Fakeout Game Modes: CTF vs Neutral Flag

CTF — Centenaria

The flagship mode. Two flags, one per team, sitting at each base.

• Touch the enemy flag to pick it up and carry it.
• Carry it back to your own base and step onto your own endzone to capture — but only if your own flag is currently home. If the enemy has it, you have to wait for a teammate to return yours first.
• Get tagged by an enemy while carrying and you drop the flag where you popped. It waits there for either team to grab it again.
• First team to 3 captures wins, or the leader at the 8-minute mark — a tie goes to golden cap, where the next capture wins outright.

Neutral Flag — Lockhart

One yellow flag, sitting in the middle of the map instead of two team flags.

• Either team can grab it first.
• Tag the carrier and the flag transfers to you on the spot — no walking back to a drop point, no return trip. Possession changes mid-stride.
• You score by carrying it all the way to your own endzone, which sits deep in enemy territory — the run is longer and more contested than a CTF capture.
• Same format otherwise: first to 3, golden cap on a tie at full time.

Which should you play first?

CTF is the more familiar shape if you've played any capture-the-flag game before — two bases, two flags, clear offense and defense roles. Neutral Flag rewards more aggressive, opportunistic play, since a single well-timed tag can swing possession instantly rather than resetting it. Both play the same [controls](/guides/controls) and the same [movement model](/guides/movement) — the difference is entirely in the objective.

No health bars, no weapons

Neither mode has a shoot button or a damage number anywhere. A tag is binary — carrying or not, popped or not — and every fight comes down to positioning, timing, and momentum.