Spectator Mode

[SurfinBird]

I can't join spectator mode anymore.. well what happens is some mixed up hybrid of normal play and spectator mode.

I click the spectator mode button and instead of putting me in spectator mode, the game puts me on a team. But I can't spawn or do anything and I can only cycle between players of one of the teams. Sometimes I can spawn and run around but it's still not working correctly.

I can't spectate both teams, I can't free roam, I can't cycle between flags.

What's going on?

 

[Jum_P]

Oh, it's very simple, when the teams are not balanced, the working auto balance switches the player into a team with fewer players, and not in the spectator mode. In this case, you simply will just hang 2 minutes in a team that already had fewer players and there are, because you can not help anything until these 2 minutes expire (and most likely this team loses, and this auto balance only encourages the situation for the losing team ). Another interesting situation is that when you try to switch from spectator mode back, you are switched in the team you were in before, and if the teams have already been balanced so that the number of players in your old team is 1 more, then your switching again create an imbalance, but already by 2 players. And you can not immediately switch to another team to balance them, because the only possible switch you have already spent on spectator mode, so that any other player will be switched (unless you specifically die right after reuniting with the old team), causing resentment and accusations of the TS amongst other players, and an avalanche of shit in chat from especially sensitive players, naturally.

P.S. I forgot to add the most important thing, if you need to switch to the spectator mode, do it only when the teams are balanced.

 

[TonyB]

Oh, it's very simple, when the teams are not balanced, the working auto balance switches the player into a team with fewer players, and not in the spectator mode. In this case, you simply will just hang 2 minutes in a team that already had fewer players and there are, because you can not help anything until these 2 minutes expire (and most likely this team loses, and this auto balance only encourages the situation for the losing team ). Another interesting situation is that when you try to switch from spectator mode back, you are switched in the team you were in before, and if the teams have already been balanced so that the number of players in your old team is 1 more, then your switching again create an imbalance, but already by 2 players. And you can not immediately switch to another team to balance them, because the only possible switch you have already spent on spectator mode, so that any other player will be switched (unless you specifically die right after reuniting with the old team), causing resentment and accusations of the TS amongst other players, and an avalanche of shit in chat from especially sensitive players, naturally.

P.S. I forgot to add the most important thing, if you need to switch to the spectator mode, do it only when the teams are balanced.

LOL