Removing killed in action screen

[Zygmunt]

When can we expect to remove this screen. Its pointless, better add 10s to the respawn instead of waiting.

[TWB*Clell_Miller]

Whose we? You on the coding team?

[Zygmunt]

Originally posted by TWB*Clell_Miller:

Whose we? You on the coding team?

its for the devs

[TWB*Clell_Miller]

Of course it is. Reference them in the topic. Who else could possibly answer the question? I've heard a few folks make a similar requests, but honestly, it about no. 86 on the top 40.

[Moist Egg]

Originally posted by Zygmunt:

When can we expect to remove this screen. Its pointless, better add 10s to the respawn instead of waiting.

How will I know if I died? It's for my immersion

[LucidThresher]

pointless change there is more important things to fix/add.

[Crunch]

in my opinion I think its whatever, maybe reduce it to 5 seconds, all that would take is one line of code being changed, and I believe it would make the game less frustrating

[TasteDasRainbow]

It's to prevent a player from instantly spawning back in on an OP/garry that just so happens to be spawning a couple seconds after you die

[TWB*Clell_Miller]

Originally posted by TasteDasRainbow:

It's to prevent a player from instantly spawning back in on an OP/garry that just so happens to be spawning a couple seconds after you die

There's always a reason.

[Jason]

Originally posted by LucidThresher:

pointless change there is more important things to fix/add.

yes im sure that will require weeks of tweaking the game......

[Saturday Lizard 鳳梨酥]

It is a pointless screen, everything could all be wrapped up in a single timer and spawning done individually rather than lag waves. But to remain consistent it would be pointless to remove when other issues would be more important.

[KaleidoScopes]

What a pointless suggestion. You're waiting an additional 10 seconds regardless. You'd think it'd alleviate monotony but in a weird sense if you see a 50 second timer on a respawn it adds even MORE of a monotonous feel to it

[Archie Buttle]

My personal gripe is that the "KILLED IN ACTION" text is obnoxiously large and encroaching. It's pretty much an arcade machine "GAME OVER" screen.

The screen faded black, as it does every time the player is killed, so just print an understated "KIA" or "DEAD" in regular text in the bottom left corner and be done with it.

Or: go in the other direction and generate a fictional Army KIA report with randomly generated details. e.g. first and last name and place of birth, etc. Make a show out of it!

The current state is bleh.

[Lynchburg]

The best of both worlds for those that like unproductively waiting 10 seconds is to have a skip button. It is a waste of time to have to wait the 10 seconds in this screen as opposed to just adding it in the deploy screen

[BloodRiot]

It's not a pointless suggestion vs adding time. The You died screen prevents more than just spawning sooner. Unlike the spawning wait time, it prevents you from picking another spawn point which can nudge you to the next spawn cycle in case your previous outpost was moved or destroyed.
it takes away off time during spawn wait that you can mess about with your load out choice.
it prevents you from making more timely decisions because you can't assess the map.

The game already has enough problems about you selecting outposts in a timely fashion when it decides that other squad's outposts should prevent you from picking your own if they are too close on the map.

Having the You Died screen preventing you from pre picking another spawn point after you redeploy which already extends the wait timer as if you TKed because after those 20 seconds you are given a 5 second window to pick a garry you can't click on because it's close to 3 others squads outposts when you would have add ample time to account for this is infuriating when time is of the essence. 40 seconds can feel like forever especially added to the 25 you just waited.