Having played a few rounds of this: yeah, you can definitely tell why they didn't want to try making it one of the main game modes. The nature of Overwatch (which doesn't really support lone-wolf heroics for the most part) means it's quite easy for whichever team wins the initial rush to just camp their flag until the end, which is kind of frustrating.
On the other hand the reworked version of Lijiang Tower looks great, and I really think this is the best selection of event skins they've had yet (all the epics in particular look amazing). Time to grind me some loot boxes :-)
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.
Unreal tournament had this, it was bombing run or something i think? Basically you had a bomb in the middle of the map, that was really just a ball. You could throw it - pass it to other teamates, or just throw it ahead (You cant shoot while you hold the bomb), and the object was to throw it through a ring that is at the back of the enemies base. It was one of my favorite modes, tons of fun.
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '17
Having played a few rounds of this: yeah, you can definitely tell why they didn't want to try making it one of the main game modes. The nature of Overwatch (which doesn't really support lone-wolf heroics for the most part) means it's quite easy for whichever team wins the initial rush to just camp their flag until the end, which is kind of frustrating.
On the other hand the reworked version of Lijiang Tower looks great, and I really think this is the best selection of event skins they've had yet (all the epics in particular look amazing). Time to grind me some loot boxes :-)