Teleporting and bots

[Verlyn]

Yes, I've used Player Search for legitimate reasons. And I can tell you the odds of finding a new character within a half second of them entering the introductory cut-scene via the player search tool is next to nil.

The sound effect for the tell played before the video even faded into view. And that's happened more than once on my new characters.

If you're in a loading screen, you're technically in the game and findable.
They're using scripts to access the UI faster than you could do by hand, most likely.

I've only ever legitimately had to use the player search one time--and that was to find a person I knew was already in the game by their player name so I could friend them.
I'm sure there is a better way to accomplish that.