Why I hate beacon rush

I only play BR, and I lead with a Rhino, so the same thing has happened to me as well, but only a couple of times. BR players tend to be more aggressive in general (in the league I'm in at least) so I don't see very many campers and the center beacon usually fills up with my team pretty quickly if I have managed to secure it. I very much prefer BR to DM. Playing only BR, I have managed to get my average damage above 500K which I couldn't do in DM with the level of bots and weapons I have.

For those of you who still use long range setups in BR (which I really don't understand the reasoning for), please don't lead with them on the open maps.... you're only setting your team up for failure. A sniper in the center beacon on Yamantau is worth a lot more than one camping near the home beacon.

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And yeah, a lot of range builds on the Blue's side... you did all you could to keep center... and you rocked socks with that Stalker and gave your team a chance to win... nice work!

I don't know that I would have spawned in the Zarny at center to try to hold it, though. Would have possibly been better to flank and make the CB a kill zone. Maybe NOT if you had had competent BR teammates, but since you didn't, that guy was basically a throwaway that you couldn't afford to throw away... IMO.

But yeah I get your point on the whole Yam suckfest that it can become if your team is MR or LR based... When I see that, I jump in whatever MR or LR I have and join em. If they won't push, fine, I won't either. I'll try to out-damage them in my RDB or Molot bot or Tulu Doc or whatever I have, and move on to the next one once it's over.  Now, if they push, I will eject and push with or support the push by moving up and to their flank to get Reds that are going after the pushers, but I won't try to win the game solo unless I see a good chance that I could.

TBF, though, I don't usually have this problem in Diamond 2... lots of good players on both sides... and even the bad ones know to "get to da beeeeeacon!" But it does happen, and usually with Gold or below players that get caught in our Mismatched game.

Just out of curiousity... what league are you in?  I can't help but think that you will outgrow players that use KDs and Trebs and Gekkos on BR before you know it... and end up above them in rankings and facing players that know how to use a brain cel,l or two.

I don't play BR, but not means I hate it, I like they (Pixonic) make this mode. I'm still waiting if maybe team deathmatch mode is gonna be realesed?

8 of 10 i hold center in Yam. I started the rush with a Stalker, but as ive understood the best way to hold fort is with a heavier armor. Came BOA (thunder/Orkan) in my hangar. Then it is subjected to heavier payload, now im maintaining a Rhino as a "sacrificial" first assault to secure that strategic center beacon.

Like what happened to you here, you are not immortal (pun)...if you are paired with lackadaisical squadmates who dont know the importance of that center in Yam, will either run for that home beacon first (leave that to the slows) than dash for that center, as if its easy to re-capture that center when it turns red.

I love Beacon Rush!! It's easy to get places and harder to steal beacons. One bad day shouldn't ruin it for you.