CTF comes to Dark Messiah

A forthcoming multiplayer update for Arkane's action-RPG Dark Messiah is introducing a Capture The Flag game mode.

The official Might and Magic website has provided info on the rules of play:

Defend your team's flag while stealing the enemy flag.

You must have both flags at your own base to score.

Scoring a flag will give XP to all players on the scoring team.

Returning your own flag also gives personal XP.

Flags will not appear until there are players on both teams, and the 'battle begins' timer has finished

Picking up a flag will slow you down, disables your weapon and briefly highlights you to the enemy team.

Pressing fire when holding a flag will drop it and allow you to fight (be careful not to pick the flag up again when fighting)

Dropped flags return to their base when touched by their team, or after 20 seconds.

The new mode is being accompanied by two new maps - called CTF_1 and CTF_2.

In addition to the arrival of CTF, the multiplayer update features optimisations, map changes, changes to multiplayer character classes and other tweaks. Keep 'em peeled for the update hitting soon.