Originally Posted by Shiner

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.

[SOAP BOX]

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.

Originally Posted by Shiner

[SOAP BOX]

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.

Originally Posted by Shiner

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.

Originally Posted by Lord_Jebez

Your discription sounds exactly like the old Tribes 2 game. That is why that game is still popular among my clan. The graphics of the game are old. But the game play and teamwork required is still a ton of fun.

Originally Posted by =Sarc=

If the shields went down and the silos didn't do anything, you could have way too many players on the titan. There might be issues of lag and just plain lack of space on the titan. There are already issues trying to defend a corridor with other players that aren't in your squad. You just couldn't communicate. I saw a lot of TK's last night because players kept feeling the need to extend the defensive perimeter while it was already well defended with grenades and rockets. The same goes with multiple squads attacking a titan's core.

Originally Posted by Shiner

This is a problem with the limited space in the titan. I wish they could make a larger design or have more intracate corridors to prevent this. As it is, I agree 110% with Bhack that most often the correct strategy is NOT to attack the enemy titan. Thus, why not just play conquest and forget about those floating battleships to begin with.

I think Titan mode was an inspired addition and has a great deal of potential, but until you make it strategically important to actually attack a titan I don't see this mode as functioning correctly. As long as missles kill the titan so easily and a single well equiped and organized squad can defend the titan almost indefinately, the titan mode is almost irrelevant.