What Is The Most Popular Mission In Live-Action Gaming?
Playing as a team is deeply embedded in Battlefield Sports' brand of live gaming. It is part of its DNA and gaming culture to ensure gamers win or lose as a team.
As live gaming popularity has increased, so has the number of different missions. The new SATR3 laser tag system offers new and thrilling game-play options.
Classic multi-player missions such as Team Death Match, Capture the Flag, Domination, and the New Kid on the Block, Battle Royale continue to outshine the popularity of other games.
What's the Most Popular Game?
The most popular live gaming mission is revealed in a moment.
But first, how did we come up with the winner?
Battlefield Operators from across the globe gave their opinions on the most popular game in their local operations.
Battlefield Operators from the USA, including Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Georgia, Oklahoma, Michigan, and California, gave their opinions. Operators from Canada, British Columbia, and Quebec also had their say.
Operators from Europe and the UK voted on the most popular game in their area. Contributions were made by operators from Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands, and Denmark, as well as Wales, Kent, Derbyshire, and Norfolk.
Last but not least, Battlefield Operators from across Australia gave their opinion. Brisbane, Gold Coast, Perth, Newcastle, and Illawarra operators had their say.
Here's The Games That Did Not Quite Make the "Most Popular Games" List
While RUSH and Heist were listed as survey options, they did not garner any votes as the most popular games. I guess that these games are usually played on special occasions, and so, while thrilling, they were not voted as the most popular.
Likewise, there were no votes for the traditional laser tag game of free-for-all. Often played in traditional laser tag arenas, players score points by tagging other players. In a free-for-all game, there are no teams. If a player is tagged out, they are deactivated for a few seconds, and then their laser tag vest re-generates and the game continues.
While a free-for-all is perhaps the simplest game to run from an operator's perspective, it is not the most popular.
The #4 Most Popular Game: Battle Royale
With the huge popularity of games like FORTNITE and PUB-G, the Battle Royale format has gained momentum this year.
Battle Royale is a video game in which up to 100 people can meet on a virtual island and battle it out to be the last gamer standing. Gamers can collect resources, such as new weapons, shields, and bandages, and build resources like forts and ramps. But the main objective is to kill the other gamers. The map's size shrinks as the game progresses, forcing players into close-quarter combat.
The latest technology from Battlefield Sports enables this game to be played live.
Unlike the virtual equivalent, which has no respawns, the live gaming version usually offers gamers respawns for the first few minutes of the game.
Like in the video game, players can collect resources if they reach a Perk Box. These might include better armor or better weapon emulation.
The digital radio starts covering a large playing area, and as time progresses, the battlefield shrinks. Players outside the safe zone will take damage.
The #3 Most Popular Game: Capture the Flag
In the past, the classic "Capture the Flag" game was often associated with paintball.
But in recent times, the live gaming version has gained popularity.
For the game of Capture the Flag, the group is divided into two roughly equal teams. Each of the two teams has a flag in their base on opposite sides of the game zone. The game aims to capture the enemy's flag from their base and deliver it back to your base before they capture your flag.
In the live gaming, players must get to their enemy's flag and shoot it. A sound effect will be issued from the player's gaming gun, "flag captured." Then, that player must race back to their base and shoot their flag. A sound effect will say, "Flag returned." This counts as one point. Multiple flags can be in play at once. The team with the most flags returned a win.
This is a fast-paced game, so it is easy to see why it is among the top four most popular live gaming games.
The #2 Most Popular Game: Domination Game
Also known as the “King of the Hill†this game mode proved popular in video games like Call of Duty and HALO.
In a domination game, the group is divided into two teams roughly the same size. The teams are trying to shoot a central objective, a battle box set as a domination box, somewhere in the middle of the battlefield.
To win, players need to work as a team, be organized, communicate effectively, and even have a bit of luck.
The domination box, which identifies the central objective, can be placed on a hill, a bridge, or a big tree stump.
A 3-point domino game is thrilling for larger groups, such as 30 or more combatants at once.
The teams would ideally be at least 20ft (10m) apart, out of sight from one another—more if space permits. Both teams are to be roughly equal distances from the domination box. The two teams go head-to-head, each trying to "dominate" or control the Battle Box by shooting it.
Each team has a medic box in their home base. Offering unlimited respawns.
This game has a time limit. Indoor games usually last 5 or 7 minutes, and outdoor games usually consist of 10 or 15-minute rounds.
The computer inside the Domination Box shows how long each team has been in control. When the Alpha Team (red team) shoots the box, it flashes red. When the Bravo (blue team) tags the box, it flashes blue.
Gamers need to control the box longer than their opponents. If they do, their team's color will flash on the box at the end of the game. The box will also issue a sound effect announcing the team is victorious, such as "Blue Team Is Victorious!"
Every minute counts!
At the end of the game, everyone knows which Team has Won.
The #1 Most Popular Game: Team Death Match
Drum roll, please!
According to the March 2019 survey of Battlefield Operators, 55% declared that the Team Death Match was the most popular game in their operation.
TDM, or Team Elimination, is one of the original games played with live live gaming equipment from Battlefield Sports. In this game, a group of players is divided into two roughly even teams, usually referred to as Team Alpha (or Team Red) and Team Bravo (Team Blue).
If the game uses the Battlefield TAG genre, the gamers will get 5 Hit Points. Damage is standard, or one shot means the player loses one hit point.
If the game is set up using the Battlefield LIVE genre, gamers get 25 Hit Points. Damage is variable; a headshot shot, for example, can be "critical."
Regardless of how the gamers are configured, they have lost all their hit points, so they return to their team's base for a respawn.
An advanced form of TDM is where the gamers set the difficulty level to HARD or LEGENDARY. In this case, the Hit Points are dropped off HP12. To suit older gamers Battlefield Operators can drop the hit rate (i.e. instead of the standard difficulty level which gives players hits once per second, hard once per half a second, and legendary is once per quarter of a second).
The TDM game is usually a timed game. (Like the Domination game, indoors usually lasts 5-7 minutes, and outdoors, 10-15 minutes.)
With SATR3, Battlefield Operators can spice up the TDM with in-game perks and mystery boxes.
The SATRWARE system tracks each team's kills. The SATR-Score displays the results in real-time on a scoreboard.
At the end of the Team Death Match, gamers combine all their kills, and whichever team has more kills wins.
The Top 4 Most Popular Game Modes In Live Gaming
Battlefield operators from around the world were polled recently as to what the most popular game in their local operation is.
TDM was the clear winner, with 55% of respondents declaring it the most popular game in their area.
A close second was Domination (or 3-Point Domination), with 31% of the most popular vote.
Coming in third most popular was Capture the Fla,g with 10% of operators voting for that game.
The fourth most popular game, most likely due to the game's brand newness, was Battle Royale, with 4% of the vote.
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