Why it is Respawn refuses to address the actual cause of third partying?

@BaldWraithSimp Well there is an importance to this because the people that do "coincidental 3rd parties" don't camp and wait for a fight until they can third party. The people that only do a third party when the situation arises (like me) would do less of these 3rd parties when they would no longer be able to hear the fight from 800m away.

So reducing the distance at which gunshots can be heard would indeed help. I'd say they should also implement this auto heal feature from the Flashpoint LTM.

3rd parties will never fully go away. That's impossible. But there ARE measures that can be taken to reduce them and to make them less appealing and nothing speaks against doing that. 👌

@BaldWraithSimp You can't do anything about mindsets but the third party issue. The first step would be not making combat draw in the attention of half the world population. 4 out of 5 fights end in some way with being third partied or third partying someone. The fact you can hear gunfire from half across the map and even get there within a short amount of time is what really puts people like me off.

@MandatoryIDtag I already explained how different mindsets matter in this issue. You even "liked" that very comment of mine. It's not the mindset that gets changed but the behavior.

As I said: players that just run around the map and actually want to fight fairly and who only 3rd party when the situation is at hand wold get less options to 3rd party cause now they no longer hear shots from miles away.
And the thing is: most 3rd parties are these "conincidental 3rd parties". Most players don't camp and wait until 2 Squads fight nearby. Most people run around the map, searching for enemies. And all these players would 3rd party less when they can no longer hear fights from miles away.

I mean your hypothetical scenario first of all does a lot of assuming and furthermore: players that are have advanced knowledge and understanding of map rotations etc. are usually more offensive players. These types of players basically never do what you describe in your hypotehtical scenario. Maybe the do it once for the LOLZ but not all the time. Rather never.

And about your last statement "I just don't see how any in game changes can really limit this substantially enough to appease the masses". It doesn't have to appease the masses. There are things that you can do and when those things are done I'm pretty sure that "the masses" will also understand that the limit to what you can do is reached in terms of limiting 3rd parties. And if they don't then that's their issue.