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[Aelos03]

Halfinax, on 12 May 2012 - 12:22 AM, said:

Base capture is significantly more interesting than Team Death Match, and capture the flag. At least with base capture you generally need team coordination to defend the capturer, and as the capturee you also need defenders to baby sit the capture sights.

That said I'd love to see base captures amount to something more than just holding a defined area. Something along the lines of automated turrets, radar relays, etc would make it much more interesting, but as a MVP at launch base capture is much more appealing than TDM. I'll take the former over the later any day. Eventually throw in attack + defense, and I'll generally be a happy camper (colloquially not literally). TDM is really lame, but honestly banging away at a dropship for 12 minutes doesn't sound fun at all, and escort is awful. Payload I can see, but escort is always terrible. It relies too much on AI, or a team member that can have no fun.

well CTF is more complex then base capture most of people will play like TDM with no respawn but in ctf team actually needs to work together.

[Long Draw]

Okay, so why can't we get something along the lines of Mech Olympics? You could have the long jump "jet", a slalom both on level ground as well as up or down hill, a sharp shooter and speed shooter competition and I'm sure lots more! At least this way, if we get bored of capture the flag for the last 24 straight hours, we can take a break with some other activities that show off our newly acquired skills. This could also very easily tie into another thread that the developers took interest in where a combat veteran medal showcase was being discussed.

[Logi]

you are in search for some new concept of the old and well known base capture? then how about "capture/defend the dropship"? in some books it really was fun and popular and everyone liked it. for example in price of glory they played it TWICE!

Edited by Logi, 12 May 2012 - 01:45 AM.