Longer round times

[rocky yacht]

I am used to playing siege (1500+, been both diamond and champ on multiple accounts) and I'm really happy that this game allows you to interact more with the prep-phase in general. The only problem is that it gives you so little time to think that there isn't really that much time to prepare for the round. If you could extend each phase (gear up and action phase) by at least 30 seconds it would be a little easier to coordinate an attack/defence. Also reducing clutter in the map interface would be greatly appreciated (i sometimes lose track of my position and everything looks the same, might just be me tho)

[rigid bane]

You can always mute your teammates map drawings if you want less clutter, or just randoms

You’ll still be able to hear them speak.

Side note if you haven’t figured it out already, when on attack you can drag the marker with your name by the truck to where you want to breach and it will be there when the round starts to guide you to where to go even without a drawn map line

The defense marker just changes where you spawn in the building

[cyan meadow]

forming and coordinating a plan quickly on an unfamillar map is part of the challenge of the game

[rigid bane]

another note, apologies if you know this already, you arent required to stay in the map until it kicks you out on attack, you only have to stay in for like 5 secs then you can leave it and stand up with like 45 seconds of prep still

defense is similar, if you have a primary and secondary equipped you spawn in with like 15 seconds left, otherwise you have to click on your map marker to spawn earlier or wait for the round to start for the auto deployment

no reason not to grab a secondary every round on both sides, there are 15 secondarys for both sides

[cyan meadow]

as far as being confused by the map goes: you can hit space to swap from the blueprint view to a sat view that shows the actual terrain, might be less disorienting for some

[rocky yacht]

god tier reply

thanks guys

[rocky yacht]

wait how do i spawn if i only have a primary?

just click it?

the spawn ping on map i mean

[cyan meadow]

click your pawn

[rocky yacht]

ah ok

[rigid bane]

it will auto deploy you at round start, or just click the little green click to spawn button under your map marker

but if you grab a secondary before 15 secs left you wont have to worry about that

[rocky yacht]

yeah this explains why i've been sitting alone in the loadout area like a dumbass

[rigid bane]

no worries lol, but on defense your meant to sort of spread out where the team spawns to set up barb other shit etc, then you guys can kind of condense to your holds on round start if you needed to

[rocky yacht]

yeah it would be cooler if i could set the same tone for my whole hud

[cyan meadow]

also in case you didn't know, you spawn on your pawn on defence

[rigid bane]

if you dont move your marker youll just spawn with the bomb

[cyan meadow]

so you can move it to where you want to be

[rocky yacht]

being used to games like siege and tarkov made me sensitive to colors

and it seems like theres so much going on lol

[rigid bane]

yeah the art style is def very different from most comp shooters

[rocky yacht]

yeah that i figured out

[static bobcat]

hey man, you will get used to the pace if you play long enough. it's a great game! and who knows, maybe in the future there will be larger maps, that give you longer rounds.

[frail crystal]

Part of the fun is having such short times admittedly. My strategy is usually circle points of entry and mark windows, my friends then build a path and plan off of that to enter. From here it largely depends on the prep and skill of both sides.