1
Requirements to Next Level:
If It Moves... (G2A4) Tiers: 10, 25, 50, 100, 200
Top Gun (G2A4) Tiers: 5, 15, 30, 50, 75
If It Moves... (XO-16) Tiers: 10, 25, 50, 100, 200
Titan Killer (XO-16) Tiers: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50
Titan Killer (Charge Rifle) Tiers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 10
Fresh Squeezed (Pilot Melee Kills) Tiers: 1, 5, 10, 15, 25
The chaingun challenges should be easy enough. Melee 25 with Strider might be a slight problem.. I don't have much experience with the G2A4.
Remember to keep Burn Cards for CAR SMG and Archer HR.


Generation 8
EXP Modifier: x 2.5
Requirements to Next Level:
All I Do Is Win (General) Tiers: 10, 30, 50, 70, 100
Look Out Below! (Kills) Tiers: 1, 5, 15, 30, 50
Executioner (Melee Kills) Tiers: 1, 5, 10, 15, 25
Critically Conditioned 40mm Cannon (Titan Weapons) Tiers: 5, 15, 30, 50, 75
If It Moves... (C.A.R. SMG) Tiers: 10, 25, 50, 100, 200
Top Gun (C.A.R. SMG) Tiers: 5, 15, 30, 50, 75
Titan Killer (Archer Heavy Rocket) Tiers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 10
That 2.5 xp modifier is almost completely useless. You'll be at level fifty way before you get close to a hundred wins, fifty titanfall crushes, or 25 Executioner moves. CAR should be easy enough, as should the Archer. I've not used the 40mm cannon much but 75 critical hits sounds perfectly doable. (The only good thing about the xp modifier is you'll unlock the weapons you need a little bit faster.)
Remember to keep Burn Cards for Cloak, Nuclear Ejection, Smart Pistol, Hemlock, and Kraber. The next regeneration is going to be a long haul...


Generation 9
EXP Modifier: x 2.9
Requirements to Next Level:
MVP (General) Tiers: 1, 5, 10, 25, 50
Deadly Apparition (Kills) Tiers: 10, 25, 50, 100, 200
Death Reincarnate (Mobility Kills) Tiers: 5, 15, 30, 50, 75
Disarmed (Melee Kills) Tiers: 1, 5, 10, 15, 25
Critically Conditioned XO-16 Chaingun (Titan Weapons) Tiers: 50, 100, 200, 300, 400
Critically Conditioned Plasma Railgun (Titan Weapons) Tiers: 5, 10, 20, 30, 50
Top Gun (Smart Pistol Mk5) Tiers: 5, 15, 30, 50, 75
Top Gun (Hemlok BF-R) Tiers: 5, 15, 30, 50, 75
Top Gun (Kraber-AP Sniper) Tiers: 1, 5, 10, 15, 25
Gonna take a fair while to do all that. I don't think any of it's particularly difficult to do - just massively time-consuming due to the huge numbers involved.
Don't bother keeping any burn cards for next gen. Once you've done the above stuff you've effectively finished...


Generation 10
EXP Modifier: x 3.5
Requirements to Next Level:
No challenges. Reach level 50 for achievement on consoles.

[jman]

Bout half way through gen8... 57 wins and 31 titan squishes I think.

I decided to go for the unlock all the equipment achievement early on in this gen.. its taking a while and still touch and go whether I will make it or not before I finish the regen requirements.

I've done all the titan weapons except the railgun.. still need 10 more titan kills for that.
I've completed the Carbine/SMG/CAR and G2A4 rifle unlocks.. and about half way through each of the rest.. what is taking the time is finding the bloody spectres to go after and kill.... I mean the smart pistol - you need 50 spectre kills - its a bloody lot because spectres don't even turn up usually until the first titan drops...and because I cant have minion detector on (as I'm using Warpfall for the squishes) it makes it a bit harder.  Hopefully I'll of finished it before I get 100 wins.. but if I keep going on runs of easy wins (like I did last night) then I doubt I will.

I don't actually think gen9 will take longer than gen8 looking at the list though.

[Late]

I reached level 50 on gen 7 last night, but still have a little bit of work to do on the challenges (though not much). The tougher challenges for me mainly involve using a titan to kill a titan. Not my style, tbh. Play to your strengths - I prefer to use titans to kill pilots and use pilots to kill titans (usually with rodeo).

Requirements to Next Level:
If It Moves... (G2A4) Tiers: 10, 25, 50, 100, 200 - Done
Top Gun (G2A4) Tiers: 5, 15, 30, 50, 75 - Done
If It Moves... (XO-16) Tiers: 10, 25, 50, 100, 200 - Done
Titan Killer (XO-16) Tiers: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 - Currently approx 45
Titan Killer (Charge Rifle) Tiers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 - Done
Fresh Squeezed (Pilot Melee Kills) Tiers: 1, 5, 10, 15, 25 - Currently approx 14

I'm definitely not a fan of the G2A4 (or infact anything that's not fully automatic), but I got the last few kills I needed yesterday, and have now switched to the CAR SMG. I definitely prefer the Carbine, but the SMG will do - and means I'm earning a few amped ones ready for next gen.

My K/D ratio changed yesterday. That's a bit surprising, tbh - when you've played about a hundred hours it's hard to have any real effect on your stats. Went up from 1.0 to 1.1 though.
I expect it'll stay there forever now. I think I probably average around 1.3, but basic maths indicates I'd need to play another 100 hours at 1.3 to make my average k/d move up from 1.1 to 1.2

[jman]

Are you playing LTS or just normal gamemodes?  The Freshly Squeezed and Titan Killer were my last two to finish off, but it goes so much faster playing LTS..... plus I think LTS is by far the easiest gamemode to win in... I pretty much finish MVP on my team 85% of the time I play it, I'd love the stats to be a bit more detailed so I could actually see - but Titan vs. Titan is my favourite match-up.. provided I have my preferred Titan load-out on.

Plus playing LTS every so often is good because some of the burn cards are much better used in them.  Super Charged/Nuclear Explosion/Mini-Map - any of the amped anti-titan weapon - I discard pretty much all of them if I'm not playing LTS - which I'm not at the moment because I'm trying to unlock pilot equipment.

I cemented 1.5 on my K/D ratio.. haven't seen it fall to 1.4 for weeks now.. to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if it ticks over to 1.6 soon - I was averaging in at around 4:1 last night and I generally don't fall below 1:1 in 95% of my games anyway

[Late]

I should probably give LTS a look. I pretty much exclusively stick to Hardpoint.

My K:D depends on when I play. If I play through the day or early evening it's usually around 3:1, but on a night it often drops below 1, partly as I'm tired and have slower reflexes, and partly because I occasionally nod off whilst playing.
Often it's the only time I can squeeze in a few games, though.

[jman]

I typically play for a few hours after work 5-7 and in the mornings between 6 and 9 at the weekends.. (I get up stupid early every day) - I go on the American servers in the morning - a) because you can find a game much faster and b) the level of opponent is usually crappier - probably because they are drunk or tired 

Definitely try LTS - each game is 4-7 rounds, so with a full roster, there are 24 - 42 titan kills that can theoretically be had per game.. I've had rounds where I've killed all 6 of the opponents titans too   I reckon hardpoint is probably my lowest played game.. not because I hate it, but there are easier gamemodes to win on... every game-mode requires teamwork but hardpoint is the most team-dependant one I reckon.

[Late]

Made it to Gen 8 last night, but played only one game after that as I was tired and had an early night.
Will be pleased to get out of the Strider and back into the Atlas.

Didn't bother with LTS in the end. It might be an faster way of getting some of the challenges done, but I'd rather play a game mode I enjoy and take a bit longer than switch to a game mode I don't like and get the challenge done faster. I might give LTS (and the other modes) another look at some point, but for now I'll stick with what I most enjoy.

[jman]

'grats dude.

Gen 8 is a long one though!  Upto about 60 wins and 35 squishes now.. I cant wait to finish off the squishes so I can actually play LTS again for the quicker wins.  I have about 10 titan burn cards in my hand at the moment.. I also don't want to play them because it will throw off my synch time with the opponents when I'm going for the squishes.

Finished off all the titan equipment unlocks, plus I completed the LMG and Hemlock unlocks last night too.. a few spectre kills away from completing the Shotty - then I'll just have the Smart Pistol, Longbow-DMR Sniper and Kraber Sniper to finish off.. and I'm about half way through on each of them... although 50 spectres with the Smart Pistol just seems cruel.  I actually get very excited now when I hear the spectre electric garbled noise they make lol...

If you do decide to go for the achievement... I would definitely recommend doing it in Gen 8 or 9 - as its taken me quite a while to get where I am..and to be honest, its made gen8 a bit more varied than just going for wins and squishes

[Late]

Yeah, I've been toying with doing it on Gen 9, lately.
I don't like the smart pistol or the Kraber sniper rifle, and you need to get lots of kills with both of those weapons in Gen 9, so it might make more sense to do it then rather than waiting until gen 10, as I'd originally planned, and then have to use those weapons again.
Will play it by ear. I don't fancy going for it this gen.

[jman]

That's true.. although an amped smart pistol is a pretty decent weapon.. there are two good maps to start with the sniper rifle (except if you are playing hardpoint as you spawn in different starting positions) and they are Overlook where you have that big long corridor in the middle of the map - you can see straight down it at the start to the opponents spawn point and there are generally plenty of grunts to take out there and sometimes you can get a few easy pilot kills too... and also Smugglers Cove - again there's a long corridor on one side of the map from spawn point to spawn point where you can easily pick off enemies.

To be honest, I've just been playing the relevant burn cards when I earn them for the snipers.. I couldn't stand lasting a whole match using one, luckily the unlocks don't require that many kills.  With the titan burn cards.. I always use one when playing CTF on Training Grounds - it gives you such an advantage - as you can take and capture the flag without leaving your titan.

Nearly got the kill all combatants in epilogue the other night.. it finished 3 vs 1 (players) - but I just couldn't find the little bugger to kill in time, someone else got him 

[jman]

Reached Gen 9 this weekend.. its not going to take forever like gen 8 felt like... I think the cloaked kills challenge will be the last to unlock.. 9 games in and I'm only on around 25... having to do 3 separate weapon challenges is a bit annoying.. but nothing I cant handle.. the hemlock is ok once you get used to it.. the smart pistol is good once you unlock the enhanced targeting.. and the kraber doesn't demand that many kills.

Also went up to 1.6 K/D ratio as I thought I might do.. I think I've been averaging around 2.0 in the last 100 or so games.

I'm quitting playing once I get to g10 lvl50 btw.. should have wolfy by that point and I'm tiring of the same maps/game types... they really need some kind of variety to the different gametypes.  I know I'm coming up to 5d worth of gametime though - so definitely got my moneys worth.  Will take a sceenshot once I hit the target!

[Late]

Way ahead of me. I'm playing at the moment but it's the first I've played in a few days (partly bad back, so going to bed early, partly playing steam games on the PC (replaying Portal and BioShock)).
Looking forward to the new maps and modes later this month. Well definitely get the first map pack. Not sure about the others - will play it by ear.

[jman]

Yeah I've been playing it a stupid amount recently...

The end is in sight though... I'm now thinking MVP will take the longest - I moved over to the Railgun and MVP's are taking a bit longer to rack up..

If I recall correctly, I'm on :

MVP - 21/50
Deadly Apparition - 102/200
Death Reincarnate - 33/75
Disarmed - 23/25
Critically Conditioned - 400/400
Critically Conditioned Plasma Railgun - 12/50
Top Gun (Smart Pistol Mk5) - 75/75
Top Gun (Hemlok BF-R) - 45/75
Top Gun (Kraber-AP Sniper) - 1/25

Didn't realise for a while that I needed nuclear explosion on for Death Reincarnate lol.. definitely helps if you set it off near a bunch of grunts/spectres.

There's been loads of new players recently.. don't know what's going on with that but I'd say in pretty much every game I play about 70% of them haven't even reached level 50 on gen1.  Its actually really helpful going for MVP - as even if I lose because of my team, I'm guaranteed MVP.  I'd say I'm going at a rate of 2 MVP'S per 3 games at the moment which isn't too bad - but I think I've only averaged about 2/7 for my lifetime stat which I was surprised about.. but then thinking about it, going for fast challenge wins has probably affected it quite a lot.

[Late]

Someone was selling the game digitally for £20-odd last week. I guess that would explain lots of new low rank players.

Am at rank 50 on gen 8 but nowhere near the requirements for regen.