Reinforcement long wait time ruins game

#1

Illfonic, PLEASE reduce the reinforcement wait time back to where it was before you made it ridiculously long in the last patch update! That change is unfair for a number of reasons.

  1. Players getting the 1,000 trophy claim Playstation trophy had a huge grinding advantage in getting all Playstation trophies faster.
  2. Fireteam are already at a huge disadvantage while at 3 or less. There’s no good reason to make them wait that long. I’ve even seen many players exit out of game as soon as they get killed because it’s faster for them just to enter another game and have a much greater chance to getting an exfil or kill a predator for OWLF by doing that.
  3. It’s causing time to run out more often as fireteam hides more and waits while being at 3 or less.
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#2

The wait is around 12 seconds. I say keep it there.

#3

Git Gud!!!
The reinforcement timer is fine. If your team is getting slaughtered one player needs to split off the group and stay mudded and silent to get the mission done and reinforcement

#4

I don’t think he’s talking about that.

It’s the time you have to wait until reinforcements are available. It is way to long now. The previous time was fine and maybe 15 more seconds would have been acceptable, but it’s just encouraging players to leave the lobby once they’re down, because you can find a new match in the about the same amount of time.

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#5

In my opinion that wasn’t the nerf that reinforcements needed. Reinforcements should revive people with less syringes, less gear in general and less ammo. That will be the good nerf. As you said , increasing the time for calling them, only increased the numbers of rage quitters that was already high previously.

#6

I can see that. But, if reinforcements will be available faster, they need to come back the way they were when they died. No full restocks.

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#7

Your request was denied because you didn’t manage to post in the right topic.

#8

What if you could spawn as a guerilla soldier or FT?

#9

I think we all can agree that rage quitting is a major problem and if this recent increase in reinforcement wait time causes it to be much worse then we can all agree that it needs to be changed back to where it was.

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#10

IMO Reinforcement needs a total rework. They shouldn’t magically spawn on the ground. They should repel in quickly with no cutscene at one of the LZ points on the map.

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#11

This I can agree with because it actually makes sense.

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#12

They should respawn as OWLF operatives too. Like they have been using FT as bait to draw the predator out.

#13

Imo that’s less viable, the fireteams are used (I’m guessing) because they are expendable so it makes more sense to throw minions than it does sending out main operatives to die.

#14

I usually quit, I’m not wait 2 long minutes watching poor teamwork hoping one will survive long enough to reinforce me. Unless I’ve been teamed up with some focused players, I’m leaving…don’t even care how much VT I’ve gathered, I can be in another match quicker than I can get reinforced. They need to dial it back, and just rework the system itself.