What the heck is wrong with American spawn timers?

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I’ve now played about 450 or so games on “Play any faction” - most of them were NOT American, oddly enough, though that was by far my favorite faction before that option came out. I happened to play American twice tonight and this happened repeatedly.

One thing I’ve noticed - for whatever stupid reason, the Americans auto-spawn at LEAST twice as fast as every other faction. The timer is usually less than 7 seconds, often 3-4 seconds.

And, as an added bonus, they seem to randomly select which squad, and then you are spawned in the furthest possible rally, EVERY TIME. I’ve never ONCE had this happen to me where I’m spawned at the closest rally to the front. I’ve also never spawned a tank or plane. Always some infantry unit. Always in the back.

I’ve had a few times, where we are attacking, so the game advances, and, due to bad timing, I’m respawned, and then I’m a solid 500M or more away from the objective. I’ve had the game tell me that I was going to lose my squad for being too far in the back! WTH?

Why is the thumb on the scale against American players?

(And I know this happens on other factions, but it is most definitely, significantly, worse for the Americans, and the Devs need to figure out why. It’s probably some single setting that would take 5 minutes to frickin fix. Instead of 5 seconds to spawn, make it 15 seconds, or some crap. I have no idea why it’s different for the Americans.)

Someone can say it’s not that big a deal, but taking out a non-bot player and basically making them (and a few others at any given time) run double or triple amount to an objective can make the difference in winning and losing a match. It’s like the game is randomly taking out American rally points, and it’s kinda bullshit.

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is this the case on all servers and br or not ?

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I play NA servers, exclusively. I also play BR2, since I started this game in May.

And I did the math last night - this is how many matches I’ve played in each since the start of “Play any faction”:

Germany/Japan/US/Soviet
155/103/97/58

When the “play any faction” change happened over three months ago, I’d essentially gotten used to having more time to view the map/field/scores/who just killed me, whatever (after dying and needing to select my next unit) while playing a ton of Germany and Japan. But recently, for whatever reason (I’m guessing the purchasable veteran boxes being available) and I’ve been dropped into the American side a lot more, and it’s just SO starkly different.

(If you look at those stats above, probably 50 of those American matches I was in came during the “veteran box” period.)

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I dont know if ive had the same issue tbh, I used to only get the US with the pick any faction mechanic, now its become more varied and actually very equal in the last couple of weeks

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Well, that’s not my complaint. If anything, Over time, I’ve gotten Germany and Japan more often than not.

My complaint is that when in the actual match, while playing American, when you die and go to respawn, there’s only a 4-5 second timer. I’ve been automagically dropped back into the match w/out proper time to select a unit or rally point, and as the Americans, it happens EVERY MATCH at least once or twice.

In my particular case, I played as Americans and Russians for the first few months and I was used to the fast timer. It was only after playing Germany and Japan more often that I realized this fast re-spawn issue was only happening while playing Americans.

It’s wildly frustrating.

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Wierd…

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Yeah as I said I dont know if I have had the same issue, I dont really notice it for either side, but as you said, I also dont know if thats just because I’m used to it as well.