December 2019 - last edited December 2019
and Dev
Many people love Gnome Bomb in Garden Warfare(1,2,3), it is great game mode, a lot of fun with great battle back and forth:
I think we can implement similiar mode in Apex as well:
1. Split into two team, each team is around 16-20 players. Own team is highlighted with white (as ussual, enemy has no highlight or we can make them highligted with red if visible, not behind wall).
2. Each player already pre-equiped with the gun, heal, armor,etc (just like Capture train mode, one short distance and one long distance weapon).
3. They spawn from the "Base" and there're a lot of jump tower/ geyser so they can fly up and quickly move into the map (similar with Capture train).
4. Players get XP from kills, get the bomb, planting bomb, defuse bomb, killing bomb carrier, etc.
5. When a player get the bomb, they get purple shield, full health, tactical & ultimate fully charged. Team mate has to protect the bomb carrier and plant to enemy side.
6. Once bomb planted, team mate has to defend until the bomb explode (30 seconds). Otherwise enemy will defuse it and bomb get reset.
7. Game end when destroy all 3 enemy sites with bomb or get more point when timer expired, otherwise go to overtime.
8. Overtime, the 1st team destroy remaining base, win the game. Overtime can be really fun back and forth, especially if the remaining based on the far side of each other. It can go really intense.
9. If some player decide to bail out ? no worries, new player start the game mode will fill up the team with the less player (mid game) to keep the gamebalance all the time.
Once game is over, they start from beginning. The game is rolling continously. Top player will be display after the game finish (Top killer, top assist, top damage, etc)
What do you guys think ?
Note: Pathfinder can build zip line network as game goes on to speed up the movement near enemy side. Wraith can build portal to carry team foward. Caustic and Wattson can build defense near base. Base is on open space, not inside building to gift fair oppurtunity to plant the bomb.
When player dead, they respawn from the base. You can't switch team.
Up for debate:
1. Wraith can use her tactical to plant the bomb ? It's judgement call, sometime it's impossible to sneak in heavily guarded base without it, so we might allow it to make it possible.
December 2019