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[Reposter]

Hi guys, just wondering do you like Escort and Incursion Game Modes?

I personally think Incursion requires some strategy like when to use the Power Cells and which Tower to use base on the current status of your team and team position. Basically Incursion could be a little tough for inexperienced players.

Escort, I prefer when I defend the VIP mech, but I have won before as Attacker as well. Its not chosen most of the time unless the other mode to Vote is Conquest or Incursion. It is ok but I think the beacons concept for the mode should be looked into, currently I feel it provides too much ECM for the Defenders of the VIP mech.

[El Bandito]

No.

[Xeno Phalcon]

I like incursion, but escort is about like having one of those flaming poop filled paper bags left on your doorstep - no matter how you cut it your still getting extra steamy shite.

[JediPanther]

The only good thing about incursion is that you can make a ton of bank of it as a light just turning in cells as the potatoes die in the murder ball. After you drop of the first cell for jamming you pretty much can just cell run or do whatever you want. Vip is the worst mode in the game period. On super rare vip solo q I've won the mode by walking the robot litterly. I followed it up alpine to the north drop ship with my ecm 3l. It was the boring-est match ever even though it was technically a win. The 11 other players got all the money and I had zeroes across the board on end of match screen. The less said and done about vip the better unless you get up and go afk the next few minutes for smoke/beer/bathroom whatever.

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[Helreginn]

I don't mind Incursion so much and will vote for it occasionally. Fuel Cells are a nice addition to the game that makes the mode more than the skirmish of nearly every other mode, albeit only slightly and only for lights/fast meds. The possibility of base-rushing is also a better implement than that of assault mode.

Escort is not fun. Defending the 100 ton roomba is a pain and for some reason causes many players to forget how to play properly. There is also the major annoyance of the ECM beacons. There are simply to many and switching/defending them is not something most people want to do which leaves one team under blanket ECM and the other wide open for slaughter when the murderball happens. If there were fewer, more strategically placed beacons the mode would improve but not enough to call it fun.

[Mechteric]

Both modes really only make sense for proper group play, not casual solo queue

[GuardDogg]

Incursion, no one knows how to play. It is more about assault/skirmish. You can not sit in base and defend it for many reasons. One, that all 11 team mates will go to center and find enemy of 12. So you get ridiculed by team mates for not being with team, which makes total sense. Two; when one side is wiped out, the team that survived has to go to enemy base and tap a enemy asset in base with one shot of something (Small laser, mg, or what ever...etc.), and round is over, done. Three, both team run to center, and not aware, a enemy will attack friendly base. Now we have some team mates will have to go back to base and defend. But attacking/defending a base, is very low in points. Not worth it, and sometimes wonder why incursion. It is confusing. Escort is way better. Has better chances of defending asset (Atlas), while other team tried to destroy asset and team. It does take work, and effort. Now if incursion has one team that has a base to defend and other team has to take over. Then that is something. Not both sides have a base.

[Alexander of Macedon]

They're absolute garbage and should be removed from QP queues.

[Armored Yokai]

People don't like it because they are so used to nascaring and just fighting with no real objective.
Incursion and escort forces them to think about something other than Nascar domination.

[Phoenix 72]

I dunno. I do not mind incursion at all. I had one of my best games ever in that mode.

We tried to push the enemy and they kept retreating. So we slowly pushed and they slowly retreated in a half circle, kinda like reverse Nascar. They kept killing us, because we had more short range brawlers than they did. Eventually they had Nascared away and we were standing in front of their base. So I said "**** it" and walked into their base alone, telling my team I was going for the base. I think a Light followed me in (I was in a short range Rouchneck that had done **** all over the whole game). So we started blowing the buildings apart. Eventually a few red Lights managed to come back to the base, killing my battle buddy and sniping at me. While I took apart the rest of the base. We won. I got nice money and experience, despite having damage in the double digits.

Escort is annoying as hell, though.

[Aidan Crenshaw]

Both game modes require some level of coordination and communication, and there's the rub. Most PUGs are either unwilling or incapable of engaging that level of play.

Edit: Forgot to answer the actual question. Provided i'm with my unit and grouped with minimally communicative others, i like both modes.

Edited by Aidan Crenshaw, 29 November 2018 - 11:23 PM.

[FRAGTAST1C]

I've played Escort many, many times. Oh, wait. You meant MWO Escort and not the....nvm.

Ahem, on topic, I've played Escort mode twice, I think and won once when we were defending the VIP. I liked it and whenever I see that game mode in the list, I always vote for it and even with 5x multiplier, it's difficult to get it selected.

Incursion, I believe is nice but as said above, they're meant for players who like team game-play and not teams just for the sake of it.

[ocular tb]

I can tolerate Incursion but hate Escort.

[Alan Hicks]

I like Incursion even better than conquest or domination, but is not that popular. As for Escort, it needs some modifications to be attractive. I've seen it's the least popular game mode.

People pick up simple modes because they don't want to trouble themselves. Besides, given the current match maker, there's always a high probability of a disaster, on any game mode.

As for now, the most popular game modes seem to be Skirmish, Domination or Assault. Also, Conquest gets chosen more than before.