Being able to spawn on other squad's rally

[General_J0k3r]

I was sadly not able to reproduce the following bug, but will keep trying.

I was SL on Muttrah, Infidels, we had set up a rally about 250m south of the docks and were defending. Our squad was squad 1, while squad 4 had set up a rally on the roof of the building right south of the flag.

after some time our, squad 1's, rally got destroyed possibly by 3 nme's in 50m radius (we weren't there). By mistake I hit squad's 4 rally to spawn (me being stupid, at least i thought) but to my surprise, I didn't end up on the carrier but on squad 4's rally. I told my squad and everyone was able to spawn there! requesting kits wasn't possible though if i remember correctly.

has anyone encountered this as well?

[Waaah_Wah]

I can confirm this. Happened to meonce aswell.

[[MoL]jaVi]

I can confirm that also as US-Team on Muttrah City!

[Woolfson]

^^Seconded

[Tartantyco]

-I've had this happen a few times when my squad's rally point is close to another squad's Rp. Squad 1(me) and 8 had an RP in the same building, ours went down an we could spawn on their rally(There were three RPs in close proximity and only my squad's RP went down. I lol'd). On Op Archer the same thing happened, only the other way around. RPs were within 20m(I guess) of each other and the other squad spawned in on ours when their RP was down. Haven't tested it though, only two observations I've made.

[LithiumFox]

the reason i think is cause if either

A. your rally is close enough to another, and you spawn at the other that it doesn't care that you spawned there

or

B. your rallies are close and the BF2 engine gets confused and puts them both as one spawn point

then it doesn't matter



Personally i find that kind of cool that you can spawn at another rally so long as both rallies are within a vicinity of each other =D

[bad_nade]

Happened to me on Korengal some days ago. We were squad 4 and our rally got overrun, but we could keep spawing at squad 1 rally even we didn't have a rally at all. At the time we still had it, it wasn't too close to 1's one.

[General_J0k3r]

when it happened to us, our rally was easily 150m away from any other rally

[LithiumFox]

like i said before, it's because the bf2 engine accidently ties in your rallies sometimes. Sometimes this is good, sometimes not so good, though being able to spawn at a rally that's close to your's but within a fair amount of distance is pretty nice. It's kinda like saying "Hey, you're right there, mind letting us regroup there with you guys, we have a sniper at ours.

If used strategically it could be a major strategy for teams. Lets say.. Jabal. Theres that area where you can set a rally up top between west and bridge, and its surrounded by walls. Say a sniper is on that hill up top, and you can't spawn cause he keeps killing ya. Well, Squad 2 has a rally just a few meters off of yours, maybe just behind a wall that the sniper can't see you. It allows you to move away and set a new rally in a better location without being compromised.

Now i'm not talking large distances between these rallies. The distances are between "around the next corner" and 2 keypads. Not really that far.

Personally it's nice to be like "Ok new rally that was a dumb idea."

EDIT: About spawning on other rallies: Better explanation:

Like said before, its because the BF2 engine ties them together.

What happens here is that two rallies close together become one point. It will spawn you at whatever rally that point is closely tied to, but it will work for people who are loosly tied to.

This is great and bad for certain things.

Pros:
-Allows for people to spawn if their rally doesnt show a spawn marker, but still exists. I've had this happen many times, where i can't choose that spawn location cause it disapears on me.

-Yeah thats about it..

Cons:
-Like the medic tip: The ammount of enemies/grenades in an area is directly proportional to how many people stand on that rally. 12 people around a rally is not very fun =D