Alterac Pass Prison Break Question

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On AP are each side’s prison break sequence able to happen simultaneously?

Or does capturing each side stop the timer for each?

EDIT: Thanks for the responses. Sorry for the poor wording. I know it cannot award the objective to both sides, but never knew if the prisons could be channeled and countdown simultaneously.

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I THINK they happen simultaneously, not 100% sure but I don’t see anyone trying to run a race because someone will always initiate the sequence first which means they’ll win if both teams remain passive.

If the slower team leaves to defend, then the minions of the prison will channel to revert the sequence.

I DO know for sure that when you channel, it pauses progress on the activation sequence so even if you’re in there at the last second, you’ll still get the channel off.

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Only one team can have the objective, so although the timer can be running for both sides, whichever reaches 0.0 first, wins. I have seen it get pretty close, but I have never seen both teams hit 0.0 at the same time, so I don’t know what the system does to decide which team should be awarded the objective.

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I think his question pertained to the timer and not the objective itself.

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Nope, both timers can go down together, the only way to stop it or stall itis to get back the prison camp or by channel it to make the other timer go win the race.

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Yes both timers can count down at same time, you see this a lot if you play AI games as the bots are hilariously bad at the objectives in this map, they basically never defend their own camp, only go to cap the enemy one.

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I don’t know if both objectives could charge at each other at the same time, however I know the game has (or had) a coded in “Draw” function, where neither team wins the game or gains any points or MMR from it. (In the english clients it shows up in match history as a “Tie”)

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=111pcsk&s=9

It could only happen when both cores exploded at the same time and both teams had the same level (if one team is higher level they will win instead), so maybe once in a million games.