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The spawn system has always been curated, but the new spawn does make it less convenient to spawn at local overpopulated regions in exchange for better population control on the continental level.

It's a contested region with 69% allied population, so the spawn is disabled.

Which squad were you in?

Join Combat is being changed to use Drop Pods as a fallback, next update, meaning you'll spawn at Sunderers and Hardspawns the majority of the time again.

Should be fixed in the next update.

There have been a handful of speculative fixes snuck into a few of the past updates, but they haven't resolved the issue. We're currently working on this, and may end up having to just revamp the implant in its entirety.

Looks like you're in a cutoff region. But even so, the spawn timer shouldn't be that long. I'll look into it.

Last update was a bit of a mess. There was a lot of positivity surrounding the fixes going into the most recent update, and some of those fell flat. We didn't have our pass complete for Infil cloak on low (how it currently looks is not how it'll look when we're finished,) and the per-faction population limit check was broken.

Reinforcements Needed was already broken, but to varying degrees based on where it was trying to spawn you. Good news is that we've got a workaround for Reinforcements Needed that is on Live currently (as of like 10 minutes ago,) and a PTS update to fix some issues with the spawn system.

Next week we'll be getting this Live (and ideally with an updated cloak shader for the low pipeline,) provided no more issues pop up while it soaks over the weekend.

Thanks for trying to be patient through this. The spawn system is fundamental, and it's important that we get it right, which unfortunately means a lot of tuning. If we di...

You can spawn on any spawn point within 200 meters of you near instantly, so if this happened to you, it sounds like a bug. Do you happen to have any footage I could take a look at?

Cheers.

Looking into it now.

Are these issues exclusive to Cobalt, or is anyone else having this happen as well? Please reply with your server and character name.

UPDATE: We've deployed an update to Live, please restart your client and let us know if you crash any more after that point. https://twitter.com/psnicto/status/1136748473988968448

Fairly certain this should be fixed now, despite not being in the patch notes.

That's pretty low on the priority list at the moment, but ideally it comes back.

Is this a tacit admission to the failure of vehicle/construction capture bases?

Pretty much. The only time these places generate fights (opposed to being happenstance) is when someone who enjoys construction has already built a base there. Since that group of players is much smaller than the players that want to get to fight at the next lattice base, we're reducing the capture time so these areas can be moved through more quickly. At the same time, players who do decide to build construction on these areas can still add value to those areas. So, win win.

There are some other adjustments I'd like to make in the future, mostly to deal with infiltrators back capping in the middle of an open field, but I'm still putting together my thoughts on that one. Other alternatives are more feature rich, but maybe I'll talk about them once I get some prototyping done.

Forum notes here: https://forums.daybreakgames.com/ps2/index.php?threads/pc-game-update-june-6-2019.251940/

PC servers will be taken offline on Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 6:00AM PT for maintenance. Downtime is expected to last up to 3 hours.

Misc. Changes, Fixes, and Additions

• Players using Join Combat to travel to a new continent (like in the event that they are leaving a locked continent) will now spawn at the Warpgate, instead of being dropped from orbit without a drop pod. Eventually we'll want to resolve the issue with ch...

My mistake. We started on the Outfit hosted feature a long time ago, but never finished it due to various issues. This is a feature I thought had gone Live back when we did our big squad revamp, buuuuuut it did not.

Can there please be a new feature that gives squad lead to either an outfit member, friend, or highest ranked player if the current squad lead crashes or logs out?

If your squad is outfit hosted (it's a checkbox you can select in the squad pane,) it passes lead to other outfit members when one is disconnected. Beyond that, when we get some free time maybe we can look into exactly what the auto-sorting system is for passing leader.

EDIT: Welp, I feel dumb. Outfit hosted was a feature we started development on, but never finished.

This is fixed on PC and will make its way to PS4 with the DX11 build.

Various shaders are bugged with the introduction of DX11, and some bugged prior to that. Example being that some infantry weapons and cosmetics use the vehicle shader, these weapons don't play nicely with the cloak shader. Currently, the same is going for the shield shader when it's applied to some of your weapons.

At any rate, the bug is in the process of being fixed (both the shield and cloak shaders have tasks in for them.)

I do agree in general though. If we had more shader options, and more flexible options for screen effects, we could message a lot of the first person effects better.

From the unreleased patch notes of the next update.

Cut off regions now only disable defender hardspawns in that region, and remaining spawns are placed on a priority 2 cooldown time. Spawning into a cut off region from afar can now only be done via squad tools.

Dev Note: Previously, attackers couldn't maintain an attack on a cutoff region as it was most spawns to that region for both sides. This change should help fights in these areas more naturally draw to a close.