@Zero-Loot5 Fair enough, but there is no coincidental 3rd parties as you call them lol, the moment you hear that teams engagement and you decide to attack then it's a calculated decision, which is also what the majority do.
As for the team you're third partying, I doubt they see any difference between a 'coincidental 3rd party' as you put it, and a team waiting around to 3rd them....as the bottom line is the action is exactly the same.
For the record I'm not sitting on either side of the fence here, I couldn't care less if they try to reduce 3rd party scenarios or not, either way I shall remain a rambo. XD
However if they were to the gunfight audio is only a minor part of the issue, the fact mobility legends, especially legends such as valk/pathy/octane can allow their teams to traverse the map so quickly means that there will always unavoidably be 3rd partying seeing as most teams have at least one of these legends.
@Zero-Loot5 I'll happily accept that, there certainly is a difference between mindsets. However as baldy said, you can't change people's mindsets.
Let's try a hypothetical scenario here, respawn reduce audio distance for gunfire and entirely remove mobility tacticals/ults. Now everybody would have to sprint/jump tower around the map so even if they hear gunfire they then have to make it to said fight.
Simple solution right? Now Let's say a squad of players with extensive knowledge of the map, rotations and drop trends decides "hey Let's go and 3rd party some squads" they can literally just loot preempt and position themselves favourably and then it becomes a waiting game.
It's easily done, frag/skull are both extremely good examples as you can fight both areas until you're the last squads remaining, and more often than not a 3rd squad will jump in.
I just don't see how any in game changes can really limit this substantially enough to appease the masses.
