What does everyone think of the respawn timers?

Personally, I'm not exactly a fan of the changing respawn timers going from 10s to 14s. It feels way to long for a fast paced gamemode like CC. If your team ends up wiping on the first cap point then its pretty much a free win for the opposing team. And it just feels god awful waiting for 14s to respawn then another 1-3s to move, then, if your team is across the map another... idk... 5-10s to run over there. Thoughts?

I kinda feel like it should start at 5s then every death after gives you 2 more.
Though I also feel like 60% of the time when i play the team that wins the first major fight in the middle is usually the team that loses.
It just keeps happening.

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Originally Posted by ValorDraegan

I kinda feel like it should start at 5s then every death after gives you 2 more.
Though I also feel like 60% of the time when i play the team that wins the first major fight in the middle is usually the team that loses.
It just keeps happening.

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I would totally be interested in something like that, and maybe it resets after a certain point since you dont want to punish someone straight into the dirt, or maybe it caps at like 15?

Personally I think they're fine. It's supposed to be punishing.

Maybe in casual mode shorter respawn timers would work, since it would mean more time fighting per match.

i like it, because it really punishes all-in play. you're rewarded for knowing when to back off and sip a potion

They feel a little long given how fast a match can end, however at the same time if they were too short then playing in a way that involves diving into a fight without your team is less punishing because you can get back tp the fight too fast. Its a difficult balance to have for this type of game mode.

Unfortunately I believe that "Being too much" is exactly the point they're going for.

The objective seems to be a very short mode and what makes it shorter than enabling snowballs? 10s in CC is an eternity to be downed, you even need time to get back into the fight so it ends up being like 15s, and some classes don't quite just get going right away so you may just end up dying again because you couldn't get the ball going.

Also because of that, regrouping is impossible, because the time you'd need to get your full group together is enough to give up a full 50% progress and the key breaking, now your full group is going against THEIR full group who had more than enough time to Standard Elixir and probably have way more Limit Break on their bars anyway.

So If anything they might consider making the escalating 10s worse.

I don't think it's too much time. Honestly, I think that players should remember that they all have a 4.5-second cast full restore on their bars at all times that never goes away. It's a long cast so you need to slip away where you won't get hit for that long, but it can really be a game changer, even if you're at full HP but just need more MP for Recuperate, it can be a godsend.

The annoying part is the fade to black after the timer runs out, a small loading screen, and then a ress animation. It makes the ress time way longer than displayed.

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Originally Posted by Raiu

The annoying part is the fade to black after the timer runs out, a small loading screen, and then a ress animation. It makes the ress time way longer than displayed.

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Bingo this is it right here! All of this adds another 5 seconds to the timer that isn't being shown in the game itself. This is something they have to fix.

10 second respawns is to punishing
considering it takes an additional 7 seconds for the revive animation to play depending on your SSD speed for loading
that's 17 seconds for a single death
and it increases by 1 more per death
so 17 + 18 + 19 for each death
Which is a near min of not playing the game

As you can see in this image, two people had a death of 8 and 9 in this match. Without considering the fade to black timer, that's 2 full mins of being dead in a mode that's only 5 mins. With the fade to black revive, that's literally 1/2 of the entire match not getting to play.

https://i.imgur.com/rsYgibh.png

Fully agree that it's a step too far, if nothing it completely removes the momentum of a fast paced game mode, due to factors the game itself can't even mitigate. Hardware, connection issues, the server taking longer to respond due to internet traffic... these problems were already bad enough for other elements of gameplay, to add a static delay of such ridiculous time, one that increases with each death, in a mode where people will die at one point or another is just baffling.

This creates a problem, as overtime in matches becomes both a blessing and curse, in the sense that defenders must hold off the attacking team against impossible odds because their comrades are still stuck loading in. While it is still a more competitive and fast-paced mode compared to a lot of other content, it doesn't lend itself to enjoyability, and it certainly doesn't prevent overtime to punish the fallen players in such a manner, the delay they'll suffer outside of the static timer will always be unbalanced, that's just the nature of online gameplay.

Make no mistake, the mode is still enjoyable when you can engage in it. But this will likely become a problem down the road if left as is.

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Originally Posted by Raiu

The annoying part is the fade to black after the timer runs out, a small loading screen, and then a ress animation. It makes the ress time way longer than displayed.

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yeah this is annoying

I think you should only get the raise penalty in Overtime

when I'm losing, the timer feels to long. when I'm winning the timer feels just right.

It should be 60 seconds if you die 1v5.

I think they should be longer if anything. Most games go to overtime instead of actually ending which is tedious.

After playing for awhile.....the respawn timer needs to be cut in half. Its way too long and its way too easy to snowball.

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Originally Posted by Raiu

The annoying part is the fade to black after the timer runs out, a small loading screen, and then a ress animation. It makes the ress time way longer than displayed.

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Yeah. It's an extra 5-6 seconds on the res timer just from that. Super annoying.

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Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

Yeah. It's an extra 5-6 seconds on the res timer just from that. Super annoying.

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Near 10 seconds for me. After the counter hits 0, there's a fade to black with loading, then there's the whole ress animation before you can even start moving, and that takes 10 seconds.

There shouldn't be a rez animation to begin with. It slow down the pacing over nothing.