There shouldn't be a skip revive option while down.

So if there are no medics around or the medic running for you gets killed you want players to be forced to wait it out for absolutely nothing? Horrible idea, that’s why they changed it. I’m a support main and don’t mind players skipping revive. 

You don’t run across the map to revive. Downed players only show at a certain distance and a lot of players pick support for access to smoke grenades. I’ve seen more than enough support players run right past me to get into the fight. The option to skip revive gets you in the fight faster. Reviving gets you in the fight much faster but keep in mind not everyone is a good support player. So no. Don’t change it. 

Personally, I have had times where I wanna swap parts of my loadout or change class or so but also don't want to just waste my life and redeploy and rather go out fighting. Skipping revive allows me to actually do that.

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Usually I'll  wait, but I like having the option for those times when I know that either the medic will die or I'll die again immediately. There's also those times when respawning somewhere else is preferable to being revived in a mess.

I agree, I'd have it a little differently, but I do believe the skip button is becoming second nature for a lot of people which doesn't help your team in games with ticket counts.

I've found that once the wheel on the revive icon reaches halfway (without any revive delay involved.) skipping revive at that moment, will set you at the perfect spot in which you can spawn instantly. I'd grey out the skip revive button until it reaches halfway.
Alternatives include greying out the wheel until people who are able to rez you leave at a certain distance. Locking someone out of a skip once someone has pinged their downed state to let that person attempt to get them up.

In its current state this system needs a rework and i hope that will come in the future, i get people have problems with bloom and vehicles, but these quality of life changes are something that will keep people around.

Honestly dying has more merit then waiting to be revived which is a huge disservice to actual medics who are literally throwing their lives away to revive allies and some can't wait at all. The respawn is quick so I don't see an issue to this idea and would increase the risk vs reward aspect which is severely lacking in this game.

I don't think forcing people to wait for a revive before they can re-spawn is a good idea for any reason. You may not know why they gave up and forcing them to get revived could actually hurt your team worse than reviving them.

Say you get blown up by a tank and you need to switch from support to engineer asap to take it out, instead you have to sit there and wait to bleed out or get revived just to get blown up again instantly. If you give up you can switch classes and gadgets while the re-spawn timer is running so you can jump in as the appropriate class as soon as possible. In a close match, this can make all the difference. 

Another thing is the situation can change while you're watching the battle as you're waiting for a revive and you notice you need to switch classes or spawn closer to a different objective. There's many reasons not to force players to wait. Only situation I might be on board with making them wait a little longer is if they're bleeding out on a contested objective that a revive would help no matter what, but in that case your complaint would be with bad players instead of game design. Taking away player agency can make a bad player worse.

My gripe with the revive system is that I think it should default to the wait for revive timer instead of some weird middle speed timer that you can speed up or slow down with different buttons. Just make a hold for three seconds to give up button. The "accept revive" mechanic where you can deny the revive and go straight to the re-spawn screen certainly needs to come back.

ghostflux wrote:

Instead, I'd suggest a different solution. If a medic who is within 25 meters and has specifically marked you for a revive, the option to skip a revive temporarily is disabled. That way, you're not just waiting for a random medic, but you're waiting for somebody that has consciously chosen to come for you.

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Anything more  would not make sense.

Even this can be abused to troll one's own team

I have my reasons for bleeding out right away (out of special ammo, not a good spot, want to change loadouts, I'm just impatient and block out any notion I don't actually respawn quicker etc.), but yeah, I think players should be forced to wait at least a second or two longer to keep the flow going - Of course this would still need to count towards the natural spawn timer.