jepzilla

After the server crashed and emptied out we were messing around with transports and I noticed that there's a flaw in the model of the EU titan. Part of it extrudes out of its own shield at the very top, and it's possible to land a pod here. It's just out of the fire arc of either of the two top turrets. You could spawn a squad here in anticipation of the shield going down, or park yourself here picking off gunships and transports as they try to take off.

Here's me looking down into the hanger deck:

You can see me standing on the titan on the minimap, and the shields are quite plainly up.

There is no such area on the top of the PAC titan, however it may be possible to land a pod on the guns with practice (the guns protrude above the shield for obvious reasons, and yes you can stand on them). It pushes the border between dirty trick and exploit, so I thought I'd bring it to everyone's attention.

P.S. New server is great! Thanks Apophis!

Vice

It looks really tight are you sure it's possible to actually land on the railing? I'll have to test it out and see with an APC. An engineer would make the best use of the position with the AA unlock, destroying the air vehicles as they lift off. However, I think this does hit exploit. The developers intent is clear, the opposing team has to destroy the shields before getting on the Titan in any way.

PanzerHans

As this is only showing up on the EU titan I would say employing any strategies to exploit this weakness is not something we explore here at TG. It would most likely be plugged in the next patch. Being aware of it however is good as you might expect the random pubbie to exploit this for all it is worth. Thanks for sharing the info jepzilla.

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jepzilla

Yes, you can. There's plenty of space to land a drop pod.

Indeed- if there had been a similar space on top of the PAC Titan I would have kept it my secret. Or maybe not, I'm terrible at keeping neat little things secret.

Downtown1

Is landing on the guns fair game? .

Telorn

That depends, do you die if someone hops in that turret and moves it which would either crush you or knock you off to be fried by the shield?

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xTYBALTx

Does this actually confer an advantage?

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Telorn

It does if you are engie with AA gun and a support guy joins you. You have endless supply of AA rockets to take down the enemy transport and attack helo every time they take off.

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BHack

In this situation, the AT weapon would be much more effective than the AA unlock. AT seems to be one hit on the gunship.

This is definitely a coding goof, but it doesn't really confer much of an advantage. Mostly because if you are standing at that spot, you could most likely be shot by one of the turrets on the top.

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jepzilla

No, we checked. You can't be hit by the turrets when you're standing there. It's a spot between the turrets and they only have a 180 degree arc, so it's behind both. Apparently they changed how the EU titan looks after one of the betas, so it's probably something that slipped through then.

BHack

Thats interesting. I'm still not worried about it though, its too difficult and too easy to get killed up there for it to be a real problem.

A more serious issue is players finding a way to glitch into the boxes in the titan lobby. You can shoot out and are invincible inside.

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jepzilla

You can glitch past the sealed doors and through the forcefields. >.<

I accidentally glitched into the reactor room on defense and was stuck there for a couple of minutes until the assaulting team blew the last console.

Barracuda_Magoo

I've had a few times where I died and glitched through the floor (sometimes all the way to the ground). While falling you can see into the coridors where the defenders are hiding.

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Maus

I think it's a clear case of anyone caught doing this is up to no good and deserves a kick. Can't see a good case being made in its defence.

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OT:
About glitching, one time I spawned inside a wall. I could see everyone in the building, I thought I was by a the wall so I began shooting all the enemies. I fragged a few people before I realized I was doing so through the walls. Once I strafed I was teleported outside the building.