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[Geary024]

Greetings everyone,

We were playing Terra Therma on Skirmish and my friend made the comment that this would be a great map for a King of the Hill style game mode. I was looking at the other maps and a lot of seem they would work well with this.

Thoughts?

[HammerSwarm]

Not poo pooing, asking

how would king of the hill work differently than skirmish?
What mechanism would prevent the game from descending into a zerg rush to the cap?

[Firewuff]

Problem of king of the hill it won't change. It will become kill the other team as quick as you can as it is less risky than trying to hold a cap point. Assault is rarely won by cap these days and you should hear the howled wen someone does.

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

More game modes are better. KotH has promise as one of them. However, I think a modified variant of KotH would work best, where a capture point exists at a central point on the map but is locked until after, say, 5 minutes have passed. Once it unlocks it can cap very quickly. Positioning becomes very important in the first third of the match, and the mechanic avoids the very obvious weakness that Skirmish/TDM has.

Escort/Capture the Flag might be better, and IIRC Attack/Defend is already being planned to some degree, but again, the more game modes the better.

[Geary024]

Capture the Flag would be so much fun with some light mechs. I would imagine getting some assaults to defend and speedies to attack

[Krujiente]

King of the hill would be nice, as long as they made it a "unlock at X time" deal, capture the flag would be amazing. Solaris lance v lance combat ( on new smaller dynamic maps that designed with ONLY balance in mind because they're built for fighting) would be amazing. I like the idea of 4 v 4 gamemode. We have 12 v 12 and thats great and all, but 4 v 4 would be a nice change of pace. I am kinda sad I missed 8 v 8

[9erRed]

Greetings all,

The Dev.'s have stated that there is a similar map in the works, it is designed around a pyramid style element. Picture something similar to the Mayan style of pyramid with numerous ramps through out the structure.

So that may indeed become a "king of the hill" type of map.
- I would assume there will be a structure at the top that needs protecting or capture.
- Or simply capture the entire feature so a structure can be built later, Merc's required here.

later,
9erRed