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In Battlefield 2142's Titan mode, your job is to defend your Titan while destroying the enemy's Titan, and that's not going to be easy. Titans are heavily shielded and armored, and they can deliver a pasting to targets below due to their hull-mounted turrets. Though your team can slowly whittle away a Titan's shields using regular weapons, such as tanks, antiaircraft guns, and aircraft, the easiest way to cripple the shields is to seize missile silos (there are five on Verdun). Each silo is capable of popping off a powerful anti-Titan missile every two minutes, so the more silos that your faction can seize and hold, the faster the enemy's Titan's shields will drop. Once they're down, you must board and battle your way to the Titan's core and destroy it, a process that we described in our E3 preview.


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Our Titan mode play session against the developers was an eye-opener, to say the least. We got a good sense of just how different this mode is from regular conquest. Having so many competing tasks means there are plenty of things to do. Though the process of seizing and holding missile silos is akin to capturing strategic points in conquest mode, things get pretty crazy once a Titan's shield is down. For instance, if you take out the enemy Titan's shield, you'll need to commit forces to try to take down the Titan. But doing so means that you risk leaving the missile silos relatively undefended, which means that if a handful of defenders can keep your team at bay, the rest of the enemy can capture the missile silos and take out your Titan's shields, and then launch an assault on your Titan.

From what we've seen, just reaching a Titan can be challenging, almost to the point of being comical. The easiest and fastest way is to use an assault pod, which is essentially a one-man rocket that arcs high into the air. You can launch an assault pod from a Titan or from an armored personnel carrier on the ground, and getting the trajectory right will take practice. It's strangely funny to watch pods fall short of the target or bounce off a Titan's shields. But if you do make it aboard, you'll want to make sure that the squad leader puts down a respawn beacon, which will let the squad spawn on that point, even if the squad leader is killed. Otherwise, if you die, you'll need to find another assault pod and launch up to the Titan all over again.

Yeah we should like totally sue Konami, the metal gears look too close to the Golaiths.
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StarCraft was the first game to have that type of vehicle, the goliath. Why does other games copy that?
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Starcraft didnt invent the robot... so I could ask you, why did starcraft copy the marine or the tank?
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The original Battletech that you played on hex-grids had mechs WAY before Starcraft.