Guild Wars 2

Don’t get me wrong…I enjoy the Conquest game mode in sPvP from time to time, but sometimes I get annoyed that it’s more focused on coordination and map control than it is on just pure kills.

I mean, I LOVE the combat system in GW2, but in sPvP, it feels like I spend just as much time running around standing in empty circles, as it does fighting. And when I fight, I’m only fighting to try to get control of the circle…the fighting is kind of secondary to that.

In fact, I feel like roaming in WvW actually feels like a more “pure” PvP experience at the current state of the game. When I roam around in WvW, I ONLY care about killing the other players. PvP feels like PvP…it doesn’t feel like it’s secondary to just trying to keep people out of a circle.

What I’m getting at is that I would really love if there was a sPvP game mode that was kind of similar to “Demolition” from CounterStrike or something. One team has to plant a bomb or something like that at a location, the other team has to stop them. If you die, you’re dead for the round.

Something like this would really focus the game on kills. If you kill someone, they are gone for the round, it’s a big deal.

Another game mode that I would support would be something like “Assault” from Unreal Tournament, where both teams try to assault one another’s base by taking a series of control points in SEQUENCE. So that you can’t take A before you take B, etc. This serves to focus the fighting in one area, and once again, makes the game more about combat, and less about who was better at spreading their players out or moving around.

Eh, in spvp, it’s usually just groups running around trading points and zerging those that get in the way, or people roaming around testing builds/killing/ignoring points anyway. But yes, I feel more game modes are needed to appeal and give players options and spice up/less repetitiveness in play mode. They could keep certain types out of tournaments, and give us more options for hotjoin/insta action games.

I think what you are looking for then is SPvP. SPvP is team death-match masquerading as Conquest. Ignore that score screen at the top, it’s a trap, a decoy.