you know what else works? Give spawning players a few seconds of invinciblity. But only 1 or 2, so they can actually take a few steps before the rocket/sniper noob fires. Otherwise CTF would be a pain for people going for flag.
I dunno how to make this invincibility, but I know one crude way. Give all spawning players an overshield that only boosts about 50% more, but takes 2 seconds to charge. Those 2 seconds are invincibility.
Hell, a player with 150% shielding would be harder to spawnkill anyway.

Yes, I am trying to figure out how to implement this idea when you respawn in my firefight map.
It would be great if anyone knew how to do this.

make an effect when you spawn, it gives you a small amount of extra shield, this dies down after a while because thats how extra shielding works.

Modern Warfare tried to end excessive spawn killing with all of the above.

No. Mw2's spawn sucks.

wait, does that mean you can have a tf2-like "medigun" that has negative damage multipliers to shields and health so it can heal, and even "overheal"?

For Moose.

(script continuous start_invincible
(sleep_until (= (unit_get_health (unit (list_get (players) 0))) 0))
BTW This is if you plan on making the player respawn in five seconds
(sleep 150)
(object_cannot_take_damage (list_get (players) 0))
(sleep 90)
(object_can_take_damage (list_get (players) 0)))

Player is invincible for 3 seconds after he spawns.

For OP.

Repeat the above 16 times (replacing the 0 in (list_get (players) 0) for every player). OR you can be even more considerate and make the spawning system actually a teleportation system where scripts detect where players are in certain trig volumes and teleport you as far away from the other players as possible.
But that sounds like work, something I dont like.
Edited by Sinow on Nov 2, 2010 at 10:19 PM
Edited by Sinow on Nov 2, 2010 at 10:24 PM