Titanfall

Alright, so CTF matches can be a pain in the ass unless you have a plan in place for each map. Each of you will come up with your own strategies that suit your playstyle, but here's a few things I learned from my grind.

- Radar Pulse is the best ability in most cases. Cloak may get you by Titans and into the flag, and Stim IS damn useful, but Radar Pulse shows you where flag campers are. You can check where enemies are BEFORE you run outside. Situational awareness will win you more games than Cloak and Stim, generally. Stim should be your second choice, and you should have loadouts prepared with both abilites.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that Radar Pulse/Echo Vision WILL NOT work on cloaked enemies. You'll see them once they come out of cloak if your Pulse is still active, though.

- Your Titan is a suit of armor, and not much more than that when you have the flag. Don't take on enemy Titans if you can avoid it, and overuse your dash to get the hell back to your base (Dash Overcharger is great for CTF). Don't be afraid to eject early (just hit up on the D-Pad first) so that you can just launch over the buildings and back to your base.

- Parkour is your best friend. Especially on Lagoon with the ziplines. Your wallrunning and ziplining speed is so much greater than running normally that you can dance around enemies and fly by them. Once you figure out a good path to the base and back, you should be able to get to their flag and back to yours in about 45-75 seconds depending on the map size.

- Ignore your kills, ignore your deaths. They don't matter. Kill people in your way, and kill convenient grunts to reduce your Titan build time, but they don't directly help you win. So if a pilot you are shooting at runs away, let him. Just go on to the flag or play defense for yours. And don't try unnecessarily hard to regen your health and stay alive if you know it would be better and faster to die, respawn, and hit the ziplines.

- When playing defense, don't camp in the flag room. Make sure Radar Pulse is equipped, and hang out NEAR the flag room, but not in it. Radar Pulse can show the enemies as they run up (however, cloaked enemies don't glow red until they come out of cloak) plus the game tells you if the flag is taken. Kill them, return the flag and enjoy your bonus 350 XP.

- Where Burn Cards are concerned, the best burn cards in my opinion are Decisive Action/Pull Rank (and the instant Titan cards if you feel like using them) and the Adrenaline/Prosthetic Legs cards. Runner ups go to the enhanced tactical ability cards and Map Hack.

- Most of the games I played were with a team of randoms, but remember to support your team. Somebody has the flag? Play bodyguard. Move in pairs if possible. Most of all, TALK TO YOUR TEAMMATES. Let them know where people are coming from, let them know your attack plan, etc.

EDIT: Also, Satchel Charges are amazing. Their explosion radius is actually pretty large. Throw them in the room with flag or the flag campers' spots, create boom and enjoy experience. Radar Pulse and Satchel Charges together is even better.

CTF is also an amazing way to level faster thanks to all the XP boosts. Capping the flag nets you 500 XP, returning the flag gets you XP, and killing a flag carrier gets you XP. If anybody thinks my tips are bad or thinks I missed something big, leave a comment and let me know instead of just negative voting. We can work together to come up with better strategies so TAers will be the best at winning!

EDIT: They nerfed the XP you get from a flag return and flag carrier kills, but I have yet to go in and check for the new XP totals.

Flag Runner



You must win 50 CTF matches, joining in the middle of a winning match you do get a win.

The first method I will say is if you want to get this by playing normally and get 50 wins while going for the objective. I have been doing this method for a bit and it seems to be the best if you don't want to join any boosting sessions.

What I did was join a match and if my team was winning I stayed, but once my team loses, I would leave and search again. I have won about 10 in a row with a group because I stayed with people who actually cared about getting the flag or defending it, other than people who are looking for kills (or just are bad at the game, no offense to those who are) but that is why im making this guide to help ALL get this achievement!

Now once you found a winning game and keep playing until they lose, I would recommend guarding the flag, and one of the best tools to use is the ARC mine, just place 2 next to the flag and sit in a corner looking at the flag. Usually people try to run in there as fast as possible to grab the flag so just use your weapon of choice to kill them, and do the best you can. Make sure to always drop your titan and use your burn cards to your advantage.

[BOOSTING METHOD]

This other method can be a bit annoying but it is the fastest especially if you get it going.

Trueachievements has boosting sessions if you go into the boosting session category (or add this game to your boost list) If you host a session, just follow this guide and you will get some fast wins. Create a party and get 6 of the people in it, then create another party and get the other 5 in it, (12 people in a session 3 as back-ups) Have 1 person be the party leader and control that group as you control the other.

Once this is done, both leaders change their servers to JAPAN WEST in the Main menu, then invite everyone in your parties to the games.

When both groups have 6 people in both groups, just search on CTF at the same time running into each other. Once you find each other and the game starts, the team losing first just back out. Once back on the menu, start searching again to run into the group again and alternate wins.

Note: According to Snowed she encountered a problem with running into each other. The solution to that problem was everyone searching and running into each other individually. The only problem I can say about doing this method is the teams will be always random and you cannot make it completely fair to taking turns on the wins.

Any questions or comments? Please comment or send me a message, good luck and have fun!

You can boost wins with just two people, there’s a way to make it go much faster where both players can get the win and it can be done for all Game modes except for Last Titan Standing (this is because LTS has rounds and the game gets abandoned after 2 rounds rather than issuing a win to anyone).

Both Players set their Servers to Japan West. Both Players then search for whatever Game mode you’re boosting. The lobby will take a while to start but eventually the game will load a map.

Before the game begins, one Player selects the other Player’s name in the lobby, press to bring up the Xbox menu where you view the Player’s profile. Select “Join Game/Party” and hover over “Join Game”. When the timer gets down to 2 seconds, confirm to join the game.

The Game should load the map but will take longer as its transferring you to the other team. When the Game loads, both Players should be on the same team. After 40 seconds, the Game will end as you have no opponents, earning both Players the win.

When the Game goes back into the lobby, one Player must leave dropping back to the Multiplayer menu. Repeat the search again and you’ll end up on opposite teams again. Repeat the process for all the wins you need.

Every now and then, we had instances where the lobby would “break” and I’d get kicked to the Main Menu and I’d get the message “Failed to join game”. When this happens, whoever was left in the game, remain in the Game to get the win (after the 40 seconds) and go back to the game lobby.

That lobby will then always kick you out if you try to join the Game again, so both Players must leave and start searching again to make a new lobby.

Credit goes to Tide44 and his solution for how to get wins in Pilot Hunter (where I found this method). I just wanted to make this solution/method more widespread.