DICE really dropped the ball on the intro movie

[Abs0lute_Zero]

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I can just see it now...they release what a "typical" titan attack is...air transport lands on the titan, two guys get out because the rest of the squad is lonewolfing it at silos and not listening to the squad leader. Squad leader runs around the corner and BOOM apm mine, he tries to tell the other guy to take his kit and revive him but sometimes thats too much to handle for some players. He waits for his squad leader and they enter the first console to find 3 guys in there...one is rdx spamming the entrance and the other two are nade spamming with sentries set up. After 8 tries they move to the other console to find 4 guys doing the same thing. The two guys wait for reinforcements and charge all at once and get slaughtered...after a few more tries they break through by nading their way in and manage to eventually get to the core...they barricade themselves in...they blow it up but get blasted running out since the enemy was waiting for em...one guy manages to get off...the whole sloppy assault takes about 20 minutes and sucks compared to the original. So there you have it a typical titan attack movie :shakehead:

[Shurikane]

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I can just see it now...they release what a "typical" titan attack is...air transport lands

Wrong. The air transport rams the side of the Titan and everyone in it dies. Movie ends after 5 seconds.

[WolfAlmighty]

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Sheesh...I even put the second paragraph in the requisite green colour just in case the first one didn't come off as satirical enough or if anyone needed some further proof that I just might have been joking, but alas even that failed. Maybe I'm just going about it all wrong. :hmm:

At any rate Nightmare's post was pretty good and was kind of what I was going for. Perhaps I should have just made a less subtle approach.

~Wolfgang

[Erhardt]

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Wrong. The air transport rams the side of the Titan because the Pilot was only using it as his personal taxi and bailed out and everyone in it dies. Movie ends after 5 seconds.

Now it's perfect.

[FPS[SONIC]]

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I've previously played in Conflict 2142 (and 22CW before) that and we had Titan assaults just like that in organized game play... You'll never find that in the pubs though.

[Fixxxer]

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Wow, some people really get worked up over what i'm sure is meant to be a half-sarcastic post. Don't worry OP, I got a laugh out of it.

Personally, if the intro video was to reflect the way we see gameplay these days there would be one idiot driving an APC through the farthest reaches of the map to pod up to the Titan alone, skulk through the empty hanger for a while and walkinto a hallway to be blasted by screams of Grenade out, and in his last dying visions, he sees 7 defenders............two medics with Defibs in hand and Medpacks on the floor, two Support with deployed sentries and Ammo boxes, a Vosser with a full clip and two Recon with their finger on a little button.

[WolfAlmighty]

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Wow, some people really get worked up over what i'm sure is meant to be a half-sarcastic post. Don't worry OP, I got a laugh out of it.

Personally, if the intro video was to reflect the way we see gameplay these days there would be one idiot driving an APC through the farthest reaches of the map to pod up to the Titan alone, skulk through the empty hanger for a while and walkinto a hallway to be blasted by screams of Grenade out, and in his last dying visions, he sees 7 defenders............two medics with Defibs in hand and Medpacks on the floor, two Support with deployed sentries and Ammo boxes, a Vosser with a full clip and two Recon with their finger on a little button.

LOL thank you, at least it seems I reached a few people. Perhaps there's hope for me yet. :p

Yes, this was a roundabout way of comparing the intro video (which I do re-watch every so often because it's pretty damn cool) to how an actual game is played, and it always amused me how drastically different they are. In fantasy (intro) it's about groups having a gunplay standoff using cover and tactics while in reality it's usually about who can outspam the other with explosives. Just something I found amusing is all.

That, and how the Pilums had the Zeller sound effects.

~Wolfgang

[Lemur]

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Nice one

[MrChris_CJ]

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they wouldn't do any of that, the squad leader would put a beacon down and because of the borked system half the people would miss the titan will podding down

then some other guys would just camp it, instakilling all those that fell from the sky

everyone winds up either dead or on the ground below the titan talking about how they could invent some sort of flying machine in order to get back up

when out of nowhere a flying air transport appears to whisk them away, on take off however it flies up in the air, does a loop and hits the floor with a satisying splat

and everyone else would probably get titan gunned

10 seconds till respawn when you can have a nice chat about the horror of war with brainless 10 year olds

[Chris--My--azz]

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lol epic FAYULLLLLL

[AllFoamNoBeer]

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Never seen the intro movie.. so.. meh.

[imported_Field]

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they wouldn't do any of that, the squad leader would put a beacon down and because of the borked system half the people would miss the titan will podding down

then some other guys would just camp it, instakilling all those that fell from the sky

everyone winds up either dead or on the ground below the titan talking about how they could invent some sort of flying machine in order to get back up

when out of nowhere a flying air transport appears to whisk them away, on take off however it flies up in the air, does a loop and hits the floor with a satisying splat

and everyone else would probably get titan gunned

10 seconds till respawn when you can have a nice chat about the horror of war with brainless 10 year olds

yeah when i see a number of genuine retards playing like real retards you observe the retard and think to yourself, man this person reallllly is stupid are they for real??? i wonder who they are and what they look like and what theyre house smells like.

probably smells like crap

[MrChris_CJ]

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usually I just think how horrible unlucky I am to have those people as teammates

and stay the hell away from em :o

[imported_Kalo]

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You can act exactly like they do in the Video, Squad of 3 (including yourself, Ammo, Medic and Recon.), When the titan shields are about to fail you just storm it...Me and my Buds usually have an APC waiting when it's about to fail (About 2 or 3 missles from failure).

[-Shifty-]

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Nah here's a real Titan assault movie. (You gota read it like a blood-clentching/EPIC thriller book or it's not funny)

Enemy Titan shields go down, everybody forgets about silos and goes and tries to attack the enemy Titan. Some get in transports, they are either cut into tiny pieces by gunships or pierced like Swiss chese by titan AA. One eventually lands since the enemy team is properly holding all silos and keeping the corridors safe.

Eventually, after 5-7 tries some get on, 2 to 3 are blown to bits by camping RDX noobs in the air shafts, the other meet a sad end to a meaningless life through APMs at the corridor entrances. The medics are all privates and don't know which botton to press to get the defib out, another RDX noob ends his life at the corridor entrance. Finally somebody with sense gets in and clears a corridor, at his own cost, his team rushes in packed densly...another APM takes em out. They finally destroy the console.

They move to the next but little do they know 3 heavily armed recons await them with APMs and RDX supported by 4 supporters with sentries which alert them when to start nade tossing. The cost is high, the moral is...actually still high for those courageous noobs who don't know much, and the silos are all still in enemy hands.

However there is hope! A few brave souls continue to wait at the airstrip trying to learn to take-off and go support there teams! Some take off but their journey quickly ends with a quick encounter of a palm tree or hill.

The enemy team still holds the silos and...wait...what's this??? It can't be!!! The enemy team won by destroying our Titan without us even knowing they had the silos or had our shields down!!! The furious team decides to do one last epic push! They get to the reactor console then as they pull out their RDX...a guy pulls around the corner with a clark and pumps them with lead.

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