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[JaidenHaze]

Sooo, i played a few games Escort, everything was a disaster. Atlas got headshooted or 12 enemy mechs just rush into our lines and focus fire it. Doesnt play nice, cant really say "how" it is supposed to be played. But right now, i cant see the point :/

Also the VIP Atlas got stuck on Tourmaline Desert

[RestosIII]

JaidenHaze, on 13 December 2016 - 12:21 PM, said:

Also the VIP Atlas got stuck on Tourmaline Desert

I should have expected this.



(INB4 Kodiak jokes)

[NRP]

LOL, someone needs to tell PGI that the absolute worst missions in video games are the "escort" or "protect" missions. I have absolutely zero interest in playing this.

[Scout Derek]

JaidenHaze, on 13 December 2016 - 12:21 PM, said:

Sooo, i played a few games Escort, everything was a disaster. Atlas got headshooted or 12 enemy mechs just rush into our lines and focus fire it. Doesnt play nice, cant really say "how" it is supposed to be played. But right now, i cant see the point :/

Also the VIP Atlas got stuck on Tourmaline Desert

https://twitter.com/...759582524747776

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[color=#292F33]New escort game mode: monitoring it in real time and we are able to adjust the VIP's health.[/color]

Also. I just played a match with you earlier. On that very map. On the same team. the video is uploading.

[XPhantasmaX]

as much as i like to see PGI implement a gamemode that i wanted to play for idk how many years now, its been poorly executed. i was half expecting to escort vehicle convoys rather than guarding a VIP atlas. If no changes are to be addressed in the near future then id consider this a waste of resources on PGI's part.

Edited by XPhantasmaX, 13 December 2016 - 12:31 PM.

[WarHippy]

I get conceptually how the game mode could be fun, but it is one of those game modes that is pretty much eternally doomed to not be fun for one side or the other.

[Scout Derek]

[Galenit]

JaidenHaze, on 13 December 2016 - 12:21 PM, said:

Also the VIP Atlas got stuck on Tourmaline Desert

And again a bug that would have been revealed with a single test match ....

[Metus regem]

I think I said something along these lines, when they first mentioned it.... Having provided Gunship support during VIP escorts through real world combat zones, that this would be a bad game mode.....

[Rebas Kradd]

NRP, on 13 December 2016 - 12:25 PM, said:

LOL, someone needs to tell PGI that the absolute worst missions in video games are the "escort" or "protect" missions. I have absolutely zero interest in playing this.

It was the most popular gamemode suggestion from players, just like King of the Hill was. The people loudest about new gamemode ideas are invariably the ones with the worst ideas.

[Cy Mitchell]

My first Escort match we drew the Defender role. Map was Grim Plexis. The VIP marched right over the hill exposing himself to the entire enemy team that was in G7. We set up a firing line between the Atlas and the attackers and managed to get a 12-3 victory as they tried to focused on the Atlas more than us. I was taken out by a team kill while fighting a Light. I guess someone was trying to help but missed him and got me in the back.

Anyway, won first Escort experience and as a Defender no less.

[Imperius]

Rebas Kradd, on 13 December 2016 - 12:33 PM, said:

It was the most popular gamemode suggestion from players, just like King of the Hill was. The people loudest about new gamemode ideas are invariably the ones with the worst ideas.

Tell me about it FP is still a focus for some reason.

[Aiden Skye]

First escort games I've played and it's been even the be most fun I've had in MWO for a while. So nice to not be fighting over the middle of the map.

[Rebas Kradd]

Imperius, on 13 December 2016 - 12:37 PM, said:

Tell me about it FP is still a focus for some reason.

FP is still a focus because paying players want it to be.

You're getting your single-player, Imperius. You have no more need to demand PGI suction resources away from FP.

[Jay Leon Hart]

WOW! VIP Atlas is best Atlas Just watched a Kodiak try in vain to kill it from behind, only to get killed by the dropship!

[1453 R]

Can't play it since at work...but I've mostly been dreading it since it was announced. It's going to be impossible to balance the VIPhicle's health properly - either the game mode is an autowin for the attackers or it's an autowin for the defenders, depending on which way the VIPhicle's tuned. The fact that you can't really properly defend the jackalope thing at all from enemy snipers means a heavy bias in favor of attackers.

The only positive angle of this thing is utilizing more of the map than is typical of most games, but nevertheless...I really don't see this ending well. Domination was bad enough...

Edited by 1453 R, 13 December 2016 - 12:50 PM.

[0bsidion]

JaidenHaze, on 13 December 2016 - 12:21 PM, said:

Sooo, i played a few games Escort, everything was a disaster. Atlas got headshooted or 12 enemy mechs just rush into our lines and focus fire it. Doesnt play nice, cant really say "how" it is supposed to be played. But right now, i cant see the point :/

Also the VIP Atlas got stuck on Tourmaline Desert

Well, I think it might be cool if there were 2 decoy mechs taking different routes, one mid map, one far east, one far left. But that's just me.

Also, maybe if they switched it to a mech with JJs so they could add something along the lines of "if current location hasn't changed in more than 2 seconds, fire JJs" Or they could just say turn 45 degrees and move forward I guess.

[Btvt]

Hi, how to get into this Escort mode?

[Appogee]

I appreciate that PGI are trying to give us new modes.

Even though it's apparently flawed at the moment, at least it's a starting point to build on.

[Cy Mitchell]

It does not help that the VIP Mech is one of the tallest Mechs in the game and thus makes a big juicy target. Yes, it has a lot of armor and is tough to take down but it is also difficult to screen it from the enemy. The best defense tactic seems to be to locate the mass of the attackers and push on them while not letting anyone get around the flanks.

For the attackers you either want to rush and focus down the VIP or put some long range Mechs in overwatch positions and just snipe it down while it plods along.