Event CTF - Gameplay and Rewards Tips - Pin the Flag on the Donkey

LMFAO that's just flatout wrong. The only non-yellow ship that has a chance of being useful is shooters, because they can just spam their weapons to knock down shields and still do damage. If you were playing a Defender and captured a flag that's because you were playing against R E T A R D S. Any two boats concentrating fire on a Defender with decent weapons is more than enough to kill a Defender before it gets halfway to its check point. Defenders aren't even that good at DEFENDING because a shooter can just stroll up, nitro to the flag, then run away at 1.5 speed with a shield up while a Defender tries to catch them and knock their shield down with their pathetically capped 1.3 speed.

All events have been predjudiced towards yellow boats (for instance the speed boost on rezzing gets a yellow RIGHT back into battle, whereas a Defender is stuck way outside the fight when his speed boost runs out) but this has just turned the dial up to 11. I can predict, with near 100 percent accuracy, which team is going to win every match. Want to know how I know? The team with the most yellow boats. Nearly always, (I would sincerely estimate high 90s percentages) that team will win.

And I know, I know, you won games with your selfish fixer. Fan-fucking-tastic, so all 10 guys in the game with triple high-level tape and the appropriate perks can do well in something other than a yellow boat or a Shooter.

 

Here is what the matchmaking has had me up against, teams full of speeders WTF! Is there any possible way to win here?

Seriously, and here is another. How does this make any sense?

 

Most terrifying opponents for ctf.
Still went better than when I’ve had 5 shooters against 5 yellows though.

 

I don’t understand how that keeps happening, faulty matchmaking logic?

 

Well, I for one will be glad to see the end of this CTF event. Tried multiple setups and wasn't very successful or rewarding in most of the battles. Even if we won, it felt more like luck than anything else.

 

I been playing speeder all day today
(Just upgraded to mk6 earlier)
But most of the event, I was defender. I had good games I had bad games. But to think defender would be useless in a battle? Haven't battled with/against me, eh? Lemme go pull some screenshots...

 

I did aight

 

Not a fan of CTF! My favorite was 2v2

 

Fixer still gets some discrimination. Support the escort with massive healing until the escort score the point. Win and we just get 5 coins, yes 5 COINS.

I think the coins still rewarded based on the damage and the time you spend to carry the flag (no need to score, the longer is better, even loosing will still give you 5 - 6 coins). Need some adjustments here.

Overall, the gameplay is wonderful . . .

 

Not sure if this is the best place to put it but here is my round up on the latest event:

At first it as great whilst the shooters were confused on what to do, once that all settled down it basically ended up being whoever had 2 speeders and then the most hp on defenders won. The reason for this was speeders could tag team the flag using bubble etc and defender could protect the flag and just about kill the speeders in time or capture the flag with enough life. Now whilst this is balanced game play in theory it ended up being a problem for the quests for the guild rivalry as to win you could not focus on damage as a speeder only really on the flag which leads to low damage contributions for quests. Maybe the rivalry needs to be changed to 5 days and the events held on the other 2 days?

 

Lololol no I won with my speeder, the selfish fixer gag didn't last long. Also, 2 or 3 guys can sink a defender, sure, but you forgot he might have a fixer and some shooters escorting him. Not every ship can do things alone, but with a working team, every ship has a purpose, if you don't believe me then I don't believe you work with your team either.

For the record, I've seen teams of 4 speeders and a shooter lose to 4 shooters and a defender. Every speeder that got close to the flag got sunk in under 3 seconds and the defender managed to get one capture with the help of his team.