Gameplay: Section 8 Prejudice
Narrator/Commentator: Total Halibut

This video shows how I think this game should have spawns. AA might have to be implemented in order to preserve balance but I loved this system and every time I died in this game, I never attributed it to poor spawning.

Also, a side note, this game also runs on Unreal Engine 3, so I don't think it would be hard to implement.

Now remember, I don't think everything from this game should be carried over and DUST should be a clone of this game. All I'm focusing on is the spawn system only.

Funny, I posted something about it yesterday.
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=47429&find=unread

Sent you a +1.

... we're supposedly going to be getting an auto-destruct module that explodes when you die. So that's coming.

Thanks, tho it would be even better if you post so it doesn't get buried.

Just bumping this, and letting you know I'll do the same for your thread

Thanks, tho it would be even better if you post so it doesn't get buried.

starhawk does this

What's all this talk about hitscan stuff? You make it sound worse than CoD auto aim. Sometimes I feel like I have a different version of the beta. I find the aiming in this to be incredibly difficult. Sniping is near impossible(I get a lot of misses when my reticle is red, or that blue shield thingy), tracking a moving target is ridiculous, I can be on top of somebody and not hit the broad side of a space barn with my hip fire. I chalk this all up to beta, though.
I didn't mean to sound catty there, I just want to know what the hitscan is all about.

WE WANT TO RAIN DOWN FROM THE SKY LIKE TINY METAL BUNDLES OF DEATH!!!!

Drop Uplinks should remain as they are - wormhole-based clone teleportation. CRUs, for obvious reasons, spawn you straight out of a ground-based installation.

But any "default" spawn, including spawning on an objective in a Skirmish battle, or the randomised spawns in Ambush, should spawn us high ABOVE the battlefield.

In addition, whether spawning or just jumping off something stupidly high, we should be able to guide our descent - but only within certain limits - as long as we don't activate the Inertial Dampener. When it triggers, you lose control, but you can wait until you're pretty close to the ground before hitting it.

Spawns will be safer, the specific spawn location will be randomised (or sequential), but players will, as we fall, have some measure of control over our landing point. More importantly, we'll have AWARENESS of the situation we're dropping into. If there are enemies on the ground, WE CAN SEE THEM, and try to manoeuvre somewhere that won't disadvantage us too severely.