>giant fucking sword
>animeanimeanimeanime


Well, that dropped my hype levels.

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>giant fucking sword
>animeanimeanimeanime


Well, that dropped my hype levels.

Respawn openly admitted before Titanfall 1 that the designs of the Titans (especially the Strider) were always based at least partially on anime like Code Geass.
Plus a Melee weapon does not seem so out of place given the way Titan vs Titan combat currently is. I'd love to see melee weapons replace Big Punch entirely. Orgres punching their way across the map faster than a strider could run was retarded. And also the fact  that it's in a jungle so it could also be there just for chopping trees.  (The IMC was never exactly environmental friendly just look at the maps Fracture and Demiter.

And it looks like we might have a new titan model or an updated version of one judging from that leg.

It's been a while since the campaign, I can't tell of that's Blisk or Graves talking. Either way it looks like we are getting a sequel in terms of story. I wonder if this takes place after the events of the DLC maps too, and if they have actually affected the standing of both the IMC and the Militia in the Frontier, and if the IMC's have finally gotten their reinforcements. The existence of a new Titan, might suggest they did.

Sit back Admirals, this is my territory to shill in.

Looks to be a Strider from both this image and the thumbnail.
I wonder if Respawn is re-balancing the Titans and how.

I hope they don't add any more titans. The sandbox in #1 was pretty well balance and another titan class would ruin it.

Sit back Admirals, this is my territory to shill in.

Apparently I'm the only one not allowed to defend things I like on this website then.

I don't think design from anime is a valid argument. Either the design is good, or it's bad. I've learned that much discussion on here.

It'd be one thing if it was a knife, like how Avatar did it with their mechs, but this is a full on buster sword.

Quote from: ChaosMetalDragon on April 11, 2016, 11:39:52 AM

Sit back Admirals, this is my territory to shill in.

Apparently I'm the only one not allowed to defend things I like on this website then.

I don't think design from anime is a valid argument. Either the design is good, or it's bad. I've learned that much discussion on here.

It'd be one thing if it was a knife, like how Avatar did it with their mechs, but this is a full on buster sword.

I mean the sword honestly dosn't look that big in proportion with the Strider. Most certainly not Buster Sword levels of huge.

Another thing I wonder if they are going to address in the story are the aliens. In Titanfall 1 you can overhear some grunts talking about the fact that certain species exist on multiple planets within the frontier, and there's the fact that those ruins exist on swampland.

>giant fucking sword
>animeanimeanimeanime

This is a game where you hack robots by stabbing them with a knife.

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on April 11, 2016, 02:04:28 PM

Quote from: LC on April 11, 2016, 01:56:09 PM

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on April 11, 2016, 01:29:46 PM

Quote from: ChaosMetalDragon on April 11, 2016, 01:12:37 PM

I mean the sword honestly dosn't look that big in proportion with the Strider. Most certainly not Buster Sword levels of huge.

It's pretty damn big.

It's being wielded by a giant mech. Of course it's going to be big when compared to a human.

It's pretty damn big proportionally.

Not really. A good longsword come up to your waist or breast when measured from tip to pommel. It's fine proportionally. From the screenshot it looks like it might be a short sword or a machete since it's nowhere near that length.

It's a longsword from what I see.

Then you have to realize that this does not fit in the Titanfall universe.

It's a universe where even the ragtag group of rebels is capable of fabricating Titan replacements in just several minutes. Where automated mass and quick production is a norm of human society everywhere. You have FTL technology, AIs with human level of intelligence, directed energy weapons, realistic 1:1 simulation pods, energy shielding, orbital insertion technology, autonomous armored exoskeletons where entire wars were fought with them, data-knives, wildlife disruption technology, even kinesis technology.

Then you have giant cleaver-swords. What's so special about them? Nothing. They're just unnecessarily cumbersome swords for the cool factor.

That's the best they could do with the technology available to them. Not an energy sword, not a melee buffer field, not even an EMP Knife (why not a larger data knife?).

It's the same stupid thing with anime. You've got characters with guns and swords, for whatever reason, bullets become nerf darts and swords become super weapons capable of killing things the bullets couldn't.

Quote from: LC on April 11, 2016, 02:39:18 PM

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on April 11, 2016, 02:04:28 PM

Quote from: LC on April 11, 2016, 01:56:09 PM

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on April 11, 2016, 01:29:46 PM

Quote from: ChaosMetalDragon on April 11, 2016, 01:12:37 PM

I mean the sword honestly dosn't look that big in proportion with the Strider. Most certainly not Buster Sword levels of huge.

It's pretty damn big.

It's being wielded by a giant mech. Of course it's going to be big when compared to a human.

It's pretty damn big proportionally.

Not really. A good longsword come up to your waist or breast when measured from tip to pommel. It's fine proportionally. From the screenshot it looks like it might be a short sword or a machete since it's nowhere near that length.

That's the best they could do with the technology available to them. Not an energy sword, not a melee buffer field, not even an EMP Knife (why not a larger data knife?).
dn't.

Look again and you will see the sword is electrified, meaning it will probably fuck shields over.
Plus as I said, if the swords are replacing Pig Punch I'm all for it. I'd rather see a sword swing give extra range than having Ogres Falcon Punching their way across the map faster than I can sprint with a Strider.

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on April 11, 2016, 03:32:15 PM

Quote from: LC on April 11, 2016, 02:39:18 PM

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on April 11, 2016, 02:04:28 PM

Quote from: LC on April 11, 2016, 01:56:09 PM

Quote from: Mr. Admirals on April 11, 2016, 01:29:46 PM

Quote from: ChaosMetalDragon on April 11, 2016, 01:12:37 PM

I mean the sword honestly dosn't look that big in proportion with the Strider. Most certainly not Buster Sword levels of huge.

It's pretty damn big.

It's being wielded by a giant mech. Of course it's going to be big when compared to a human.

It's pretty damn big proportionally.

Not really. A good longsword come up to your waist or breast when measured from tip to pommel. It's fine proportionally. From the screenshot it looks like it might be a short sword or a machete since it's nowhere near that length.

That's the best they could do with the technology available to them. Not an energy sword, not a melee buffer field, not even an EMP Knife (why not a larger data knife?).
dn't.

Look again and you will see the sword is electrified, meaning it will probably fuck shields over.
Plus as I said, if the swords are replacing Pig Punch I'm all for it. I'd rather see a sword swing give extra range than having Ogres Falcon Punching their way across the map faster than I can sprint with a Strider.

And to deliver the electricity, it needs to be so unnecessarily large?

Not to mention, you're talking about punching as if its something that can't be rebalanced.

Also let's remember how often Titan combat goes into extreme close quarters. It would make sense for them to have some kind of Melee weapons with how things play our rather than it turning into one-armed Rock-em Sock-em Robots like it currently is, Although I do think a Mace would make more sense than a sword.