Switching Sides (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 17:09 (3494 days ago) @ BeardFade

That's a good point. Any other sport would do this, seems like it should have been done here. I'd be interested to know if they thought of that.

My guess is, in the code, alpha and bravo teams always spawn where they do, so they didn't want, or didn't consider rewriting code for that. If you kept the code as is, you'd have to switch teams each round, (alpha became bravo, bravo became alpha). Personally, I might have considered creating two new teams (give them whatever names you want, Charlie and Delta) and then wrote code to swap spawns with each round.

That would be... less than great design, and it's not what they did, because they've moved spawn points for teams in Destiny before, and I'd be shocked if no one thought of them switching with each round since it's been in Halo for years.