So, I was playing a game of SWAT on the map empire and I noticed something. Whenever I died, I spawned near a teammate in a secure area. However, when I couldn’t spawn on a teammate, I would spawn on the initial respawn points. I noticed that the respawn points were spread throughout the map in a circular pattern. The respawn points were okay in general but It was the order in which I spawned. So, I was on the balcony part of the map when I got killed. I respawned in the red base, the same guy comes there and kills me. I spawn in the middle of the map, same guy kills me again. So, I spawned in a counter-clockwise order and that guy ran to the respawn points every time and drowned my K/D in a pool of blood in mere seconds. So, I would say that every time you spawn, you spawn on a random point eveytime and not in an pattern. I will try to provide the video clip of the game ASAP.
I’ve noticed that the spawns seem to have gotten a lot worse since launch
I completely agree; and not just on SWAT, but on FFA too. I know it’s harder in FFA because no one is on your team, but they could try to spawn you in a place that’s as far away from everyone else so you can’t be surprised from behind as soon as you spawn.
Spawns are influenced by 4 things. Proximity to enemies, proximity to teamates, enemies looking at the spawn point, and immediate danger ( like a grenade on top on the spawn point ). It is very posible that you were playing a team of 4 and they were using rotations to make you spawn where they want you to, or that they got lucky.