Titanfall

[jman]

Ah I see.. you cant tell how good these new players are going to be... which is a bit annoying - but there has definitely been a massive influx of new players recently...

Death Reincarnate.. definitely going to take the longest.. I played quite a few games last night.. and still stuck on 33/75.. I don't get it.. at least one of my nuclear explosions must of killed someone/something/somewhere - apparently not... at least if this is the last challenge left - I can purposely blow myself up near a group of enemies that cant escape.

Aiming to regen by Saturday morning - and be finished with the game on Sunday. 

[Late]

"Expedition" map pack (3 maps) is released tomorrow. I think it's £7.99

Not sure if the new free stuff (some new game modes, and titan customisations) is also released tomorrow.

[jman]

Think there is a new update today - along with the new map pack - I wont bother with the map pack as I'm nearly finished... need 9 MVPs and about 18-19 Death Reincarnates to finish Gen 9 now.. am finding myself blowing my titan up on purpose now just to get the Death Reincarnates - its an annoying challenge that takes little-no skill.

Then it shouldn't take long to get to lvl 50 again... at gen 10 I'll have a go at the Plasma Railgun one - but if I don't get it.. never mind... I was VERY close to getting all the kills in the epilogue last night.. got 5 of the 6 kills (2 kills with a sniper, 3 with 2 well placed arc grenades) and then I had the last one in my sniper sights about to pull the trigger and the game ended.. to say I was a bit pissed off is an understatement...

I might go back to Titanfall after Wolfy - depends what other games are on the radar.

[Late]

The stuff in today's (free) update:

Custom loadout names. Meh. Custom 1 is my load-out with ghost, Custom 2 is my (identical) loadout with stim. Might be useful if you use several custom slots, I guess.
Two mode-specific loadouts. Well I guess I don't need that, then, given the above note and the fact I only play one game mode.
Last-match summary shows the scoreboard. Nice! Was annoying that the scoreboard was only onscreen for a few seconds.
New options for custom private matches. *Gaelic shrug* - I don't play private matches. Nice that they're catering for those who do, though.
The stats page will show more detailed metrics. Nice. I love having that data available. Hopefully I can use it to ascertain just how good I am at Hardpoint and how p1ss poor I am at every other mode!
The campaign screen now displays victory trophies. Noooo! Make everyone do it the hard way, like we had to!   Was a right PITA, that. After completing both campaigns I then made a checklist of all 18 missions and ticked them off as I won them.

[jman]

That last match summary fix is about bloody time..
Plus hopefully the stats page will prove how fucking cool (or how sucky) I am at LTS 

(Probably) won't get any time to play tonight. but might fire it up to install the update so I'm ready to finish Gen 9 tomorrow evening!

Where the fuck are the new game-modes though ?  I read about a 2v2 LTS mode on the radar.. but nothing else.. and its not included in this update 

[Late]

Yeah, I heard there was supposed to be 2v2 LTS, as well as titan/decal customisations, but it seems neither is coming today

[jman]

Gen 10 lvl 50 reached 

[Late]

Congrats mate.
I'm still stuck on gen 8. Have got about 50 of the 100 wins needed.
Haven't played all that much lately though.
The new features are good (though nothing groundbreaking).
Have only had two plays on the new map pack, and got the same map both times -  "WarGames" (playing LTS and CTF - neither of which is a game mode I much like). Found it to be a fantastic map, though - great design.
Thoroughly enjoyed skirting 'round the outside in LTS and wreaking absolute havoc amongst the enemy (but that can be a great feeling on any map, of course).
I look forward to giving all three maps a proper go soon.

[jman]

Yep, gen 9 was long... but gen 8 was about twice the length - its a bit of a bugger.. really.

Took me 735 games.. I took a screenshot of my stats after my final game.. I even went up to 1.7 K/D ratio too lol... will post when I get chance.

[Late]

Am now at about 72/100 wins. Damn but it's a long prestige this one.
Not complaining, though. Gives me chance to do the "all weapon attachments" thing - which I was going to leave until Gen 9 but it makes sense to follow your lead and do it now, since I'm playing so many games.
I've fully unlocked more than half of the guns. Haven't done either of the sniper rifles yet, though - not looking forward to them.
Pretty sure I'll get to 100 wins before I've fully unlocked all of the weapon attachments. Assuming I'm close to fully unlocking them all I'll continue with that and wait to regen - but if there's still several to do I'll just regenerate and unlock everything when I get to Gen 10. I intend playing this for a long while still.

Thoroughly enjoying all three maps in the new pack. I think "War Games" is my favourite map in the whole game - not just my favourite in the pack. Not only is the level design top notch, but the effects are great too - with enemies disintegrating into pixels when killed, and glitch artefacts dotted around. You even get an intro video (instead of the static loading screen), where you're climbing into the simulator and it says "Generation 8 pilot detected..." before telling you a few things about the level/simulation. Nicely done Respawn

Have played a few game modes I wouldn't ordinarily. LTS isn't too bad, I suppose. Quite enjoying CTF. I got 4 captures in one game last night. Started the game with "permanently stimmed as well as your normal ability" (cloak) and was whizzing round the map so fast, and fortunately didn't die - so the card lasted all game.
Good fun, and helped with the "get to 100 wins" thing, but didn't do much for my "kill loads of spectres and grunts with each weapon" mission.

[jman]

My stats - just after I hit G10 lvl50  (Click on them for bigger versions) :





Love the fact my chaingun time used is 1 day, 2 hours, 3 minutes 

[Late]

Wow - you've got a fairly even split of game modes, haven't you!
I don't have my stats to hand but I'm probably like 80% hardpoint, 18% attrition, and less than 1% each for the other game modes.
Will have a look tonight if I remember.

CTF and Pilot Hunter have both been removed from the PC version, as neither was getting played much.
Come on, Respawn - you should be adding more game modes, not bloody removing the few we have!

[jman]

I was pretty much 20% on every game-mode at the point I reached Gen 8 - then it all changed and I just started playing my favourite game-modes.. although LTS didn't get much of a look-in during Gen 8 because of the stupid Titanfall Drop challenge which took me to about 90 wins to unlock.

Pilot Hunter was shit.. I got to 50 wins and stopped playing it.. the lack of game-modes is the worst thing about the game IMO..  its a fine balance to get with the numbers you are expecting.. but I can't see the reason not to use variations on each game-mode.. i.e. Multi-CTF, One-Sided CTF, Titanless CTF - and introduce a map veto'ing system.  Pilot Hunter to me is just a variation on Attrition and as such should never of been a separate game mode.

Few bits annoyed me about CTF implementation in Titanfall too - which is why I stopped playing it since Gen 8
1) You shouldn't auto-pick up the flag
2) You shouldn't be able to fire your main weapon with the flag
3) You should be able to drop the flag

[Late]

Getting there, slowly but surely.
I'm now on about 85/100 wins. All other regen requirements have been done, apart from one of the Titan melee things - and I'm on 24/25 so will easily finish that. (I'd forgotten about it/not been paying attention.)
On the unlock all attachments thing, I'm nearly there, too. I've done all pilot weapons apart from the bolt-action sniper rifle, which I switched to last night. I detest that weapon with a vengeance. Not sure if you need to unlock all the attachments for the titan, too, but I assume so and have unlocked everything apart from one of the Arc Cannon attachments. Everything should be unlocked by the time I get to the 100 wins.

[jman]

Yep, you need to unlock all attachments - which includes the titan stuff..

Seriously the sniper rifle should only take a few games (provided you use it on the right maps) - I remember playing on Boneyard with the Kraber and absolutely destroying everyone by camping on the big bone (near one base) that runs the width of the match.. they didn't even realise where I was until half way through the game    Its a nice little sniping spot and you only need 5 pilot kills (which are the hardest).


I finally decided on my favourite load-out after I got to G10 L50 too -

Pilot
Primary Weapon - C.A.R SMG - HCOG Sights, Counterweight
Titan Weaspon - Sidewinder
Side Arm - RE-45 Autopistol
Tactical Ability - Cloak
Ordinance - Arc Grenades
Tier 1 Kit - Power Cell
Tier 2 Kit - Minion Detector


Titan
Class - Ogre
Weapon - XO-16 Chaingun - Extended Magazine
Tactical Ability - Electric Smoke
Ordinance - Cluster Missile
Tier 1 Kit - Tactical Reactor
Tier 2 Kit - Big Punch