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| Titan Mode |
The Titan mode involves players from opposing teams whose objective is to destroy the other team's Titan, while trying to defend their own. Titans are massive heavily armoured flying warships, which have powerful force fields protecting them from enemy intrusion or conventional weapons fire. As the force fields are up during the first half of a battle, players must fight to control the anti-Titan missile silos scattered about the battlefield on the ground. Titans can only be moved around the battlefield by the team's Commander. Each Titan has 4 anti-ground guns and 2 anti-air guns that, when used, will contribute to the fight on the ground. Occasionally, Titans are not moved at all, or very little, due to server latency issues, however, they can be (and often are) moved close together. Titans can be boarded by infantry via "assault pods" launched from an APC or from a rival Titan, by air-drop from a Squad Leader Spawn Beacon signal, or by landing an air transport on top of the Titan.
The Titan can only be boarded in any manner once the force field is completely destroyed. Players must then damage the hull by either destroying four reactor security consoles and then the reactor core itself, or by continuing to control the missile silos that launch at the Titan. Both methods work together to damage the Titan. When the Titan’s hull fails, a 30-second abandon ship timer is triggered, alerting players to evacuate the Titan before the reactor explodes, taking the Titan and all aboard with it. However, the timer is never shown much to players' preference. During the beta release of the game, there was an award for those who managed to escape the destroyed Titan before the 30-second timer ended. In the retail game, the round ends when the Titan is destroyed, and because player deaths triggered by the end of a round do not count, the evacuation of the Titan had little significance aside from inciting a rush in the player. In patch 1.05, DICE reinstated the award for those attacking players who escaped the destruction in the "Titan Survival Pin." However receiving the pin requires a very precise timing to land on the ground, causing confusion amongst players initially.
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