@crazydave0923 wrote:
This weekend, I played this mode. Still no neutral gnomes. I think that might make it a lot more fun. Now, you just look for the bomb and blaze away. Not a lot of strategy.
Actually... the more I played this mode, the more I liked it. Much like Taco Panic, you had to be creative to win (on either side), if the teams were fair.
When on plants, instead of looking for the bomb and being obliterated by an overpowered zombie team, I’d set up two goo pots next to a capture point and with little to no help, could stop oncoming teams rather effectively.
On zombies, wait for imps to mech up and follow them with scientists, toxic/party brains, roadie, all-star, etc. and attack simultaneously. Gamers who main imps can wait for the bomb to be placed and imp grenade/impkata the disarming team... these techniques worked especially well with even 1-2 capable teammates.
Played several hours with @dwooten77 and we realized it was pretty fun with full servers and fair teams.
I didn’t initially care for this mode, either.
Side note: The descriptor for this mode/portal event now denotes its only one sided gnome bomb. That’s my only complaint with the mode and this entire series as a whole (don’t announce settings that haven’t been tested).
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