Talk:Beacon/@comment-209.169.96.47-20150624001550/@comment-26476084-20150624025355

See the horizontal bar at the top of the screen with Blue on one side and Red on the other?

The more beacons you hold, the stronger your bar gets. Meanwhile, the enemy bar gets smaller if they only hold 2 or 1 or 0 beacons. And vice versa.

So, if the red team had more beacons than your blue team for much of the match, they might have had a big lead on the bar. Even if you take three beacons, their two beacons will still give them enough "juice" to win.

I've been on the winning team even though we only held ONE beacon and I was the only pilot on my team left alive. It was a very close match with lots of beacons changing hands. Our defense collapsed and the red team overwhelmed us. However, the bar was so blue that they couldn't turn it around. I just had to hide to make sure they didn't kill me. If they had, they would have won.