Developer Question: Squad Leader Spawning

[Nenjin]

AFAIK the tunnel is one of the playerstarts. At least it was in the beta.

 

[Rumo]

It would make more sense if the squad leader spawn field greyed out when they were alive but you couldn't spawn on them.

That would actually give us a reason to use the Ready button as well, since so many people seem to favor an auto-ready function.

I fully agree and it puzzles me why this wasn

 

[TOPMO3]

I think it is probably difficult to get the spawn leader selection to grey out, simply because he can be popping in and out of enemy LOS, making this kind of a tough thing to implement. Squad leader should instead be notified when people are able to spawn on him, or not.

 

[FBX]

Yes, notify the squad leader via the tactical view somehow. Actually, no, people would exploit that.

On a side note, this is bugged because I've seen the enemy spawn in front of me where I am viewing their spawn point. Perhaps people should spawn if both the squad leader and spawn point are both out of LOS.

 

[Rumo]

I think it is probably difficult to get the spawn leader selection to grey out, simply because he can be popping in and out of enemy LOS, making this kind of a tough thing to implement. Squad leader should instead be notified when people are able to spawn on him, or not.

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