I got caught in probably the furthest circle I've encountered since I started playing this game. Why is there a timeout for being out of zone? Seriously, the dumbest mechanic, and redundant for no reason. The reason for it being implemented, was that horrible season you guys totally botched.
The circles close in, they increase with damage each tier, why on earth is there also a timeout mechanic?!?!
I recently had a game where this became an issue for me. Idk if I can leave a link but I'll try. At about the 18 minute mark is when it happens. My team and I take a fight at the edge of ring, I get downed & my teammates do nothing to help me and then they decide to run back even further into the ring instead of going to a replicator inside the next ring. I then advised them not to respawn me back there cause it's so far for us to travel. They inevitably go down after going the wrong direction & as soon as I make it out of the ring & avoid the secondary timer, I go back in so I can craft & I immediately die. That's the only complaint I have about this system & why I was looking up a post like this because why do I die if I got out in time? The timer should have reset or something as soon as I got out. I really hope that someone at Respawn sees this and looks into it.
Backup if the link above doesn't work.
@NEOMERCER wrote:I recently had a game where this became an issue for me. Idk if I can leave a link but I'll try. At about the 18 minute mark is when it happens. My team and I take a fight at the edge of ring, I get downed & my teammates do nothing to help me and then they decide to run back even further into the ring instead of going to a replicator inside the next ring. I then advised them not to respawn me back there cause it's so far for us to travel. They inevitably go down after going the wrong direction & as soon as I make it out of the ring & avoid the secondary timer, I go back in so I can craft & I immediately die. That's the only complaint I have about this system & why I was looking up a post like this because why do I die if I got out in time? The timer should have reset or something as soon as I got out. I really hope that someone at Respawn sees this and looks into it.
Backup if the link above doesn't work.
https://www.twitch.tv/neomercer/v/2143572915?sr=a&t=1184s
The time out of zone accumulates. It doesn’t reset after you get back into zone, and then inevitably get caught in it again.
When you get two far circles back to back, with teams camping the edges, it can take forever to get into zone. If I manage to make it back to zone, I shouldn’t be punished by some arbitrary timer.
It’s not the biggest deal, but it doesn’t need to exist. It was a bandaid for a botched season. That season has passed, so time to remove it. Clean the game up whenever and wherever you can.
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