WTF.... Respawn tme on Gravel Pit.

**kyle700** · 12-13-08, 03:40 PM

I don't ever remember there being a 22 second respawn on Gravel pit, for attackers!

WTF is up with this?

Did they do something in the new patch?

**FireCrack** · 12-13-08, 06:52 PM

There are lots of factors that affect respawn times. Maybe just all the bad ones aligned...

**Arreo** · 12-13-08, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by FireCrack

There are lots of factors that affect respawn times. Maybe just all the bad ones aligned...

Pretty much.

Originally Posted by Arreo

I just feel that the spawn timers in TF2 are an arcane science that is determined by the way your entrails fall as you die.

I mean hasn't anyone else noticed that if the pieces of your body fall in a triangular pattern you spawn almost instantly? But if your head lands ahead of your body you're consigned to a long wait in limbo?

Or, if you want the actual explanation:

Originally Posted by jabberwock

No fancy graphs, just a quote from Robin Walker.

From http://mentalvga.blogspot.com/2008/0...f-instant.html

We’re big fans of respawn waves, for a variety of reasons, and wouldn’t have put them in at all if we didn’t think they were an overall positive impact on the game. All the TF2 maps were balanced with them in mind, which is one of the main reasons why instant respawn servers are so heavily weighted towards the defenders in maps like Dustbowl & Goldrush.

Robin.

Note the mention of respawn waves... Meaning the game adjusts respawn times to make more people spawn at once, which promotes team work. Imagine you die when everyone else on your team is alive... You get the longest possible respawn, but it gets shorter the more of you are dead.

Hope this helps.

**FragRaptor** · 12-13-08, 06:56 PM

It changes all the time fire. Depending on the respawn wave.

**FireCrack** · 12-13-08, 07:07 PM

Consider that the wave you will spawn in is always the wave after next. If a wave just spawned before you died you have 2 full respawn wave tiems to wait for.

**kyle700** · 12-13-08, 08:18 PM

Well, it only happens on GP. Not any other map.

**heyf00L** · 12-16-08, 10:00 AM

The more people on your team, the longer the respawn wave time. Also, the more points you have captured the shorter the time. So right at the beginning if you get killed at just the right time you could get a 22 second respawn, but I think that's about the highest it can ever be.

**enf** · 12-16-08, 11:13 AM

Ive had 22 sec respawn time plenty of times. I just think you need to look a lot more often.

**kyle700** · 12-16-08, 11:27 AM

I'm saying that I've never had a 22 second respawn on the attacking side of a map. I don't usually mind the really long respawns if I'm having fun, but when I walk out of spawn and get killed immedatly, it get's a bit annoying

It does still seem like the spawns are slower then most games, like I've said before.
BF2142- 3...2...1...
TF2- 3......2.......1......

I'm not really complaining about it though. I just wanted to know why I would get longer respawns on a attacking side of a map, rather then the defending side. THAT doesn't happen usually on most maps, but it seems to happen a lot more to me on Gravel Pit then any other Attack-Defend map.

I just think that the times are a bit stupid on this game, for how close quarters and facepaced it is. But see ^