Alliance: The Silent War

It would unbalance the sides. The defenders already have unlimited respawns, now you will give them a chance to "defuse" as well? In reality the game mode was difficult for the attackers as it is, also it would take away from the strategy of the game mode. Being able to time/coordinate your detonation(s) was a huge part of the strategy.

Can this guy be a playable character in mp?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE1AKixL ... re=related

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Id like to see a King of the Hill type mode where the so called Hill could be a building in a city square, room in a mall, a literal hill, anything fortified and bristling with machine guns. points would be given to the team that occupies it while its theirs.



That would be hilarious! a great player model in the least

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At the very least, we must replace Katyusha as our theme song with that glorious tune.

I like this old video of his (especially since I've skipped most of his hot air): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yly7-8vcxo&t=1m30s

I'm also a fan of speed reloads. You won't be able to do any of these in Alliance, but they're still fun to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DpCellB ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls4Uq1aC ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSMOoqaG ... ature=fvwp

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I was mostly thinking of action movies where the bad guys try to destroy one building and good guys have to prevent them from doing it. I don't know. I was shooting for something with a thriller feel.

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Escort missions? Like escorting an AI armored vehicle from point A to point B?
VIP protection? One player on the team deemed the VIP that the rest of the team must ensure survives or the team loses.
"Crashed tech recovery" Both teams rush to capture a downed (whatever) and acquire the data/tech/etc and get it back to their base.

I like the first two alot. VIP missions are always intense. Perhaps all three could be combined into one mission? Like bringing the tech expert via convoy to the base to disable the whatever.
What are your thoughts?

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Multiple objectives are being explored. Much of the specific structure will be heavily influenced by play-testing, but we'd plan on skewing towards varying and organic objectives whenever possible.

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Multiple (simultaneous) objectives are good. Keeps the mindless linear run>shoot>die>respawn>rinse/repeat to a minimum.

this is not counter-strike, lol.

gameplay modes like that are severely one-sided in my opinion - one team can easily win a round by simply accomplishing the one objective, while the other team has no means of doing the same.

Search and destroy is a much more balanced mode. Both teams can plant bombs and both can defuse.

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Well, they can always just eliminate the other team. The team that has to plane the bomb has to not only do that but also stay alive.

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Here are my ideas:

-A "Covert" mode where two human teams square off against each other but have to watch out for a third team which is controlled by bots. The ideal configuration would be 8-10 players on each side with light weapons while the AI-controlled team is patrolling the area with heavy duty weaponry.\

-A mode similar to Fragile Alliance (the multiplayer component of Kane & Lynch) where everyone is initially on the same team and is trying to recover a type of object (be it flag,nazi gold or secret documents) but people can later on turn on their allies in order to score more points.

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GREAT ideas!

I can just picture two merc or 'agency' teams in a city who run into each other and get into a firefight. Meanwhile the police and national guard of the country are scrambling to kill the bad guys (the players )

kane and lynch 2 is one of the most underated games of recent years imo. Given Alliances shady-shadow secret society plot theres probably numerous ways to feature a game mode like that.

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Nice ideas.

One of those is actually quite similar to a mode we'd planned on experimenting with.

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So like all games now a days is there going to be an achievement function for alliance? And if so will there be any rewards like maybe a special title you can only get doing blah blah and it shows under your username? I know this sounds bad but I play WOW and one amazing thing they did was the achievements board..get special items titles etc. Granted most of these are extremely hard to get lol. But I thought it would be neat to see something similar lol.

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I'm a huge fan of them too, especially when you finally get a difficult or esoteric one. Achievements, ranks, badges, etc are all planned. Moreover, that will be something that we will probably continuously add to post release.

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By badges, do you mean something like an award at the end of the round for whoever got the longest kill or something like that? That sounds really cool.

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That's exactly right.

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How about no scoping... For me this has been the bane of literally every fps from the original cs to call of duty. Some sort of system for discouraging it would be a big plus. Im pretty sure if you fired a real sniper rifle like you see all the time in today's shooters, the gun would fly out of your hands.

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No.


What you don't think a trained soldier can fire his weapon without it being shouldered? You think it would just fly out of your hands? rofl

No scoping in FPS games for snipers is something that needs to be KEPT. It's something for the sniper to be able to use his rifle up close without having to draw his pistol everytime he goes into the building.

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