sfarrar33
Halogenoalkane
+57|6835|InGerLand
In the demo I have noticed a lot of people doing certain things the hard way when there's a much easier way to do things, i call this way the titan pods.

For those who do not know these pods are on the titan in the gunship and titan gun bay area thing (if anyone knows the proper word for this area i would appreciate them telling me thanks). There's a big sign that occasionally flashes with a pod and an arrow on it, easy enough to find, however you would be forgiven for spending ages looking for an entrance to the pods and just giving up, this is because unless you have some strange shaders on your computer the doors are pretty much indistinguishable from the titan wall, no worries though simply hit E whilst wandering around and you will find yourself in a pod looking down at the battle below you.

Now that you have found your pod will then what? The answer is simply whatever you want the pods are the greatest vehicle in the game (IMO) and they only do one thing! Since there's 6 (think the number of people you can get in a squad here) of them and they spawn pretty much instantly you and pretty much your entire team can be anywhere within roughly 800m of the titan. Pod everywhere the pods will kill fixed emplacements and the people in them leaving you alive, they don't really do much to vehicles but land them on people if you can and they are history (although so are you if you miss because you can't see whilst there's smoke around and the enemy just has to shoot into the column of smoke thats just suddenly appeared). And of course you can pod from one titan to another once the enemy titan's shield has been removed of course.

So basically:
The pod: taking Titans easily, taking missile silos easily, taking your enemy from behind, easily!

And then just two other random side points that may or may not be in the instruction manuals of the full version of 2142, but that i noticed people didn't know about the game in the demo:

1) walkers can crouch (press z, or your equivalent crouch button) and by pressing shift they can run (sort of) and the FA-Vs get a speed boost from the same button.

2) the guns on the titan can be repaired, you simply walk up to the screen with the big red X on it and repair it in the same way you would repair a vehicle, it takes forever to repair fully, but that doesn't matter because you only need one health on it for it to work anyway.
FesterTheMolester
BF2s US Server Admin, IRC>Forums
+157|6857|The Mind Of A Cereal Killer
nice, i didn't know the titan guns could be repaired.....

but everything else i did


in the open beta, pods could take out anythink, except a walker.... hevent played the demo, but i assume its pretty much the same
jkohlc
2142th Whore
+214|6743|Singapore
lol i saw the 3 weird looking pods the first time i played BF2142 demo and i press "E" and i was like "hmm a window?" and i right clicked and i was like "OMGWTF??" and when i landed i know what it was


btw i recommend people to fully repair the titan cannons cuz the smoke will fuck up your vision

Last edited by jkohlc (2006-10-15 06:45:52)

Elamdri
The New Johnnie Cochran
+134|6863|Peoria
I don't think the titan pods do much for walkers, but they totally F up the FAV and gunships. Which comes in handy if the enemy parks a gunship on your titan, cause you can just launch in a pod, land on the gunship, and blow it up.
zeidmaan
Member
+234|6632|Vienna

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=48469&p=2

there you have screenshots of pods if you havent find them still (in that case omg)

btw... First one to make a demo of taking out a flying Transport chopper or gunship gets both of my karma thingies
r'Eeee
That's how I roll, BITCH!
+311|6665

ihavnt noticed it before tbh:P
Elamdri
The New Johnnie Cochran
+134|6863|Peoria

zeidmaan wrote:

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=48469&p=2

there you have screenshots of pods if you havent find them still (in that case omg)

btw... First one to make a demo of taking out a flying Transport chopper or gunship gets both of my karma thingies
I came really close once, but at the last second, he moved away. SOO PISSED.
Fallschirmjager10
Member
+36|6677

zeidmaan wrote:

http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=48469&p=2

there you have screenshots of pods if you havent find them still (in that case omg)

btw... First one to make a demo of taking out a flying Transport chopper or gunship gets both of my karma thingies
darn, I wish i used fraps last night :p i used the apc pods, went up, next thing you know im flying back to earth with 4 kills and the other team yelling
sfarrar33
Halogenoalkane
+57|6835|InGerLand

jkohlc wrote:

btw i recommend people to fully repair the titan cannons cuz the smoke will fuck up your vision
well it does thats true, but it takes about 10 minutes to get even a little orange on the repair bar, its just not worth it considering 3 engineer rockets or a bloke in AA take them out with ease
zeidmaan
Member
+234|6632|Vienna

I dont believe you
sfarrar33
Halogenoalkane
+57|6835|InGerLand
Well i know that AA takes me out easy enough when i'm in one, and I've taken out a gun with 3 rockets (however I always, always, then wander round the corner into the enemy walker and get owned).

If anyone wants to time how long it takes to repair a busted gun to full health then, apart from having to much time on there hands , i would be interested in knowing the answer.
[[[@lph@]]]_Templar
Member
+20|6674|UK
Ive managed to land on sum1 with a drop pod. It doesnt say "name [drop-pod] name", instead it jus says "name [killed] name". I cudnt stop laughin for a gd long 10 seconds.
Elamdri
The New Johnnie Cochran
+134|6863|Peoria
What I don't like about the titan guns is that they can be blown up into the negative numbers.
-MP-Nuke1266
Member
+20|6932
If I had a karma for every time I've hit a flyer with a pod..... I'd be karma rich!
sfarrar33
Halogenoalkane
+57|6835|InGerLand
film it and post it, then try and hit a flyer and have the debris take out something else, there should be an award for being able to do things like that...
-MP-Nuke1266
Member
+20|6932
OOH! I've got it! Presenting: The Collateral Damage Ribbon!
.|microphage
Member
+4|6850|Vancouver, BC
wtf? walkers can crouch and run? and pods can destroy everything. Pods are useful to defend your titan because you can launch your pod - aiming for the back of the titan - and land on the transport chopper and destroying it. It's really fun when there are a few people in the chopper lol
Heavy_Guns_91
I hand out purple hearts like candy
+72|6620|Alberta, Canada

.|microphage wrote:

wtf? walkers can crouch and run?
Yeah, that was my reaction too.
Now, I never just "walk" with a mech.
D34TH_D34L3R
Member
+48|7033|Belgium
Didn't know you can repair the Titan guns..
And hitting stuff on the ground using Pods ain't hard, however hitting planes while they're flying is..
But I did it a couple of times.. Once accidently while I was in APC and tried to Pod-launch myself onto the enemy Titan, but instead I hit a Transport 'Chopper' that just took off towards our plane.. 5 Kills without releasing 1 bullet, I was like: holy sh*t!!! The second time was the round after the first time, I Pod-Launched myself onto a still standing jeep-thingy.. Got 1 kill for that.. And the 3th time was when I launched myself out of the Transport 'Chopper' right into the enemy Transport 'Chopper' that was hoovering almost right under us.. Unfortunatly there was only 1 enemy player in it that time..

I would like to try to film it (would be funny as hell..) but I fear that Fraps will lag the hell out of my PC..
Angel.C-sq
Member
+24|6905|Computer Chair
Maybe there will be something like battlerecorder in the full version.
You dont need to run fraps while playing then.
D34TH_D34L3R
Member
+48|7033|Belgium

Angel.C-sq wrote:

Maybe there will be something like battlerecorder in the full version.
You dont need to run fraps while playing then.
That would be nice.. :-)
Bjenkins_X_123
Member
+11|6712|London, UK

-MP-Nuke1266 wrote:

OOH! I've got it! Presenting: The Collateral Damage Ribbon!
To the rest of the world thats called the American Award!

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