Whenever I join a match in progress, my initial spawn is ALWAYS right in front of another player and I get immediately back smacked.
This is no coincidence, it is EVERY time that the match is in progress.
The respawns are then fine (well, they work like normal), it’s just the initial spawn.
It’s like the LoS or general things that affect spawning have been reversed on the initial spawn so it thinks spawning you next to the enemy is actually spawning with your team.
I wish there was some more notice when you join an in progress match. I’m usually up walking around doing something and rely on the music from the pregame fashion show to alert me that I’ve got about a minute of Spartans on the catwalk before game time. With in progress you get nothing, so I’m usually AFK for at least one death.