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[R5D4]

Makes me wonder just what the stats are for how often the VIP is killed (purposefully) by the team assigned to protect it.

Just watched my team mates kill him in the first minute of the game.

[Mr_Breaker]

Escort mode is cancer; most pick to bump multiplier on to screw the team over and pick it. When the team is competent I do not mind it, but I get the other thus hate it!

[Hestan]

I was on the other team on that match. I was getting shot up trying to take a beacon so it didn't bother me much. We had a big plan as well to kill the vip.

[El Bandito]

Escort should be removed until PGI makes it fun.

[Luminis]

If it at least worked like the Payload works in Overwatch

[Moochachoo]

Wouldn’t they rather get some kills before losing? That’s what my team does when we decide to throw the game, everyone nascar and leaves the vip alone.

VIP can be really fun, if people don’t give up in the first minute of the game.

Edited by Moochachoo, 21 May 2018 - 04:36 AM.

[PocketYoda]

Mr_Breaker, on 20 May 2018 - 06:17 PM, said:

Escort mode is cancer; most pick to bump multiplier on to screw the team over and pick it. When the team is competent I do not mind it, but I get the other thus hate it!

No the community is cancer..

[eminus]

damaging the VIP still incur penalty as if you damage your own teammates , time penalty

[Navid A1]

I view escort mode as an insult PGI is actively trying to shove into our faces.

They know its broken AF, yet they still keep it in.

The sad thing is that it prevents some good maps to enter rotation, like Canyon!

[Haipyng]

It doesn't surprise me. It's tedious for the defending team to attempt to defend incoming long range fire and continually displace and re-entrench to keep up with the VIP in QP. Fewer and fewer people want to play the game mode and just seek deathmatch after deathmatch. I rarely ever see the VIP game mode and the few times I have it has been an oops situation with people trying to game the multiplier.

[Tier5 Kerensky]

Never seen that happen. Once when it was fairly new we legged it though. It takes a lot of damage to kill so you'd need to have many players shooting it to avoid taking long penalty, which is why it doesn't happen so much.

[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

Doesn't everyone hate escort missions in video games when you have a dumb AI that moves slow and usually walks to its doom? Why would PGI make a gamemode in a competitive PvP game where you do the same thing?

[Korz]

This game mode just needs to go away. Incursion is not much better. So when you have the choice between the two it is like would you like dumb or dumber.... Just remove them and do something better with those modes. And stop wasting peoples time with them.

[Kodyn]

I've seen it happen before. It'd be frustrating but at this point it's just humorous. Myself and many others have made threads campaigning for it's removal since it's so universally hated, but PGI really couldn't care less if people are enjoying the game, as long as the whales keep buying mech packs. Nothing new.

[El Bandito]

Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood, on 21 May 2018 - 06:48 AM, said:

Doesn't everyone hate escort missions in video games when you have a dumb AI that moves slow and usually walks to its doom? Why would PGI make a gamemode in a competitive PvP game where you do the same thing?

Cause someone in PGI had a bright idea.

[Tordin]

Samial, on 21 May 2018 - 04:35 AM, said:

No the community is cancer..

Well both the mode and team going sacrifical for a loss instead are cancer. So both parts are responsible for a non optimalised mode outcome. PGI should have ditched it for the lack of competent A.I. But thats no excuse to go full on incompetence making sure to have the team loose and instead suck it up and endure it nontheless . If its a bad sport due to shait mode, thats discussable.

[Mcgral18]

Escort is heavily among the reasons I've nearly stopped playing altogether

It's certainly sealed my wallet

[Variant1]

I love escort its a fun mode. Those that hate it are bad at it, protect the frigin vip if he dies its your fault not the ai. Any team that teamkill the vip should either be handed out bans or a very VERY long wait time, like 2 hours or something. The mode isnt broken it should stay and i vote for it and i like playing it

[Leone]

I actually enjoy the mode more'n most. It's one of the few modes that actually gets Quickplay teams to work together, simply by giving them a common goal to defend/attack. I pretty much always pick it when I'm grinding events.

Also, if you wanted to change things up an had a ranged mech, you could just drop inna gear to match speeds with the VIP on defense an play it like a railed shooter! There's so much fun to be had if you only tried.

~Leone.

Edited by Leone, 21 May 2018 - 08:09 AM.

[R Valentine]

Escort always ends with the defending team ignoring the VIP, so either the attacking team does the same and its skirmish or the VIP potatoes into them and they win in 60 seconds. Either way it's stupid as all hell.