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[Stonekeg]

Bandilly, on 15 December 2016 - 12:34 PM, said:

I won and lost as both the attacker and defender. It seems close to balanced as is. The main objective is to kill the enemy team, generally the side that wins in trades wins the match.

Strategic use of ECM towers can really help your side. Engaging near towers your team controls gives you extra spotting abilities and can nullify enemy lock on abilities.

I'd love it if someone made a minute long MWO Escort for Dummies video. I imagine the new Assault will need something like that, too.

[Alex Morgaine]

Took 4 tries, 3 def one assault. People are learning to focus it more, last one we took all twelve with it about 300m from the waiting ship. Machine guns work again though. Got it with and mounted in my "deputy" urbie :3

Edited by Alex Morgaine, 15 December 2016 - 02:06 PM.

[Alex Morgaine]

LordMelvin, on 15 December 2016 - 01:06 PM, said:

This. Just make the Atlas a convoy of tanks (Demolishers and Shrecks or Manitcores and Myrmidons for something less evil). You can still give them suped up turret hp so they can't be insta-gibbed but they'll be smaller targets and moderately dangerous to ward off overeager solo lights.

Plus that'll really nail home the feeling of battlemech combat.

6 light tanks, mounted with 2 ac2s each. 75 rounds per tank shouldn't be overkill and even with perfect accuracy shouldn't be op at 4 damage every 3/4 a second or so ( add another1/3 second to adjust turrets?) till they run out.

[Acehilator]

I like the game mode, even though I am currently losing way more than winning, but I blame that on general team quality (lack thereof) the last two days. Did not record win percentage for other game modes, but I think it is similar.

[Xetelian]

Had more wins than losses in my escort matches. I don't think anecdotal 'evidence' is going to get us anywhere.

[Parmeggido]

My only real complaint thus far is I played ~3 hours last night, and only had escort pop up as an option once. One game isn't really enough for me to form much of an opinion on it yet.

[LastPaladin]

gamingogre, on 15 December 2016 - 01:37 PM, said:

I have been unable to get escort matches. 4+hours and only three chances came up. I was voted out...

Filing under "problems I wish I had'...

[Druarc]

So far I've been lucky with this 5 games 5 wins, 4 def to 1 att though.

[Navid A1]

I've never lost an escort match yet.
defender and attacker.
The mode is heavily dependent on how hard you can roll the enemy.
The atlas is just there for show (and being farmed for damage)

Probably MM was kind to me,

[TWIAFU]

Get rid of the Altas.

Randomly assign one player as the VIP, with the VIP tag.

They are now the mission. Dustoff points are numerous and random across the map. Timer adjustments would need to be made, maybe, so the VIP could not zerg to the LZ.

Then again, a potato in charge of a mission critical objective...

Can see them running out of bounds to save stats....

[chucklesMuch]

I've had 17 escort games across two nights but I played for many hours each night. Would have selected it more if it came up more. And for a while, last night, I wondered if I would even get a single game of it.

Edited by chucklesMuch, 15 December 2016 - 04:20 PM.

[LordNothing]

if you think the statue is bad, wait till you have to win fp skirmish as a spheroid.

Edited by LordNothing, 15 December 2016 - 04:18 PM.

[Bill Lumbar]

I have been drinking again, and I checked my alphas with this new machine gun buff, and I put two rounds of ppc and mg combo into the atlas... and some said they was gonna report me. We won btw..... omg, seriously, lay off the cool aid.

[Gaden Phoenix]

Escort mode is bad? Yea because we need more static campy modes........

Escort mode forces team to be more dynamic and to juggle one~two more things then normal (OMG the chaos and complicity). And it is still super quite static compared to other games.

Alot of the rants I read are really really due to PUGs going derp while the other team derps way less.

There is no reason your VIP should be alone in the front, walking pass enemy teams unless you team decides to frake it and derp for the win. Escort mode is the camper's worst game mode... which too me explains a lot why certain people hate it... But campers already Domination.

Also, if your team derps and dont capture the radar tower directly next to you, I have nothing to say about enemy team pawning your team and having the magic eye from the sky to spot your whole team.

Main problem is Escort is bad for Derp. Which might be a huge issue for PUGs. But is nothing really PGI can do without nerfing it to the ground, which I prefer PGI does not do.

Edited by Gaden Phoenix, 15 December 2016 - 05:38 PM.

[El Bandito]

The issue is the team foolishly splitting their fire ont he VIP and the enemy team. Go for either one but not both!

[RestosIII]

Bill Lumbar, on 15 December 2016 - 04:46 PM, said:

I put two rounds of ppc and mg combo into the atlas

[JDNight]

This mode is terrible. So far I have been the attacker once, and the defender over 15 times. I know many have said, just kill the other team, but that is NOT fair. There is a time limit. If the attacker can not win by the time the VIP reaches destination, the defender wins for free. The time limit is in defenders favor. Not attackers.

[Cementi]

Only time I dislike it is on Crimson Straight as it really feels like a coin flip on that map.

Would be nice if they could do something like posting multiple routes and having the team vote for them at each waypoint or something or just give the option for the team commander if someone takes it to dictate its route.

Anything to prevent it from blinding marching into the worst possible situation it could.

[Novakaine]

PGI the VIP Pilot is a moron fire him.

Edited by Novakaine, 17 March 2017 - 10:30 PM.

[FalconerGray]

RestosIII, on 15 December 2016 - 12:25 PM, said:

Switch the Atlas into a wheeled/treaded ground vehicle, and I'll gladly drive it every match.

This post brings back memories of the urban VIP escort mission in MW2. So good. So sad, how far we've regressed.

Edited by legatoblues, 18 March 2017 - 03:48 AM.