Developer Tips

Pilot Combat/Mobility

Careful! Your jump jets are still visible when they fire, even while you are cloaked.
The Pilot’s cloaking device was built to fool Titan optics, and is less effective against the naked eye.
Hang from the walls! You can come to a stop and hang onto a wall by holding the zoom button while wall running.
Each time you inflict damage on an enemy, you reduce the time it takes to get your next Titan.
Get there faster. You get a big speed boost while you are wall running.
Check your minimap for enemies and friendlies on foot—large dots are Pilots, small dots are Grunts. Titans appear as large triangles on the minimap.
Get the drop. You can detach from walls at any time by pressing the crouch button.
Stand on the shoulders of giants—you can get to higher locations by double jumping off of other Titans.
Leverage your momentum. When landing while in motion, jump as you touch the ground to go even faster.
Create a personal army. Get close to a Spectre to hack it. This will also automatically hack other nearby Spectres.
As a Pilot, you can ride on zip lines in both directions, thanks to your Jump Kit.
Using Cloak before using a zip line can help you avoid enemy fire.
Keep ‘em guessing. Press the crouch button to suddenly drop from zip lines without carrying speed.
Swoop into the action! Jump to detach from zip lines without losing speed.

Titan Combat

Watch for weak points. Taking down a Titan’s bodyshield will expose bright red weak points to certain weapons.
Don’t hesitate! You can board your Titan from any direction—even from mid-air!
Heads up! Titans falling into the battle will kill any enemy combatants they land on.
Go for the rodeo! You can kill a Titan by jumping on its back and firing into its internal systems.
Get under their skin. When you rodeo an enemy Titan and shoot its internal systems, your attack bypasses the shields.
Don’t rest on your laurels—a doomed Titan is still a threat.
Finish them! You can rip an enemy out of a doomed Titan with a well-timed melee attack.
Switch to your Anti-Titan weapon to do the most damage to Titans when you’re on foot as a Pilot.
Getting outnumbered in a Titan fight is very dangerous—your Titan will tell you if you are in danger.
Always check your teammates’ Titans—there may be enemy Pilots on their backs.
Your Titan is programmed to follow you around unless you manually switch it to Guard Mode.
When you switch your Titan to Guard Mode, it will face in the direction you were looking at the time.
When you hitch a ride on a friendly player’s Titan, its shields will protect you too.
When a Titan is doomed, its health bar will change to a striped pattern
If your Titan is not doomed, your shields will begin recharging if you avoid getting hit for a short time.
A Titan’s built-in shields are not impenetrable—the armor underneath just takes a lot less damage.
Live to fight another day! When your Titan’s bodyshield is low or depleted, take cover from enemy fire to recharge it.
Get punchy. Prevent enemy Pilots from jumping on your Titan by punching them at close range.
A doomed Titan gets a striped health bar and will soon self-destruct. The Pilot who dooms an enemy Titan scores the kill.

Weapons

Get refreshed. Every time you enter your Titan, your Pilot ammo is automatically refilled.
Be quick on the draw. Switching to your sidearm is faster than reloading.
The Smart Pistol will lock onto live grenades. Be careful not to blow yourself up!
Be patient. The basic Smart Pistol takes three lock-ons to kill a Pilot with one trigger pull.
Be prepared to do it yourself. The Smart Pistol’s auto-targeting shuts off when you aim manually.
If you are equipped with the Cloak ability, it will slow down enemy lock-ons when active, while you are a Pilot.
Give it some time. Fired continuously, the Spitfire LMG kicks heavily on the first few shots, but stabilizes soon afterward.
Arc Grenades disorient and reveal cloaked Pilots.
The Arc Grenade is highly effective against a Titan’s shields, and temporarily distorts a Titan’s vision.
Remotely detonate satchels by double tapping the reload button.
Zap it. The Arc Cannon can destroy rockets in flight.
The Arc Cannon drains energy from an enemy’s Vortex Shield.
Pilots can jump above explosions created from Triple Threat grenades.
Scratch your back! As a Titan, you can use the explosions from your Cluster Missile to hurt a Pilot on your back.

Burn Cards

Respawn with a vengeance! Remember to select and activate a Burn Card after you die—it will take effect when you respawn.
Get a head start. Select and activate a Burn Card before the start of every match—it will take effect when you spawn.
Burn Cards give you special abilities that last until you die or the match ends. Try them out!
Out of Burn Cards? Challenge yourself—many Challenges have Burn Card rewards.
Burn Card effects carry over during round-based game modes, such as Last Titan Standing, if you manage to stay alive.
Make some space. If your Burn Card collection is full, discard or use your existing Burn Cards so that you may earn more.