Pilot Rodeo Counter Measure Alternative

Haven't tried this yet but I think instead of using electric smoke as a rodeo defense wouldn't the satchel charge work better? I could just place some around the vulnerable spot of my Titan and at exact the moment that I get boarded by an enemy pilot I'd
hop out and double tap x. Anyone know if this works? If it does I'll probably run with Vortex Shield again.

:)

 

Full Patch notes for today - Everyone should read!

"Fixed Satchel Charges and Particle Walls causing pilots to permanently rodeo other pilots."

lol

 

Invulnerable enemy rodeo pilot

I haven't been playing this game long, but I think I am experiencing a bug. I encounter this on a daily basis. If it is a bug then I hope it's fixed soon. If it's not a bug then I need to know how to replicate/defend what I am seeing!

Here's what's happening: Enemy pilots are occasionally invulnerable when rodeo'ing a titan. I've had this happen to both my titan as well as other titans on my team. I've tried shooting the rodeo'ing enemy pilot with my pilot's primary
and secondary weapon, as a pilot I've tried to jump up and melee kill the enemy, I've shot the enemy pilot with my titan's weapon (when the invulnerable enemy pilot is on an allied titan and not my own), I've shot the enemy pilot with my titan's ordinance,
I've melee attacked the enemy pilot with my titan, I've shot at the enemy pilot with my pilot's anti-titan weapon, and I've tried throwing grenades. I rarely use a loadout with electric smoke so I haven't been able to try that yet. But I have tried everything
else I can think of short of dropping a titan on the allied titan who is being rodeo'ed. I am 100% sure that I am hitting the enemy pilot. I've jumped out of my titan several times and easily killed a pilot who is rodeo'ing my titan using my pilot's primary
weapon. But there are times when the enemy pilot simply cannot be damaged. Once when this was happening to an allied titan myself and another ally who were both in titans tried to shoot off and melee kill the enemy pilot over and over. So, I know it's not
an issue with only me.

What in the world is going on here? I've looked for known bugs involving rodeos, but I cannot find anything like what I am experiencing And this happens A LOT! It's very annoying to drop a titan only to have it easily destroyed by an invulnerable enemy
pilot. Can anyone shed some light on what is happening?

 

Tried this way back, found the satchel charge to disappear after you go for a walk in the titan.

 

That sounds like an interesting idea but wouldn't the bomb disappear when you get in a titan?

 

If I'm not running electric smoke what I do as a rodeo defense is exit the Titan and throw a sat charge at the pilot. This method has yet to fail me

 

^That's what I do as well, never failed yet. And basically what happens if you place the the satchel on your titan, it doesn't disappear what happens is the first time you get into a fight with another titan it will explode the first time he shoots you,
and it actually damages your titan a little bit

 

I tried this with two charges and ended up depleting my shields once someone shot me.

 

Hmm I'm kind of disappointed but I guess its balances the game out if you're not able to get easy kills that way. The satchel charge seems to work well when you use it to doom other titans. I thought I could use it in a defense way.

 

Crouch and look down. Then when you see the "rodeo" icon disappear, dash backwards a couple times and find the cowboy, then shoot him. Works most of the time. Sometimes people don't fall for it, or are smart enough to cloak and get to higher ground.

 

A few more ways to counter rodeos:

Get out of the titan, cloak, and walk to the side, never walk straight back or be predicable, and shoot them or satchel charge them.

Shoot a cluster rocket at the wall, and turn your back into it, it will kill the rodeoer.

Get someone else to kill them.

Disploy smoke and kneel, if they jump off simple dash out of the way, and turn round and shoot them in the titan.

 

I think they should throw some added utility on particle wall. My idea is that if you are being rodeod and walk through it, it either knocks the pilot off, or messes up their HUD like an arc grenade. I just feel like Particle Wall is too easy to work around,
90% of the time someone uses it on me, I just move into cover until it disappears, or dash around it. Too often I end up using people particle walls against them. This would give it a nice benefit, and by making it a non-damage, utility only move i don't think
it would throw balance out of whack.

 

I actually love when people use the P-Wall. They think they're perfectly safe behind it until I dash through it and Big Punch their shields away. In my opinion Enemy Titans shouldn't be able to cross through the barrier.

 

I think If the particle wall was made solid so titans couldn't get through it would make the maps unbalanced.

You would end up with titans putting out their particle walls and blocking pathway's,

Then picking off pilots and titans that are trying to take the wall down.

 

Particle wall is something I used for about 5 minutes. Too easy to negate. As someone else pointed out, you can simply run through it and punch them. Personally, I use cluster missiles on all my titans, so all you have to do is aim for a spot on the ground,
just to the left / right and behind their particle wall and fire a cluster missile. I've never failed to get hit markers that way.