Request/Idea: Capture The Flag(Frontline: PvP)

[Magic-Mal]

I'm very surprised PvP lasted this long without Capture The Flag... Every PvP thing has a capture mode somewhere! Captures tend to be my favorite modes.. I love protecting the carrier, keeping the enemies off an such. It could be sooo easy to do so..

-Grand Companies are fighting for disputed land and need soldiers to claim land. Plant the flag and hold, or maybe even simply get it to the point of capture and that equals points. Heck they could make 2 modes.

Capture The Flag And Defend:
-Capture the flag, plant the flag in the disputed territory and hold until the end.

-Flag-wielders have knockback and other basic survival skills to try and stay safe. Also has a "Throw" action that throws the flag where you want to drop(think ground AoE)


Retrieve And Capture:
-Go to disputed territory and take Allagan technology. This is just a game of who can capture the most technology. Whoever gets the most wins.

-Carriers can have a skill set similar to Capture and Defend.

And with GC restrictions being removed in 3.5, Frontline will be so much more lively!

[Mithrahn]

Wait.. uhm, what?
What about Borderlands(Secure)?
Though it's not like how you described, it still involved capturing flags.
(Though it's more like capture objective :O)

[Chiramu]

A proper capture the flag would be a great PVP match. Secure is a King of the Hill Mithrahn.

[aesteval]

Isn't king of the hill, at its basest, capture a location and defend the location?

[Magic-Mal]

Isn't king of the hill, at its basest, capture a location and defend the location?

Yes. That is not Capture the Flag. Totally different game type.

[Nerisu]

A payload type map would be nice too. Then you can blame your teammates when they don't sit on it and lose.

[aesteval]

Yes. That is not Capture the Flag. Totally different game type.

But...

Capture The Flag And Defend:
-Capture the flag, plant the flag in the disputed territory and hold until the end.

It sounds like there is some overlap in this case. It's not all of the additions you're asking for, but this much sort of exists?

[Magic-Mal]

~Bump~

I think the Devs are trying too hard to make unique game modes for PvP when a simple, more traditional game mode could be really popular.

We do have Base Capture(Seal Rock:Seize). But we do still lack a basic King Of The Hill and Capture The Flag for example.

Secure isn't really King Of The Hill it's more like Kill Nodes mode. They have Feast which could have been a basic Team Deathmatch but they added the extra mechanic to it with the medals.

We have a TDM in Carteanu but that's dead because it's lv50.

So yeah, I think the Devs are trying too hard to make something unique with PvP when keeping it simple would be much more popular with PvPers.

[TiaHariberux3]

We may see CTF or some other 2 team modes in 4.0. Currently it wouldnt work but since the new modes in 4.0 were the reason of the gc restriction its highly possible.

[Zojha]

We do have Base Capture(Seal Rock:Seize). But we do still lack a basic King Of The Hill and Capture The Flag for example.

From what I remember, "basic" King of the hill is pretty much just:"Keep more members in the target area to accumulate points."

I don't think that works well in a game with tanks and healers. And they aren't overly conductive to engaging capture the flag gameplay either - In WoW, they had to give Warsong a time limit because of their stalling power, despite already having 50/100% damage debuffs on flag carriers.

I mean, I'm not opposed to them trying, but...egh. I don't think it would do anything to PvP as a whole other than make whatever mode they had previously obsolete like every PvP addition.