Why the long respawn times?

[Sevil]

I love this game, but code-wise I do not understand why it has to re-load the entire level JUST to respawn you.
Cant they just reset entity positions and remove all the ragdolls/gibs then place you somewhere else?

Also this happens in Portal and Portal 2, so this isnt HL specific.

[phillippi2]

That's probably the only way to reset entity states. In Half-Life 2, once an enemy knows where you're at, they always know where you're at and track you down. This includes if you teleport somewhere.

[warm cereal]

The version of source that hl2 was made on was a tad older and more limited. Im sure you could fix this if you ported it to l4d's engine version.

[Sevil]

Ursprungligen skrivet av - SPOUGe -:

The version of source that hl2 was made on was a tad older and more limited. Im sure you could fix this if you ported it to l4d's engine version.

Ahh.

Ursprungligen skrivet av phillippi2:

That's probably the only way to reset entity states. In Half-Life 2, once an enemy knows where you're at, they always know where you're at and track you down. This includes if you teleport somewhere.

I swear I thought I replied when the thread was alive.