Enlisted currently has a very weird mechanic that only serves to inconvenience players.
A little timer pops up when a squad is selected in the Spawn menu (including at game start, when the game selects a squad by default) that says “New squad arrives in ___ (seconds, counting down)” and, when that timer hits 0, you automatically spawn in as the selected squad and at the selected (or default) spawn point.
I have no idea what the intention of this mechanic was (forcing players to spawn in even when afk?), but the reality is that it’s only an annoyance. If you should take too long looking over the map, deciding what squad to spawn with and at which spawn point, the game decides you’re ready to spawn all on it’s own and spawns you wherever and as whatever happened to be selected (either by you or by default) at the moment that little timer hit 0.
It happens all too often (ever at all is too often) that you’ll be surveying the map, to get an idea of where you want to go and as what squad, only for the game to spawn you in as a completely different squad than you intended and at a completely different spawn point than you intended. Instead of spawning on the flank rally point as your Assault Squad, you’re suddenly in your default spawn zone as an MG Squad, and you didn’t even click “GO!”.
It even happens with Paratroopers at the start of battles. Spent too long deciding where to drop with your Paratrooper squad selected? Game auto-spawns you in the default spawn zone. No dropping behind enemy lines. No loadout box.
Get rid of it. Squads should spawn when we click “GO!” and at no other time.