How about the maps being modified during this game mode so that there are many pedestals (that aren't cloaked) upon which the MDAs could be placed (which are cloaked) with the computer being attached to the pedestal. The computers would be unhackable until the MDA is revealed. This would prevent players from discovering cloaked MDAs by running face first into them.

How about the maps being modified during this game mode so that there are many pedestals (that aren't cloaked) upon which the MDAs could be placed (which are cloaked) with the computer being attached to the pedestal. The computers would be unhackable until the MDA is revealed. This would prevent players from discovering cloaked MDAs by running face first into them.

Starts with 2 teams, each team has an MCC. The MCCs are shooting each other.

Each team has 3 to 5 cloaked hidden missile defense arrays (MDA) that shoots down (preferably with a kickass laser) incoming missiles from the enemy MCC.

There are 3 neutral objectives. These objectives are massive scanner installations. If you hack 2/3 of the scanner installations, they will scan and locate 1 of enemy's anti-missive systems.

Once your scanner installation locates and decloaks an MDA, the MDA will be marked on your team's HUD/map, and it will be destructible by hacking, or by damaging. Until it is scanned, MDAs will be cloaked and indestructible. There will be a few minutes for the "attackers" to destroy the spotted MDA before it cloaks again, and becomes indestructible.

After a spotted MDA is destroyed, control of the scanner installations reset back to being neutral.

The goal is to gain control of the scanner installations in order to locate and decloak your enemy's MDAs (missile defense arrays), and then destroy them. Destroying MDAs will allow more of your MCC's missiles to successfully hit your enemy's MCC, thus allowing your MCC to destroy the enemy one.

Furthermore, this. Just because.

That works

This game mode sounds spectacular; +1! Using the MDA Installations in Scorch might be interesting, too.
I like the idea that they should be cloaked and indestructible, but I don't think they should be impossible to find. I agree; the terminals should not be hackable until they MDA is revealed, but I think the MDAs should still be able to be found.

Instead, the MDAs can be found, but they are linked to a heavy-duty Shield Transporter from the MCC. That way, any damage dealt to the MDA while cloaked is instantly nullified/regenerated. Whenever the Scanning terminals are hacked, they also disrupt the revealed MDA's connection between the MCC's Shield Transporter, and if the revealed MDA is not destroyed successfully in that period of time, the MDA's Shields are restored.

Would also be awesome to have some of the MDAs floating in the air. Have the MDAs in the air over the battlefield and the hackable terminals either on the ground or on floating platforms on which the MDAs rest.

If MDAs are able to be found before they are revealed, a team could rush to an MDA, spam uplinks, and effectively seize control of the enemy MDA until it is properly revealed and then destructible.


Also, if the MDAs are destructible, they need to have a LOT of health otherwise a squad of proto forges could just nuke the MDAs as they appeared.

There'd be no point to spamming uplinks around the MDA because it would effectively take no damage due to the MCC's Shield Transporter. Also, if it takes a group of people secure a found MDA/ MDA terminal, they're obviously not helping hacking the scan terminals, which is what is absolutely necessary to blow up the MDAs. Also, just try Uplink spamming a floating MDA and see how that goes!

Even a group of Proto Forger gunners wouldn't be able to lay a scratch on the MDAs because of the MCC's Shield Transporter. After that, it's a matter of having a fair amount of health for the MDA to be blown up within the scan time frame.

Chances are taking control of the area around an MDA before the MDA is revealed and destructible will be much easier than attempting to take it after it is revealed. This is because most of the fighting will be at the scanner installations and there would be few if any defenders at the MDAs. Once the MDA is revealed, the attackers will have a much easier time if they already have uplinks by the MDA. While this may temporarily reduce the number of players your team has attempting to take the scanner installations, it would only be until the uplinks have been set. Once set, the uplink runners could go back to taking the scanner installations. These uplinks would also allow your team to attack from multiple directions (Nothing wrong with this, but it is another benefit of taking the MDAs before they're revealed). And even if the MDA is floating, the computer to hack it must still be accessible by ground forces.

And yes, before the MDAs are revealed the forge gunners wouldn't be able to put a scratch on the MDAs. The problem is that once they are revealed, a group of them could quickly take out the MDA from a distance preventing the MDA's defenders from having a chance at preventing the MDA's destruction. However, if the MDAs are balanced such that the forge gunners cant easily wipe out the MDA, then the only methods to destroy an MDA in a reasonable amount of time would be the forge gunners, a number of tanks, or a lot of REs (assuming you can get them on the MDA)

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And yes, before the MDAs are revealed the forge gunners wouldn't be able to put a scratch on the MDAs. The problem is that once they are revealed, a group of them could quickly take out the MDA from a distance preventing the MDA's defenders from having a chance at preventing the MDA's destruction. However, if the MDAs are balanced such that the forge gunners cant easily wipe out the MDA, then the only methods to destroy an MDA in a reasonable amount of time would be the forge gunners, a number of tanks, or a lot of REs (assuming you can get them on the MDA)

Scan *wown- wown-* Destroy *pew- pew- ... boom-*