I wanted to say the same at first, but look at his screenshot, this might very well be another bug.
What you are talking about is indeed another issue (I've made a topic on it right away as the patch came out), but his screenshot shows that everyone is greyed out on his screen, even his own selection. That does not happen on my end.
Oh right didn't notice the screen shot. I have also had that happen, it's a definite bug. When it happened to me it started with a random selection and like in the screenshot everyone was greyed out.
And was it just a visual bug? Were you still able to deselect your character while highlighting him/her, despite the greyed out appearance?
Because what's weird to me is that on the screenshot, there isn't even a countdown (Spawning as XY in XX), which should always happen.
@felker_s no absolutely not a visual glitch, couldn't select anyone just kept respawning as if no selection was made and so spawned with random character.
I'm not sure if the spawn timers are intented to be visible in the character selection after the update, that was one of the things mentioned in the patch notes but can't recall it saying, what, if anything about the spawn timers in character selection in hvv. I just recall it saying that spawn timers won't be visible in character selection screen.
If anything, I considered the respawn timer's disappearance to be a bug, lol. Anyway, that's for Galactic Assault.
In HvV, the timer is still visible for me. In fact, it has to be, since you automatically respawn in that mode, so you need to know how much time you have to choose another character.
Maybe during a selection phase where you can't spawn (waiting the cooldown timer to respawn, or some other buggy situation where you can select character but it doesn't immediately spawn you) you quickly pressed TAB (or whichever button brings the scoreboard) afterwards, which triggers the Hero Selection BUG.
I'm unsure if this can be performed besides in the initial selection screen, but maybe it has something to do with it, as in the Hero Selection BUG all heroes appear greyed out as if you couldn't choose any:
