DUST Search - 2 Game Requests (War Barge and Capture The Flag)

Krom Ganesh wrote:

+1 to bringing back the war barge time.

Trading is supposed to be in the works.

+1 to capture the flag but it will need a dust twist for it to actually make sense (because a group of money-grubbing mercenaries are not going to gather around for a good old game of capture the flag)

Will probably need to be more like Team Fortress 2's CTF where you need to steal secret data. So how about the mercs need to hack* a computer in the enemy base** and the hacker gets data downloaded to his suit that must be taken back to the forward base for transmission to the employer? As usual for CTF, the data will come with a virus that causes the hacker to intermittently radiate his position across the tacnet (similar to how a scanned person is now but different color). No CRUs so uplinks will be incredibly useful.

*Multiple hackers speed up the hack like usual but only the first hacker gets the data
**Enemy permanent spawn points must be just outside the base so enemies can't spawn and immediately kill any hackers.
e.g. defender spawn ---- base ------------------------------------------- base + attacker spawn

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lithkul devant Legions of Infinite Dominion 127	Posted - 2013.11.18 16:02:00 - [1] - Quote Krom Ganesh wrote: +1 to bringing back the war barge time. Trading is supposed to be in the works. +1 to capture the flag but it will need a dust twist for it to actually make sense (because a group of money-grubbing mercenaries are not going to gather around for a good old game of capture the flag) Will probably need to be more like Team Fortress 2's CTF where you need to steal secret data. So how about the mercs need to hack* a computer in the enemy base** and the hacker gets data downloaded to his suit that must be taken back to the forward base for transmission to the employer? As usual for CTF, the data will come with a virus that causes the hacker to intermittently radiate his position across the tacnet (similar to how a scanned person is now but different color). No CRUs so uplinks will be incredibly useful. Multiple hackers speed up the hack like usual but only the first hacker gets the data *Enemy permanent spawn points must be just outside the base so enemies can't spawn and immediately kill any hackers. e.g. defender spawn ---- base ------------------------------------------- base + attacker spawn The only way I would supprt having a virus broadcast the position of where the "carrier" is, is if no orbitals were allowed to be thrown at the one carrying it, or if it could be spread across the team to say two other people, so that the enemy would at least have to guess which person to orbital strike. Otherwise I see in the future of this mod proto players holding the fort and sniping people to death while throwing orbitals down to anyone clever enough to beat their defenses. All they would have to do is to cap the flag 3-5 times make sure to always have a lead by two then just go about slaughtering people as if it was a domination match or an ambush match. How would people even be able to hold the fort, if they are a new player team going up against a more seasoned team, would their be internal defenses built into the base or would it rely upon people to make their own setups with uplinks, ammo hives, remote explosives, scanners, etc?