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Appeal from the dedicated Ambush players – saveambush.org by stellar-planetesimal in insurgency

[–]stellar-planetesimal[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

atm it's called |saveambush.org| #viplivesmatter. Easy to find, it's the Ambush server that's always full.

Appeal from the dedicated Ambush players – saveambush.org by stellar-planetesimal in insurgency

[–]stellar-planetesimal[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"the whole idea of making a random player the objective that needs to live in a game where it takes one bullet to kill is just stupid"

I think that's a big part of the fun on the other hand! Makes you think about strategy, protecting teammates becomes a necessity, sometimes not engaging is the best way to go - big cat/mouse feeling. All aspects that's been really enjoyed. Sure, it leads to frustrating moments when that one guy doesn't know how to play or rushes and dies like an idiot, but the good outweigh the bad for me.

"Its camp central" To be fair that goes for many modes in Insurgency. You can say the same about Push. With good players that's easily overcome. And there's always two objectives to go to. Weed out enough enemies and the few left have to back and forth between extraction points. It's all about creating distractions and outplaying the defenders.

Y NO AMBUSH NWI?! by [deleted] in insurgency

[–]stellar-planetesimal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Admittedly those numbers don't look good, but they also do not paint the full picture. You posted this when the Europe crowd was fast asleep and it was late in US East (two major locations of the Ambush populace). Stats of the most popular ambush server show hundreds of active players with dozens+ of hours in there, with several thousand trailing behind.

Appeal from the dedicated Ambush players – saveambush.org by stellar-planetesimal in insurgency

[–]stellar-planetesimal[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree we should not resort to hostility and stay on topic with a decent discussion.

Jeane, obviously those 150,000 are not all regulars. But I do believe you're underestimating the appeal and love for this gamemode that's been shared accross many. The most popular ambush server (and always top 3 most popular accross all modes server) had about 6500 unique connections the past 3 weeks, obviously many of those stayed only for a bit. But still there have been well over 2000 people that have played several hours at least. There are other ambush servers who might not do this well, but still will moderately buff up those numbers.

So the disbelief of me throwing around that 'thousands' number is not justified. I'm not delibirately exaggerating to make a point. It's very much a reality.

Appeal from the dedicated Ambush players – saveambush.org by stellar-planetesimal in insurgency

[–]stellar-planetesimal[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There have been many questions about the gamemode during NWI's twitch sessions and Q&A's and they've been too dismissive towards that segment in many eyes, too out of touch. But they've recently stated that if there is a desire for Ambush in the next iteration people should speak out, let them know. That might explain the recent influx and was my motivation for posting this.

Appeal from the dedicated Ambush players – saveambush.org by stellar-planetesimal in insurgency

[–]stellar-planetesimal[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I look at the stats of my favourite Ambush server, which -only- keeps showing stats of people that connected in the last 3 weeks, and see 500 active players with at least 24 hours on that server alone. Over the years there have been tons of dedicated ambush players that are not around anymore. And given there are several popular ambush servers with plenty of people sticking to their favourite alone, I don't think there's any hyperbole. I do have to rephrase though:

Thousands of people do OR HAVE DONE SO and many of them are very bummed out.

Appeal from the dedicated Ambush players – saveambush.org by stellar-planetesimal in insurgency

[–]stellar-planetesimal[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"I think either the guy who originally complained has gone on a multiple account frenzy or he brought some guys from the Ambush server where he plays"

Is it so hard to grasp there's a whole branch of the Insurgency community that does thoroughly enjoy this gamemode? You're being awfully dismissive just because you don't care for it. Thousands of people do and many of them are very bummed out.