Or a dropship dependent game mode where two people from each side are randomly selected to pilot the team across deep valleys (or something to prohibit LAV and HAV) to the other side, dropships are Gorgon and Viper, the way to win is basically ambush, but more 'grooves' in the landscape. I think it'll be chaotic and fun.
Anyway that's just an idea that popped into my head.

It could happen. Personally I want to see a CTF-ish deal pretty badly. The Headquarters thing should basically just replace what Dom is now, IMHO. Lore is malleable, it's not hard to nonsense up some lore to explain gameplay. (What do you think New Eden lore is so far? It's "this is what we want to add to the game, make some nonsense to explain it".)

I know that 99% of this community has a raging hate boner for CoD, but would it seriously be so hard to copy over one of their game modes for our use? They've got plenty to choose from, after all.

In CoD-speak we currently have team deathmatch, domination(our skirmish is their domination, strangely), and I guess king of the hill would be the closest thing to our domination. Could we please get something new? I have a lot of fun with search and destroy on the occasions that I still boot up my old copy of CoD, that wouldn't be so hard to make would it?

Search and Destroy consists of multiple rounds, first one to win 4 rounds wins the game. In each round, one team tries to defend their two objectives, while the other team tries to destroy one of the two objectives. Each person gets one life per round. Teams can win a round by killing everyone on the enemy team, destroying one objective, or defending said objectives until the timer runs out.

Or maybe Headquarters? It would be similar to our domination, only the objective we have to hack and defend will randomly spawn on the map, and changes locations every minute or so.

Capture the Flag? Pretty self-explanatory.

I know most people want Crater Lake back, but at this point I think we can write it off as a fantasy.


And I know none of these have any lore backstory to them, but seriously, if we have gimp the variety of the game just because it doesn't have some meaningless story behind it, there are some serious problems holding this game back.

Id like a 1 on 1 arena variant. You're on a flat open plain with one socket and you are restricted to stay in that socket. The gameplay is basically UFC but in dust, 1v1 3 rounds. After the match the winner gets the losers lost suits and modules (maybe) and a high isk reward (700k-1mil+). The loser gets a lower isk reward (less then 150k) and the opponents lost gear (if any). This payment is kind of like gambling, you can gain a lot or lose a lot. If you win you can pay for a few losses before you go negative but then you win again and make up for it. And if you win lot you make a lot.

It could happen. Personally I want to see a CTF-ish deal pretty badly. The Headquarters thing should basically just replace what Dom is now, IMHO. Lore is malleable, it's not hard to nonsense up some lore to explain gameplay. (What do you think New Eden lore is so far? It's "this is what we want to add to the game, make some nonsense to explain it".)