Thread: New server online!

Originally Posted by Telorn

After playing Titan for 3 hours last night I don't like it anymore All it felt like we were doing was silo hopping. Rarely ever did we run into enemy contact (with a full 48 server) and there were never intense battles at a choke point. Then again, the squads I was always in for the 4 or 5 games I played stayed on the ground and never went in the Titan.

This is one reason many of us argued heavily for a change to the missle silos from a damage based weapon to an EMP that only affected the shields. Thus a direct assualt on the titan would be required for destruction, and you don't have these nearly pointless silo hoping when 1/2 to 2/3 of the team is up in a titan.

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I personally advocated a further modification simulating a shield generator whereby the shields slowly regenerate over time. The trick being that once they go down to 0% generator hardpoints are considered destroyed and must be repaired before they start charging again. In my mind this would require an engineer repairing control panels inside (perhaps placed at four corners of the titan) and a generator component on the outside (top). Once repaired a warning is issued that the generator is restarting and a 60 second count-down begins before the shields turn back on at ~40%. Any attackers still inside when the shields return are cut-off without reinforcements and must complete the destruction of the core, by spawning on the SL (hope he didn't place the SL beacon on the titan roof).

The way I would see this playing out... you control the silos EMP missles which destroy the shield generator. Your team must now board the titan to assualt the core. The defending team must both control access to the consoles and core, but can also divert a squad to repair the inside and outside generator components to thwart the attack. The attackers will obviously want to prevent the titans shields from being repaired so must decide whether to rush the core or assign a squad to defend the destroyed shield consoles on the enemy titan. As long as they defend the shield consoles the silos are irrelevant to the attack. Of course, they must still provide for defence on their own titan and a method to board the enemy titan.

Could this turn into a struggle where the game shifts from the titans to the ground and back and forth a few times? I sure hope it would.