Just be calm when you spawn, dont just run away, take your time and do a 360 ;), to see if enemies are nearby :)

I find that hard to do when I get spawned in the middle of a shoot out.

I guess none of you were around when each point on a skirmish only had one place where troops would appear, people would plant remote explosives and kill you as you spawn, I wouldn't oppose a more random spawn pattern on ambushes, but really you've got it easy compared to the past, and besides if you can't hit the ground running, perhaps you should be playing Civ or something.

I said it before and I'll say it again.

They should adopt the same spawn system that Section 8 had. It eliminated spawn camping, gave teams a reason to fortify objectives and was just plain awesome.

Since I'm new to PVP FPS games (I've mostly played Borderlands), can you tell me (us, assuming there's more noobs reading) what sort of spawn system Section 8 used?

If you're playing Ambush and no one in your squad has dropped an uplink, then you need to load up a loadout with an uplink and drop it yourself. Any time a team isn't dropping uplinks, protecting their spawns, and are choosing instead to default spawn, they deserve to lose.

This problem is 100% the player's fault. This is why drop uplinks are so critical in Ambush especially.

If there is not an uplink in play, I'll always spawn with one, put it down somewhere decent and if it goes away, put another one down.

This will solve 90% of the problems with Ambush spawning. The problem is almost nobody does this. I'm almost always the only one putting down uplinks.

This simply circumvents the problem, not fix it. Obviously the code for spawning is horribly flawed, as I'm sure CCP doesn't expect every single person to use up a valuable slot for a droplink in order to not spawn right in front of an enemy.

To claim this is 100% player fault is ridiculous. There is absolutely no way spawning was intentionally meant to be like this, and it CERTAINLY isn't the players fault.

Team play is strongly encouraged. Someone has to fit a droplink, and the team needs to defend the spawn site. Neither happens often, and both almost never happen at the same time. This isn't a problem with gameplay, it's a problem with teamwork.

i believe this issue is well known by DEVs.
but in any case i loved the fact a few times an enemy spawned right in my crosshairs for me to open fire on. or it spawns me right in front of tank fire for me to get blasted.

sure love that stuff

You love getting cheap easy kills? No competition in you what so ever lady?

Just be calm when you spawn, dont just run away, take your time and do a 360 ;), to see if enemies are nearby :)

A little hard to when you spawn right in front of 3 enemy players with your back to them, or in front of a tank you drop very quickly.

This problem is 100% the player's fault. This is why drop uplinks are so critical in Ambush especially.

If there is not an uplink in play, I'll always spawn with one, put it down somewhere decent and if it goes away, put another one down.

This will solve 90% of the problems with Ambush spawning. The problem is almost nobody does this. I'm almost always the only one putting down uplinks.

You shouldn't have to do this just so spawning isn't terrible. Default spawn should actually be a fully working viable option, and not a death trap.

I fundamentally disagree. Default spawn should be absolute last resort. If 16 guys can't work together enough to get even 1 or 2 uplinks on the map, your team deserves to spawn completely randomly IMO. It's a great way to reward basic squad play.