It's a decent one. Pirates won slightly more often in my time in the portal but not by a large amount. The drone swarms at the beginning of the matches were amusing, there were potato mines EVERYWHERE, and I enjoyed it greatly.
My favorite is still Rando's Revenge in the portal but this was a good one.
A lot of drone and bird fly early in the game and they're racing for 1st strike, so they fly high to middle of the map and target the first player they see.
But I fly mine to the corner of the map and fly it very low to avoid radar, sniper and ground to air missile, and find out who still on their remote control and deliver the bomb with high success rate. If somehow didn't deliver the kill, finish it off while they still in shock and confused.
The game fun when the lobby is full and a lot of newbie players but when players start leaving and only left good players, it starts become intense since we become a real (sneaky) sniper and don't want to reveal their position. It becomes tick tack toe game and can go on for very long time.
Overall it's a good sniper match.
After playing this event throughout the weekend, I'm left questioning whether or not SBMM was in play. It seemed to me not. I was quite often put into lobbies with only low level players, and not once put into a crappy lobby with only a few other high rank players.
One thing I consistently noticed with the portal events is that the least experienced players are the ones I see most frequently on Thursday and part of Fri, but by Saturday and Sunday nights, all of the high level players have jumped in to collect their rainbow stars. Thursday is easy pickings and Sunday is a rough ride.
Play in the morning is easy since a lot of newbies so they tend to expose themselves in the open field (easy target).
but playing at night is hard since those newbies are sleeping and left few adult players with high experience/high-rank player who playing seriously and won't give an easy kill. They really play hide and seek, just like a real sniper does.
I almost pull one trick: I sneak to pirates spawning site where they mostly fly their bird, then surround them with mines, then shoot them so they step on it, but unfortunately they didn't step on it...dang, otherwise I will share the confetti video here.
I was going to get a pretty funny screenshot last night when I spawned in as a pirate and found around six pirates standing around examining their maps. But while I was lining up the shot, two of them came out of their drones and the scene didn't have the same humor.
I had the same idea as you, but I didn't have much success trying to sneak around maps to find all the droning enemies.
