Domination -vs- Beacon Rush

Domination is my preference. I run solo a lot and run into less whale squads there. It does affect my play style and hanger choices somewhat, though not as much as you might think. I usually start with my Tarancilot as speed at the beginning is not as important as it is with BR. Arriving at the most contested beacon apace with squad members around me is far more important. I want to take a beacon and keep it long enough for others to hold it while I get back into the action. I also have a Rhino which I don't think I'd run in BR. I don't think it has as much survivability in BR as compared to a Griffin because of the jump. There are other differences, but the main one is the pace is a bit slower and more even. BR feels frantic and chaotic for the first minute and many times feels like the game is won or lost in that time. It's not always true, but it is more often than in Dom.

My $0.02

I also prefer Domination and pretty much for the same reasons as Deadeye.  No Rhino or Ancilot in my hanger, though.

I've been having a lot of fun with Domination. I had one daily task, to capture 4 beacons in 1 game. Guess how many I did with my fast bot hangar? 7! But we still lost that game... oh well!

I despise Beacon Rush. In domination you (usually) benefit from a balanced hanger. In BR if everything isn't a heavyweight knife-fighter then you are likely just wasting your time.

Beacon Rush all the way - Domination is fun as a game, but there are just too many people who believe that trebuchets and gekkos make valueable contributions and that beacons are someone else’s problem

Used to play Beacon Rush mainly but switched back to Domination because all the whales play Beacon Rush, Dom seems easier.

Dom = strategy and tactics
BR = ADHD game mode

This should really get the conversation going.

Beacon Rush - I can blow through my bots much quicker in that mode.

After the event I continued in BR for a couple days because I was on a bot killing bender, didn’t care win or lose. In a few battles on Moon towards the end (like 5 minutes) the reds had 1 beacon which they kept spawning at and we were falling over each other to blast them. It was hilarious, 8 heavy bots within 200m, half throwing rockets and Thunder, just ripping each other down and respawning just as fast. I’d throw away my healthy DB Griffin for another because I didn’t want to wait for reload and damage rankings were on the line.

But I’ve returned to my trusty Domination. Except it’s not so trusty. Last night I had a blast, most battles everyone playing full tilt. However, played an hour of Dom this early afternoon and it was miserable, every battle it seemed only half of both teams were trying.

Anyways, it’s so good to have the choice back again.

Believe it or not, my favorite mode is/was "RANDOM".

No need to decide each time More importantly, the need to cater for all maps and both play modes forced very balanced hangars. No Treb parties, less Haechi slaughtering, you get the picture .. Now that the choice is back, Domination is rapidly regressing into a sniper festival and Beacon Rush is turning into Beacon Dash.

I like both at different times.

I rotate through both of them with no hangar change. Did the same with TDM. Keeps things interesting and I'm not a min/max guy.

I like Random best of all.

Depends what you need:

if you need silver, in particular now that premium is reasonably available thro the casino royale, beacon rush is the quickest way to earn it: load your strongest bots with the heaviest hitting short range weapons you have, drop at the beacon with the closest enemy, blast and get blasted, mech out and repeat. it's fast (most of the games last about 5 minutes), it can be fun, you can actually earn gold thro it if you do enough damage and kills to leave the enemy team one short before you do it to your team (50%-65% wins for me, lately) and you can easily rack a few million silver a day with an average of 350k per game (exp2, with an exp hangar).

If you need gold and generally some more tactically minded game you go for domination, possibly dropping a capper first with which to get at least 2 beacons right away (my choice: a classic stalker with aphids): if you manage to get another two during the game, which is reasonably easy, you end up with 5 Au most of the times your team wins. Keep a midranger in the hangar, as you can't count on your team mates to do it and you might need it (my bot of choice in this department lately: a fully mk2ed golem with zeus and molots.. surprisingly effective)..

Generally, I prefer domination, but since they reintroduced the choice, I'm playing mostly BR as I've most of my stuff to upgrade to 11s and 12s.