Annoying trend in TF1.5

[old.BigSir]

There seems to be an evergrowing trend to teamswap from one team to the next then back again to avoid an infection death. I'd guess to preserve their 'all important' frag/death ratio. Also when scripted its actually quicker to do this than kill yourself and respawn

Conversation I had recently with a culprit

Me: Why do you swap teams and not kill yourself?
Him: Medics should DM soldiers, not infect them, thats lame
Me: Snuh?
Him: Infecting and running is lame
Me: and teamswapping isn't?
Him: Not if im infected
Me: But isn't that going against the spirit of the game?
Him: No

I left it at that because it probably would've turned into 'yes it is', 'no it isn't', 'gaylord', 'slag', 'fook you!' type of conversation

I dont run around with the medkit, I only use it when im having a particulary hard time on offense when the medkit has its advantages, e.g def either have to:

1. Run off to find medic
2. Type kill taking themselves out of position
3. Stay where they are but weakened

With the teamswapping most of these advantages are lost.

Hopefully this'll be patched out soon. Talking of patches, heres a link to a piccy of the new models: http://www.bluesnews.com/screenshots/hl/newtfcmodels.shtml

I think they look quite good, altho' I dunno what the model on the left is, either Demo or HW I'd guess. Its out at the end of the month hopefully

[Edited by BigSir on 09-02-01 at 12:12]

 

[old.Andy]

I thought they were going to make it so that any one teamswapping while infected gives the medic a point.
Ideally they should add a respawn delay as well, at least as long as for typing kill, or just make it impossible to swop teams while infected.
A delay for swopping teams would also get rid of the all the cheats that involve changing to spectator and back again rapidly.

 

[old.zortan]

I have also noticed this happening, also people use the teamswapping thing when they change class so they don't lose a point, or dropping a MIRV then changing team. Possibly something that forces players to choose auto-assign in public servers would help clear up these problems. well....roll on the new patch says i (the new models look pretty sweet too)