BETRAYAL - HOW TO PLAY?

[Zofo]

Notice the ?


Unlike my greed thread this is not a lesson, its a request, how the hell do u play this game?


Please don't copy and paste, I want peoples own explanation

[talkie]

I'm sure there's killing involved.  

[talkie]

Where is everyone?!

Anyhow.. this is basically team instagib. I think each time you kill someone you gain a point and also one for the team point.. then somehow at somepoint you can kill your own team mate to collect the team pot.

I really wish Epic would explain this someplace.. really annoying playing a game that you don't know what's going on.

[Zofo]

I see....kinda



and yeah where is everyone  

[talkie]

ok.. one important thing which may or may not be obvious.. to kill you team mates to collect the pot you have to fire using alt fire.

[Arfa]

i played a bit of this earlier and started to understand what was going on after a few games. I'm still not entirely sure of all of the rules, but i got the basics i think:

- The guys with bright blue skins are your Teammates, everyone else is an enemy.
- At the top (middle) of the screen is says how many points your team has got in your collective pot.
- The numbers above peoples head tell you how many points they're worth if you kll them (enemies and Teammmates)
- You can "Betray" your teammates by shooting them with alt-fire (blue beam) and then you steall all of the points in your team's pot.
- However your teamates then have 30 seconds to get revenge on you, and if they do, they get the points instead (i think).
- When you have betrayed your team they no longer appear with a blue skin, and the number above their heads turns green to show that they are the people trying to get revenge on you. The number above your head turns red on their screen to show that you are the one they are trying to get revenge on.
- After the 30 seconds are over, you are assigned to a different team and a dagger appears next to your name in the scoreboard to show you have committed a Betrayal (an extra dagger appears every time you Betray)

So basically the best tactic seems to be kill as many people as possible to build up the pot, then choose the right moment to betray your teammates (and hope you don't miss, because then they'll realise and try to betray you instead). You then need to avoid your former teammates for 30 seconds to make sure you keep the stolen points.

I have to say, having tried Betrayal, Greed and the new Warfare maps i had most fun playing Betrayal (even tho i didn't know what was going on at first) untill my packet loss made it unplayable  

[talkie]

aye.. was really laggy a moment ago.. click *small pause to make a cuppa o' tea* FIRE! .. by which time said bad person has hit you or gone.

 

[Zofo]

ah cool, thx, now i will play it more

[Arfa]

ok i played a few more games earlier and have a couple more things to add/adjust

- the numbers above enemies heads tell you how many points they are worth to your personal score if you kill them, but every kill will only add 1 point to your team's pot
- you always get the points in the pot if you commit a betrayal (they aren't stolen back by your teammates if they get revenge within 30 seconds like i said earlier). So this means if you have a score of 91 and there are 9 or more points in the pot then you should betray the first teammate you see as you will win the match straight away.
- however there is a nice points bonus for getting revenge on someone who betrayed you (shown by the red number above their head)


Not sure if this is the right place to do it, but can i request DM-Darkmatch be removed from the server. That map sucks big time, you can't see where you're going and a lot of the skins don't show up very well  

[talkie]

Not sure if this is the right place to do it, but can i request DM-Darkmatch be removed from the server. That map sucks big time, you can't see where you're going and a lot of the skins don't show up very well  

[Arfa]

Agreed.. but then again.. I think this is the point of the map  :evil:

[Zofo]

I get the point but its still pure shite  

[Arfa]

You can be doing rubbish then suddenly go on a late flourish by killing a few top ranking players and timing your betrayal to perfection  

[Zofo]

Betrayal is a laugh but its still insta, i can play and enjoy insta for a while but it gets boring then, I like this different take on it tho

[Arfa]

Betrayal is a laugh but its still insta, i can play and enjoy insta for a while but it gets boring then

Agreed - i can only play a few games of Betrayal before it starts to get boring, but it's good if you've only got half an hour to play or to warm up before playing another gametype.

The «ne» Betrayal server has been pretty popular since it's been up (probably helps that there's only 2 Betrayal servers in Europe) so do you think we can keep it as a Betrayal server for a bit and just switch it to BFA for the weekly Fun Night?