Bring Back Operation: Red Light

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Operation Red Light was a fantastic event mode.

It was thrilling trying to outrun the Ravagers while trying to make it to the Founder’s Outpost.

The voice acting was great. Foxy’s voice was good, while the Ravager’s voice was so creepy, it sent chills down my spine when I first heard it. Fantastic work!

The map is well designed and very treacherous looking and a lot of fun.

When the patches were released, this game mode became even better.
It’s a shame this game mode is gone. It’s obvious the devs put a lot of work into it.

I would love to see it added to the Brawl Rotation. Maybe they could add some banners to this brawl as well.

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I totally agree, it was one of the funniest game modes they did. but it might’ve been a one-time thing, hopefully not!

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It was a great event. I feel like special events in general are getting better and better. Dronapocalypse has also been really good this time.

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PvE events are awful. Drone Day was just bad.

Bring back any PvP event.

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Uh, Operation Red Light was PvP. It was like a game of Infection. If a Ravager touched you, you instantly died and spawned as a Ravager.

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Also bring back ashen ring event too, that was the most useful event ever in the whole crossout history.

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I actually liked the pve ravagers Christmas one. It was a bit too easy but I like the alarm summons, patrol bots, and stuff.

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I played it only once. I didn’t care for it. I’m pretty picky about the Modes that I will play.
I’m willing to grind a mode if I like the rewards from them (I really like my paints)
Operation Red Light is the only mode I kept playing after I got the rewards I wanted from the Mode.
I got a good laugh from the Silliness from the cars during the Crossout day event though.

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So, there it is back!
I’m quite satisfied - it is a nice alternative for all other game types.

My tips for the build:

  • Don’t build a wide car - you are not alone, your teammates need space in close quarters. The smaller the better (with a good ratio of lenght to width so it stears easily and doesn’t overstear).
  • A fast car surely goes with a fast cabin and an engine that supports speed - in this case the Kronos with the Fin whale is a great match because it also has very good cabin power so your car accelerates nicely and that may save your life here, but a Growl with a Hot red will also do fine (Ravager cars are all built for the max speed 105km/h).
  • The wheels you choose - you don’t need 6, they reduce your car’s power (each wheel gives you power loss, in case of Shivs it’s -6% for non stearing and -12% for stearing wheels), you don’t take much armor so the wheels’ Tonnage capacity is not a factor, you can easily take Landing gear or Camber (both have -5/-10 penalty) and they are very light.
  • Don’t equip minelayers - Ravagers’ only weapon is the Argus so they can disable mines easily, also the mines if layed densely in narrow passages make your teammates’ cars jump and distabilize the driving.
  • Weapons need to deliver a punch not necessarily over time so grenade launchers are perfect, but people shoot machine guns and autocannons as well and it is perfecly fine, just remember that melee is not what you want here. Flying drones seem to do a good job because they don’t take the precious space on the ground. I tried a build with turrets but you need to place them in certain places where they won’t be causing you any trouble so perhaps not the best way. Spark, Flash and some freeze weapons are also nice because they slow down the enemy.
  • I saw a comment here to build bumpers for raming a gate - well I don’t agree because that is just 1 obstacle they are useful for in this game type therefore not worth it.

Just one tip for playing: don’t destroy the Ravagers in their first spawning area - you should be faster than them so it will just respawn them closer to the first gate.

And finally I have a question: does anyone know the mechanics of heating up when you choose the left (longer) lane? Is it getting close to something? Are there areas that heat up cars? Is it when you are too close to teammates?

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I haven’t participated in this event yet this year, but that sounds like good advice. I’ll probably hit it in a couple days. I like the mode, and this is a good reminder of things to be prepared for. Thanks.

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the game applies heat damage to those that fall behind, so you gotta stay going fast and can’t camp somewhere and kill everything.

One more tip: kindly don’t spawn turrets in the pathways/doorways. your team needs through as well :unamused: