Approved Revert Dustbowl Back to Regular Spawn Times

[Zeo]

A lot of the regulars, myself included, dislike the new change. We barely see map 3 anymore and red rarely loses now. It changes the Dustbowl we've been playing entirely.

 

[Harbingerr]

I'd like to also respectfully request a reversion back to the 'vanilla' respawn timers on the dustbowl server. Thanks for considering this request. -Harbinger

 

[Beardo]

I also would like you to revert the server back to normal. normal match length and normal 32 player respawn timers.

 

[Rornir]

I'd suggest 15sec instead of the 10sec respawn currently in place. Of course a trial period would be best to test, but the 10sec being used today feels way to hard for a mismanaged blue team to win on at all.

 

[Bottiger]

The balance was perfected for fast respawn after several days of tweaking. Win rate for red winning all 3 rounds is currently at 49%.

You can see here blue won 166 half rounds, and in this case blue reached the last stage and barely won with less than 1 minute left.

If everyone is still unhappy about it I will switch it back. But I really think it is balanced now and it is much better than having 20 second respawn times.

 

[potato2222]

Just one problem with your way of measuring balance. When teams switch sides, so do the win counts. So even if settings heavily favour Blu and they win 100% of the time, the scores will look pretty even because it will show as Red after teams switch sides. They were 31-31 this evening with vanilla respawn times even though Blu won more often, and that's just one example - the numbers are rarely too far apart for this reason.

That being said, I do concede vanilla respawn times favour Blu, but turns out most of us enjoy it more like that anyway. Third stage is usually a challenge for Blu to cap regardless.