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[ManDaisy]

Macross space battle mode.

Lights only, only requirement is mechs are below 35tons. Tonnage limit in that not all mechs can be 35 tons.

[zues4334]

Yet another game mode I would enjoy to see would be a Free For All Mode. I know what your thinking, the heavy mechs could easily take out the light mechs, but instead of all weight types thrown together, they would be seperated by weight classes. For example, Assaults vs. Assaults, Lights vs. Lights, etc., etc.

[Chacatumbi]

Arena mode MW2 merc style where 4 random people fight it out battle royale style. You could even make this several rounds where final round will be the 2 best people and be 1v1.

Now i know some people may cry and say it wouldnt be fair cuss a team game or b/c assaults would have an advantage, but this isnt true... a jenner can absolutely demolish an atlas due to maneuverability. I mean, the atlas will have no recon mech to paint enemies, will just be 1v1.

Edited by Chacatumbi, 11 June 2012 - 10:53 AM.

[Hoaggie]

Time Trial Mode

My basic idea is to have a series of nav points each team has to navigate under a certain time, like you have 30secs for somebody on your team to reach each point in order. Both sides would have their own routes that would start and end separately, but would overlap in some areas, maybe like in a canyon or something, and the paths would cross in other areas, like an urban area where you wouldn't know what was around any corner. You could still shoot at and take out enemy mechs, but the winner would be whoever got the most nav points or finished the course before either time runs out or all their mechs are destroyed.

The reason for doing this could be for sport, or it could be some sort of story like you have to collect dead soldiers or something.

I think it would add a sort of urgency to the game, where both teams would have to balance the need to get to the nav points with trying to stop the enemy from doing the same thing.

[Supremacist]

I've looked through about 5 pages and havent seen this listed once.

How about: FREE FOR ALL
All 24 drop on their own with just one mech only once, seperated by some distance, and begin killing each other until only one remains.

It was very popular in MPBT.


Another version could be FFA+
Same as above but randomly spawning on the field could be powerups like shields, ammo, repair, X2 damage.
It would certainly spice things up rather than waiting for the one minute that slightly damaged hunchback closes with the slightly damaged Atlas, the hunchback could pick himself up an X2 damage boost and make a battle of it.

Finally; Clan Zombies/Davion Zombies, whoever

You spawn with 3 or more others, defending a base from wave after wave of increasingly stronger Zombie mechwarriors, maybe make them melee only mechs

Edited by Supremacist, 12 June 2012 - 08:27 PM.

[Chunkymonkey]

Supremacist, on 12 June 2012 - 07:57 PM, said:

Finally; Clan Zombies/Davion Zombies, whoever

You spawn with 3 or more others, defending a base from wave after wave of increasingly stronger Zombie mechwarriors, maybe make them melee only mechs

Sounds cool.....wait what?

Actually, i like this idea, maybe we have start with one machine gun and have to buy new guns.


A mystery weapon could be provided by Comstar! Imagine the happiness when you win a Gauss rifle, or you could put it through the NAIS thingermajigar and get a Heavy Gauss Rifle. There could be Different types of Zombies infected by the Wei Gas, like round one being bandits to 99 being clan assualt forces. And you cant forget the drunk Marik, the Pissed off Davion, the Silent Kuritan, and the Insane Lyran!!!!


Strangely, my insane rant sounds somewhat plausible....I forgot to mention the mad capellen scientist who strips your mech of weapons one at a time...and then there's the KF teleporters....hmm.

Edited by Chunkymonkey, 12 June 2012 - 08:35 PM.

[Tterrag]

How bout a kick the scout game one random player is transformed into a light mech with max speed and armor with no weapons and he has to run away when he is destroyed by someone they get a point and randomly someone else becomes the scout

[CeeKay Boques]

Game Mode: Planet Assault... Mini Campaign

4 Maps, chosen by the planet. (its always the same 4 maps maybe, to give planet owners a home advantage?)

Anyway, you fight back and forth on these maps until one side is pushed off. Attackers start on Map 1, must walk to Map 4. There are a finite amount of Mechs, based on what the Attacker brought, and the standing garrison on the planet, if it comes down to attrition. Both sides gear up for about an hour of drops.

[Southern Taxi]

Navy field style planetary capture (or if MWO's current system is better, maybe an extended war mode).

The idea is this: each team has a high playerbase, and different tiles to attack. A battle starts when the Attacking team selects a Tile to attack. It's a blind mode, so you don't know the number or type of the enemy Mechs.
Each time a tile is taken by the attacker, they unlock new tiles to attack.
The invading team wins when they take the last row of tiles (having all the tiles in between isn't needed).
None of the teams is able to repair their Mechs between battles. They can only reload ammo or use their extra Mechs.

As an extra feature, some of the tiles could be capture the objective maps instead of just killing each other (Killing the entire enemy team could work anyway).

EDIT: I forgot to mention: you can go out of the battle map on purpose to leave an already lost battle without losing your mech.



A map of this size could work for a Border World, with a Company Vs Company fight and a 2 hour limit. For a House Vs House Faction World fight it could be a 50x50 event, with the final capture tile being at the center, and the event lasting 12-24 hours.

Technoviking, on 13 June 2012 - 09:15 AM, said:

Game Mode: Planet Assault... Mini Campaign

4 Maps, chosen by the planet. (its always the same 4 maps maybe, to give planet owners a home advantage?)

Anyway, you fight back and forth on these maps until one side is pushed off. Attackers start on Map 1, must walk to Map 4. There are a finite amount of Mechs, based on what the Attacker brought, and the standing garrison on the planet, if it comes down to attrition. Both sides gear up for about an hour of drops.

Yeah, it's pretty much this. Just with a 5x5 matrix and a 2 hour limit.

Edited by Southern Taxi, 13 June 2012 - 10:07 AM.

[CeeKay Boques]

Southern Taxi, on 13 June 2012 - 09:43 AM, said:

Navy field style planetary capture (or if MWO's current system is better, maybe an extended war mode).

The idea is this: each team has a high playerbase, and different tiles to attack. A battle starts when the Attacking team selects a Tile to attack. It's a blind mode, so you don't know the number or type of the enemy Mechs.
Each time a tile is taken by the attacker, they unlock new tiles to attack.
The invading team wins when they take the last row of tiles (having all the tiles in between isn't needed).
None of the teams is able to repair their Mechs between battles. They can only reload ammo or use their extra Mechs.

As an extra feature, some of the tiles could be capture the objective maps instead of just killing each other (Killing the entire enemy team could work anyway).

EDIT: I forgot to mention: you can go out of the battle map on purpose to leave an already lost battle without losing your mech.



A map of this size could work for a Border World, with a Company Vs Company fight and a 2 hour limit. For a House Vs House Faction World fight it could be a 50x50 event, with the final capture tile being at the center, and the event lasting 12-24 hours.



Yeah, it's pretty much this. Just with a 5x5 matrix and a 2 hour limit.

Fantastic. PGI, make it so.

[Damon]

A planetary conquest mode (if it hasnt already been stated in the past 18 pages). Players from MMOs might consider them akin to Raiding. This may include other various game types that have already been mentioned or already in the game.

The assaulting force has multiple objectives to complete in order to conquer a given planet. These objectives could range from Seek and Destroy of the on world defenders, Capture and control say Starports or Dropship landing pads, Assault and Destroy the on planetary defense base/system, ect.

This could take place in multiple battles with varying number of Mech Companies operating together or just an individual Mech company assaulting the planet. These objectives could be predefined prior to the assault or change mid course depending on how the individual battles unfold.

One scenario could be a company hot dropping from their dropship right onto a defenders base, then a running battle afterwards as the attackers chase them to the supply base the defenders are attempting to regroup at. The final battle could be for the last of the defenders bases on planet and the winner would thereafter own/occupy said planet.

Would take some extra work to implement a game mode such as this that could be unique depending on the planet being fought for and the attackers and defenders force makeup. But since MWO is advertising that planets will be able to change hands between varying factions/units, this could be an interesting and involed way to implement such a battle for planetary conquest.

[Birddog FAC]

Aegis Kleais, on 12 March 2012 - 02:20 PM, said:

I never played BF3 (EA forces you to use Origin) but for some follow up questions...

1. I assume this would have to be a NON-RANKED game mode only (cause you're giving them infinite lives rather than requiring them to have the needed number of Mechs they use from their Mech Garage). I like the idea of dynamic objectives (or having 2 being active at the same time). I would just have to make sure that a game mode designed around FPS transposed properly to MW. But it sounds interesting.

i would say that you choose your mech and it respawns with you .. allowing your contribution to the battle to be added to your ranked score. the requirement of multipul mechs for a game type or more than one game type forces players to play mechs they may not like or want to play. I personaly would like to focus on one or two mechs so i am verry efficent with them and can be more of an asset to my team in my chosen mech than be an average joe who can play anything but realy is not that good at any one mech ( i know not all players fit this bill)

[Birddog FAC]

Hoaggie, on 12 June 2012 - 04:39 AM, said:

Time Trial Mode

My basic idea is to have a series of nav points each team has to navigate under a certain time, like you have 30secs for somebody on your team to reach each point in order. Both sides would have their own routes that would start and end separately, but would overlap in some areas, maybe like in a canyon or something, and the paths would cross in other areas, like an urban area where you wouldn't know what was around any corner. You could still shoot at and take out enemy mechs, but the winner would be whoever got the most nav points or finished the course before either time runs out or all their mechs are destroyed.

The reason for doing this could be for sport, or it could be some sort of story like you have to collect dead soldiers or something.

I think it would add a sort of urgency to the game, where both teams would have to balance the need to get to the nav points with trying to stop the enemy from doing the same thing.

the idea has merrit but this mode would just turn into a bunch of lights swarming as fast as they can along a track takeing pot shots. i belive that the first team that makes all points or the team farthes along when a set time limit runs out or all enemy mechs are destroyed would work. This being said it would encurage tactics as killing of the team who is winning would cause a loss

[Birddog FAC]

Izzit Alldat, on 10 June 2012 - 08:08 AM, said:

I realize that the devs have mentioned that you cannot be lose all your mechs and life but be crippled by lack of c-bills to repair. BUT why not have a truely HARDCORE SHARD where every decision you make determines your current status and true death can occur if you happen to not be able to eject before a critical core explosion, or AC/20 to the face for that matter. Even the penalties incurred by having your mech critically disabled may seem like a huge penalty but really in the scheme of things can be worked off and restored eventually, is this really a penalty to poor/unlucky game play? I have been playing another game where death penalties were merely an inconvenience and found that I was bored with it still fun but something was missing. I found out about a hardcore mode with one life and the game was totally new every choice and combat was potentially my last and came near death a couple times but damn it was exciting. That excitement can be created here and you will truely have some of the BEST pilots ever found on that possible shard. I do think that if you do have your pilot killed his stuff should be handed down to a heir of course with some losses due to repair of the mechs inherited.

Regards,

Izzit Alldat

i like the basics of your idea but the deves do not have ejection implemented in the game as of this time to the best of my understanding. but its a sound start to hard core... but i dont want to see anyone unable to play based off cbill loss but maybe if you cannont repair or die you would be unable to join matches for a certain type of game and if pilot dies recive penalties that can be overcome after a few games

[Arthwys IronHand]

Don't know if it's been suggested yet but I'd like to see Open Melee. No teams, everyone for themselves and the winner takes the prize. 24 units, countdown, anything goes.

Edited by Arthwys IronHand, 14 June 2012 - 04:55 AM.

[Hoaggie]

[TheDarkOne]

Maybe some sort of a freeze tag game mode?
You have this special kind of gun that freezes up the systems of the mech that it hits. Teammates of that mech can then unfreeze him with the other special gun that's mounted on the other arm. The team with the most kills within a certain time limit wins.

[Ethospar]

Spartan Leonidus, on 28 May 2012 - 06:33 PM, said:

Mech Football (US) reminiscent of "Starsiege Football" [b]

+1 Please offer this mode. A tackle function would be fun too, as part of the football theme.

[Axatillian]

I was thinking a city defense mode.. I'm not sure how much destructability there is on buildings or what.
But here it is.
Have one unit set to defend a city with a huge purse for winning and the other team set to drop or attack for a small purse for winning the map. The purse diffrence is needed as the defenders are to try and prevent damage to "their city" and have their purse reduced per building destroyed/damaged. All the while the attackers are rewarded for destroying as much as possible. This could also be done at factories, military bases, heck anywhere there would be a resorce one side would benifit by destryoing. Of course the sides would be slugging it out the whole time and there would have to be a time limit mainly to prvent the attacking team from just razing buildings.

Edited by Axatillian, 14 June 2012 - 06:50 PM.

[Kenshar]

NHUA death match!!