GlassHalfFull wrote: »

If one is new to battle grounds and capture the relic, what is the minimum I need to know to have fun in there?

I guess I'm the only person who actually enjoys all the game modes so, at the risk of sounding arrogant, ignore all the other answers and listen to me. Lol.

There's a little shrine or whatever at the base of each teams spawn point where their respective relics spawn. You need to run over and press A (on Xbox,) to start about a 3 second interruptible channel to pick it up. Once you have it you run back to your own relic... Yes it has to be there... And turn theirs in for 100 points. First to 500 wins.

Its not uncommon to have multiple relics being held by opposing teams at the same time... So nobody is scoring until someone gets gutsy enough to do what needs to be done. How to handle that is up to you and the individual situation.

Leaving 1 capable defender home while the other 3 try to relic run is probably the most used strategy. But you also see the opposite... 3 people defending while one fast or sneaky person tries to capture.

Generally one team is noticeably weaker than the rest and the other two teams fight over who can take the weak teams relic over and over.

While it is fun and lots of people enjoy just fighting, if you want to win you will need to make sure you aren't getting caught up for too long in battles where people aren't dying and relics aren't being captured.

I think there's been a mistake @PhoenixGrey you meant to talk with GlassHalfEmpty. I'll take it from here.

@PhoenixGrey Ha! Good one, and thanks for taking my jab in good spirits.

In general... I don't know if its a platform thing, an MMR thing, or if maybe we're all a little bit guilty of exaggeration... But... I can tell you that I've been very pleased with my battlegrounds experience lately no matter what mode I've gotten. Where I play people seem to honor the mode enough where it at least isn't immediately obvious if they are unhappy about it. Games are competitive among two teams if not three. Queues aren't excessive. You can play the obj and still fight.

I've been running my warden thus far and am tanky (not maras or pariah tanky but still,) enough to hold the chaos ball, fast enough to run a relic, and damaging enough to kill most people.

If I have the chaosball my preferred method is to self heal and run... So yes I am guilty of that. If my team is with me I'll try to hold it at our spawn instead. If I'm running from two enemies but my teammates come help I do turn and fight rather than let them die. The chaosball eventually kills me or someone else kills me... In which case I run back to the fight and fight until I get the ball again. I in no way feel as though I spent the whole time avoiding fights and my score (not just medal score but k/d,) reflects that.

In capture the relic I will stay and defend if nobody else is doing it. Mostly I randomly pick one team and try to get their relic... Depending on their defensive efforts and how much help I'm getting I'll try the other side to see who's weakest. It is a common occurance that maybe my team is doing fine but one of the other teams is doing a better job of getting the other relic than we are. In which case I'll go squat on the red relic and help them kill purple or whatever. I've frequently seen one team pick up another relic besides my own and sprint across the map, kill them, and take it for myself.

In domination and crazy king there seems to be an appropriate level of fighting on flags that I take part in. And when a fight involves 4+ people and is stalemating yes I do sprint off and find a new flag instead.

I firmly disagree that having 3 teams takes away strategy. It introduces more chaos, and sometimes you can't control it, but to me that makes strategy more important not less, and those that can change their strategies mid-stride as the situations change are who really prevail. I also enjoy the viability of a greater variety of build than would succeed at deathmatch.

That being said, honestly, no I don't like being forced to play the same mode for 3 days straight. But I can deal.

I hope everyone has fun... The more you try to have fun the more you will have. And for those that are very displeased I am sorry.