totally same problem! I keep spawning in as a class that I don't use, and then I have to respawn and lose a life -- just because keybinds are hard coded and unchangeable for this. Remove this completely. It's not as if some people are playing without a mouse!! We can click the one we want.
It's starting to feel "Show stopper" to me. My friend who is WASD does this about twice per match himself.
Something is up because I'm starting to form habits of moving my left hand off of the keyboard entirely and picking my Class but then i come back to the map screen and its already moved to a different class!
I'm thinking it could be multiple things causing this, but one of them i think might be that you pick your character and load in and press E to run forward and sometimes, not always, but sometimes in that window its actually queing up menu E presses to change class - you've already changed class for the next time you died and don't even know it. Then when you die this is why you are on another class at the map screen. Have a look and eventually you'll probably see this. You were running around as X. You die. Go to map. Make sure you don't touch the keyboard at all. And its already moved over to another class.
It's getting insanely frustrating. Like crazy frustrating. When I play Engineer and it moves me to Support it isn't too bad but going from Support to a Sniper is brutal. The best i can do is give the sniper the carbine I use and try to be useful for a minute before going back to the map. My friend always like "Why did you die! i was going to res you!" "wrong class again."
This plus some other bugs and issues have made things pretty bothersome for playing.
