Blue Spawn Times

[Meat Juice 0]

Both 24/7 Dustbowl servers have crazy blue spawn times as of late. What's that all about?

Thx in advance,

Meat

[Victoreem the V of doom 30]

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[Melissia 7]

Don't be an asshole, V.

[Victoreem the V of doom 30]

I wasn't...I saw a roflcopter and a lolerskates at the same time

[Mana 3,867]

Well I haven't changed anything haha.

By crazy, what do you mean? How long?

[Melissia 7]

I've had a respawn time that was seventeen seconds once, although it was after just lolcharging into a heavy and dying rather quickly.

[Meat Juice 0]

It's a relief to hear you didn't change anything. 17 seconds in blue spawn is correct. However I would conservatively say at the very least 50% of my time in blue spawn over the last 48 hours has been spent waiting 17 seconds. I hopped over to another public server and the blue spawn times were normal. Some others voiced the same problem. As a result there's been some real lop sided game play beyond the norm. Prior to 48 hrs ago I've been away for several days so I cant say when it began with any greater accuracy. Perhaps it's a bug related to a recent update or another numb skull idea Valve came up with to spend more time watching the game in spawn than playing it. Regardless, I'll continue to monitor it, rage and let you know if I learn anything of relevance in the future.

Meat

[Brokkoly 11]

I think respawn times changes based on:

1) Which team is winning.

2)

I've had a respawn time that was seventeen seconds once, although it was after just lolcharging into a heavy and dying rather quickly.

Length of your last life. (so that you can't just go W+M1 the nearest enemy, die, and respawn to do it again)

3) Maybe it hates you...

(I think it's #3)

[Oww My Nose 19]

the spawn time doesn't really relate to the length of your last life... valve decided it'd be a good idea to spawn everyone in groups, so it has a group countdown timer based on what team is winning + 10s or something like that. it's in the developer commentary in hydro IIRC

[Melissia 7]

Which also depends on the length of your life, relative to the team's life.

[Meat Juice 0]

What u say about group respawn makes sense. It's always been that way on red but never blue. I have a few thousand hours playing time and I'm absolutely sure this is something new for blue. Up to a few days ago blue respawn was only 3 seconds or so at the most.

[Captain Planet 28]

the spawn time doesn't really relate to the length of your last life... valve decided it'd be a good idea to spawn everyone in groups, so it has a group countdown timer based on what team is winning + 10s or something like that. it's in the developer commentary in hydro IIRC

I might be wrong, because I can't seem to find the effin charts of respawn times, but I think how it works is there is a wave timer, say, 12 seconds. Everyone HAS to wait 12 seconds at least, so there are 2 different waves while people are dead. Example: I die. There is a wave of people coming back in 6 seconds, and a wave coming in 18 seconds. I have to jump in with the people on the 18 second train. Offense usually has smaller wave timers like 4-8 seconds. So it is very unusual with these huge BLU respawn times.

[Yawn 0]

I've seen this too on the 24/7 dustbowl server

It seems fixed as of right NOW but for some reason every time the BOT is in the server the spawn times are increased for only blue team. It's very annoying.