Poll: Respawn times

Respawn times should be...

  • Longer

    Votes: 27 45.8%

  • Same

    Votes: 24 40.7%

  • Shorter

    Votes: 8 13.6%
  • Total voters
    59
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Homingun

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Just wanted to get a feel for what people think about the current respawn times.

I personally think they are a bit short. I find 2 good heavies combined with the 3 second invulnerability time can hold the flag almost indefinitely. I also find that LO is extremely hard to do since any distracted/killed defense can get back on stand very quickly. This doesn't help curb bowl parties either.

Maybe up it to 5 seconds?

Edit: clarity
 
Yes, short spawn times are really annoying me as LO

Facing two people, kill one, then the other is back to join the fight incredible soon. There should be a penalty for dying. Simple as.
 
Fireblasto said:
. There should be a penalty for dying.
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The only people that I've found who disagree with this play dedicated chase defense.

I feel like if it's EASIER to kill yourself and respawn than to regenerate life while in your own base, something is wrong.
 
Heartsong said:
I feel like if it's EASIER to kill yourself and respawn than to regenerate life while in your own base, something is wrong.
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Because it is? The time it takes you to hit Ctrl + K and then 3.25 seconds to respawn. Still much faster than healing even half health.
 
Chi-Ro said:
Because it is? The time it takes you to hit Ctrl + K and then 2.5 3.25 seconds to respawn (unless they changed it and I didn't notice). Much faster than healing even half health.
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reread his sentence and you'll notice it :)
 
I like the times as they are now. And while I do play chase a lot, I do also play stay at home and when my lags not bad, occasionally go capping or HoF.
 
Apart from one game today (flag passing practice for the omnis on Def
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), I don't think the respawn time needs a change... it only went down because people thought it was too long.
 
moronval said:
I wouldn't mind having the flag remove invulnerability too while we're at it.
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function CtfGame::onPlayerTouchFlag( %this, %player, %flag )
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I mean really, who do you think I am?
 
Could respawn times be made relative to the size of the map? Frostbite = 5 seconds, Bladerun = 8, etc? You know, because respawn rates would affect an LO more depending on how quickly he could get back to the enemy base.
 
DOS4/GW said:
Could respawn times be made relative to the size of the map? Frostbite = 5 seconds, Bladerun = 8, etc? You know, because respawn rates would affect an LO more depending on how quickly he could get back to the enemy base.
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This idea has merit.
 
I agree two Sentinels flag passing during standoff is over powered, although I don't think the problem is respawn times as a whole, but how you spawn in as your selected class.

Dedicated chase defense, cappers and LO cannot afford to lose a second on maps like Frost just to curb Sent passing. Possible solutions without getting into the whole base assets conversation would be:

-limit the amount of certain classes (kind of lame)
-dynamic spawn times for certain classes (kludge)
-some kind of asset similar to the ammo station that must be touched in order to change class, or once you have changed class before changes take effect (I think I saw something similar to this being tested in one of morna's pug videos)

The problem right now is anyone on the map can quickly respawn as Sent, and in 3 seconds they are at the base aiding the defense. I don't think increasing that number across the board is a solution with some flag to flag routes already taking about as long as respawning.

Don't even get me started on front OD routes and health regen.
 
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