Spring training! : Othor Games

» Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:24 am

I guess you just don't want to agree with the fact that using VoIP will always allow you to cooperate better, huh?

Because even the most skilled, hardest to make out, spy (or Operative for that matter) can be called out easily.

If your response was to me I was being pretty sarcastic.

» Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:54 am

there are basically 3 different types of maps... every map there are two teams. red and blue.
one map, blue spawns right by a cart, red gets a min to setup defenses and then blue tries to push cart to the endpoint. you just have to be near the cart to move it... there are checkpoints along the way when you reach them, more time is added to the clock. once blue wins or loses, blue becomes red and red becomes blue.

2nd map type is there are 2 or more control points on a map. the control points initially are red, and blue needs to try to cap them. blue can't cap them if theres a red player on them, and the more blue players on the point, the faster they will cap it. once blue captures a control point it is locked and red can't capture it.

the 3rd map type and typically the most competitive type of map is there are 5 control points, at the beginning both red and blue control the 2 closest to their spawns. the middle point is grey. the red and blue teams race to the middle point to cap it, once blue caps a point or red caps a point, the other team can still cap it back. so this map type can go back and forth quite alot and forces players to play both offense and defense at the same time, unlike the other map types that put you in the role of either offense or defense depending on what team you're on.

edit: one more thing, tf2 has an overtime mechanic. so for the pushcart maps, if time runs out, it goes into overtime and the round does not end until blue does not touch the cart for i think 5 secs. with the capture point maps there is basically a bar and the bar needs to be all the defending team color, all red, for overtime to end. i don't think the 3rd type of map with the 5 capture points has an overtime mechanic.

Am I right to guess then, that we have 3 game modes escort the cart, and capture and hold in 2 variations? Hopefully some side missions will be more diverse.

» Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:33 pm

Yes, you can make strategies, and get used to your team, and never need a mic. But what about pointing out the unpredictable, like if your partner doesn't realize there's a guy coming up behind him, or what if you spot a group of 3 heading in his direction.

The more you play with a person, the less you have to talk to each other, but being able to say something like "there's 3 people trying to ambush you ahead" might be enough to make him go another way, and keep him alive.

Its not mandatory, its just an edge.

» Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:16 pm

i hate guns with inaccuracy. i figure the only guns that will almost definitely be perfectly accurate in brink are projectile guns (grenade launchers) so i started playing demo in tf2, a class i despise and generally hate do to its camping and spamming tendencies.

» Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:55 am

Am I right to guess then, that we have 3 game modes escort the cart, and capture and hold in 2 variations? Hopefully some side missions will be more diverse.

theres actually a 4th, which i forgot about, there are "intelligence" maps, that are ctf maps; but in tf2 they're pretty stupid, it takes very little co operation for a team to set up a good defense, but it requires a huge amount of cooperation to break through the defense. It's not uncommon for entire teams to go purely defense and it is extremely common for time on the map to end before either team has captured enough intelligences to win a round (typically 3 or 4)