I think I’d like to play a mode where the match starts with most of each team locked up on the enemies side of the map and the people that where randomly chosen to spawn have to free them.
Maybe other objectives spawn once both sides get freed.
I know Dirty bomb is supposed to be a fast pace game and having people jailed on death might slow down the gameplay too much, but maybe having the match just start with some players jailed might work.
If its 8v8 it can be 4v4 while the other 4 have to be rescued. those randomly picked 4 have to make free their team… maybe the enemy can choose to try to free their team and kill any enemy they see on the way or decide to hunker down and guard the prisoners.
You could make it so the first team that releases the prisoners gets 50-100% xp for their actions during the rest of the match.
I think this is still competitive, you could even give prisoners a credit bonus for being stuck as a prisoner. But hopefully people aren’t stuck as prisoners for too long at the start of the match.