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[Titanfall] Dropping titans like lyrical bombs (XB1/PC now, 360 4/8)

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  • DrovekDrovek Registered User regular
    Asharad wrote: »
    Ejecting is the best.

    I'm not crazy, right? I get a really weird thrill from successfully ejecting, rocketing up in the air, seeing my titan explode beneath me and then picking out a prime spot to land.

    I even do an "eject face" appropriate for the moment.

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  • DeciusDecius I'm old! I'm fat! I'M BLUE!Registered User regular
    I need to play this game more. I keep getting rolled on.

    Of course being level 8 doesn't help. You folks have nice toys.

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    Wow, Gooser is going from 50 to 5 kills? That almost seems like an overreaction. Not that I'm really going to miss getting 45 more Gooser kills :#

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Its really not considering how much harder gooser is compared to other challenges. Like again I made it to gen 5 and had only ever lifetime of playing gotten 2 gooser kills. 2! And when I asked my friends they had done much the same.

    "Well you weren't trying to do the challenge!" You'll say.

    True, and now since I've been trying I have gotten 1 more bringing me to 3 total ever. Its just very situational and compared to every other gen challenge completely insane to request someone get 50 of these damn things. I mean 30 charge rifle crits was hard enough!

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    Since I have sunk 40 or so hours in and gotten zero, naught, nadda, a big fat goose egg when it comes to Gooser kills... I think 5 is still hard to do.

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  • jefe414jefe414 "My Other Drill Hole is a Teleporter" Mechagodzilla is Best GodzillaRegistered User regular
    Drovek wrote: »
    Asharad wrote: »
    Ejecting is the best.

    I'm not crazy, right? I get a really weird thrill from successfully ejecting, rocketing up in the air, seeing my titan explode beneath me and then picking out a prime spot to land.

    I even do an "eject face" appropriate for the moment.

    Mine is typically a sideways glance with one eye squinting hoping I can eject in time. I just can't take auto-eject over big punch . I CAN'T DO IT.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    I have 2 so far, but I haven't been actively trying to get them. Stomping the pilots or punching them is just more appealing.

    edit: tonight though is when I'll be gunning for those. Obviously my own experience with how hard/easy it is would be irrelevant to yours though.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Exactly. Like to get them you have to in order of events.

    Kill a titan or be near a titan when its killed

    Have the pilot eject and be launched in the air (so no inside building kills which happen on a lot of maps)

    Be able to spot the invisible pilot either by being out of a titan yourself or having really good eyes

    And finally kill them in an extremely limited window with some precise shots all the while competing with other people attempting to do the same thing and the pilot themselves trying to avoid it.

    That's a whole shit ton harder than "Get 50 titan kills with the railgun."

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Exactly. Like to get them you have to in order of events.

    Kill a titan or be near a titan when its killed

    Have the pilot eject and be launched in the air (so no inside building kills which happen on a lot of maps)

    Be able to spot the invisible pilot either by being out of a titan yourself or having really good eyes

    And finally kill them in an extremely limited window with some precise shots all the while competing with other people attempting to do the same thing and the pilot themselves trying to avoid it.

    That's a whole shit ton harder than "Get 50 titan kills with the railgun."

    You forgot the whole "rodeo an enemy Titan until it's doomed and the pilot ejects, then cloak and shoot them while you're both in the air". I've gotten 4 gooses so far, and 2 of them were from Rodeo Doomings.

    But I'll agree that window is extremely narrow, and you have to get lucky quite a bit to make it to 50, even if you are just exclusively focusing on Goosing pilots.

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  • AZChristopherAZChristopher Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Exactly. Like to get them you have to in order of events.

    Kill a titan or be near a titan when its killed

    Have the pilot eject and be launched in the air (so no inside building kills which happen on a lot of maps)

    Be able to spot the invisible pilot either by being out of a titan yourself or having really good eyes

    And finally kill them in an extremely limited window with some precise shots all the while competing with other people attempting to do the same thing and the pilot themselves trying to avoid it.

    That's a whole shit ton harder than "Get 50 titan kills with the railgun."

    I have 1. And it was from a guy who didn't have auto eject on so I was able to track him and just keep shooting.

    5 is plenty for sure.

  • MrVyngaardMrVyngaard Live From New Etoile Straight Outta SosariaRegistered User regular
    Drovek wrote: »
    Asharad wrote: »
    Ejecting is the best.

    I'm not crazy, right? I get a really weird thrill from successfully ejecting, rocketing up in the air, seeing my titan explode beneath me and then picking out a prime spot to land.

    I even do an "eject face" appropriate for the moment.

    I end up doing something similar for being placed in my mech. Grinning like a fiend at the things I'll be obliterating shortly.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Exactly. Like to get them you have to in order of events.

    Kill a titan or be near a titan when its killed

    Have the pilot eject and be launched in the air (so no inside building kills which happen on a lot of maps)

    Be able to spot the invisible pilot either by being out of a titan yourself or having really good eyes

    And finally kill them in an extremely limited window with some precise shots all the while competing with other people attempting to do the same thing and the pilot themselves trying to avoid it.

    That's a whole shit ton harder than "Get 50 titan kills with the railgun."

    Still kinda ambivalent about it. I mean, on the one the hand it makes it a lot easier for people to get it naturally, but on the other I read other people wracking up 20-30 in a few days of play and then there's those that have already completed the challenge and it's like eh. Disregarding any person who cheated the challenge by collaborating to unlock it, of course.

    I guess what I'm getting at is maybe dropping it to 5 was a bit much, imo. Probably would have been better to simply leave it untouched and remove it as a requirement entirely.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    5 mean its still there as a roadblock, but not one that will literally keep people from ever advancing. I mean they turned the gening from eq to WoW, not a bad move.

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  • Emperor_ZEmperor_Z Registered User regular
    There's something satisfying about yelling at teammates to stop moving around so I can shoot rodeoing pilots off of their titan.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Shoot them? Man thats when you go titan fight club and punch that sucker.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    Preacher wrote: »
    5 mean its still there as a roadblock, but not one that will literally keep people from ever advancing. I mean they turned the gening from eq to WoW, not a bad move.

    I'm not sure that the numbers were there to support it either. How many gen 5 players are there? How many were actually stagnating at Gen 5 vs complaining and/or whining about how hard it was going to be to get beyond Gen 5 or giving up despite it being nothing more than a distant goal to them?

    While it means little, I know I've seen a few Gen 5/50s in my travels, but more G6+s. The most common chip seen being Gen 2.

    A gen-5 player going to the extreme to farm those kills would clearly be disruptive to gameplay, but was this really that hard?

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  • Nik HuzeNik Huze Registered User regular
    First rule of Titan Club you don't talk about Titan Club. Ugh. In Soviet Russia joke hack you. I hate myself...

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    5 mean its still there as a roadblock, but not one that will literally keep people from ever advancing. I mean they turned the gening from eq to WoW, not a bad move.

    I'm not sure that the numbers were there to support it either. How many gen 5 players are there? How many were actually stagnating at Gen 5 vs complaining and/or whining about how hard it was going to be to get beyond Gen 5 or giving up despite it being nothing more than a distant goal to them?

    While it means little, I know I've seen a few Gen 5/50s in my travels, but more G6+s. The most common chip seen being Gen 2.

    A gen-5 player going to the extreme to farm those kills would clearly be disruptive to gameplay, but was this really that hard?

    Obviously to Respawn it was. It also was a uniquely difficult challenge compared to the other ones to gen up and made no sense.

    How many gooser kills have you gotten tasty vs how many hours have you put in?

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    5 mean its still there as a roadblock, but not one that will literally keep people from ever advancing. I mean they turned the gening from eq to WoW, not a bad move.

    I'm not sure that the numbers were there to support it either. How many gen 5 players are there? How many were actually stagnating at Gen 5 vs complaining and/or whining about how hard it was going to be to get beyond Gen 5 or giving up despite it being nothing more than a distant goal to them?

    While it means little, I know I've seen a few Gen 5/50s in my travels, but more G6+s. The most common chip seen being Gen 2.

    A gen-5 player going to the extreme to farm those kills would clearly be disruptive to gameplay, but was this really that hard?

    Obviously to Respawn it was. It also was a uniquely difficult challenge compared to the other ones to gen up and made no sense.

    How many gooser kills have you gotten tasty vs how many hours have you put in?

    I don't know how long I've been playing the game, but here's a quote from my earlier post:
    I have 2 so far, but I haven't been actively trying to get them. Stomping the pilots or punching them is just more appealing.

    edit: tonight though is when I'll be gunning for those. Obviously my own experience with how hard/easy it is would be irrelevant to yours though.

    So, even if I do drop say, 10-20 of them tonight, it wouldn't change my general assessment of it being a change that I'm not sure was truly necessary, but that I can see was for a greater good.

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  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    For some reason, and maybe it's my tv settings or just my eyes, I can't see cloaked pilots nearly as well as you guys seem to be able to. It's really difficult for me to spot them.

    I was not looking forward to gooser.

    What is this I don't even.
  • sPider817sPider817 Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Found something interesting: dooming a Titan with an amped weapon is worth double xp. Thankfully I like to keep more than a few of those on hand.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Darkewolfe wrote: »
    For some reason, and maybe it's my tv settings or just my eyes, I can't see cloaked pilots nearly as well as you guys seem to be able to. It's really difficult for me to spot them.

    I was not looking forward to gooser.

    In a titan its extremely difficult, especially post being ejected. And contrary to some of the gooser help I've seen people do not always eject straight up. Hell I've ejected on a map like demeter outside, and I've been launched almost as much horizontally as I was vertical.

    I guess for me gening up should be something that is a bit of a challenge, but not something that prohibits progress.

    Like the brain surgeon challenge is doable, hard, but there are way to get work a rodeo down in a advance to make it easier. But like if there is a challenge for killing wall hanging pilots thats going to be damn near impossible because people very infrequently wall hang, let alone do it long enough to get killed while doing it.

    One fix that I proposed that would keep the challenges for the harder core but not prohibit some shittier players from advancing is adding an extra ten levels past 50 to be able to gen up without the challenges. Like if you do all the challenges you can gen up at 50, failing that if you get to level 60 you can gen up without having completed any of them.

    That way if you run across a weapon you don't like, or a type of kill you suck at, you can just do thing you're good at and level up later.

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  • R-KR-K Registered User regular
    Has anyone coordinated with a team to drop all your titans at once so an entire area is just flattened? Make it rain titans!

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  • Nik HuzeNik Huze Registered User regular
    Hallelujah! It's raining (metal) men!

  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    So you know the worse thing about using the Railgun isn't even the gun but is how much it slows me down compared to other guns.

    Its the worst gun for grunt farming and it has a very hit and run approach to Titans fights make them last a bit longer than I'm used to.

    Well...only 18 more kills with it I guess.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Man I don't know if Nik should post in this thread without someone killing him with a carbine from half the map.

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  • Nik HuzeNik Huze Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Man I don't know if Nik should post in this thread without someone killing him with a carbine from half the map.
    If that's the case, then by now I'm completely buffered for all past, present and future posts.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I haven't played the last couple days been too wrapped up in some d3, but with the gooser challenge change coming I might sign in to lose some games with you and bratworst tonight. How is chip liking falls of titan?

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    Anecdotally, at least, it seems like Gen 5 is where I see most players stalled out. I've come across quite a few level 50 gen 5's, which I pretty much never see with any other gen.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    What's funny is without the gooser challenge gen 5 would be fairly easy. The other challenges in gen 5 are carbine and arc cannon and something else which wasn't difficult.

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  • Nik HuzeNik Huze Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    Preacher wrote: »
    I haven't played the last couple days been too wrapped up in some d3, but with the gooser challenge change coming I might sign in to lose some games with you and bratworst tonight. How is chip liking falls of titan?

    Surprise! He hates it! Maybe not surprisingly...something wrong with that boy. Actually, I think he starting to come around, now that he's getting the hang of it.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    Anecdotally, at least, it seems like Gen 5 is where I see most players stalled out. I've come across quite a few level 50 gen 5's, which I pretty much never see with any other gen.

    Yeah, I've seen more people either beyond Gen-5 or whom it would be nowhere in their immediate future anyway. The flow is more of an inverse bell curve. Though I imagine now you'll see more higher rankers post-patch.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Nik Huze wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    I haven't played the last couple days been too wrapped up in some d3, but with the gooser challenge change coming I might sign in to lose some games with you and bratworst tonight. How is chip liking falls of titan?

    Surprise! He hates it! Maybe not surprisingly...something wrong with that boy. Actually, I think he starting to come around, now that he's getting the hang of it.

    I'm shocked. Maybe I won't play with you guys then, though I need to get my brother invited to one our groups so he knows what a winning team is like.

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  • -silent--silent- Registered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    So you know the worse thing about using the Railgun isn't even the gun but is how much it slows me down compared to other guns.

    Its the worst gun for grunt farming and it has a very hit and run approach to Titans fights make them last a bit longer than I'm used to.

    Well...only 18 more kills with it I guess.

    Agreed. I'm on the challenge as well and it just messes up my whole strategy of how I play. Really have to slow down. And I won't lie, when someone "steals" my almost titan kill when I'm about to finish it off, naughty words may most certainly do slip out.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    There's a new playlist up called "improved matchmaking beta". It's just Attrition but it shuffles the lobby every few games to find better matches.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    That's great for when you have a bad lot of games. Also known as when I played with my brother in a party.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Registered User regular
    There's a new playlist up called "improved matchmaking beta". It's just Attrition but it shuffles the lobby every few games to find better matches.

    This is fantastic news.

    I <3 Respawn.

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  • sPider817sPider817 Registered User, ClubPA regular
    There's a new playlist up called "improved matchmaking beta". It's just Attrition but it shuffles the lobby every few games to find better matches.

    Would love to be able to fill a lobby with 12 PA bros and just shuffle it up.

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  • The SpecialistThe Specialist Happy Face Happy PlaceRegistered User regular
    Is it me, or does Titanfall have one of the worst, most poisonous playerbases this side of Xbox CoD? Excluding you guys of course. Over the last two days, I've had someone whine that my CAR is OP, my satchel is OP, my carbine is OP, my kick is OP, my shotgun is OP... This is usually from a SP user, mind you. Oh, and my LMG, seriously.

    Exactly what weapon IS acceptable?

    I mean, not that I care. I'm gonna use whatever weapon seems the most fun. But I actually am looking forward to when all these people migrate to another flavor of the month. Maybe thin the ranks of geese and whatnot.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Maybe its been the last few days I haven't played but outside of Nik bitching about the carbine...

    No one whines about weapons other than dying to a starburst hemlock "Fuck me I'm the worst player ever."

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