There have also been major changes to Skirmish Mode. Players who have been with us since closed beta will remember that Skirmish used to involve a team escorting a Mobile Command Center (MCC) across a map while a rival team attempted to stop them, a setup now commonly called GÇ£Skirmish 1.0GÇ¥. Unfortunately, this mode was not as balanced as we would have liked. At the time it was deployed, the fittings and skills players could select, and the randomization of outposts in each battle, led to uneven gameplay between the teams.

Players let us know, so we created a version of Skirmish Mode (commonly called GÇ£Skirmish 2.0GÇ¥) with more symmetry among teams. Anyone who has played DUST 514 should be familiar with this newer setup. There are now two MCCs floating above a battlefield, launching barrages of concentrated firepower at each other. Players rush to capture NULL cannons to damage their enemyGÇÖs MCC as quickly as possible while preventing their rivals from doing the same.

I think Skirmish 1.0 would be something that could be added as a secondary Skirmish mode just as Ambush and Ambush OMS are set up. We could use a bit of variety and the Skirmish 1.0 game mode is a good setup to learn defense and offense on as it forces you to get better with either starting at an advantage or not. (Watch out for Proto Stomp QQ more on skirm 1.0)

Skirmish 1.0 may have been fun, but it was broken as ****.

My team pushes forward, takes out the defense relays, and rolls straight toward the outpost within the first 5 minutes.

The enemy team drops in a bunch of HAVs, and everyone else pulls AV weapons.

They shoot at the MCC.

They win.


That is just one example of how the mode wasn't the "God Mode" everyone says it was, and yes, I was there to play it.

Also, if you cleared the relays fast enough, massing AV to shred the MCC was the ONLY counter left to you, because the enemy team could just sit back in the canyons and laugh as all three null cannons failed to do enough damage to take it down before it docked with the outpost.


I'm not saying I didn't have fun with the mode, but it was far from perfect. There were threads about it being broken back during Replication, if you'll recall.

Only been around since early open beta, but would live to play Skirmish 1.0.
Seems like a logical fit for FW battles.

Yeah there were definitely some major issues with it but it was a hell of a lot of fun. Setting sniper positions to cover your people running to make the hack, firing like mad from the last remaining rail gun trying to blow up the MCC before it docked, crossing the no mans land to get to the city, sneaking behind enemy lines and turning a blaster turret on them all.