New 'CTF' System - Why exactly is it a bad thing?

Cyber · 2003-07-22, 03:15 AM

I've seen all the angry posts. But very few of them really give any reason at all besides "GRRR! WTF?? DUUUDDE GHEY!" which really doesn't explain what the problem is.

Skipping right past the debate about if this is CTF or not (it'll most certainly be a modified form of CTF in some respect) I'm having trouble understanding why this is bad...

Are you guys really enjoying humping the CC for 15 minutes with almost no action most of the time?

Is hordeing up in the basement waiting for that one lone guy to try to get to the CC a ton of fun?

Is the fact that you can completely ignore the outdoors in most base battles (which leads in part of the dominance of heavy assault right now) something that adds to the game?

More then likely this system will augment what is already in place. Which means your still going to fight into the base just like you do now. You will still have to 'hack' the base to get to the object, you may even still have to guard it for a short period of time.

And then the battle moves to the outdoors as you transport the object across the map. No more sitting in a big laggy base. No more 15 minutes of thumb twiddling pointlessness. Battle keeps moving and the 'defending' team will still be able to impact the outcome moreso then they can now by making strikes on the object as it moves across the map.

This adds more uses for vehicles in the game. This adds the 'convoy' type stuff alot of people have wanted to see. This brings more of the map into play.

And yet, all most of you can do is immediately damn it because it's similar to a very popular and very fun mode of play from other FPSs?

Nobody bitched that the current hack system is really nothing more then Tribe's C&H with a timer. Now it'll be Tribes C&H crossed with CTF.

I'm at a loss as to how this is so horribly bad. CTF or not anything that gets the damn zerg to move out of the fucking base and do something is an vast improvement. Even if it is just trucking a big glowing box across the map.