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Titanfall
Last week during an event in Los Angeles, Respawn Entertainment revealed new details on its upcoming first-person shooter Titanfall. The news includes information on a previously unrevealed map called Boneyard, the Last Titan Standing mode, and single-use perks called Burn Cards.
The new map, Boneyard, is a desert environment set amidst the ruins of an old engineering facility. Huge leviathan-like creatures wander the distant backgrounds, warded away from the battlefield with dog whistle-like apparatuses. Boneyard is the result of a malfunctioned dog whistle, with the tremendous bones of a fallen leviathan setting the surface-side stage for combat. Respawn says players can fight within the huge skeleton and even perch atop it and snipe. Indigenous flying NPC creatures can also swoop down to pester your allies and enemies, creating a livelier match. Down below the surface is the facility itself.
“Boneyard is a little more friendly to Titans,” says Respawn Entertainment lead artist Joel Emslie. “The scale cues and the stuff you can take cover on is a little more Titan focused. There are areas that you’d want to wall run on as a Titan are more in the bowels of Boneyard. It has some really nice spots where a Pilot can really get the drop on a Titan. These big hallways where the Pilot can hide up in the girders and get down on the Titan. But it also has some really kick-ass spots for the longer shooting game of Titanfall where you can use these marksman weapons. There are these cracks in crevices where you can ambush Titans and jump off a rock down here and get on top of one.”
Speaking of Titan ambushes, the new mode Respawn revealed is called Last Titan Standing. In LTS, each team of six players starts in the cockpit of their Titan and dukes it out until the opposing team’s machines are all destroyed. This match type cranks up the action right away, and morphs Titans from disposable artillery to precious commodities.
In addition to Last Titan Standing, Respawn also showed off the new Burn Card system. Burn Cards are one-time use perks that can be used every match. Players unlock up to three Burn Card slots, which can be filled with cards earned over the course of the game. Burn Cards include increased Pilot movement speed, decreased cooldown on Titans, and powerful anti-Titan weaponry. These bonuses stay in effect from the moment you activate them until your next death.
The March 13 release of Titanfall on Xbox One and PC is just around the corner. Our excitement for the game has been high since first revealing it on the cover of Game Informer, and these new announcements only add fuel to the fire.
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