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Title: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: HertogJan on September 20, 2011, 04:54:27 pm
When you're killed it takes 60-65 seconds before you respawn. During that time you have full perception.
In case of TC or random PvP that means you can see enemy movements and pass that info on to your friends.

My suggestion is simple. After dead you immediately respawn at the respawn location where you have to wait till the respawn timer reaches 0. During that period you can't do anything except perhaps walking around. Usage of doc or FA skills should be impossible and you can't leave the location.

This would add some more dynamics to PvP. 1 team loses their scout and therefore a tactical advantage. The information scouted can become useless almost immediately as the scouted team can change position or formation.
As a bonus we would be getting rid of the roughly 5 extra seconds of waiting time after the respawn timers reaches 0.
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Crazy on September 20, 2011, 05:02:54 pm
When you're killed it takes 60-65 seconds before you respawn. During that time you have full perception.

Hum, no, unless 3 hex view range is your full perception...
Also, it's useful when a mistake happen, to explain yourself, that kind of things.
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Grommok on September 21, 2011, 03:53:18 pm
Hum, no, unless 3 hex view range is your full perception...
Also, it's useful when a mistake happen, to explain yourself, that kind of things.
Maybe he means that the things we saw remain visibile until they move.
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Surf on September 21, 2011, 04:20:33 pm
But then people couldn't use important game features like ".e shit in mouth" or ".s lol noob I keeled u" on your corpse!

Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Grommok on September 21, 2011, 04:53:19 pm
Right! My favoroute thing of that kind is ".e eats vagina"!
Or ".e scavenges for guts"!
And why forgettin' ".e cums blood"!
(Yes, Cannibal Corpse fan ::) ;D)
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Luther Blissett on September 21, 2011, 09:36:32 pm
As well as "shitting in mouth", it is sometimes useful to be able to say "Sorry about that. Meet me at VC and I'll give you your things back".
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Ganado on September 21, 2011, 09:47:06 pm
But that shows weakness... unless you killed them from a friendly fire burst or something like that.
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Luther Blissett on September 21, 2011, 10:14:45 pm
I'm not worried about that sort of thing really. Anyway, it's more when a very low level player tries to steal from or PK you. Anything else would be pointlessly harsh.

I know a lot of people wouldn't see it like that, of course.
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: T-888 on September 21, 2011, 10:47:22 pm
But then people couldn't use important game features like ".e shit in mouth" or ".s lol noob I keeled u" on your corpse!

Exactly , suggestion denied. Who doesn't like to teebag those dead bluesuits , its fonlineish ;D

oh wait .... you don't like it , too bad your the minority ;D
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Swinglinered on September 22, 2011, 04:50:16 am
We could go halfsies!

Speed up respawn timer by 50% in place you are killed, have the other half be at the respawn point.

Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Wipe on September 22, 2011, 08:16:50 am
No point in reinventing the wheel. Enforcing FOV refresh ("hiding" critters which are >3 hexes away, without need to wait til they move) on death would be enough.
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: solid snake on September 22, 2011, 10:46:43 am
Hum, no, unless 3 hex view range is your full perception...
Also, it's useful when a mistake happen, to explain yourself, that kind of things.

yeah i have no idea what OP is talking about.
when you die, you cant see anything but a few hexes. most ive seen when im dead is someone dead next to me.  ;D
i honestly miss the feature where you could talk (not just whisper) to other players. so they wouldnt just have to be in your adjacent or primary hex.
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Michaelh139 on September 22, 2011, 12:41:53 pm
i honestly miss the feature where you could talk (not just whisper) to other players. so they wouldnt just have to be in your adjacent or primary hex.
You can do that now with the /o speak.
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Surf on September 22, 2011, 01:52:27 pm
You can do that now with the /o speak.

Which is not intended/a bug and won't stay like that.
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Grommok on September 23, 2011, 02:40:39 pm
No point in reinventing the wheel. Enforcing FOV refresh ("hiding" critters which are >3 hexes away, without need to wait til they move) on death would be enough.
Something like forcing refresh every second?
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Crazy on September 23, 2011, 03:44:49 pm
Something like forcing refresh every second?

Too much useless work for server as you won't move, forcing refresh at death is enough. Forcing refresh when you're shooting, preventing this stupid fake shots to happen when you run on ennemy would be great though.
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: HertogJan on September 24, 2011, 01:09:30 am
Hum, no, unless 3 hex view range is your full perception...
Also, it's useful when a mistake happen, to explain yourself, that kind of things.

I posted this based upon some PvP in Modoc last week.
I got killed by a guy when I was at the south exit. The guy walked to me from general store and walked back there after he looted me. He was visible to me from close to the exit till just south of the general store.
Distance was about 15-20 max, my alt had 8 PE (after drugs). I couldn't see if he went around the corner or entered the general store.
My hp was below -20.
Title: Re: Awaiting respawn timer at respawn location
Post by: Crazy on September 24, 2011, 01:15:27 am
I posted this based upon some PvP in Modoc last week.
I got killed by a guy when I was at the south exit. The guy walked to me from general store and walked back there after he looted me. He was visible to me from close to the exit till just south of the general store.
Distance was about 15-20 max, my alt had 8 PE (after drugs). I couldn't see if he went around the corner or entered the general store.
My hp was below -20.


Sounds like a bug to me, it is not supposed to happen.