Prepare for Battle: Titanfall

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When you’ve spent the last few weeks playing “Titanfall” as much as we have, you know that picking the right tools for the job is a crucial step for developing a winning, robot-crushing game strategy. Luckily, no matter your experience, “Titanfall” has a loadout to meet your needs. Whether you’re a brand-new “Titanfall” player or a seasoned vet who’s been playing since launch, we’ve got some suggestions for weapon and ability pairings that go together like fine wine and delicately-aged cheese. If wine and cheese were, you know, explosive.

THE NEWBIE
“Titanfall” doesn’t allow loadout customization until Level 10, so for your first few rounds, you’ll need to select from presets. Luckily, these are all more powerful than you’d think. Even more luckily, one pilot loadout and one Titan loadout are particularly useful for brand-spanking-new players.

  • Pilot Loadout: Assassin
    The Assassin’s Smart Pistol gets a lot of grief from experienced players for good reason: It’s a veritable XP-printing machine in the right hands. It locks-on instantly to any of the game’s A.I.-controlled minion characters, providing the opportunity for multiple one-hit kills simultaneously. It will even take out human opponents, if you can stay focused long enough to achieve three separate lock-ons. That’s technology!
  • Titan Loadout: Assault
    Since the slightly slower pace of Titan combat can take some getting used to, many newcomers will find the spray-‘n’-pray feature of the Assault Titan’s XO-16 Chaingun useful. It offers the opportunity to inflict at least some damage against Titans and pilots alike even if your aim isn’t exactly, ah, sniper-like. As an added bonus, as you get the hang of aiming at moving targets, you’ll discover the XO-16 can actually be fairly brutal if well-targeted on an enemy’s weak spots.


THE GRADUATE
As you begin to find your footing, you’ll discover that the above options sacrifice damage potential for the sake of user-friendliness. Sure, you can get really good at them — but the average “Titanfall” player will likely want to find something with a bit more oomph. By now, you’ve hit Level 10, so let’s take a look at tweaking your own loadouts.

Pilot

  • Primary Weapon: R-101C Carbine. Embrace the Carbine. Love the Carbine. The Carbine is your friend. An effective tool no matter your level, the full-auto Carbine does reasonable amounts of damage, and can eventually be modified for long-range, close-range, or even stealthy play. All hail the Carbine.
  • Anti-Titan Weapon: Archer Heavy Rocket. It takes a bit to lock on, but its range is practically infinite, allowing you to rack up Titan assists from across the level.
  • Sidearm: RE-45 Autopistol. The rodeo-er’s best friend. When your Carbine clip is empty, switch to your sidearm and plunk 20 rounds into an enemy Titan’s interior in seconds.
  • Tactical Ability: Cloak. Most human players will start to be able to pick out cloaked enemies pretty quickly — but Auto-Titans and turrets can’t. You can see how that might be helpful.
  • Ordnance: Frag Grenade. Your …read more

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