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[Armorpiercer M82]

NO RESPAWN ! geeez, COD kiddos go away.

[Jaxom08]

I can't quite see how this game mode would be successful without some form of respawn,but perhaps they will suprise me and it will be grand.....not going to get my hopes up too much tho as we all know that once they introduce ANYTHING new.....it tends to break 10 other things.

[Penance]

Morrey, on 09 December 2012 - 07:08 PM, said:

Pulled this from one of the Dev Post.
I don't game much, can someone explain what these different modes are?

Conquest Mode

We've been play testing this for a few weeks now, things are coming along nicely! It's fun and requires lots of team coordination. We're fixing up some balance issues, resource/base locations, and general HUD/BattleGrid messaging to smooth out what's going on. We're taking a look at CB/EXP rewards, focusing on rewarding teamplay above all else. This means a reduction in kill/assist/damage done rewarding, and an increase in holding resources points. With a new mode, comes a new way to launch into matches. A new button will allow players to select/set their default mode to: Quick Play (random), Assault, or Conquest.

Think battlefield conquest mode.

[Mathmatics]

In starfleet command there was a really cool game mode where the spawning system went like this: First everyone spawns in frigates, when the frig dies you spawn in a cruiser, when the cruiser dies you spawn in a battleship and when that eats it you spawn in a dreadnaught. A game mode like that would be really cool in this game. You could pick the mechs first but so obviously it would go light, med, heavy, assault. Would be a lot of fun I think. Maybe not for conquest but just to have a spawn mutator like that would be awesome.

[PerfectTommy]

Aym, on 10 December 2012 - 06:54 AM, said:

Arathi Basin much?

Um. That multi-base capture mode like AB? Is a LOT older than Warcraft.



-PT

[Khobai]

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NO RESPAWN ! geeez, COD kiddos go away

Its not the no respawn that bothers me. Its the fact that respawn is integral to ticket system game modes. If theres no respawn theres no real point to having tickets.

Edited by Khobai, 10 December 2012 - 07:22 AM.

[FullMetalJackass]

My 2cents....sounds like a combo of CODs headquarters/search and destroy. Random base spawn points, once you die thats it till the end of the round, regardless of which team you are on.

Edited by FullMetalJackass, 10 December 2012 - 07:30 AM.

[Enigmos]

deadeye mcduck, on 10 December 2012 - 06:53 AM, said:

... We aint getting COD style respawns.

...thank the small gods!

[Enigmos]

Khobai, on 10 December 2012 - 07:21 AM, said:

Its not the no respawn that bothers me. Its the fact that respawn is integral to ticket system game modes. If theres no respawn theres no real point to having tickets.

You have a preconception of the ticket system. Preconceptions skew judgement. Recommend awaiting the revelation of what the designers of THIS game meant before passing judgement or forming an opinion based on the design of other games you may have known in the past.

Edited by OriginalTibs, 10 December 2012 - 07:53 AM.

[Vlad Ward]

Khobai, on 10 December 2012 - 07:21 AM, said:

Its not the no respawn that bothers me. Its the fact that respawn is integral to ticket system game modes. If theres no respawn theres no real point to having tickets.

This is why I assumed it would be respawn-enabled. I'm not sure the mode itself would make much sense if it was just replacing "Sit in the Red Square" with "Shoot the building in the Red Square".

[M4NTiC0R3X]

Sure I'm late and somebody probably beat me to it however:

Conquest mode will focus more on Resource Gathering, such as capturing the enemy base now in Assault. I believe there will be several resource points on the map available for capture, and the more resources gathered the more you gain (XP/C-Bills).

One thing I know for certain is that they are trying to focus more on capturing, 'n the bonuses of gathering said resource will be greater than kills / dmg / assist / spot / that sort of stuff. Not sure if they'll lower the reward for kills/dmg/assist/spot or just increase the reward for capture 'n gather but there you have it.

If they do implement a respawn / repair bays for longer matches, something I read on this thread earlier, sounds like a lot of fun to me. Just think, you're about to blow up... then you dash around the hill to your ECM and literally one machine gun ping away from death you repair to full (for the full price of course)... not sure how something like that would work or if it would have respawns or what but sure sounds cool to me.

Anything other than the ECM brawls we're currently experiencing! they can be fun if you go in equipped properly.. Ehrm srms and lasers//ballistics.

[Magic Murder Bag]

M4NTiC0R3X, on 10 December 2012 - 07:59 AM, said:

Sure I'm late and somebody probably beat me to it however:

Conquest mode will focus more on Resource Gathering, such as capturing the enemy base now in Assault. I believe there will be several resource points on the map available for capture, and the more resources gathered the more you gain (XP/C-Bills).

One thing I know for certain is that they are trying to focus more on capturing, 'n the bonuses of gathering said resource will be greater than kills / dmg / assist / spot / that sort of stuff. Not sure if they'll lower the reward for kills/dmg/assist/spot or just increase the reward for capture 'n gather but there you have it.

If they do implement a respawn / repair bays for longer matches, something I read on this thread earlier, sounds like a lot of fun to me. Just think, you're about to blow up... then you dash around the hill to your ECM and literally one machine gun ping away from death you repair to full (for the full price of course)... not sure how something like that would work or if it would have respawns or what but sure sounds cool to me.

Anything other than the ECM brawls we're currently experiencing! they can be fun if you go in equipped properly.. Ehrm srms and lasers//ballistics.

Mechwarrior 4 and Mercs had Repair and Ream buildings in the campaign ( the actual facilities found while in a mission anyways), and for this mode type it could actually work...

Edited by Magic Murder Bag, 10 December 2012 - 08:18 AM.