Team Deathmatch - Scattered teams always lose
I got back to Apex after a long break and was kinda excited to try TDM out since Control is my favourite mode in this game and I thought I'd be a similar experience. As most of the community realized by now, it has its issues that probably won't be fixed in the future but I want to make my voice heard at least.
My biggest issue is the fact that if I die I probably won't see my teammates again. After the start of the round, when both teams fight with all its members present, it's a blast. I love it. BUT after the first guy goes down, he spawns on the other side of the gigantic map and has to sprint to his team to help. In the mean time, the next guy went down and he spawns just a few seconds after that and now we have a winning team, with most if not all members clustered in one place picking off our guys one by one. Some people get fed up, they leave, the match goes even more unbalanced as that's the gamemode from my perspective.
I have no clue if the squads inside a team have some synced respawn time or if they spawn closer to each other or if it was just by accident that I managed to find my squadmate most of the time (though usually I was trying to find anybody that wasn't an enemy).
In Control it was fairly managed by the fact that we had multiple spawnpoints that were also the points in which most of the battles took place. Now we spawn all over the place, one person on the one side of the map, the other person on the complete opposite side of the map and we just run around, trying to find each other while being hunted down by those who managed to win that first team fight.
Hell, even Arenas did that better, after a team gets wiped, they all spawn back TOGETHER and get to play together.
The fact that people run off by themselves, die and leave is another thing but the structure of the mode certainly does not help. If we had something like synced respawn time, if I die and my squadmate respawns in let's say 7 seconds I would respawn at the same time. Or maybe we could spawn nearby our mates instead of it being random.
There's barely any team in TDM.
TL;DR - most of the game I run around trying to find my team because we died at the start and now we spawn all over the place and never managed to get back together let alone fight together
