I didn ' t look closely at the actual income provided by the ports for elves could be different than tier 1 human ports , but Darren said he had ~ 7 ports and his income went up by about 7500 when he researched the tech , which leads me to believe that it ' s definitely worthwhile . <| sep |> Fuck it . I don ' t want a game , but I sure as hell want to tell stories . Alright let ' s set the stage here . I ' m not gonna tell you my original Origin handle , but you ' ll have to trust me when I say that I ' m . inordinately good at titanfall . The original titanfall . Don ' t have titanfall 2 yet , but that ' ll come with time . So here ' s the deal . If you ' ve ever played TF , you ' ll know that the map Boneyard is a bit unique in the sense that it primarily consists of open , titan friendly space . You ' ll also know that it has a lot of smaller bunker type buildings , and some larger turrets spaced around the map for crowd control , forcing pilots to utilize mobility instead of just running across the open ground . It should also be noted that I ' m currently the best shotgunner in the game , and have held this position for over a year and a half . I ' m in the top twenty for every other weapon in the game as well , besides the smart pistol . So the stage is set . The lights are on . The match is about to begin . I haven ' t played flanker in a while , and I wasn ' t really feeling like I wanted to challenge myself , so I chose my best loadouts and dropped down into the Boneyard . As flanker , there are some things you have to understand to cover your role . Almost always , you ' re the last person to make contact with the enemy . Your job is to provide support by flushing grunts and pilots towards your main squad , and to take the knee for the team whenever possible . In theory , you almost never get points for kills , only assists . As a flanker , high damage , non sustain weapons are ideal . If you can burst quick enough , you can scare them into a specific line of fire . Or , if you ' re good enough , you can just take the other pilot in a duel . I ' m currently the second best flanker in the game . Now , as usual , the match started with the rest of my team running down through the main space to engage the enemy squad as a unit . Not a cluster , but a group . The idea was to pour in around them from all sides . I ran off towards some of the smaller bunkers to try and cut off their escape routes . What I didn ' t expect was for the entire enemy team to be following their flank in close proximity . For the first time in my entire titanfall career , I made first contact as flanker , and my entire reality shattered in less than a second . My plan was shot to shit . All I had was a shotgun , and I could already see three riflemen and two SMG flankers running down the wall towards me . I assumed they had satchels behind them , so stimming up and running through wasn ' t an option . Turning and running would get me killed as well , as their weapons had significantly longer range than my primary . I would be gunned down to a pulp in a second or less . My only option was to fight all six of them . At once . At midrange . With a shotgun and a B 3 wingman . Fuck . It ' s times like these that I regret being so invested in a game like titanfall . I may be good , but goddamn , there wasn ' t a person in the world who could have pulled it off . At this point you ' re probably expecting a brave tale of heroism , of a dashing pilot who defeated the enemy team alone against all odds , who went in guns blazing and came out of the bunker soaked in the blood of his enemies , victorious and enraged with bloodlust . I ' m sorry , but that ' s not what this story is about . This isn ' t a story about heroes . It ' s a story about petty revenge enacted on high level players who forgot what it was like to deal with someone who didn ' t care if they lost . Here ' s what happened . I pull out my revolver . I shoot down one enemy . I throw an arc grenade , dodging and wallrunning like my life depended on it . I was on fire . I was spinning , shooting , screaming , all at once . I was going to do this . I could do this . I pull out my shotgun and fire off a single shot towards a riflemen . And immediately get sprayed down by the five remaining people on their team . The rest of my team was soon after picked off , one by one , and forty five seconds later , every heavy turret in the game had been taken , and half the enemy team was sitting pretty in Atlases . At this point , I ' m doing everything I can not to lose my cool . I was running my best loadout , with a damn good team . What the hell was going on ? How the HELL did we lose so quickly ? What did we do wrong ? Then it hit me . In titanfall , there ' s a strong discouragement to stick together as a cluster , as a unit . There ' s no friendly fire , but explosives are powerful , and titans can make quick work of a group . But this one team used it , somehow , to their advantage . They stimmed up and moved out as a single unit , picking off my team one pilot at a time , with an incredible prescience of strategy and precision . So I figured , hey , fuck it . They ' re better than us . They actually beat us , fair and square . But the match ain ' t over , and even if we can ' t pull this back completely , we sure as hell can make their life a living hell for fifteen minutes and thirty six seconds . I asked the team captain to assign two man rotations and then transfer strategic command over to me . He did so , and I filled the rest of the team in on my plan . It was simple . Rotate . Think like mosquitoes . As of now , my team had one objective keep the enemy pilots out of titans . One pair would get the turrets . One pair would work with anti titan weapons . One pair would rodeo and harass like wasps . And when we came in contact with an enemy pilot , deny the kill as quickly as possible . Hold that frag out . Jump out a window . Sidewinder your own face . Whatever you could do , do it fast . And guess what ? Titan kills are worth a hell of a lot more points than pilot kills , or grunt kills or specter kills . And suicide has no negative penalty in titanfall . So we actually . won the match . But hey . At least they all played a perfect round . Not a single one of them was killed . Not even once . The moral of this story is . if you encounter non traditional strategy , counter it with more of the same . That ' s my story . Thanks for listening .