Pod Bombin'

[Chiron]

Ever been on a Titan doing the "BIG D" and hear the enemy spawning on some air transport out on the landing pad behind the Titan. Now spawn camping can be fun as you mow them down as they come in like a gas powered weed wacker. BUT... It can be a pain because you want to take it to them too.

You could suicide and pick up your AV kit and swing back around with a pod. But that takes time.

Heres the quick way. Run and hop in a pod. Eject back spin around and clobber thier air transport spawn point by slamming it with your pod. Insta pod gib. :) If you get lucky you escape the fireball of doom.

Plus you get lots of hate tells!! Woo hoo!

[El Cid]

Yep. I like to camp from the vents and engage people in the cargo bay, and the presence of opponents dropping into the vents complicates the matter. So whenever I get killed and take a pod back to the vents, I make sure to land on transports on the upper deck when I see them. It noticeably cuts down on the problem.

Of course, I always leave the transports on the lower deck intact. I wouldn't want to decrease my rate of kills.

[Warhawk]

This can be risky, though. I've did in the process a few times.

[InfernO-iL]

I used to use this method in the demo, I got LOADS of knife kills with it :D

[(Undecided)]

I have used the launch-twist-SMASH! tactic before on transports with much sucess. The only problem is that you are then surounded by a bunch of thorougly cheesed assualt troops. :(

[tdpatriots12]

I spent the last 4 minutes of a hopeless round (Terrible team, wasnt playing too well myself) Pod'n off my Titan and onto a...

...wait for it...

...walker.

Funny once or twice. But as an assault class I'm pretty much useless against them. Managed to hold it in one spot for the rest of the round by podding onto its head, and shooting it with my pistol. He got wise, manned the anti-air gun, so I dropped down and machine gunned the vent. Finally got a friend of his in another vehicle to shoot me.

Repeat this about 6 or 7 times. Never did kill it, but it was fun.

[grifterec]

I just had the coolest round. So it is titan mode near the end of the map. I like to use the titan pods to assault positions and there was an area being taken within range of my pod. So i jump out and start steering that way, right before i land i hit a Gunship with 2 guys in it. They die i bounce to the ground. I land and there is a guy running to a jeep, i shoot the jeep and the guy bails, he tries shooting me but i knife him. Much more fun ensued, but that is the part that relates here.

[rocqua]

yeah the pods are excellent weapons against transports and infantry (if you can hit them) also if you hit a tank or apc with it it will take about 30 hp

[steelfallenangel]

In the beta if I can recall you could kill a tank or apc instantly if you podded from the titan onto them

[DarQraven]

Yeah, somehow vehicles top sides are still weak spots. The pod method is awesome .. if you manage to escape, but for tanks and walkers there is no way you'll ever kill them. And podding on top of a jeep .. come on. If you can do that, you need to go outside A LOT more ;)

However, something that is pretty awesome to do, and easy too (when the situation allows it), is killing other jeeps "mario style".
I discovered this by accident: drove over a hill with boost on, went flying, and landed on top of another car charging at me. Instakill.
Somehow the top is weaker than the bottom.
I still have to confirm this though, haven't tried doing it 'scientifically'.

You should have heard the reaction of the pwnee... awesome;)
He suggested I had some kind of jeep-jumping-autoaim thingamajig ^^

[comfortably_numb]

Last night I piloted my pod to land on top of an enemy walker. He was shooting away at everyone and I took my RDX, planted four on his head and jumped off, ran away and blew him up. Everyone who was watching laughed, it was pretty funny. I've also killed a transport as described above with a pod, but there was no one in it and it was a mistake :(

[hirschce]

took out a transport with 7 ppl in it :) they tried to quick attack first silo, i am not sure if someone had larede podded or attacked it but it blew up as soon as i hit it. shame i died.

[El Cid]

Has anyone figured out if there's a correlation between where on the transport you land and how long you have before the Explosion o' Doom? Or is it random?

[CondorActual]

I had a terrible one today. At the start of a round on maps that a silo is accessible by pod, I usually use one to get a jump start on things. So today on Verdun, I pod to the first silo. In the process a dude in a jet flies into my pod, causing immediate destruction to his craft, none to mine. Then, he punishes me, as if I had as much control in the situation as he did. Meh.

[HighDef8Bit]

I nearly podded into a flying assault chopper earlier. Missed by a meter or two tops; I'm sure it's happened though.

[Diamond621]

Another way to quickly 'neutralize' choppers on your Titan deck if for some reason you cannot destroy them (botched pod-drop or whatnot) is to simply enter them, and exit them. This switches the vehicle's IFF to your team's, and the enemy can no longer use it as a spawn point.

While it's certainly more efficient to destroy the chopper, this can work as a brief stop-gap measure and is worth mentioning.

[hirschce]

even betta one, land ur own passenger one on the top bit with anti aircraft guns, get in passenger gun :) nail em as they land and try to run to vents

[AmmoMuffin]

Last night I piloted my pod to land on top of an enemy walker. He was shooting away at everyone and I took my RDX, planted four on his head and jumped off, ran away and blew him up. Everyone who was watching laughed, it was pretty funny. I've also killed a transport as described above with a pod, but there was no one in it and it was a mistake :(
lol nice. but how did you kill a transport? it isnt living!!!!!!!!!! :laugh: lol