The "Welcome To New Eden" philosophy is not an excuse for bad game, broken mechanics, and cheap tactics.

And if we used that logic, then the Vanilla Assault Rifle is fine the way it is because this is New Eden.

But clearly it's not.

No not really. The problem is when you initially load the map onto your screen. Normally your frame rate drops considerably and you have to wait additional time to spawn in. Meanwhile some people just got lucky and it didn't lag, or they rigged their PS3's with SSD cards and they just load everything super quick. Either way I think it would just make things more balanced and competitive if everyone started moving at the same time as opposed to everyone starting to move as they spawn in.

I just want a 20 second count down from when the first person loads into the battle, until the first person can spawn.

Simple, everyone spawns in the MCC, then the doors open after a certain time frame.

I like this. Everyone gets to see the team's starting lineup, group up with their squads, make some last minute plans, etc. Better than the chaotic mess we get now.

I like this. Everyone gets to see the team's starting lineup, group up with their squads, make some last minute plans, etc. Better than the chaotic mess we get now.

actually... i like the thought of spawning as a squad. its better than spawning in one at a time in front of a group of enemies.

if you known youre getting camped, you could spawn as normal except before you actually spawn you'd have to hit the button again. this lets you wait for the rest of you squad or team.

put a limit to how many can spawn at a time and color code the uplinks so we can see where our squad mates are spawning in and how many are spawning at that location.

itd be pretty funny to see spawn campers flee as 6 heavies spawn in all at once lol

Late spawn ins are terrible in a game that has a competitive aspect such as PC involved. I think CCP should add a feature where everyone has their initial spawn in but are frozen where they spawn for 20 seconds to allow for everyone else to make their spawn. This will allow for a more equal/balanced playing field that would prevent teams from getting cheated out of losses simply because their team spawned in 5 seconds later then the opposing team.

There isn't any negative to this that I can think of, and really it just makes it so that people like me don't get screwed over because of a late spawn. I mean, lets face it, this game is laggy as hell sometimes and I think a feature like this would go a long way in balancing the game out. But who knows, maybe im just crazy right?

Ummmmm the title of this thread is "like BF3" not MAG. I just want an INITIAL 20 second spawn timer. After that, every other spawn timer would go on like it always has. And by "20 second spawn timer" I mean, the moment the first merc materializes on the ground, he has to stay stationary for 20 seconds. If another merc materializes 10 seconds into the 20 second wait, then he/she only has to wait 10 more seconds.

This way everyone starts moving at the same time and not whenever they load into the game. Simple as that.

Look, like ive said twice now. IDC if the MCC is the only spawn or not. Whichever is easier for CCP to implement is the option I would choose. There can be a million spawn options for all I care. So long as nobody can move for the first 20 seconds the problem I care about is fixed. Spawn locations are such a trivial thing to care about when this discussion is about the process of spawning in. Not the locations in which you spawn on to.