Detailed instructions on how to get the Troop Transport pin/Titan drops

[Howpathetic]

Detailed instructions on how to get the Troop Transport pin/Titan drops

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/16/trooptransportpingb3.jpg

Requirements of Titan drops/Troop transport pin.

The enemy titan shields must be down.
The occupants (people being dropped) must spawn outside 500 meters from the enemy titan.
If they spawn inside the 500 meter range, they must be air transported 500 meters to the titan, you must travel outside the 500 meter range with them in the transport.
When they drop out of your air transport onto the Titan you must be less than 100 meters above the titan deck the podders are dropping too.(typical Titan height on most maps is about 150 meters high/altitude)
They must land on the titan in a drop pod from an Air transport.
They must land on the rear deck honeycomb looking deck or between it to get the point (in the green zone picture below)Landing in the red zone will produce no point or the air vehicle shield. Occasionally you will follow all the requirements and get no point, this is why or they missed the titan.
If they die in the drop you get no point

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/5507/landingzonestc8.jpg


When you get a point for the titan drop you will see “You got a driver ability assist”. (You will also see this same message when some one is healed or resupplied while in your transport, this one will not count toward the troop transport pin)


http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/2536/driverassistsga2.jpg


Okay now for the how to part with out dying:

First off, if you can steal an enemy Air transport, the enemy Titan AA guns will be less likely to shoot their own air transport. By the time they realize you’re not on their team it’s to late.(To aquire and enemy transport, look on your own titans rear deck, or get one from a silo when they land) If you can’t get an enemy transport use your own, I earned three in a row with an enemy transport, so it’s preferred. Be a squad leader and select the enemy titan as the area you are going to attack. Full servers on Suez Canal & Sidi power plant with non moving titans work best.

Also remember, if they have a good titan gun defence, you will be the only way they can get on the titan(if you follow these directions)

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/2880/3pinswk7.jpg

Acquire a transport, if you can and have it, put an engineer sonar on the transport to detect gunships, so you know when not to dive. Approach their titan on the far outside edges of the map sides while gaining altitude(don't fly in the middle of the map, you will be gunship target practice) Picture below is an example of my typical flight path.

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/7951/flightpathtotitanov1.jpg

Climb to an altitude of about 320 meters or higher; fly back and forth close to their titan rear deck at the edge of the map(at 320 meters altitude or higher). Make note of where you are on the map when your 500 meters away from the enemy titan on both sides, use a land mark and fly to this same point each time as part of your flight path while waiting for spawners. The picture below is an example of my flight path while waiting for spawners.

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/2920/mapmy3.jpg

Flying back and forth(at 320 meters altitude or higher) will cause people to spawn on you(flying close to the enemy titan), when they click to spawn, by the time they do actually spawn your about 500 meters away. Also remember that when they spawn, their last spawn selection will be the same unless they change it. This will be you as long as you have not died, or traveled outside the out of bounds("where are you going soldier, get back in the fight"). Remeber also there are two out of bounds, gound vehicle/troops out of bounds, and air vehicle out of bounds(air vehicle bounds is always larger then grounds). No one can spawn on your transport if your out of bounds for the ground vehicles/troops. Even if you in bounds for air vehicles, they cannot spawn on you. Thus the spawn point disapears and no one spawns on you.

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1995/speeduq9.jpg

You will most likely not be seen by the enemy titan AA guns due to fog/cloud cover. When someone spawns in your transport, continue until you get to your 500 meter mark then head towards the far rear of the enemy titan(staying at 320 meter altitude or higher) when you reach 250 - 300 meters distance to the enemy titan, put your air transport into a steep dive, AKA dive bombing, when you get to the rear of the enemy titan(100 meters or lower off their rear deck, remember the higher deck is higher then the lower one, so they can pod out at 100 meters off the higher deck) start honking your horn(this way they know to bail out) you should be traveling at 600-700ckop(speed).

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/7653/distancecf0.jpg

Start leveling out and fly away at about 50-80 meters altitude to avoid titan AA guns, (if the AA guns are not manned you won't need to do this, thus your climb time back to 300 plus meters time will be shorter, lower alltitudes making you visable to ground AA and other enemy vehicles, gunship, SAAW, etc, you have to decide which is best for you) keep going past (if applicable) and below the enemy titans altitude (normally about 150 meters high) and when your 400 meters away (out of the enemy AA guns range), start climbing back to 350 meters. By dive bombing(buzzing) the enemy titan, the titan AA guns will only be able to do about 30% damage to your transport by the time they see you, if they even see you! Usaully all they see is you wizz by and your gone. If you do get damaged, fly to a landing pad owned by your team for repairs, if you repair the vehicle yourself, more then likely someone will spawn in it and take off leaving you in the dust.


http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/658/divepatternxv4.jpg

You can actually be less then 500 meters if your diving from a high altitude, the descent distance is also included into the 500 meters(which is about 80 meters if you dive from 350 to 200). But better to travel 500 meters away and come back, better safe then sorry.

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6143/airribbonnk6.jpg

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/7643/pinsearned1ek7.jpg

Good Luck, any questions ask, I have earned a dozen of these(troop transport pin) so far.

Video of how to do it, I'm a child of the 80's!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH0YFlBZKnU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH0YFlBZKnU)

={OGC}= Renuzit

FYI, today I played a difficult titan defence while working on gunship kills, I found that by Dropping teamates from a gunship since it is faster, that I got the Pin( “You got a driver ability assist”)accidentally. So by following the same distance guidlines, using a gunship you can accomplishe the same goal, Goodluck!

[RMcLeod]

Nice guide.

Maybe a nice admin can move it to the tips and tricks section?

[Minmaster]

this has got to be the most annoying award out there. once i got all my medals/ribbons associated with titan drops, i never went for it again.

[pilvlp]

If they spawn inside the 500 meter range, they must be air transported 500 meters to the titan, or you must travel outside the 500 meter range with them in the transport.

So does this mean, to get a titan air drop, you have to be at least 500 meters away from the opposing titan?

[Minmaster]

of course, how else would you get them to spawn outside the 500m range, silly?

[pilvlp]

I just don't get how you get the pin. :S I've been like 600 feet in the air, and still no driver points.

[Dtneter]

i got almost every ribbon, badge, and medal i only need to have the silver and gold anti air thing, the titan airdrop ofcourse and the 2.0 win loss and the 2 kill medals for gunship and tank i guess.

btw this thread needs a sticky

[Howpathetic]

I just don't get how you get the pin. :S I've been like 600 feet in the air, and still no driver points.


You need to travel 500 meters horizontaly(side to side) and be under 100 meters from the deck of the enemy titan. If the titans altitude is 150 meters, when they pod out, you must be lower then 250 meters, but obvioulsy over 150 meters or you will crash.

[Howpathetic]

If they spawn inside the 500 meter range, they must be air transported 500 meters to the titan, or you must travel outside the 500 meter range with them in the transport.

So does this mean, to get a titan air drop, you have to be at least 500 meters away from the opposing titan?

Thye have to spawn outside the 500 meter range, you must drop them less the a 100 meters away from the enemy titan.

[K3Y]

This pin is near impossible to get if there is a skilled gunner on the Titan AA guns.

[Howpathetic]

This pin is near impossible to get if there is a skilled gunner on the Titan AA guns.

At 320 meters altitude, the fog will conceal you, when you dive bomb your speed will be 700ckop, you will only be in range of the guns for 1-3 seconds. I have earned about a dozen of these by doing this, I have never been shot down by a saaw or the titan AA guns. Only a gunship that chased me has shot me down.

[tuco]

This pin is near impossible to get if there is a skilled gunner on the Titan AA guns.
i just go in low and rise just high enough to land on the rear lower deck. the titan AA cant hit you? skilled or not.
however if i see a transport coming in to my titan, i pod on it.:nerr:

[Porthos]

i just go in low and rise just high enough to land on the rear lower deck. the titan AA cant hit you? skilled or not.
however if i see a transport coming in to my titan, i pod on it.:nerr:

That's good for landing on the Titan, but the OP was giving tips on how to get the Troop Transporter pin, and it has some pretty specific requirements on distance, which I never new.

Thanks for the guide Howpathetic (that just doesn't sound right:laugh:)

[Howpathetic]

Porthos,
I find my name lures them into a false sense of security. Kinda like a wounded animal that jumps up and rips your head off. Plus it looks funny when they kill me or I them.

John Smith kills(B-2 combat knife) Howpathetic

Howpathetic kills(B-2 combat knife) John Smith

Tuco,
If you can kill me with a Titan AA gun, or with a pod while I'm trying to do the above, I'll give you $20. Screen shot required!

[kr1kit]

this is by far the most complicated award possible

[Howpathetic]

this is by far the most complicated award possible

Actually its very easy, the problem is knowing how to do it(the requirements). 25 air transport hours later and several hours on google, I finally figured it out. But I think its the honorable thing to do is share what I found with everyone.

You want complicated try getting the anti air gold badge(non stat padded) or the war college ribbon.

By the way, if this guide helps anyone, please take a screen shot of your troop transport pin and post it, I would like to know my little help guide benifited someone.

[RottnJP]

Yeah, the "dive bomb" tactic works remarkably well for pod delivery- actually a lot safer for the pod-ees, too, than the average pilot trying to land under the AA. I'm still working towards the 25 hours, though. I tend to flare a bit to give the special kids time to realize it's time to say bye bye. On occasion I die before getting dive speed back up and escaping, but not too often.

[K3Y]

i just go in low and rise just high enough to land on the rear lower deck. the titan AA cant hit you? skilled or not.
however if i see a transport coming in to my titan, i pod on it.:nerr:
Yeah ... you're right, that's the only way to avoid the AA guns, but to my knowledge you can't earn the Troop Transporter Pin by doing it.

[dontsh000t]

woah thats a lotta requirements. this is a stupid pin ><

[Minmaster]

anyone who has more than 10 of these pins gotta be ones who took advantage of the exploit in the early days. this is one of the hardest of all pins to get. either that or you are a seriously dedicated and patient transport pilot going solely for titan drops. maybe i'll try to get more of these pins one day.

[Howpathetic]

anyone who has more than 10 of these pins gotta be ones who took advantage of the exploit in the early days. this is one of the hardest of all pins to get. either that or you are a seriously dedicated and patient transport pilot going solely for titan drops. maybe i'll try to get more of these pins one day.


I earned my first one on 9/25/07, I had to have 25 hours in a transport and 50 hours in an air vehicle to get my gold air badge, air transport ribbon and air transport medal, why waste the time? By the way, every one that ever flys with me while I'm flying the transport until the sheilds go down, says I'm the best transport pilot they have ever flown with. Personally I think I'm one of the better ones, not the best though. Here's how many I have eraned below as of today.

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/7643/pinsearned1ek7.jpg

[bravespear]

This pin is near impossible to get if there is a skilled gunner on the Titan AA guns.

You mean a retarded duck on qualudes? I don't think you need much more skill than that in the Titan AA guns.

[RottnJP]

LMAO

Actually I have been spending a fair bit of time in the transport lately to get to the 25 hour mark, and you'd be amazed how few titan AA gunners look *up.* Everyone is so used to the morons who fly right across from titan to titan right near the horizon altitude, basically. Get above the fog before diving in, as described, and you die very very rarely on the inbound trip. As I mentioned, if I flare to give the podders more time I sometimes die before I can get speed back and dive below the AA's arc. But if you have podders who are on the ball and you follow the dive profile described by the OP, your chances of survival are actually quite good.

The most annoying thing is the passengers who spam "Move it!" at you while you are climbing back up for another run. I've even had a moron start a kick vote while I was climbing because he thought I wasn't taking him to the titan... :rolleyes:

[bravespear]

The most annoying thing is the passengers who spam "Move it!" at you while you are climbing back up for another run. I've even had a moron start a kick vote while I was climbing because he thought I wasn't taking him to the titan... :rolleyes:

I just had a *brilliant* idea! DICE needs to install an eject button for the transport pilot to push for each gunner seat. Someone starts spamming "Move it/Forward/etc" just press their eject button and force pod them somewhere. Maybe in the loooooong, empty expanse of nowhere on Shuhia Taiba.

[Howpathetic]

I just had a *brilliant* idea! DICE needs to install an eject button for the transport pilot to push for each gunner seat. Someone starts spamming "Move it/Forward/etc" just press their eject button and force pod them somewhere. Maybe in the loooooong, empty expanse of nowhere on Shuhia Taiba.

ROFL!

I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THAT!

Better yet, in a out of bounds for ground troops/vehicle where they have 16 seconds to get back in bounds or be punished!

[Quemical]

Thanks for sharing and making a great guide. It's going to be a year and i still don't have one of these stupid pins. I tried to drop off ppl a few hrs ago but no one would spawn on my transporter, and when they did, i failed to deliver.

What's the quickest way to gain altitude? I tip the nose up for a while but i don't go anywhere except backwards a little, i don't want to make my passengers impatient

[RottnJP]

Unfortunately the air transports are flippin' pigs, at least in terms of climb rate (and most traditional maneuvers. The only thing that save's 'em is you can do some funky backslide -> side-slip maneuvers that will often lose a mediocre or worse gunship pilot. A good pilot will still find you pretty quick and seal the deal unless you have a good door-gunner or SAAW-user on-board) So yeah, you nose up a little and hope for fighter cover. :D

[Howpathetic]

As requested heres a video clip:

Video on how to do it by me, I'm a child of the 80's!
YouTube - Troop Transport pin/Titan Air drops (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH0YFlBZKnU)

[Quemical]

It works, here it is.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v150/TwiztidHomie/BF2142/screen030.jpg

Thanks for the detailed guide.

[Howpathetic]

It works, here it is.
Thanks for the detailed guide.

Quemical, I'm glad it worked for you now get the rest of the transport medals and ribbon and you never have to worry about them!

[Quemical]

I got the transport air ribbon prematurely for some odd reason. I still need about 7 hrs more to get to 25 in order to qualify for the medal. I'm having fun getting these pins that seemed so impossible before. It helps my team alot always having a spawn point near the titan.

I already got my first tard talking crap. He said "We got a moron driving a transporter in the middle of nowhere for some reason" So i kindly replied "It's to make dropoffs you JACKASS" "If you don't like it don't spawn on me again" :)

[Howpathetic]

I got my air trasnport ribbon prematurely as well(16 hrs), but I didn't mention it cuz I wasn't sure if it was a glitch/error. But the medal did take 25 hours.

As far as idiots(noobs), I got that alot too, inculding kick votes, one time a succesful kick vote while I was flying with a full load, and they all died. I came back in and explained they could thank the guy that started the kick vote for that, so they kicked him.

Just remember that if the enemy has a good titan defense, your the only way they are going to get on the enemy titan.

I noticed you didn't take any damage, did you die anytimes or did the AA guns even try to shoot you down?

[Quemical]

As far as idiots(noobs), I got that alot too, inculding kick votes, one time a succesful kick vote while I was flying with a full load, and they all died. I came back in and explained they could thank the guy that started the kick vote for that, so they kicked him.

I noticed you didn't take any damage, did you die anytimes or did the AA guns even try to shoot you down?

That's funny :laugh: I always type what i am doing now. But i'm not sure if it's a good idea because if someone team switches they will know what's up. I just type something like "I'm ready to make drop offs" As soon as the shields go down. Some rounds are busier than others.

On that round i died once by gunship and that was about it. No AA guns were shooting at me. Sometimes i have luck with that, other times i don't. Right now i just got 2 more pins, ocassionaly the gunship would see me after diving in for the dropoffs, but after that he was out of there.

Yesterday i got hit by the AA guns and it drained me to about 40% on the first drop off, but went on to get 2 pins with that health till the end of the round. I almost got a third one but fell about 1 or 2 short :(

[Luv2Killu]

anyone who has more than 10 of these pins gotta be ones who took advantage of the exploit in the early days.

Does anybody know exactly when this exploit was fixed?

[Quemical]

I think it was with Patch 1.10

[Luv2Killu]

Thank you.

Was that about a year ago?

[Ezekiel]

Just looked it up on the web and came across a site that says the troop transport glitch was fixed with patch 1.05 which was released on 15/11/2006

http://*************************/2006_11_19_archive.html

Lol the buggers don't allow their site to be linked.

[Luv2Killu]

Well in that case you did amazingly well to get so many ezekiel.

Well done.

Although they are quite easy to get once you know how to do it.

Got a name for that site?

[Ezekiel]

its on the homepage, it is one of the only sites that tells you when you type in troop transport pin fix it brings that up, and seen as though i wanted to know what patch fixed it and it said i checked it.

I used to always play Titan when i got it, even though titan is crap, but wanted to get all my pins/badges attached to it, but yea as you say they ain't that hard really

[Luv2Killu]

I just did a little research into the release date of the patch 1.05 that fixed this exploit and on 3 different sites it gives the release date as 21st november 2006. That's a full 6 days difference from the date you found.

Weird.

I did a search by typing in this...

release date patch 1.05 BF2142.

[Ezekiel]

maybe 15th is from when they beta it i dunno just seen that

[bravespear]

Quemical, I'm glad it worked for you now get the rest of the transport medals and ribbon and you never have to worry about them!

Nice I'll have to give that a try one day. Nice vid.

[Luv2Killu]

B.T.W Howpathetic, very good thread and a good video to show you how to get the pin. A bit grainy but youtube always is.

Excellent work soldier, you deserve a medal.

[RottnJP]

...
Yesterday i got hit by the AA guns and it drained me to about 40% on the first drop off, but went on to get 2 pins with that health till the end of the round. I almost got a third one but fell about 1 or 2 short :(

What server are you doing this on? The places I've been playing lately it seems like there's always a squad leader putting a beacon down that the defenders don't clean off, and the pod-ee's dry up after the first drop or two. But, I also am not that persistent about doing the drop thing, either.

I'm getting close to the magic 25 hour point, though, so if you see me flying a transport around, spawn in and pod! :D

[Howpathetic]

What server are you doing this on? The places I've been playing lately it seems like there's always a squad leader putting a beacon down that the defenders don't clean off, and the pod-ee's dry up after the first drop or two. But, I also am not that persistent about doing the drop thing, either.

I'm getting close to the magic 25 hour point, though, so if you see me flying a transport around, spawn in and pod! :D


I have earned mine on Cains & Bro titan servers, the sqaud beacons can be destroyed on those severs, Merlincats they can't be. Maybe we should all team up and help each other, only when you get to the 25 hour mark though, I would be happy to help since I have mine now.

The coalition to get the troup transport pin/medal/ribbon.

If you do add me to your buddy list as "Renuzit" and be sure you put a message that says "troop transport ribbon help" otherwise I might ignore it. And I will only help if you have 25 hours. I encourage all others as well. But if we're on opposite teams, beware, I need 30 AA kills still(the real reason I wrote the post, muhahahaha!), and I'm really good with titan AA, and I know the stradegy, LOL.

[Quemical]

I just did a little research into the release date of the patch 1.05 that fixed this exploit and on 3 different sites it gives the release date as 21st november 2006. That's a full 6 days difference from the date you found.

Weird.

I did a search by typing in this...

release date patch 1.05 BF2142.

1.05 was released on the 21st, because my first survival pin was awarded that day and i clearly remember getting it the 1st day the pin was available :D

What server are you doing this on? The places I've been playing lately it seems like there's always a squad leader putting a beacon down that the defenders don't clean off, and the pod-ee's dry up after the first drop or two. But, I also am not that persistent about doing the drop thing, either.

I'm getting close to the magic 25 hour point, though, so if you see me flying a transport around, spawn in and pod! :D

Cain's Lair is perfect because they only play Sidi Power Plant and Suez Canal. I got 3 pins today playing a 24/7 48 man Suez Server

[Luv2Killu]

1.05 was released on the 21st, because my first survival pin was awarded that day and i clearly remember getting it the 1st day the pin was available :D


Yes that's the same date that i found as well, cheers mate.

Funny how ezekial found a different date isn't it.

[Quemical]

I for sure thought it was 1.10. It means they fixed 2 exploits in that patch. The titan guns ressuply and the transport exploit. All this in the first month of play

[Luv2Killu]

Yeah it's a lot of work to put into a game that was only a month old.

Imagine how many drop pins people would have had if they had of left it any longer.

[Quemical]

Nice sig, lol

[Ezekiel]

i found it the 15th cos thats what it said on that site, so am guessing thats when they brought the beta out i dunno, point of the matter is you have a quote claiming i abused the transport pin yet my last one earned is 2 weeks after the exploit was fixed and my first earned was a week before so i managed to get 43 in 3 weeks, easy could get 10-15 a day if you want.

[Minmaster]

you can easily get 10-15 of these a day? yea maybe by piloting the transport 24 hrs a day...:rolleyes:

[Luv2Killu]

point of the matter is you have a quote claiming i abused the transport pin

I make no such claim, all i show is your amazing transport stat's so don't tell lies.

You're paranoid dude, relax, take a deep breath and hold it for an hour.

[TheDesert_Fox]

Wow Eze, at the rate you claim to be able to get them, and your past stat padding, oops, transport skill, it's surprising no one made you Supreme Commander yet.

[pilvlp]

Finally. I understand how to do it now. I'm going to try it in a bit.

[Ezekiel]

You can get at least 1 a round if you want, all you do is sit in your hanger wait for a couple of people to hop in, take em to their transport, rinse and repeat.

iluv2killu you are Sarge so i'm sure that made you cry, we know how upset you get about this.

And desertfox show me one time i have stat padded, go on find one scrap of illegal evidence........ i will happily wipe my stats if you do.

[Luv2Killu]

You are wrong, one day i may tell you who i am and then it will be you that is crying because you may then realise how moronic you sound when you keep insisting that i am sarge.

Although i don't mind you thinking i'm sarge at all though because he is a decent kinda guy and unlike some i could mention knows when to talk and when not to.

Please try to keep this thread on topic ezekiel, it's not fair on Howpathetic that you try to ruin it. Or are you trying to do just that?

[Ezekiel]

Your the one who took it off topic with accusations but end of day you accuse people of things cos you envy them, hence the reason you slag Crosland/Me/INF-UK because you envy us all.

[Luv2Killu]

I have not accused you of anything in this thread, reread it without the paranoia.

You are an expert in the field of transport pins.

And i do not and never will envy liars. I can see what you're doing here and maybe you will succeed in getting these posts pruned but at the end of the day the accusations are all in your head.

Now be a good boy and keep the thread on topic.

[Ezekiel]

Just remember every post you make you are taking it off topic, so therefore are contradicting yourself, i ain't a liar, no more than you anyway Sarge. If you want it to stay on topic don't post back, be the "bigger" man. (obviously i mean theoretically cos we all know he really is literally, i mean 20 stone bigger lol)

EDIT

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/daylfc/TroopTransporterPin.jpg

see first round and i got, joining near the end as well, the following round i was bout to get one, and could of made another 2 with time left but server crashed lol

[Reaper]

Hey Ezekiel! I remember you! long time no see man! youre a great pilot man, but a lil crazy i think, kept telling me to switch to the other gun to shoot down some transport but I just couldnt find the b*st*rd!! I mustve switched guns bout fifty times b4 I got sick of bossy pilots and decided to invade the titan instead, but I cant really say sh*t cos he had an awesome score that round!! anywho didnt really bother reading this thread, whats with all the flak on poor eze?

[Luv2Killu]

I love that you felt the need to go and get another pin eze'.

Well done.

[Reaper]

43 pins earned?? is that accurate?? isnt that ....ummm padding?

[Porthos]

43 pins earned?? is that accurate?? isnt that ....ummm padding?

Not if you play for a long time. Some people have over 2000 combat efficiency pins. I only have over 100 though.

[Luv2Killu]

Not if you play for a long time. Some people have over 2000 combat efficiency pins.

Did they get all those pins in only 7 hours though?

[ohsosharp]

Did they get all those pins in only 7 hours though?

give it up man it's old and it's boring:shakehead:

[Porthos]

Did they get all those pins in only 7 hours though?


Ummmm.... yeah... they did.:laugh: Come on, think about what you just asked. I was refering to some BG's that have been playing for A LONG TIME. Does 7 hours qualify for a long time?:shakehead:

[Luv2Killu]

Ummmm.... yeah... they did.:laugh: Come on, think about what you just asked. I was refering to some BG's that have been playing for A LONG TIME. Does 7 hours qualify for a long time?:shakehead:

You think about it mate, i know what i'm saying.

[Ezekiel]

i got another pin to show you how easy they are to get.

[Quemical]

Not if you play for a long time. Some people have over 2000 combat efficiency pins. I only have over 100 though.

YUP, i got 2000 of them. :D

I don't know how it would be possible to pad dropping ppl off.....

Anyway, i really doubt Ezekiel took part in that transporter glitch, didn't the glitch make you get a ridiculous round score in the thousands? From what i see his best score is 200. So it's just best to stop ruining multiple threads with this argument

[BluebaronX]

Ok so back on topic......

I know i still need to practice in the transport some more but does anyone else have some good tips at getting this pin cause all arguments aside you all seem to be pretty decent at it.

[RottnJP]

Ok so back on topic......

I know i still need to practice in the transport some more but does anyone else have some good tips at getting this pin cause all arguments aside you all seem to be pretty decent at it.

Yeah, if you ignore the last three pages, the first couple of pages show you exactly how. There are two basic trajectories- Start high (300+m), dive over and then past Titan as shown on page 1. Safer because it gets you below their AA guns quickly, but takes longer to recycle cuz you have to climb back up all the way. Option two is only slightly modified- start the same, but only dive to about 250 m to make the pod drops, then circle back out to pick up more people. Not as safe from AA, but faster to recycle, and safer from the enemy gunship.

That's it in a nutshell, and OP did a great job of showing you the graphics etc. on the first page or two.

[Howpathetic]

[OF] RottnJp,

Cool, you got all your trasnport medals and ribbons!

[RottnJP]

[OF] RottnJp,

Cool, you got all your trasnport medals and ribbons!

Yup! Turns out 10 is pretty simple, and 15 is really not that much of a reach. The guys on teamspeak where I've been playing weren't even helping out- they make a point of using their SL's beacon. With a friendly squad, or if the defenders are being more careful about clearing beacons off their deck, you could do 15 drops in 5 minutes or less.

Thanks for your help, in any case! (That one night we were on opposite sides & you bailed, I was able to switch after the round, but you were gone! :p)

Next up- Titan attack, and aerial gunnery... :yay:

So now I need to recruit a good pilot who doesn't mind flying for his gunner for a few rounds...

[mybulleturface]

Not if you play for a long time. Some people have over 2000 combat efficiency pins. I only have over 100 though.
i have lke 3638

[RottnJP]

One question: Before the exploit was fixed, you could hover over the titan, let people spawn, 10 of them drop, and you get a pin, right?

If so, you could get pins so ridiculously fast, it wouldn't even be funny. If that was the existing mechanic, and he only got 20-some before it was fixed, meh. That's not exploiting.

Not that I really care, I have no dog in this fight, and frankly Eze's posts here are the ones that seem more emotional & less grown-up. But this b.s. has gotten really silly, and I need to know who to add to my ignore list if y'all don't STFU.

[Scinto]

this will be reopened, if anyone starts that crap again i will ban you for a week,

it was a nice thread until it was trashed.

[Quemical]

One question: Before the exploit was fixed, you could hover over the titan, let people spawn, 10 of them drop, and you get a pin, right?

If so, you could get pins so ridiculously fast, it wouldn't even be funny. If that was the existing mechanic, and he only got 20-some before it was fixed, meh. That's not exploiting.

Not that I really care, I have no dog in this fight, and frankly Eze's posts here are the ones that seem more emotional & less grown-up. But this b.s. has gotten really silly, and I need to know who to add to my ignore list if y'all don't STFU.

The way the exploit work was.....(I'm pretty sure i can say it since it has been fixed) If you were the pilot and hovered over the enemy titan and the passengers would start switching seats (f2,f3,f4, etc) The pilot would get ridiculous scores in the thousands. I saw someone's get a best round score of 16,000 thanks to that. The score would just climb like a stop watch and ever minute or so the pilot would get the drop off pin even if he got killed and was no longer in the transporter.

So the exploit was not as simple as hovering and dropping down, it really had nothing to do with even dropping ppl off.

IF you look at the leaderboards and go in the efficiency category, you will still see guys that exploited and have best round scores in the thousands

[RottnJP]

Right, I know that- But I think the thesis of the whole "discussion" was not that Eze did that (in fact, the best round score shows he didn't) but that getting transport pins could somehow be padding. So if you weren't doing the ridiculous points exploit, but were just legitimately hovering over the titan as a mobile spawn point, you'd get drop pins pretty quickly, right? Since the 500 meter rule hadn't been put in place yet? If so, to me that's legit since you are performing a legit function for the team. (Unlike the old ammo box on the titan guns thing, since that was not helping the team at all, and just racking up the points for the offender.)

Again, just curious on how the game mechanic worked back then.

[Quemical]

I wouldn't consider it padding if someone hovered over the titan and got pins for it. Really hard to pad because your teamates have to die. It's not like the kill and revive pad in which you rack up the kills and the other guy gets the revives without really dying

[{mEr}Psymn1.2lol]

Right, I know that- But I think the thesis of the whole "discussion" was not that Eze did that (in fact, the best round score shows he didn't) but that getting transport pins could somehow be padding. So if you weren't doing the ridiculous points exploit, but were just legitimately hovering over the titan as a mobile spawn point, you'd get drop pins pretty quickly, right? Since the 500 meter rule hadn't been put in place yet? If so, to me that's legit since you are performing a legit function for the team. (Unlike the old ammo box on the titan guns thing, since that was not helping the team at all, and just racking up the points for the offender.)

Again, just curious on how the game mechanic worked back then.

I think the mechanism used to pick up on dropships in the right zone (above the deck o the titan) when seats were emptied (people jump ot). Unfortunalty i think it didnt know the difference between people jumping out and people just swapping seats so as 2 people rantically hit the F keys the points just rolled in. Im not totally sure of this but that seemd to be how it worked...

And best round score doesnt really reflect in itsself the events imo, as others did get pins without the outlandishly huge 8000points per round nonsense. some people only got 340odd or maybe less if they were a little subtle about getting a ew pins :)

Note to scinto. Im not {mEr}Psymn {mEr}Psymn1.1lol mate, im just someone totally unrelated with a similar penchant for phonetics and the same name honest.
O and why hasnt Ezekiel or Xland been banned :/, i got banned or being repettitive, Ezekiel is an obnoxious tool, and croslands threatening people with heart conditions :/

Wonder if your service provider would want to know about it?

[xslaneyx]

you just cant take the hint can you....

you were banned for a reason. your just making yourself look a t1t by coming back... almost desperate :shakehead:

o and i flagged your post so you get banned again a lot quicker. thank you and goodnight

[Luv2Killu]

Great thread Howpathetic, did i already mention that?

[Howpathetic]

Yup! Turns out 10 is pretty simple, and 15 is really not that much of a reach. The guys on teamspeak where I've been playing weren't even helping out- they make a point of using their SL's beacon. With a friendly squad, or if the defenders are being more careful about clearing beacons off their deck, you could do 15 drops in 5 minutes or less.

Thanks for your help, in any case! (That one night we were on opposite sides & you bailed, I was able to switch after the round, but you were gone! :p)

Next up- Titan attack, and aerial gunnery... :yay:

So now I need to recruit a good pilot who doesn't mind flying for his gunner for a few rounds...

BF2142 Crashed after that, big surpirise that it did though, lol.

[BluebaronX]

Great thread, was actually pretty easy to get the troop transporter pin after reading this and of course with a little practice flying. Looks like it may be a bit harder in 1.4 if the pods from a transport just go straight down.

[Howpathetic]

I appreciate all those who have thank'd me for the post, I thank ya'll for acknowledging my work. Above all it's a pin that has difficult conditions so once I figured it out it was only right to share it.

[TrooperJac]

Got my transport pin last night which rounds out my collection. Was suprisingly easy once I knew about the range issue. Got it first attempt.

[BluebaronX]

Yeah i think i got mine on my 2nd or 3rd try simply because the game went too fast. But when the teams got evened out I finally got it.

[[13]VisciousDog]

Tried to get this pin for the past month. Not easy when gunships, and even enemy transports are sitting waiting behind the titan, even when a gunship is always on your six. Then all bullets arriving in all directions from them, specially the enemy titan, I try to keep a level, because the AA on titan can go so low, and the ground guns on titan can go so high. I did all possibilities, even this one many times. The most I can get in a round is 4, but was lucky one game to get six. Then friendlies do not help when they just sit their in the seats not bailing, or no one entering the transport (empty) at all. I notice gravity is different when hovering above the titan. I am still working on the pin. Very, very fustrating.

[Howpathetic]

VisciousDog;1844926']Tried to get this pin for the past month. Not easy when gunships, and even enemy transports are sitting waiting behind the titan, even when a gunship is always on your six. Then all bullets arriving in all directions from them, specially the enemy titan, I try to keep a level, because the AA on titan can go so low, and the ground guns on titan can go so high. I did all possibilities, even this one many times. The most I can get in a round is 4, but was lucky one game to get six. Then friendlies do not help when they just sit their in the seats not bailing, or no one entering the transport (empty) at all. I notice gravity is different when hovering above the titan. I am still working on the pin. Very, very fustrating.

What map where you on? I really recomend suez canal, thats where I have had the best luck, also remeber the altitude, when you above 350 on suez, the fog conceals you, do not fly through the center of the map either, fly on the outside of it. Good luck and let me know if I can help.

[[13]VisciousDog]

All the maps, although I needed one more drop before I could get the pin on suez canal, realizing doing this out balances the game (even when you see another transport doing this). I didn't get the pin, and still waiting. We were starting to lose, so then I end up reading..."My team are retards", and "When can I win for once!".....etc...etc. Then demanding to get silos. We would get silos back in minutes, although I would continue to try this technique. Getting close, although I will keep on trying. I do have this figure out (Fog distance is the key to this), so does the enemy after awhile. They enjoy my return when I have many people on my transport. Will not give up, and Will get one pin. Then I wouldn't care after that.

[Crimeplyr9]

thanks for the info. i like others was confused as to how to get it. After reading your post, (and putting in the 25 hours ahead of time) i got the pin, ribbon, and badge, first try. Use the links below as you wish to prove your method works. It is the least i can do for your help.

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/a8551a053b7adc6da23ab7d2ac838c8bfd1eadb0.jpg (http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/billcrime/ss_file-a8551a053b7adc6da23ab7d2ac838c8bfd1eadb0.jpg)

[[13]VisciousDog]

I finally recieved mine a few days after my reply on this thread. I still try to work on another, but no big deal. Although the more I try, the better I am dropping troops on the titan. Only problem is waiting for troops to be in the transport to be dropped. I find after one drop of about 3...I wait another round, and their is no one. Patients is virtue.