11 replies to this topic

[Chaldon]

I'm getting pretty tired of being the only one escorting the VIP mech with people outright and vocal refusal to participate. They are basically using it as a gamble calculator to get as much damage in before the other team finds it alone.

Hopefully there will come a day when people can "opt out" of the Escort Mode and not waste a whole match.

[RestosIII]

Honestly, I really don't get all the hate for Escort. I actually enjoy it on both sides, defender and offense. My only real complaints are about the fact that it could be better with the VIP being a convoy, or it at least telling defenders where it's going to go, the fact that the ECM/sensor towers take our Scouting bonus away, and the fact that the turrets are a bit unfair to light mechs. Fix those up, and I'd have no real complaints.

[Amsro]

Chaldon, on 24 February 2017 - 09:00 AM, said:

I'm getting pretty tired of being the only one escorting the VIP mech with people outright and vocal refusal to participate. They are basically using it as a gamble calculator to get as much damage in before the other team finds it alone.

Hopefully there will come a day when people can "opt out" of the Escort Mode and not waste a whole match.

Sorry but if you literally "escort" the VIP, it's you that doesn't know how to play that mode.

You need to actively protect the ECM towers and engage the enemy so that the enemy team is 100% and under ECM when the VIP atlas does the eventual suicide rush.

If you are beside the VIP atlas the whole match you are doing it wrong.

Edited by Amsro, 24 February 2017 - 09:21 AM.

[Coolant]

imo still much better than Conquest

[RoadblockXL]

Huh. are these people straight up saying "I'm not going to play escort blah blah blah." or are they just not sticking with the VIP?

Cause, if you're escorting, engaging the other team BEFORE they've engaged the VIP increases your odds of winning by a lot.

[Tatula]

I've been in a match where a team mate just kill our VIP to end the match. He was reported.

I don't usually vote for Escort and Conquest in the QP queue, simply because these two mode tend to require a bit more team coordination that I simply cannot count on in QP, but I'll play it and try my best.

[meteorol]

People explained in detail why adding escort as a mode to a multiplayers FPS is a terrible idea before it was added.

Now we have it, it's exactly as terrible as predicted, and it seems like the majority of the playerbase doesn't want to play it.

PGI 101.

[Kira Onime]

PGI should of done some research to realise that people HATE escort missions in game sin general.

[Battlemaster56]

I don't have a problem with the game mode, since it only like two game modes that objectives have somewhat of a real impact in a match. It's insufferable players who kill themselves at the start of the match or actively to grief.

But since I'm so merciful most of the time, I just don't vote it since most players IQ is so below a vegetable I'm surprise they can do basic human functions, let alone to understand the game.

[C E Dwyer]

Report them, all you can do

[Dee Eight]

The only players who should close screen the VIP are ones in mechs sooo slow that they'd never catch up to it if they needed to do so, and ones with multiple AMS units as while the VIP has ECM, that only delays it being targeted.

[Davegt27]

yeah escort need a little work

at least the could give the escorting team a one square notice of where the VIP is going

and its not very light Mech friendly so light mechs cant do there expected scouting

also escort does not work well on some Maps