Picket Patrol

[Tregs]

Does anyone play this gamemode (picket patrol)? This is a mode that I have wanted to try for some time, but I cannot find any public servers that play it? There are occasionally locked servers. Is this mode dead? Are there any public servers that play it ever?

It sounds fun, and what I am looking for, but I simply have not been able to find a single game to try it?

Or is there a reason for this? Is it not as appealing as it sounds?

[[1.USSS.F]Cpt. Karlsen]

I believe, at least for now, that only the EU side of the organized part of the community playes PP on wednesdays.

So you would have to join an EU group that partake in the midweek PP fun.

[V-[8thCT(A)]Pvt.Duff]

There was a server yesterday afternoon (Eastern USA time) that had a Picket Patrol going with 34 people in it. I don't know if it was open or if it was a regiment having a drill. Didn't really matter because I had something else going on at the time and missed out. Picket Patrol is a fun mode. It's a good way to practice for officers or those that want to be officers.

[TawGrey3AR]

Anyone with a server can enable Picket Patrol game mode -

it is fun including if you got 3v3, for example

Ad TawGrey in Discord - or click a link in my profile narrative to get alerts for events -

SR -Shenandoah Regulars - participates in as many events as possible - incl the Wed EU picket patrol event.

[Thomas Truslow]

PP is fun if you have low player numbers. We use it once per week, but on a closed server.

[C O O L]

I've played it on some of the better clannie servers during their practices, it's really quite fun! It's very high stakes and makes me personally care about each person that buys the farm and how they buy it. You will never care more about cover and group tactics in this game than in a proper match of picket patrol. The inherent flaw that unfortunately thwarts its popularity is that if you don't have an admin available to end the match when people stop fighting and start hiding, people have to sit and watch bush wookies do nothing for 10 minutes.

Honestly the easiest thing devs could do to make picket patrol better is add code that makes the round end if nobody kills anyone for a few minutes (preferably this kicks in once there's only a certain percentage of players left alive on one side or both).

If they're willing to risk diluting the purity of picket patrol, the devs could also implement a 3 life (preferably wave-spawn) system, in essence making all dead players respawn 3 times per match (so the early dead don't get bored and leave). Personally I would have mixed feelings about doing anything like that, but if it popularizes picket patrol I would be more than happy to compromise.