Players do not all spawn into a map at the same time. Some players get to spawn early while others get to spawn late. For the players that spawn late, this puts their team at a disadvantage as their team is in the initial skirmish (and a player short) when they spawn. For the players themselves their opening moves are limited because they have to conform to what the team is already doing already instead of trying to lead and also some openings (warpgate drop on spawn to help team get to initial skirmish fast) are impractical for them.
I suggest initial spawn times for all players in both teams be equalized. I understand this will make the fast-loaders wait more, which is annoying for them, but will prevent the better computer/connection => team advantage, which is the situation today.
How do people spawn earlier? I am only aware of one spawn time, unless you mean players who are not loaded in time? In which case why make the other 20 people wait till they load.
Eh? You all spawn at the same time. The game waits for everyone to finish loading, within reason.
This game is fairly light on the resources, if your PC can’t load the match in time then you should consider upgrading to something that was made in recent history
How do people spawn earlier? I am only aware of one spawn time, unless you mean players who are not loaded in time? In which case why make the other 20 people wait till they load.
I constantly spawn approx 30 seconds after all others have spawned.
not one time
not once in a while
constantly.
@NTT:
game runs fine with decent fps. your comment isn’t useful.
Only time I have seen myself spawn later than others if I crashed at the start, then it restarts your spawn timer.
which means that the problem is specific to some player’s setups and you arn’t in the affected group. Add me up and play 1-2 games with me, you’ll see you spawn before me.
Most players will not see any noticeable difference in spawning time and some players will see late spawning constantly.
The problem with not making “normal start” players like you spawn before “late start” players is that, on the other team you get to have one more player at the “contested beacon”/bomb at the start of the game (and therefore get a head start there) and on the my team team you get to have 30-60 (i have to get there too) seconds where you are a player short.
Niether option is fair. It’s not fair to me, that an important part of the game is done without me, and it’s not fair to you, that you can’t have my help at the beginning.
but seriously either your trolling, your internet sucks, or it is a bug, in which case you should report it on the bug forum like some helpfull people mentioned.
I have never spawned late myself, but I have seen people sometimes spawning in ~10-15 seconds behind others… I mean, they spawn in too “soon” to have crashed/died and re-spawned but still a noticeable amount of time after everyone else.
Honestly, I’m more worried about the 6 “team mates” in friggs sniping from the spawn during Detonation games than I am about the one guy who happens to spawn 10 seconds late.
@[Stringar](< base_url >/index.php?/user/240240-stringar/): this post was intended as a bug report. Since then I’ve found the proper forum and posted a detailed report there (including a video).
@JJ: Yes the “sweet sniper action” guys are getting on my nerves too.
