Downed State Changes
It has been a long-running theme in Battlefield that was once more shown brilliantly during the Beta that when players are downed, they give up even when a Medic is breathing down their neck with a defib in-progress.
I think that the Downed State gets a bit of a touch-up. Some ideas for this are below:
- When a Medic pings a player, they are not allowed to give up unless the Medic coming to them is killed or perhaps after a timer of 20 seconds or so has passed from the time of the ping.
- A general delay from the time of being down of about 20ish seconds before being allowed to give up.
By making either or both changes, it both discourages people getting themselves killed for nothing, and enabled the Support role to fulfill their duty, as players largely cannot be trusted to allow the Support to conduct their role.
