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Posted - 2014.05.25 01:02:00 -
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The only game mode in Legion that is going to be as much of a sandbox as all of these dreamers want will be PC. The MAJORITY of players will not be playing PC, they will instead be either fighting drones, or participating in FW.
Drone matches WILL have different types of game modes absolutely. For example, imagine something like players boarding ships to go hunt drones on a certain area of the planet. You would be hired by a NPC, and they would pay you based on the work done. That area will need to cleared out and the drones might only be located inside of a structure or base (or possibly multiple small bases). After all of the drones are destroyed, you get rewards and are returned back to the hangar to be hired on for another mission.
But we can mix it up and have objectives that spawn drones...so you have to hack the objective to turn off the spawning mechanism. Maybe you have a limited amount of clones and the drones can turn the spawners back on. Maybe there will be defences/barriers you have to destroy as you breach the walls of a structure or city.
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And then with FW, you'll essentially be hired on as a merc to fight for one side or the other. Say Gallente places an attack on Caldari and they need X amount of mercs before they can attack. Caldari finds out they are being attacked and needs to hire mercs to defend. Bam, you have a battle.
Here comes the sandbox part. As Caldari, you already have a base captured and you spawn in waiting for the Gallente to show up. As Gallente, you're being dropped in by the Mobile MCC outside of the base, trying to push into the city to take control. Each side has only spent a certain amount of resources, so once one side runs out, the other is victorious.
Either way, these battles can have objectives, or breach mechanics, or just be about who can clone the other team out. These types of game modes should be interesting, and I agree that there should just be more than your standard TDM.
You could go crazy with these ideas, like maybe Gallente spies placed a bomb inside the caldari base and you have to figure out where it's located before time runs out. Maybe there's a fight going on in space and you have to charge a cannon for 10 minutes while another team tries to stop you.
Just because it's a sandbox, doesn't mean we can't have interesting reasons for why we're fighting. Because if we didn't, Legion would become Planetside 2...and trust me, PS2 doesn't make you feel like you're fighting for anything.
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