A few messages before I go into this:
1. I'm sure a lot of people already know about all this. If you do, that's great. Maybe not everyone does though! And that's who this is for. Heck, I didn't know until just recently.
2. Okay, so this may not be the quickest way. I don't know enough to say it's the quickest way, but it's the quickest I've personally found. If I'm wrong by all means share better ways.
3. Feel free to add to it or correct it!
4. I'm aware this shouldn't be encouraged because it goes against team play, but uh... *has nothing to finish that sentence with*
Tired of being a noob and not having any unlocks, only getting a smattering of kills and support points and taking forever to level up? Or maybe there's tons of points to your next unlock and you've got no big point awards coming your way anytime soon. Either way, there's a way to get lots of points each round easily without even needing any particular unlocks.
Whore the Engineer on the Titan
Yes, whore the engineer on the Titan. It's nothing new, but I didn't see anything in the strategies section about it so here we are. But just how do you whore the engineer on the Titan?
First, there is a rule that you have to follow...
You are not a team player!
Yes, to whore the engineer on the Titan you can't worry about being in a "squad" and following "orders". Be in a squad if you like but the chances of your squad leaders orders matching your objectives are about nil. While you might want to cap some silos while you've got nothing else to do, in large part whoring the engineer on Titan mode doesn't involve capping silos, or really doing much of anything that is truly useful to your team.
You'll have one of the highest if not the highest score on your team, but in the end you won't make much impact. So if you're okay with being a loner, we shall continue...
Note: Not everything I mention will be possible every round. Rarely it will, but often times it depends on the play style of your own team/commander and the other team/commander. Also, if you're on a server where no one moves titans, choose another server. Heavy titan combat is important to get the most points out of this.
Remember, you don't need any unlocks! While having the pilum or whatever may help slightly, it doesn't really matter. You don't need any engineer unlocks to do anything here. As a matter of fact having the advanced repair tool might be a slight detriment because the Engineer Excellence Badge counts how much time you use the tool for, not how fast you use it. So you'll want that in your hands repairing as much as you can have it.
Task #1
Titan Destructor!
Destroying a titan gun will get you two points. On top of that, destroying four titan guns gets the Titan Defense pin, worth 20 career points. You can get two of these in a round. 8 guns destroyed + 2 titan destructor pins = 56 career points. Not a bad way to start off the round, and you'll still have a lot of round left when you're done.
How do you get the titan attack scores? Well, the way I'm going to recommend is one that anyone can do. There are other ways to destroy titan guns but this is probably the most basic. Step 1) Get engineer under titan, Step 2) shoot rockets at guns. That's it. Of course the titans are probably really far apart, so it may not be as easy as that. You'll either have to hitch a ride on a transport and bail when you're close, or take the transport yourself. Of course if you take the transport yourself, be aware that the rest of your team can't use it. It's best to just bail instead of land so it gets destroyed and spawns back at the titan. Be careful when you bail that the transport doesn't land you!
Using the standard launcher you have 6 rockets. Each titan gun, assuming it does not receive repairs, takes 3 rockets to destroy. So right off you have enough for 2. Once you run out of rockets, go try to cap a silo or something that will probably get yourself killed. Repeat.
To quicken the process... After you destroy a gun, watch for any enemy engineers repairing those guns. Right after they repair it you can usually take it out again and get another titan attack score with one rocket. With your six rockets you can destroy one, then destroy the same one three more times and get the pin in one shot if enemy engineers repair it for you.
Watch out for... opposing engineer whores. These guys don't have it down entirely. They're sitting around at the titan guns at the start of the battle when no one is attacking them really and just waiting around for the chance to repair. If they have a good enough repair whore, they'll start repairing the guns before you can destroy any of them. You could drop all 6 rockets and get no scores. If this is the case just forget it, but come back later. Don't want to pass on the 56 points.
Task #2
Repair Whore
I'm not positive on the cap, but I think you can get somewhere around 20 points just repairing. And the titan is the BEST place to get repair points. Why? Because of people constantly destroying your titan guns! They'll attack, attack, attack, and could possibly give you an endless source of repair points. It's pretty simple, point and click. No strategy needed. This is a quick way to get your Engineer Excellence Badges.
Watch out for... an enemy that doesn't want to attack your titan guns. If they don't want to attack your guns, you can't repair them. Hope that your commander moves the titan into a heavy combat zone to entice people into hitting them. If no one is attacking them, get in the guns and fire some shots off at the enemy to make them want to take you out! Even if they don't take you out you can get some kills in the process.
Task #3
Titan Gun Whore
While you can technically be any kit and do this, it's best to be the engineer because you can get out of the gun at slow times and repair your gun or other guns around you. Now, what's so great about being in the titan guns?
1. You can't be killed. Okay, well someone on my team shot me in the back of the head once so they could sit in the AA spot, but normally you can't be killed.
2. Kill assists. If any titan gunner gets a kill, you get a kill assist. Free points.
3. Noob pilots. See below...
Noob pilots are one of the best things about being a Titan AA gunner. First, pick an AA gun. The one facing the enemy Titan is probably, but not always, the best choice. If you're lucky the titans are so close you can actually see the enemy transport and gunship on the deck of their titan and aim at it. If the other team has a lot of noobs that get in the transport, this can be a limitless source of kills. Shoot 'em till they are dead, that's about it.
The profitability of this is a little shaky. Sometimes I'll hardly get any kills... While another time I got a 46 kill streak and finished the round with 160+ points. It's an easy place to get the 5 kill streak and 10 kill streak pins since obviously you can't die.
Watch out for... Non-noob opposing pilots. These pilots will fly straight down out of the titan so you can't hit them. If they have an abundance of these people, abandon the AA guns, you won't hit anything. Also, watch out for having a commander that does/doesn't move the titan. If your commander doesn't get the titan close into the fighting, it changes how easy it is to get kills in various gun positions greatly. Hopefully you're positioned over some silos so you can fire down onto them, or near the enemy titan so you can see their pilots take off.
Well, that's all I can think of. Usually I get a minimum of 60-70 career points in a round doing this, and my top round was 160+ career points (105 of which were global thanks to 48 kills.) Ah, and two silver stars. No gold because both rounds, even the 105, there were better whores than I.
And a bit of advice, if it doesn't work the first time keep trying. Once you get into the attack/repair/defend routine it's pretty simple.
1. I'm sure a lot of people already know about all this. If you do, that's great. Maybe not everyone does though! And that's who this is for. Heck, I didn't know until just recently.
2. Okay, so this may not be the quickest way. I don't know enough to say it's the quickest way, but it's the quickest I've personally found. If I'm wrong by all means share better ways.
3. Feel free to add to it or correct it!
4. I'm aware this shouldn't be encouraged because it goes against team play, but uh... *has nothing to finish that sentence with*
Tired of being a noob and not having any unlocks, only getting a smattering of kills and support points and taking forever to level up? Or maybe there's tons of points to your next unlock and you've got no big point awards coming your way anytime soon. Either way, there's a way to get lots of points each round easily without even needing any particular unlocks.
Whore the Engineer on the Titan
Yes, whore the engineer on the Titan. It's nothing new, but I didn't see anything in the strategies section about it so here we are. But just how do you whore the engineer on the Titan?
First, there is a rule that you have to follow...
You are not a team player!
Yes, to whore the engineer on the Titan you can't worry about being in a "squad" and following "orders". Be in a squad if you like but the chances of your squad leaders orders matching your objectives are about nil. While you might want to cap some silos while you've got nothing else to do, in large part whoring the engineer on Titan mode doesn't involve capping silos, or really doing much of anything that is truly useful to your team.
You'll have one of the highest if not the highest score on your team, but in the end you won't make much impact. So if you're okay with being a loner, we shall continue...
Note: Not everything I mention will be possible every round. Rarely it will, but often times it depends on the play style of your own team/commander and the other team/commander. Also, if you're on a server where no one moves titans, choose another server. Heavy titan combat is important to get the most points out of this.
Remember, you don't need any unlocks! While having the pilum or whatever may help slightly, it doesn't really matter. You don't need any engineer unlocks to do anything here. As a matter of fact having the advanced repair tool might be a slight detriment because the Engineer Excellence Badge counts how much time you use the tool for, not how fast you use it. So you'll want that in your hands repairing as much as you can have it.
Task #1
Titan Destructor!
Destroying a titan gun will get you two points. On top of that, destroying four titan guns gets the Titan Defense pin, worth 20 career points. You can get two of these in a round. 8 guns destroyed + 2 titan destructor pins = 56 career points. Not a bad way to start off the round, and you'll still have a lot of round left when you're done.
How do you get the titan attack scores? Well, the way I'm going to recommend is one that anyone can do. There are other ways to destroy titan guns but this is probably the most basic. Step 1) Get engineer under titan, Step 2) shoot rockets at guns. That's it. Of course the titans are probably really far apart, so it may not be as easy as that. You'll either have to hitch a ride on a transport and bail when you're close, or take the transport yourself. Of course if you take the transport yourself, be aware that the rest of your team can't use it. It's best to just bail instead of land so it gets destroyed and spawns back at the titan. Be careful when you bail that the transport doesn't land you!
Using the standard launcher you have 6 rockets. Each titan gun, assuming it does not receive repairs, takes 3 rockets to destroy. So right off you have enough for 2. Once you run out of rockets, go try to cap a silo or something that will probably get yourself killed. Repeat.
To quicken the process... After you destroy a gun, watch for any enemy engineers repairing those guns. Right after they repair it you can usually take it out again and get another titan attack score with one rocket. With your six rockets you can destroy one, then destroy the same one three more times and get the pin in one shot if enemy engineers repair it for you.
Watch out for... opposing engineer whores. These guys don't have it down entirely. They're sitting around at the titan guns at the start of the battle when no one is attacking them really and just waiting around for the chance to repair. If they have a good enough repair whore, they'll start repairing the guns before you can destroy any of them. You could drop all 6 rockets and get no scores. If this is the case just forget it, but come back later. Don't want to pass on the 56 points.
Task #2
Repair Whore
I'm not positive on the cap, but I think you can get somewhere around 20 points just repairing. And the titan is the BEST place to get repair points. Why? Because of people constantly destroying your titan guns! They'll attack, attack, attack, and could possibly give you an endless source of repair points. It's pretty simple, point and click. No strategy needed. This is a quick way to get your Engineer Excellence Badges.
Watch out for... an enemy that doesn't want to attack your titan guns. If they don't want to attack your guns, you can't repair them. Hope that your commander moves the titan into a heavy combat zone to entice people into hitting them. If no one is attacking them, get in the guns and fire some shots off at the enemy to make them want to take you out! Even if they don't take you out you can get some kills in the process.
Task #3
Titan Gun Whore
While you can technically be any kit and do this, it's best to be the engineer because you can get out of the gun at slow times and repair your gun or other guns around you. Now, what's so great about being in the titan guns?
1. You can't be killed. Okay, well someone on my team shot me in the back of the head once so they could sit in the AA spot, but normally you can't be killed.
2. Kill assists. If any titan gunner gets a kill, you get a kill assist. Free points.
3. Noob pilots. See below...
Noob pilots are one of the best things about being a Titan AA gunner. First, pick an AA gun. The one facing the enemy Titan is probably, but not always, the best choice. If you're lucky the titans are so close you can actually see the enemy transport and gunship on the deck of their titan and aim at it. If the other team has a lot of noobs that get in the transport, this can be a limitless source of kills. Shoot 'em till they are dead, that's about it.
The profitability of this is a little shaky. Sometimes I'll hardly get any kills... While another time I got a 46 kill streak and finished the round with 160+ points. It's an easy place to get the 5 kill streak and 10 kill streak pins since obviously you can't die.
Watch out for... Non-noob opposing pilots. These pilots will fly straight down out of the titan so you can't hit them. If they have an abundance of these people, abandon the AA guns, you won't hit anything. Also, watch out for having a commander that does/doesn't move the titan. If your commander doesn't get the titan close into the fighting, it changes how easy it is to get kills in various gun positions greatly. Hopefully you're positioned over some silos so you can fire down onto them, or near the enemy titan so you can see their pilots take off.
Well, that's all I can think of. Usually I get a minimum of 60-70 career points in a round doing this, and my top round was 160+ career points (105 of which were global thanks to 48 kills.) Ah, and two silver stars. No gold because both rounds, even the 105, there were better whores than I.
And a bit of advice, if it doesn't work the first time keep trying. Once you get into the attack/repair/defend routine it's pretty simple.