Bommando

It's always been the case since BF2. If you want to avoid spawning, make sure you have a spawn point deselected. Works every time for me. If I want time to select field upgrades or other stuff, I click in an empty section of the map to deselect my spawn point and it never spawns me. Once I'm ready, I select a spawn point and off I go.

Telorn

See. This is one of many oversights DICE forgets to tell us about. We always have to figure it out on our own.

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Bommando

Sorry, but why do people keep pounding on EA / DICE all the time? It's pretty consistent. Doesn't look like an oversight to me. Selecting a Field Upgrade or clicking Ready to spawn / Enter takes you into spawn mode. If you have a spawn point selected, you will spawn. If you don't have a spawn point selected, you don't.

Yes, there are other bugs in the game, but this one behaves consistently in my opinion. To avoid spawning, don't select a spawn point.

ThePenguineer

I like the people who complain about the long spawn times. I especially like the people who feel they're departure is a real loss to the server, so they announce an indignant parting comment with some psuedo-english. Really, I do.

'Cause when they disconnect to find a another server on which to increase the chaos in the universe, it makes a spot for a teamplayer who's been looking for a server like ours.

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DirtyLude

Because, if it's not a bug, it's not intuitive and just plain silly. I don't want to have to unselect a spawn point every time a select a field upgrade, nor should I have to.

The 'Select' button for the field upgrade should just select the field upgrade and allow you to continue customizing, not boot you out of the kit/squad update screens as well. This is not something that was a problem in BF2, because there wasn't field upgrades in BF2.

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The Dirty

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Pressing 'select' after a field upgrade and spawning definitely isn't a bug. It's just behavior that I don't like. The spawn screen does far too many things now that you can customize your soldier and select field upgrades. Clicking OK may do something that the user doesn't expect.

The spawning while in the spawn screen is definitely a bug. It shouldn't spawn the player while he's choosing a new spawn point, customizing his soldier or selecting a field upgrade. It frustrates the player when he spawns in a location that he doesn't want to be or spawns without customizing his soldier with that new field upgrade. It doesn't need an emergency fix since it has a workaround but it is high priority since it's behavior that shouldn't be happening. Plus, I sometimes forget to deselect my spawn point while fiddling with field upgrades.

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JakeBlues68

Thanks for information, guys.

Now I fully see the advantages of a long wait time. Just another reason to play on the server, IMO.

Hope to see you all on the Battlefield.

Bommando

Don't get me wrong, I would prefer not to spawn when selecting a field upgrade too, but that doesn't make them crap for making it this way. It just doesn't work they way I like it to.

Hey, I also don't like how some of the maps are laid out.

I just get annoyed how people interpret a game feature they don't like as verification to say EA / DICE suck. The feature works consistently and as intended and is not an 'oversight' or shoddy programming. It's not a bug. Yes, it would be better another way, but they don't suck because of it.

In my opinion, you either like the game or you don't. If you don't, make your points as to why, provide alternatives, send a letter to EA / DICE and put it on the shelf if you deem it unplayable. By all means post your opinions here, but it just gets old when everything that bothers people about the game just becomes another 'suck' post about the publishers / developers.

I hated the demo, but warmed to the retail. I stated my opinions as to why I didn't like the demo and then shut my mouth thereafter until I tried retail. I just get the impression people think it's somehow 'cool' to bash the developers of the game and then keep right on playing it, whining the whole time. If the game is so bad, then I would deem it unplayable, never buy a EA / DICE product again and move on.

Telorn

Are you on the DICE programming team? How do you know it isn't bug? Maybe it isn't working as DICE intended and you found a work-around but call it 'the way they intended'.

And where has anyone in this thread said EA/DICE sucks? None of us have, yet I get the impression you are bashing against people like me that said they don't like the spawn screen.

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Bommando

Did you read my post? I said that I also don't like the way the spawn screen works.

What I do take exception to and am 'bashing against' is people who suffix almost every post with a jab at the publishers / developers. If the game has bugs, I feel it appropriate to comment on them and suggest a better way. If someone has an issue with the way the developers work and how the publishers run the business, then maybe a personal boycott is in order rather than an ongoing tirade about every aspect of the game and how these people wrecked it.

Telorn

But my point is no one in this thread did that, so why even bring it up? Bring it up in those threads.

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Takk

One plus that comes with a long timer between each round, that I haven't seen brought up..is it's a little extra time..to go to the bathroom. Nothing worse than fighting with a full bladder.

Acid

Don't start it again guys. We all agree that the 1:30 start is good and the spawn screen may be a little confusing for some people. Don't start another EA/DICE thread again.

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