Any incentive to start Cashout first?

[Wulfen]

I can't seem to find one.

Seems like a constant struggle with a target on your back the whole time getting to the deposit location with both teams converging on your location either at the same time or one after the other with rarely no time to recover. All this effort for no initial gain either. Why fight multiple back to back fights defending, when you just need to win ONE fight right at the end of the Cashout to win the entire thing?

Instead of the points being all or nothing, I'd rather it be increased incrementally with how much time spent holding the objective. For example lets just say $1000 for every 10 seconds, upwards to $20k (or however much) when the Cashout "expires". This way, there is something to gain by being the first to start a cash out. Obviously, with this kind of change, scoring numbers and spawn timers would need to be tweak to some degree. Personally, this method makes more sense to me.

How it is now, it CAN be exciting sometimes. But mostly I just find it frustrating winning back to back to back team fights choking at the very end, losing it all. Just doesn't feel good to me.

Just my 2 cents. What y'all think?

[gamer posture]

depends on the team composition

[Vulc]

Medium turret teams need to setup so normally its best for them to run it to the station first

[LukanGamer]

just means you bad at game, team work, strat, thinking, timing, movement, etc... don't worry sadly many are.

But to answer yes countless.

[Vader]

Interesting idea. Maybe for each 25% you hold the cash out you get a portion. Though this would get messy when there is back to back steals.

I almost found that if your the first team to start a cash out it’s best to just to spread out in a perimeter to keep fighting away from the cash out. Obviously this wouldn’t always work but prioritizing staying alive versus keeping the cash out 100% of the timer is a way to ensure you can get the last steal.

[Wulfen]

Originally posted by Vader:

Interesting idea. Maybe for each 25% you hold the cash out you get a portion. Though this would get messy when there is back to back steals.

I almost found that if your the first team to start a cash out it’s best to just to spread out in a perimeter to keep fighting away from the cash out. Obviously this wouldn’t always work but prioritizing staying alive versus keeping the cash out 100% of the timer is a way to ensure you can get the last steal.

Right. A tactic that isn't about defending the objective but more so about putting your team in a position to steal the cashout at the end. Because why not? You only need to capture that last 5% of the cashout and all 100% of it is yours.

I think if the increments were smaller but more frequent, it wouldn't be as messy I think.

My other idea would be instead of 2 cashouts to win, make it like 6 or more but decrease the time it takes for it to end significantly. That way whoever cashes out first only has to win maybe 2 fights on the objective

[Wulfen]

Originally posted by LukanGamer:

just means you bad at game, team work, strat, thinking, timing, movement, etc... don't worry sadly many are.

But to answer yes countless.

I don't have to be a bad player to think the current gameplay loop is flawed or frustrating. I think i do fairly well at the game