dying when you spawn

quote nanobyte

Depends where the spawn grenades are placed, obviously if its on the front line you are going to be shot at the moment you spawn. Its a defensive play and you should do the same if you want to win. All is fair in love and war!

quote muttler

It's because of the patch that removed the second or two invincibility when you spawn in on a spawn nade, people can kill you straight away now.

It's a good thing imo as it adds strategy. If a team has a capped a C&H area or is successfully defending a S&D area, and the enemy team run in with a spawn grenade, they used to have a very unfair advantage over the defenders as when they spawned in for a second or two they'd be invincible. Now without the invincible spawning it means that the attacking team should place their spawn just outside the area behind a wall or doorway, etc so the defenders cant shoot them straight away. It does make public games even more retarded, but makes clan matches much better

A few strategies to counter spawn camping:

1)Guard your spawns

2)Use decoy spawns ie- have 1 spawn as your actual spawn and place another in a place thats very tempting to camp, and spawn in on the other one

3)Communicate with your team mates, let them know straight away if a spawn is being camped so they no not to use it

4)Make sure you squad up, and spawn on your squad leader instead

5)Perhaps the most important is place your spawns intelligently. Players often put spawns in ridiculous positions and then cry when they get camped. Never place spawns in the open, corners are often best so they're covered from as many angles as possible.

6)Bear in mind that when players spawn on your nade, they will spawn facing the opposite way to the direction your facing when you throw the grenade, so for eg. the best way is to throw a nade while facing a wall, so players appear facing out into the action and can sprint straight away. If you stand with your back to a wall and throw a nade, players will spawn facing the wall.

There are other strategies too, but I aint sayin em all find out for yourself! Hope that helps though