Increasing respawn time is very annoying

so I'm doing my job, actually doing something and protecting the flag. I die a billion times and respawn take FOREVER. I don't get it.

We get punished for doing our jobs, and yet the little butterflies who hide and do absolutely nothing to help get rewarded with low spawn times. Just remove it, okay? Increasing spawn time promotes being a retard, and thus matches are unwinnable.

 

Or increase the spawn timers to one-minute so these bloody games stop lasting 6 minutes .. and we can actually grind out 10k ship pieces.

 

Right, are we just supposed to sit and do nothing for 1 minute?

 

Definitely not liking the respawn times and also not a great fan of CTF.

 

I suppose it's less interesting than suiciding every 10 seconds .. but perhaps more strategic.

 

I liked it when you were rewarded for pushing the flag forward .. especially on the 3 minute, small map version.

The better strat for this is to sit back and level your weapon achievements .. there's no real advantage to trying to play the objective part of the game.

 

That's what I have been doing. Just defending the flag and racking up the damage points. Helps if we win, okay if we don't.

 

Dying billion of times and respawning is not your job Actually this increased respawn time often helps better or luckier team to win when two or even more enemy ships are respawning. It is better then having 0-0 most of the time.

 

I am so over CTF. It is a interesting gimmick game that maybe they can break out every 6 months for an event.
The only reason I am still grinding it is to get Ship coins.
And even doing that is useless if you play SHOOTER. It's a joke, 5 or 6 minutes of battle, TOP Damage dealer on your team and you are rewarded with 1 or 2 coins.

 

This is my experience as well, and I like the event but the rewards are still not balanced. Outside of carrying the flag for 7-10 coins, you only get 5-6 coins for a win and 2 for a loss... to win requires coordination and for that we need CTF message, which we don't have outside of "capture". We really need a couple more event specific messages:

"Help Escort <player>"
"Defend base <player>"

To make matters worse my matches have a 3000 Gear Score variance, something that continues to drive me insane with EventMatchmaker(tm) because I'm typically on the lower end. I cannot put together a GS over 10k, and that's only with 1 boat.... so when half the players are 11k-12k, it makes battles tougher losses more frequent and coin take less than ideal. So far it seems 2000 coins is absolutely unattainable for me based on the structure of the event and it's reward system... maybe 1000 if I really grind.

 

“Less than ideal.” You’re way too kind. This has been, by far, the worst matchmaking of any event yet. My post update gear score I can just barely get to 10,000, if I strain to put together my absolute best loadout and maximize my perks as much as possible. My infamy ranges from 2200 to 2600 at its peak. Playing shooter last night I “won” twice in more than two dozen games, almost every one of which was overrun by Nightmare league players with gear scores well above 11,000. Nearly every match had infamy levels 4200, 4300, had several 4600 pop up. My favorite WTF! moment came when I looked at the match summary and there was fcking BLACKTAIL in a speeder. Yes, that one. Infamy 5200, gear score 12,744. Seven of his eight slots were level 50 epics; his two weapons were a level 50 epic grenade with two legendary and two epic perks, and a level 50 epic ex cannon with FOUR legendary perks.

CTF is so-so to begin with unless you’ve got the right boat and load out and get lucky with teammates who aren’t just shooting at stuff. CTF for five minutes to get a few coins is numbing. Having to grind CTF for a WEEK?!? (if you are interested in the first new boat in forever) is agonizing. Having to grind CTF for a WEEK?!? in battles with players who not only have far better equipment but ALSO are infinitely more talented (infamy TWO THOUSAND points higher—in Blacktail’s case, THREE thousand points higher!) is cruel torture. And CTF for a WEEK?!? against professional-level ptpers WHILE SPENDING ANYWHERE FROM 30 to 90 SECONDS OF A 5-MINUTE MATCH STARING AT A F*CKING RESPAWN COUNTDOWN TICKER BECAUSE YOU’RE GETTING VAPORIZED BY LEVEL 50 EPIC EXPLODING CANNONS WITH *FOUR* LEGENDARY PERKS is, well, it sucks. God, what a dumpster fire this event is.

And yet I can’t stop. Somebody send help.

P.S. The update is great.

 

I'm experiencing the same thing. Something has definitely changed in the event matchmaking algorithm this week.
I can BARELY scrape together a 9500 gear score with my best items and when I do, I am put into battles against guys with 10,500 - 12,000 gear scores (which is normal for me in infamy battles at 3500 infamy+, but infamy battles allow me to survive with lower gear scores, the event is almost all raw firepower and I'm getting slaughtered).
I tried tweaking my load-out to get my gear score down to 8000, but I am still facing gear scores between 9,000 and 10,500. All I can think of is that Captain Level is now playing a big part of matchmaking. I am captain level 49.
If you're wondering how I am capt level 49 and don't have a gear score higher than 9500, it's because #1, lack of epic dupes for the items I used the most and #2 I have leveled up almost every item/weapon in the game, so a lot of my parts/resources went into making Tier 5 Rares and Tier 3 Epics for almost everything, even fixer and frost gear.

 

LOL, me too.
Getting annihilated by top Nightmare players, experiencing LAG after the update worse than I've every seen, YET I still can't put the game down.

 

Pff. So all you neeed to do is hide like a little baby and not even put any effort in just so you don't die?

S E E M S L E G I T

 

Oh no! Not Blacktail!

 

All of us 3 are in the same boat. I've tried Shooter, Speeder, Defender with Gear Scores ranging from 8000-10000 and EventMatchmaker(tm) always puts me in the same battles with at least 6 NML players with their full loadouts and I'm getting destroyed.

It doesn't matter if I capture the flag, protect the flag, or return the flag, the result is the same...1 win in my last 20 matches. Most are full losses... I even had Bandaras on my team for the second straight event with his 15k Gear Score for no good reason, and we still lose... why? Because his 15k Gear Score ensures that I have some really weak players on my side.

I've said it for 10+ events now... Gear Score needs for everyone in the match needs to stay within 1000. Not 2000, not 3000, and not 6000... that's the only way EventMatchmaker(tm) can put together fair battles. I get it that Rovio wants to allow NML players to seal club... but come on, it gets old.

 

or play selfish fixer and keep yourself alive with with tapes

 

It is exactly what I have done. This event is so speeder favored and dumbed down with horrid respwans....that I just camp near flag zone with my shooter. And arm 5 weapons that need acheivements. Shooting gallery practice. At least Monday event deathmatch the event spawn were reasonable. This one...gotten way out of hand.

 

or you can be lucky and pull the 5k piece reward from a 20 coin box kachow