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[TF2] [Feature Request] Reduce Ghost Fort/Lakeside event timer per team to 3 min
7 minutes per team makes the map to last too long, considering that Merasmus appears so often, and makes completing contracts in this map very frustasting to do.
Whether it's reduced to 3 minutes as originally suggested or 5 as per @condor00fr's comment can be debated, but if something needs to be changed before/in this year's halloween update it'll be this! Much desired QoL change!
prehaps five instead? so that Merasmus can still spawn more that once?
I find 5 min still too long, and no, Merasmus can appear more than once with a 3 min timer
Maybe they could also make it so Merasmus takes about maybe... 30 seconds longer to respawn each time? That way he won't keep popping up so often.
remove the mechanic that makes merasmus spawn 1 minute faster every time you kill him until his respawn timer becomes 1 minute and then make the round timer 3 minutes. merasmus spawning faster because you killed him is a dumb punishment for beating the thing that grinds the game to a halt for 2 minutes so you can get back to playing the game again.
Yes please reduce the time on this map, half of the time this map can take up to 30/45 minutes total just to end the game fully due to Merasmus spawning in so frequently.
remove the mechanic that makes merasmus spawn 1 minute faster every time you kill him until his respawn timer becomes 1 minute and then make the round timer 3 minutes. merasmus spawning faster because you killed him is a dumb punishment for beating the thing that grinds the game to a halt for 2 minutes so you can get back to playing the game again.
It's (probably) not meant to be a punishment, it's probably meant to help get a higher skull topper level faster for those that grind it. The contracts that were added later have unfortunately conflicted with this goal. Allowing halloween contracts to be finished without waiting for the round to end would probably be a better solution (#4403 related).
I assume the longer timer was also intended for the time when there was no truce - to give a chance for people to kill Merasmus who didn't have a chance to do so yet to get the skull topper.
Now that we have the truce that stops everything and forces you to fight the boss, the rounds take way too long as people kill Merasmus often and he respawns yet more. This is thanks to the truce that was implemented for Scream Fortress 2015 and to let people fulfill the Merasmus and Monoculus contracts more easily. The ConTracker system (2017) forcing people to stay for the entire round to complete the round worsens the problem even further.
This issue is only even apparent due to the compounding problem that several updates to the contract systems and bosses created, and this design issue was nonexistent originally. I agree that Ghost Fort needs to have its timer reduced - even if they made it so you could turn in contracts and leave earlier, staying for an entire match takes so long that it's rarely fun to play one.
