# Gamemodes

## Gamemodes

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Northstar comes included with some community made gamemodes.

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### Gun Game

Get a kill with each gun to win.

### Titan Tag

Earn points while in your titan. Destroy a titan to get your own.

### Infection

Survivors are infected when killed.

### Amped Killrace

Get kills to increase the length of your killrace. Collect the flag to start it. Set the record to win.

### Fastball

Hack control panels to win rounds and respawn your teammates.

### Competitive CTF

CTF with custom settings for Comp games.

### Frontier War

Kill enemies to earn your titan, and use it to destroy the enemies Harvester.

## Riffs

Northstar also comes with several gameplay modifiers called riffs that can be toggled on and off by server hosts, or used in a private match.

### Deadly Ground

Creates a layer of electric smoke on the lowest parts of the map (does not cover the entire map)

### Great Bamboozle

Everyone's kit is changed to Holo Pilot.

### Attack on Titanfall

Everyone's kit is changed to Grapple, and Grapple gains one extra use.

### Otherside

Everyone's kit is changed to Phase Shift.

### Spicy

Replaces all ordnance/grenades with ticks.

### Tactikill

Killing an enemy refreshes your tactical/pilot kit.

### Amped Tacticals

Every tactical/pilot kit gets an additional use to it

### Rocket Arena

Weapons are replaced with an EPG that does 40 damage, a RE-45 that does reduced damage, and a Charge Rifle

### Armed & Dangerous

Weapons are replaced with a Kraber, Mastiff, and Charge Rifle

### Iron Rules

Disables disembarking and ejecting from titans.

### First person embarks/executions

Enables first person embark animations for titans and first person executions for both pilots and titans.

### Instagib

Every kill gibs


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