Spectator Mode - Can't Spawn/Re-Spawn in MP Matches

Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:31 am

Today I got shunted into some sort of Spectator Mode in MP on the Decimation DLC Maps.
I was playing Crash Site on Apartments, suddenly I just died (and I know, nobody will believe me, but luckily it's beside the point) for no apparent reason, and COULD NOT RESPAWN!
I was watching the game from the cameras. When I pressed "Start" I got the options as usual, but nothing happened. I could change my loadouts, edit settings and all, but I just stayed dead. I checked the players tab with the "Back" button and in the players list I was gone. I was in the game, spectating the game I had just participated in but according to the players list, I wasn't there. I could still talk to the people on my team, but that was it.
So I decided to Leave Session, went to my Friends Tab in the Guide section and joined the same session again by "Joining Session in Progress" of one of the people I played with (which I did, because on the DLC maps it was terribly hard to find a game that did not feature player's from all around the world - my first was with people from the US, Japan, Chile, Germany, and the UK - and this one was the first I had with at least a two bar yellow connection).

So I joined the session in progress, the same I was just playing in, and again, I COULD NOT SPAWN. It immediately threw me into the spectator mode again, and I couldn't play. I went to the players tab, and I was listed in the game on my team, but there was the little crossed-out red circle in front of my name (which means I'm dead), and for the next 2 minutes it stayed that way. Two more people joined after me, and as far as I could see, they had the same problem, staying dead, never able to spawn. I ended the game, constantly being dead, with 0 deaths.

Only happened in this one game, in the next it was okay, until the session just disintegrated throwing everyone back out into the MP menu.

I already posted this on the ridiculously long Issue-Thread, but I wanted to know if anyone else ever had this? Or is it God, and she hates me?
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Chrissie Pillinger
 
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:42 am

Off-topic, but I wish this game had a Spectator Mode. It was be the best ever for video capture.

On-topic, no I have not had this happen, not yet at least.
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Chris Johnston
 
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:10 pm

Sadly, what I was able to do, was only to view the five or six fixed camera perspectives, from above, that show pretty much nothing at all. It wouldn't have been so bad if I could've watched the people play - but you can't even move those cameras, and anyway, I wanted to PLAY. Not watch.
I'm just not that kinda person.
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Post » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:55 pm

Happened to me, too, multiple times. I've noticed this happens most often when you get in a lobby and 1 player's name is missing his rank.
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sunny lovett
 
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Post » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:18 am

So it's not just me that God does hate...

I don't really feel better, but I do feel less bad.
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