Titanfall

[Late]

Yeah, I played one game with the Kraber, and noticed you don't need many kills with it.
Fortunately. Cos I'm really crap with it.
The enemy keep moving. Awkward gits.

Favourite loadouts:

Pilot
Carbine, HCOG, Silencer.
Mag Launcher
Autopistol
Cloak
Frag Grenades
Explosives
Warpfall Transmitter

Titan
Atlas
Chaingun, accelerator
Electric Smoke
Cluster Missile
Nuclear Eject
Survivor

It's testament to how well balanced the game is, that our loadouts are pretty different.
Will be glad when I can stop fannying around with the other weapons etc. and get back to my trusty Carbine.
And I seem to have been on Minion Detector forever (to help the weapon unlocks) - will be so good to get back onto Warpfall. I keep targeting enemies with a drop and watching them saunter off into the distance before the bloody thing arrives.

[Late]

Got the achievement for all weapon unlocks last night, and got to gen 9 today.

Took ages because the servers seem to be having some sort of problem. Isn't affecting many people but it's generally taking about half an hour for me to get a game. Have reported it to Respawn, along with several other people. No idea what that's about. Was fine for me previously, but was horrendous last night and has continued today. :/


Edit autocorrect.

[Late]

Hopefully the matchmaking problem was just a temporary thing. All seemed fine last night.

Didn't play much - only about 4 games I think - but I levelled up from level 1 to level 9 in the first game, and was at about level 25 when I turned it off.

I also remembered to take a pic of my stats overview.
Your stats are a little better than mine.
My game-mode split is as I expected:

[jman]

Heh,

I make it you've played around 703 hardpoint matches then!!  That's nearly as many games as I've played altogether!!  I don't think I could handle that.. its not that good a gamemode lol.  I take it you are not bothering with the win 50 matches of each gametype achievments?

It took those 50 matches of LTS for me to love the gamemode... and I warmed to CTF doing it too.. Pilot Hunter was a chore and I don't mind Hardpoint, but as an objective mode, I liked CTF better.

So you've got another 50 matches minimum then (for the MVPs) - do you think you'll got to G10 L50 before 1000 games played - you are currently getting an MVP every 3.2 games - so if you keep to your average it should take you 160 games to get to Gen 10.. then you've got about 10-20 games to get to level 50 - I reckon it could be tight 

[Late]

I've played about 3 - 8 games each on CTF, LTS, and PH. LTS and PH don't appeal to me at all. CTF seems okay - it's up there with Attrition (have played that quite a bit partly because I wanted to win all the campaign levels, and partly because I needed to kill grunts and spectres with each weapon last gen).

But I love playing Hardpoint. And am happy to stick mainly to one game mode if I love it. It was the same with Search & Destroy on CoD. Over 90% of my matches were on either S&D or hardcore S&D.

Not bothered about whether I get to top rank before 1000 games played, as I'll probably end up with more than 2000 games played before I'm done with the game.

[Late]

Am still gen 9.
MVP will be fine - I'm most if the way on that one - but kills whilst cloaked, kills whilst ejecting, and melee kills with the big slow lumbering dumb-arse ogre will take a while.


Lol at this guy ejecting from his titan straight into the dropship whilst it's leaving the arena at warp speed...
YouTube

[Late]

A couple of moments I saved, playing Titanfall recently:


Massive punch
Not sure if it's a glitch, or what the hell happened, but my Titan flew across the map. If it hadn't hit an invisible wall at the edge of the arena I would've gone miles.


Ouch
I need to get a couple of hundred kills whilst cloaked, and actually remembered that for a change, in the middle of a game of Hardpoint. We're way ahead, the game's sewn up, and I see a couple of grunts - so I cloak and run up to them to kick them in the face. Just as one of them opens fire with an Archer on the Titan I've just dropped, behind me... D'oh!

[jman]

lol.. always a bit of an embarrassment when a grunt/spectre kills you..

I've punched something off the map before with a massive punch  .. think its a bug rather than a glitch because I don't think there's a way of purposely making it happen - although I believe you need the Titan Punch perk on.

[Late]

Went to tenth gen last night, with 966 games played.
Your guess of 1000 by the time I hit gen 10 level 50 is going to be rather bloody close, Kieran.

[jman]

Heh, I think you'll do it, 34 games should be more than enough to reach lvl 50 

I haven't played since the game that took me to lvl 50 - although I'm running out of games to play now so it could make a re-appearance in the disc tray shortly.

[Late]

992 and done

[jman]

Nice, grats! 

[Late]

There's an impressive looking update (free) coming to Titanfall shortly.
It's a shame everyone stopped playing because the matchmaking got so completely broken. Hopefully some will come back after this patch.
I've probably only played one or two matches in the last month or so. A crying shame, because I really love the game.

Bug fixes, matchmaking improvements, titan cosmetic customisations, new game modes#, improved burn-card wallet*, new burn cards for pilots, new burn cards for titans, improved auto-titan AI (they'll now use smoke and shields), rebalanced weapons, a selection of Titan AI voiceovers, optional challenge tracking, achievements for the recent map pack, and lots more tweaks etc.

#The new game modes will change from time to time. One of the first will be "Marked for Death" - which challenges each team to hunt down a specific opposing player whilst defending their own.
*Improved burn-card wallet - if you're gen 10 you can now hold 100 cards (instead of the old limit of 26), if you're gen 1 you can hold 46 - it goes up by 6 for each regen. It also lets you choose which cards to discard if you go over your limit (it was so annoying if you earned a rare set of cards but only actually received one or two of them because you were close to the limit!)

Full details here:
http://www.titanfall.com/game-update-four

[Late]

Titanfall's second map pack "Frontier's Edge" has been announced.
titanfall.com
Includes three maps, as last time:
Dig Site - isolated mining outpost;
Haven - exclusive beach resort;
Export - mining hub on the side of a mountain.

Not sure whether I'll get this map pack. I thoroughly enjoyed the game - and the first map pack - but I've not played in a while now.

[harv]

Lol, have been watching Auf Wiedersehen Pet and am so used to hearing Donkey Shite instead of Danke Schön that I read Dog Shite instead of Dig Site lmfao

Love this series