Can we talk about Capturing Outposts?

Don’t get me wrong, I understand the point of the quest.

It’s a late game PVP quest which is designed to get people fighting over specific areas that otherwise might not see much action.

Unfortunately it has two issues.

Its a late game PVP quest.

The areas don’t see much action

If we run through the locations, you have the stronghold on customs which now that it doesn’t spawn Reshala has three reasons to go there. Extract / Stray Dogs / Capturing Outpost.

On Shoreine you have Pier which has four reasons to go there. Extract / Sanitar / Capturing Outposts / the quests to mark the bodies.

And then on woods you have the Medical base which has one reason to go there… Capturing Outposts.

No don’t get me wrong, obviously loot is a factor. But on every single map there are better places to go for loot than the locations of the outpost which results in a serious problem.

The only people going to these locations are doing very specific tasks or trying to extract. So the chances of just happening across someone is practically zero. Instead you get into the Hurry up and Wait issue.

With Customs and Shoreline especially, the best way to do this quest is to sprint there as fast as possible using stimulants and then to camp in a corner and wait for other people to arrive / come to extract then blast them. If no one shows up in the first 8 minutes you extract and start again.

On woods you’re basically beholden to spawns. If you don’t get the spawns in that corner of the map then all the fighting is probably done by the time you arrive.

Which leaves you with the position of the quest essentially encouraging you to either extract camp or mindlessly run a single spot and hope for a single spawn.

It’s a repeat of the killa quest where all you did was mindlessly rush the centre of them all with a hunter and pray that you saw him before anyone else. Of course with that quest you have to kill him once to progress towards Kappa, where is this quest you have to do it 36 times.

My thoughts on potential solutions are:

Massively expand the range of the quest location.

Make the custom stronghold the entire new area all the way from drug lab to the gate to old gas, make the woods map the entire bottom corner of the map. From Ruaf roadblock all the way up to spine and all the way across to the rocks near the old station and make Shoreline be the gas station, beach, lighthouse and most importantly the rocks overlooking those locations. (This is an especially egregious problem on shoreline because most people trying to do the quest who aren’t camping on the Pier somewhere are lying on the rocks camping the bridge to the pier and hoping to kill people as they enter. )

The second option, make the quest accessible far earlier so that more people are on the question have a reason to go to those locations.

Third, and this is probably the most complicated one, add more reasons to go to these locations. More quests that want you to go there, more loot etc.

What do you guys think?