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Time gauntlet

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When used, the Gauntlet allows the user to travel between two timestreams; the present and the past. When transitioning the two timestreams, the stream being "exited" is effectively paused and the stream being "entered" is resumed. Additionally, objects transitioning between timestreams retain their geographic position in relation to the planet they are on (despite the movement of celestial bodies in their orbits), momentum and velocity. This results in users of the Gauntlet being able to, for example, sprint and jump off a ledge in one timestream and then land on a platform that was previously nonexistent in the other timeframe.

It is unknown how the two timestreams to be travelled through are set, as the only known examples are a present-tense timeline and one just prior to the test-firing of the Fold Weapon prototype by ARES Division .

It is likely that the Gauntlet's construction and/ or method of operation is in some way related to that of the Fold Weapon and the Ark ; when the Fold Weapon was initially fired, the Gauntlet appeared to "overload", pausing the timeline for a few minutes. The Gauntlet was then rendered inoperable. When activated, the Gauntlet appears capable of transporting objects near the operator, as humans can travel with their clothing and equipment fully intact and are even capable of transport through time while inside Titans and presumably other vehicles. This effect was observed by Jack Cooper and BT-7274 .

It is possible that the Gauntlet is only capable of operating in areas of high "Temporal Activity" caused by the compression of spacetime in areas such as those near a charging Fold Weapon.

The shoddy, "homebrew" appearance of the Time Gauntlet additionally suggests it was created by IMC scientists based on reverse-engineered technology, as opposed to being a direct creation or recovered artifact.

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The Gauntlet, or the technology to create the Gauntlet, was created/ discovered by the Archaeological Research Division some time before the events of Titanfall 2 . Eventually, the Militia operation known as Operation: Grizzly was conducted by Pilots of the Special Recon Squadron , resulting in recovery of the Gauntlet.

Anderson's unfortunate fate.

In Operation: Broadsword , the Gauntlet was given to Eli Anderson by SRS Commander Sarah Briggs , for use in Special Operation 217 . Upon landing on Typhon , Militia infantry forces were initially supposed to meet up with Anderson to investigate the Fold Weapon test site. However, Anderson instead used the Gauntlet to travel through the facility, recording his findings in a journal. Eventually, he would be engaged by an IMC soldier, activating the Gauntlet just as he fell off a balcony; upon reappearing in the present timeline, his mutilated body would end up stuck halfway through a floor, instantly killing him.

Eventually, the Gauntlet would be recovered by Pilot Jack Cooper from Anderson's corpse. He would then use it to run through the Complex , wiping out IMC Marines in the past and Prowlers in the present with ease - to the utter bewilderment of both parties. Linking back up with BT, he would then engage IMC security and fauna in both timelines, before attempting a last-ditch effort to disrupt the test-firing of the Fold Weapon . On the weapon's firing, the timelines paused for a moment and the Gauntlet was destroyed.

• The Gauntlet's similar method of operation to Phase Shift technology suggests the two have a shared heritage.
• The Gauntlet has an easter egg animation that has a 1:2000 chance of happening when activated.

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6. Titanfall 2 Mission 5: Effect and Cause

Chapter 1: Finding Anderson This missions begins in a particularly interesting fashion. Make your way through the facility until a flying dinosaur kills another dinosaur. It will fly out of the window where you can see a ruined city below. BT is off in the distance and that's your objective, but first look down and a bit to the right and you'll see a pilot helmet against the side of a building. Jump down to the helmet. Across from it is a glass wall you can jump off of to reach Pilot Helmet (1/2) (1/8) (19/46) ( 5:38 ) .

From here, run toward BT. Once you get to the main street, look at the street lights and you'll see a pilot helmet on top. To the left of the light post is a stairway leading up. Walk up this and then turn back to look at the pilot helmet. Wall run to your left to jump over and collect Pilot Helmet (2/2) (2/8) (20/46) ( 5:57 ) .

From here, simply follow the objectives. When enemy Spectres spawn, you can safely run around them since they don't have guns. Finding Anderson's device ends this chapter.

Chapter 2: Searching the Complex Now you can travel through time, which is completely awesome. Use it to enter the next room and you'll see a caged Prowler (dinosaur) in the past. Switch to the present and run into its cage, which should be broken. Once you're inside, switch back to the past and kill it. You'll get an achievement. You can see this done in the video below.

Killed a Caged Prowler in the Wildlife Research Labs

Continue on. As soon as you've crossed a pit of fire, a Prowler will come out of the door on the right in the present. Kill it, then move into the next room. On the bottom floor you'll see four elevators. Your target is the second to the left. Jump down and switch to the present. Guards will come out of the far right elevator and then our target elevator. As soon as they're out, switch in and out of the past to make your way into the elevator. In the present, you will be able to climb through the top of it. In the elevator shaft, there are drones in the past and a Prowler in the present. Up above you floating is a pilot helmet in the past. Kill the drones and then jump back and forth between the walls to move up and collect Pilot Helmet (1/6) (3/8) (21/46) ( 6:13 ) .

Finish moving up the elevator shaft to enter the next area. In the past, open the door and walk in. You'll get to see an old hologram of Anderson and unlock an achievement for your efforts.

Viewed Anderson's first Holographic Log

Next leave the room and you'll need to go through a doorway clearing enemies in both past and present. In the past, there is a laser wall you can't pass, but in the present it's a fiery pit with a pilot helmet floating above. Simply hop down the hallway in the present and collect Pilot Helmet (2/6) (4/8) (22/46) ( 6:48 ) .

Move forward by dropping down into the fire pit and switching to the past. Continue on fighting through some enemies to see another hologram. Once the the door opens, move down the hallway and alternate past and present to avoid some turrets and a debris pile. In the next room, switch to the past and you will see a pilot helmet in a little circular room hanging from the ceiling. In the present, those windows are broken, so jump through them and then switch back to the past to collect Pilot Helmet (3/6) (5/8) (23/46) ( 7:09 ) .

Keep moving on and you'll quickly come to another area where you can see a pilot helmet in the present right after walking through the doorway. It's on a platform out by itself. Switch to the past and you can see another platform you can jump on to get to the correct one in the present. You'll have to jump from the past and switch to the present in mid air to collect Pilot Helmet (4/6) (6/8) (24/46) ( 7:20 ) .

Continue moving forward until you cross a large gap on a zipline and land on a little circular building. The way forward requires you to wall run back and forth between two walls in past and present to get to the other side. It's actually possible to do it on just one side by jumping out and back in. In the middle of these two walls is a pilot helmet in the past - it's Pilot Helmet (5/6) (7/8) (25/46) ( 7:32 ) .

If you've been following along, you'll get an achievement here for getting 25 of the collectibles.

Found 25 Collectibles

The final pilot helmet for this mission is just off the platform you land on once you do the wall run between time periods (that you just did to get the pilot helmet). Turn to your left and switch to the present and you will see it along the wall. Be careful to avoid the fire. Simply jump and wall run to get Pilot Helmet (6/6) (8/8) (26/46) ( 7:48 ) .

And that wraps up collectibles for this mission. You can safely run past all the enemies for the rest of the mission as well until you get outside. Get in BT and you can switch time while piloting him as well. Head toward the objective and make sure to pick up the Ion loadout from the wall. Hit the switch and then head back outside. There's a battle here but you can switch to the present to ignore it and then just head straight into the Ark in the past.

You'll get a very cool platforming sequence as you had toward the Ark.

Completed Special Operation 217

And that's the end of the mission!

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We lost time travel shifting, but we need to finish Operation 217. Grab the loadout and destroy the three threats. Enter the substation and jump on the walls while keeping fire against the drones and Spectres.

Retrieve the arc tool from the Marvin, and use it to disable the turbine. Wall run and get back to the top. Use the tool to start the turbine, and deal with the scouts that come to you.

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• Helmet 27 - At the substation with two spinning cylinders, dash across the space to get the helmet.
• Helmet 28 - When you get the Arc Tool, use it on the second silo. Leap up high and look a the concrete beams for the helmet. Use an anti-grav thruster at the bottom of the silo.
• Helmet 29 - Leave the substation, climb up the platform under the giant satellite, then look under the pillar for the helmet.
• Helmet 30 - From the previous platform, look at the towers outside the facility center. One of the white towers has a connected black cylinder - double jump onto it and get on the white tower roof for this helmet.
• Helmet 31 - Step into BTs hand and let him throw you at the tower. Enter the interior and use the Arc Tool and the green door control to get inside a locked room. In this room on the first floor is the collectible.
• Helmet 32 - Use the crane to move the panel at the elevator structure. Run across this path to get to another door where you can use the Arc Tool to get inside. Go upstairs, turn left, and look at the roof of the next building for the helmet.
• Helmet 33 - Before getting to the dish, use the crane to get to the construction area. The helmet here is on the tallest rooftop of the large platform area.
• Helmet 34 - Enter the 04 building, then go through the right door. Wall run to the scaffolding to reach the area above that hallway where you'll find another helmet.
• Helmet 35 - Outside the 04 building, when you reach the exterior area with a large construction sign, climb under and across the office, and then jump to the edge with two supporting angled beams. At the corner of this ledge is the helmet.
• Helmet 36 - Once you return to BT, he'll throw you up onto the satellite catwalks. Go up and to the opposite walkway to find the helmet on the catwalk stairs.
• Helmet 37 - Climb the satellite's interior, and check the white supports beneath the dish. Circle around the dish supports to get this helmet.

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What Made Dishonored 2 's Time Travel Level So Good

Last fall, Dishonored 2 ripped me right out of my gaming funk. I tore through the game in two days, scouring every square inch of its wonderful setting, Karnaca. Dishonored 2 ’s brilliant self-assurance is compelling; I couldn’t stay away. Now, after the release of Dishonored: Death of the Outsider , I found myself craving a return to Dishonored 2 .

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Many people have rightfully singled out Dishonored 2 ’s fourth mission, The Clockwork Mansion , as one of the game’s best. It’s a great level, rich with the kind of creativity that Arkane is known for. The game’s seventh mission, A Crack in the Slab, gets less attention. Dishonored 2 released shortly after Titanfall 2 , whose time-travel themed mission Effect and Cause might have stolen some of A Crack in the Slab’s thunder. A Crack in the Slab might have a similar premise to Effect and Cause, but its combination of its themes and mechanics makes it stand out.

Where other fantasy games are content to stay tethered to Tolkien’s traditional high fantasy realms with humans, elves, dwarves, and dragons, Arkane forges its own path. Dishonored ’s fantasy world is unique, taking place in an industrial age powered not by coal and steam, but by whaling. In the first game you play as Corvo Attano, bodyguard and lover of a murdered empress who has to rescue the princess Emily, your daughter, finally installing her on the throne to rule Dunwall.

In Dishonored 2 , you can play as either Corvo or Emily. Delilah Copperspoon, a malevolent witch, usurps the throne, turning one of you to stone and causing the other to flee to the land of Karnaca to find a way to save the empire. Your journey to discover Delilah’s weakness and find a way to stop her eventually takes you to a mansion owned by one Aramis Stilton.

Delilah’s conspirators are among the rich and powerful, and Stilton is no exception. Stilton is a mining baron, and his mansion is a huge part of Karnaca’s Dust District. Three years ago, after a mysterious incident, Stilton became a recluse and closed his home off from outsiders. The only way in is through a complicated lock built by one of the game’s earlier foes, Kirin Jindosh. Dishonored 2 dedicates an entire mission just to getting past the lock. Once you do so, you lose all of your supernatural powers, and A Crack in the Slab begins.

At the start of the mission, Stilton’s mansion is in disrepair. The ruinous Dust District felt crowded, but Stilton’s mansion is empty. As you pick through its bones, you find fragments of a happier past—a great staircase, a decaying museum.

Anyone who has played Dishonored knows how fun it can be to poke around for loot to pilfer, but the opening area of Stilton’s mansion is largely picked over. In the upstairs mining museum, for instance, a safe has been opened and emptied. As you explore, hoping to find something worth taking, most of the mansion is closed off, save for one room.

There you find Stilton himself, babbling about whales in the mines. He tells you that you must inform the empress that something terrible is happening. When you try to talk to him, time freezes and the Outsider appears. The Outsider (who’s basically Gerard Way if he were a bored god) gives you a timepiece, a tool that lets you observe the year 1849 through its crystals and jump between the 1849 and Dishonored 2 ’s present year of 1852.

As always, the Outsider’s instructions are cryptic, simply urging you to see for yourself what happened three years ago. A quick tutorial popup tells you everything you need to know, so you press the button and leap back to the past. Stilton isn’t in this spot in the past, but through the timepiece’s crystals, you can still see him muttering away at the piano. In 1849, the mansion is well-kept and expensive-looking. There are chairs around the now-immaculate piano, as if Stilton is expecting guests for a musical performance.

While many games are content to simply tell you what’s up, or drench the world in pointless graffiti , Dishonored 2 uses its levels as a means of characterization. It invites you to explore its world, examining the little details and deriving your own conclusions from that. As you explore the past mansion, you come across an instrument tuner who asks a passing guard if Stilton plays music. The guard says he doubts it; he thinks Stilton is a man who buys instruments for appearances.

If you explore this exhibition room, which is just below Stilton’s master bedroom, you’ll find a little space in the back where multiple instruments and instrument parts are stored. There’s a workbench here, and, while nothing is explicitly stated, it seems as though Stilton once enjoyed repairing pianos. In 1852, a mattress and scraps of food are located in the little loft above the workbench, and Stilton spends his time at the piano. While the guards might think Stilton too aloof to play music, privately, it seems to be an important part of his life.

You learn more about Stilton as you go further into the mansion. A letter to his staff shows his taste in food but lack of knowledge on the subject. He references amazing foods he’s had elsewhere, rather than rattling off a list of fancy dishes, showing himself as someone perhaps a little out of his depth. The Duke has written Stilton a letter expressing a desire to know more about Stilton’s interest in improving the working conditions for miners, demonstrating a clear contrast between Stilton’s intentions in 1849 and the Duke’s in 1852. Stilton’s diary contains a series of entries where he fusses over his appearance; apparently, a servant criticized the coal dust underneath his nails, indicating a man of lower station, and Stilton spent several days embarrassed by this remark.

Compared to the other corrupt and arrogant members of Delilah’s conspiracy, Stilton seems like a good man, if something of a coward. He cares, deeply, about doing the right thing, but he’s concerned with his appearance, earnestly attempting to live up to the station he’s found himself in. Later in the level, the player character remarks that they’ve heard Stilton had been a miner. Karnaca’s current state is due to the Duke’s greed; Stilton was a good, caring man in a difficult circumstance, a victim of Delilah’s plot, his mind broken by the mysterious incident in 1849.

In addition to conveying character information, these details add ambiance to A Crack in the Slab. Dishonored is telling a story, and everything in the game works in service to the story being told. A Crack in the Slab’s ambiance encourages you to linger, an action not seen in other mediums. In a game, you can wander around a room, taking in the vibes, considering the space and its occupants. You can become part of the space, so a game, if it wants to tell stories well, must make use of that space to tell its story.

This ambiance and story also have an impact on your gameplay. Dishonored games judge their players at the end, the decisions you make impacting the game’s final scenes.Kill too many people in Dishonored 2 , and your character may end up ruling Karnaca with an iron fist. Therefore, it’s best to be armed with as much knowledge as possible, because this informs how you play, which determines what the ending will be.

It doesn’t always work perfectly; I’ve never been a big fan of being graded on my performance, and, according to one of my friends who’s a game designer, it’s extremely difficult for games to determine player intent. I killed a few people in Dishonored 2 because they’d committed murder and no one else could stop them; this meant my game ended with Corvo ruling as a tyrant, where I felt he was a one-man force of justice attempting to save a vulnerable populace from an army of superhuman murderers.

Even though Dishonored ’s morality system isn’t perfect, it’s fascinating. Dishonored has always played with morality in interesting ways—in the first game, every non-lethal fate was worse than death. Two brothers get their tongues ripped out and are forced to work in their own mines, the high overseer is branded a heretic and brutally tortured by his own men, a woman is sent to live with her stalker. It was a great way to toy with the common binary perception around stealth game morality that suggests lethal is bad and nonlethal is good. To play a Dishonored game well, you have to consider what the best action is, rather than resorting to a simplistic moral choice.

While Dishonored 2 falls into the lethal/nonlethal paradigm, it fits with the characters presented. In the case of A Crack in the Slab, how you deal with Stilton impacts the entire timeline, in ways that become clear as you play through the level. Your actions have consequences, and the level design of A Crack in the Slab helps players make that decision by inspiring them to scour the level and learning everything they can about Stilton.

A Crack in the Slab’s level design also encourages players to employ the level’s unique timepiece mechanic, the tool by which all of this change occurs. Stealth level design can be especially difficult because players have a limited set of tools, and the goal is always the same: stay out of sight. For a stealth game to be successful, it must attempt to offer as much variety as possible. A Crack in the Slab introduces variety through the use of the timepiece, which lets you travel through time, and, more importantly, observe the timelines before you do.

Stealth games are generally built around observation. You look and listen for guards, while the guards look and listen for you. Arming yourself with information about your surroundings is key to success. In Stilton’s mansion, the magic powers you’ve relied on in all previous levels no longer work, and the level design offers little cover to block the guards’ line of sight. Since the timepiece lets you watch the alternate timeline, you can catch a guard’s attention in 1849, jump to 1852, watch him run to an out-of-the-way place in 1849, then jump back to 1849 and choke him out.

The timepiece is also used to solve puzzles. Shortly after you get the timepiece, you’re left trying to leave the room you entered. You came in through the ceiling, but without your blink ability, you can’t simply teleport back out. Upon further inspection, you’ll discover that the door is locked in 1849, but unlocked with a grate about two feet in front of it in 1852. This means that you can walk into a small space between where the door ought to be and where the grate is, jump through time, and find yourself on the other side of the locked door, with no grate in your path. This lesson will stay with you throughout.

Another puzzle involves trying to clear a path blocked by a giant bust. In 1849, a note left behind on the statue warns that it’s unsteady and too heavy for a single person to move. If you knock the bust over in 1849, breaking it, it’s no longer blocking the passage in 1852, allowing you to advance through the level. This reinforces another lesson: your past actions change the future.

The entire level is like this, full of clever, mind-bending puzzles and actions that ripple throughout the past and present. The complexity of the puzzles increases; as the 1852 mansion opens up to you, the guards of 1849 become more difficult to avoid. Pretty soon, you’re leaping through time, hoping a guard didn’t see you, only to be faced with a swarm of angry bloodflies in 1852. Tension is punctuated by eureka moments, in which you solve time puzzles that leave you feeling like a genius. All of this builds to the ultimate choice. Do you kill Aramis Stilton, unwilling conspirator to Delilah’s plans, or do you spare him?

In 1849, Aramis Stilton was supposed to attend a meeting. Whatever happened to him there left him broken by 1852. I chose mercy, choking him out so that he wouldn’t make his appointment.

Everything changed.

This 1852 was brand new. Rather than the derelict mansion that reflected its broken host, the new timeline reflected the mind of a man who had not suffered from Delilah’s plot. Stilton missed his meeting, and it saved his mind. This choice influences the game in some profound ways; Stilton becomes your accomplice in the fight against Delilah. I knew I had made the right choice, regardless of what the post-mission results screen said.

A Crack in the Slab spills its inhabitants’ secrets, while the mechanics and level design choices explore the level’s time travel theme while presenting new stealth challenges. A Crack in the Slab doesn’t possess the lightning-quick roller coaster of Titanfall 2’s Effect and Cause, but it rewards curiosity and responds to your actions in meaningful, game-changing ways. Everything matters, nothing is pointless. It’s as perfect a level as they come, and it’s the reason Dishonored 2 deserves your attention.

GB Burford is a freelance journalist and indie game developer who just can’t get enough of exploring why games work. You can reach him on Twitter at @ForgetAmnesia or on his blog . You can support him and even suggest games to write about over at his Patreon .

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Embraces One of Titanfall 2's Best Features

Titanfall 2 may be in a distant memory now, but it's a memory that's being kept alive through one of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown's mechanics.

• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown evokes a similar feeling to Titanfall 2's campaign with its fast-paced action.
• The game introduces a special ability called Clairvoyance that allows players to shift realities, reminiscent of Titanfall 2's beloved time-travel mission Effect and Cause.
• Clairvoyance adds complexity to the game's platforming, requiring players to make new platforms appear and jump between in-flux walls.

Released almost eight years ago now, Titanfall 2 is still widely believed to be one of the greatest first-person shooters of the modern age, and the fact that fans have received no new Titanfall content since then is tragic. A shooter-platformer-mech pilot hybrid, there's still not really any other game out there like Titanfall 2 , though some titles have managed to scratch a few of those itches in their own unique way. The recently released Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is the perfect example.

Though the two games couldn't be more different from one another in terms of story, setting, and gameplay style, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown does evoke some of the same general feelings that Titanfall 2 's campaign did, with some fast-paced action and even faster-paced platforming. But there's one feature in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown that goes a little deeper than just evoking a feeling, instead repeatedly reminding fans of Titanfall 2 's most beloved mission.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Has 2 Obvious Directions for DLC

Prince of persia: the lost crown hearkens back to one of titanfall 2's best moments, titanfall 2's best mission sees players platform with time.

Now widely renowned as one of the greatest FPS missions of all time , Titanfall 2 's "Effect and Cause" level sees players stumble upon an old dilapidated IMC research facility, where they discover a device that lets them travel through time. With just the tap of a button, players can shift between the past and present, with the facility in full functioning order in the past, and completely destroyed in the present.

To progress through the level, players need to use their temporary time-travel powers to access pathways blocked off in one timeline, but open in the other, and defeat a horde of confused enemies in both. The real fun of Titanfall 2 's Effect and Cause level kicks in when players are tasked with pairing these time-travel powers with their parkour skills, which sees them methodically tapping the shoulder button to shift realities at the perfect time to avoid fire damage in the present, and bounce between moving platforms in both timelines.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown's Clairvoyance Ability Offers a Similar Experience

Available for just one mission, Titanfall 2 's time-bending abilities are a huge highlight of that game's campaign, and their lack of reappearance in the last eight years has been truly tragic. But Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown might have something to finally scratch that itch. At about the halfway point of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown 's story, players unlock a special ability called Clairvoyance.

Throughout their journey in Mount Qaf, players will come across these glowing purple blocks, or the outlines of where one should be, both of which prevent the player from accessing the path ahead. With Clairvoyance, players can shift realities, making the purple blocks appear and disappear at will. Much like the rest of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown 's abilities , Clairvoyance is used to open new pathways, shake up combat, and add a new layer of complexity to the game's excellent platforming. It's the latter that really channels Titanfall 2 .

In multiple instances, players will need to use Clairvoyance similarly to Titanfall 2 's time-travel powers, reality-shifting with the press of a button to make new platforms appear, and jump back and forth between in-flux walls. It's not a one-to-one recreation of Titanfall 2 's best feature, but it definitely hearkens back to it, and in some ways even adds a bit more depth to the actual gameplay mechanics.

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