Alternative (Destiny)

by kapowaz, Monday, August 11, 2014, 01:04 (3761 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Make it so that you do not respawn automatically. The only way is if someone revives you. You could have unlimited respawns that way, and the tension would be in finding a way to safely revive your team mates without yourself dying.

This would be a cool way of increasing difficulty and encouraging teamwork, but it unfortunately has one major flaw: matchmade teams don't necessarily have players with voice, or indeed any guaranteed level of ability. It's quite feasible that you could die in combat and then your teammates not be able to find you to revive you.

This, I suspect, is one reason why the automatic respawn timer exists. Without this safety net you're back to the same problem of being punished because of the poor player performance of others, and the possibility that it leads to toxic, anti-social behaviour.

For Raids or Strikes that consist solely of fireteam members this could work very well as an increased difficulty level (with concomitant increased reward), though.