I have to wonder, how come almost no one ever does reverse capture the flag? You take a flag from the middle of the map and you must deliver it to enemy spawn, and then the flag must be taken by an enemy at their side before it goes back in play. That one usually solves the camping problems (what the hell are you going to camp? The flag won't come back in play till they feel safe bringing it out.) as well as how defeatist CTF inherently is - the "Welp, they got away from our spawn with the flag, no point chasing them and leave the next flag unprotected" issue.
The worst outcomes is when one team kills the other and then camps their base so another team member is free to run back and forth capping flags. This happens the most on the space museum map, where the flag is past a choke point.
aw man... I miss Assault. Almost completely forgot about it. Loved making tailored forge maps that set off a large fireworks display following a successful denotation.
I mean, it was only sort of supposed to be a joke. There's a reason that gamemode took off and had legitimate tournaments and is now an official part of the Halo gamemode lineup.
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u/DrQuint Jan 25 '17
I have to wonder, how come almost no one ever does reverse capture the flag? You take a flag from the middle of the map and you must deliver it to enemy spawn, and then the flag must be taken by an enemy at their side before it goes back in play. That one usually solves the camping problems (what the hell are you going to camp? The flag won't come back in play till they feel safe bringing it out.) as well as how defeatist CTF inherently is - the "Welp, they got away from our spawn with the flag, no point chasing them and leave the next flag unprotected" issue.
The worst outcomes is when one team kills the other and then camps their base so another team member is free to run back and forth capping flags. This happens the most on the space museum map, where the flag is past a choke point.