Ever get bored in a breakout gametype when you die and have nothing to do but spectate surviving teammates? Unless you have a mic and make callouts while dead to a living player you’re spectating, there’s not much you can really do. I have a solution.
Introducing the waiting room, a small, simple arena map for people waiting for breakout matches to end. When you die in breakout, you have a choice to either spectate or go to the waiting room. In the waiting room, an all out free-for-all takes place. You always respawn in your own personal starting room, filled with an assortment of your favorite pre-determined weapons that you chose prior to the match. This room has a one-way door to the arena, where you can fight without any records showing what you did there. That means no kills or deaths qualify for your K/D. You don’t earn medals or REQ points by participating in the waiting room. It is nothing but simple entertainment.
Breakout rounds aren’t long enough for this “waiting room” idea to ever be a thing…
First, unless you’re really bad and die 5 seconds into each round, you won’t have enough time to get any kills in a side game… Or even enough time to die and respawn before the breakout round ends.
Second, the whole point of breakout is to have a penalty for death (like not respawning…)
Third, if you get THAT bored after waiting for an average of 45secs-1min… You have bigger problems. I barely have time for a bathroom break between full matches without backing out, and am normally in the pregame lobby longer than the spectating screen.
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> Breakout rounds aren’t long enough for this “waiting room” idea to ever be a thing…
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> First, unless you’re really bad and die 5 seconds into each round, you won’t have enough time to get any kills in a side game… Or even enough time to die and respawn before the breakout round ends.
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> Second, the whole point of breakout is to have a penalty for death (like not respawning…)
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> Third, if you get THAT bored after waiting for an average of 45secs-1min… You have bigger problems. I barely have time for a bathroom break between full matches without backing out, and am normally in the pregame lobby longer than the spectating screen.
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> > 2533274814988883;4:
> > Breakout rounds aren’t long enough for this “waiting room” idea to ever be a thing…
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> > First, unless you’re really bad and die 5 seconds into each round, you won’t have enough time to get any kills in a side game… Or even enough time to die and respawn before the breakout round ends.
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> > Second, the whole point of breakout is to have a penalty for death (like not respawning…)
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> > Third, if you get THAT bored after waiting for an average of 45secs-1min… You have bigger problems. I barely have time for a bathroom break between full matches without backing out, and am normally in the pregame lobby longer than the spectating screen.
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> But would you want it during Tank World?