A game mode composed of 3 stages. Winning 2 out of 3 means victory. If a team won the first 2 stages, then the 3rd stage should be skipped.

Capture Defense relay: Neutral (no attacker/defender). Gives winning team control of the installations. This is akin to Domination.

Oupost Control: Attack/defend. Defense relay winners become the defenders, and their clone reserves increase by 100 because of the clone stored in the outpost. Attackers must breach the outpost and must plant charges to destroy the clone storage sites (and decrease defender clones by 100).

Ambush: Neutral. We all know how Ambush works.

I want it.

A game mode composed of 3 stages. Winning 2 out of 3 means victory. If a team won the first 2 stages, then the 3rd stage should be skipped.

Stage 1 - Defense Relay: Neutral (no attacker/defender). Both teams fight over a defense relay which gives winning team control of the installations. This is akin to Domination.

Stage 2 - Oupost Control: Attack/defend. Defense relay winners become the defenders, and their clone reserves increase by 100 because of the clone stored in the outpost. Attackers must breach the outpost and must plant charges to destroy the bulk clone storage sites (and decrease defender clones by 100) to win; 5 sites each containing 25 clones for example. Defenders can win by depleting the attacker clones. Losing stage 2 for defenders means the extra 100 clones is destroyed.

Stage 3 - Ambush: Neutral. We all know how Ambush works.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are worried about the 100 extra clones being a balance problem in the Ambush stage, remember that winning 2 out of 3 stages automatically ends the battle. If defenders win Outpost Control, then it means they won 2 out of 3 stages (thus ending the battle and skipping Ambush stage); to be defender means you won Defense Relay (1 victory), and to winning Outpost Control as defender (2nd victory) means battle ends. This means there will never be a scenario where the defenders of stage 2 could use the clone advantage they received from stage 2 to win stage 3.

I want it.

I don't see the point of having ambush at the end of it. Up to demo makes sense, but the ambush makes no sense. Now having Skirmish 1.0 combined with ambush might be fun.....


Peace, Godin

Why isn't Ambush first? Or why isn't it Conquest instead of Ambush? Is this for PC or for just Pubbing, may be to long for pubs.

I think this idea has merits, my only worries was the length for pubs. I've seen some better ideas for PC, no offense.

Public battle, no one said it was for PC. Skirmish 1.0 will return for PC.
What's wrong with having a long 30 minute public battle? MAG had such long modes, so does Killzone 2 and 3. Keep in mind that stage 3 is skipped if one team already won 2 stages.
If Ambush was first, that would mean it would be possible for the game to end with only 1 attack/defend battle since Ambush and Defense Relay are both neutral modes. I wanted to make sure in all scenarios that there would be at least 1 attack/defend mode played.
Also Ambush is the logical continuation of Outpost control; in Outpost Control both teams try to take out the other's clones, the attackers do it by blowing up clone storage sites, and the defenders do it by just killing the attackers. Once the clone storage sites are destroyed, it only makes sense that it would just be Ambush.

how about multiple defense relays where all must be held by one side to unlock the next stage and to become the defenders

That could work as well, It would be cool to have the number of relays vary much like the number of null canons vary in Skirmish.

yeah and the all should be held by oneside idea is from MAG sabotage

I never liked that about sabotage, I would prefer if holding objectives filled a bar, and the team to fill their bar first wins the first stage, both for this and sabotage.

I really would like to see this kind of 3 stage gameplay even if the whole match takes an hour or so to play out.