- "Attack or defend the Capture Zones."
— In-game Description
Zone Control is a Linear game mode featured in XDefiant. Zone Control is one of the five game modes released at launch, and is featured in Ranked.
Overview
The objective of Zone Control is for the offensive team to capture 5 control points while the defending team attempts to prevent this. The offensive team captures the points by standing on them, and are captured after 30 seconds. The points are given names, specifically A, B, C, D and E. The capture rate increases based on the amount of attackers on the point. Point capturing can be stalled if a defender walks on the point. The capturing process occurs in checkpoints of four, where each checkpoint prevents the defenders from recapturing it past that point. If the capturers on a point are killed before it is captured, the point will stay at its progress until the owning team recaptures it to a checkpoint, or until the attacking team captures it. A captured point cannot be recaptured by the defending team. The attackers have ten minutes initially to capture each sector, with each captured sector adding additional time to the clock.
As points are captured, the map is expanded upon, opening up further capture points. Capturing all points of a sector shifts the spawn point of the offending team forward and the defending team backward, relative to the sector. All points of a sector must be captured before the next sector is unlocked.
Once the round has ended, the team roles are switched between attacking and defending. The now-attacking team must capture the points to where the previous round had ended at, in less time than the first attacking team.
In Ranked, defenders are able to push back attacker progress on a point to the nearest quarter of the progression circle.
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Contesting 25Contest a Capture Zone | ||||
Maps
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 Daytona |
 Meltdown |
 Midway |
 Times Square |
 Zoo |
Patch Notes
- XP scores for accomplishing Escort and Zone Control objectives have been doubled.
- If you thought you weren't earning Cleanse points for killing the last enemy in Domination, Occupy, or Zone Control, you thought right and it has been fixed.
- Fixed a weird Zone Control bug that was unlocking all the zones abruptly and letting the attacking team score a win without putting in the time or effort.
- Escort and Zone Control are now two-round modes in standard playlists.
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