FAQ about timers
Millea
Member
1: When do grubs spawn?
Every 40 seconds one additional spawns from each spawn area, starting at 0 seconds. There is a max of 5.
2: When do the titans spawn/respawn?
4:00 for the first one and 4:00 after a team captures a titan.
3: When do camps spawn/respawn?
Easy
Spawn: 0:00
Respawn 6 min
Medium
Spawn: 7:00
Respawn 8 min
Hard
Spawn: 14:00
Respawn 12 min
4: How long do upgrades take?
Stat upgrades = 150/180/210/240
Most unit upgrades are 180 sec.
Comments
Does this mean, for example, the Easy camps 6 minutes AFTER it is cleared? or every 6 minutes regardless?
6 minutes AFTER clear.
Can we have like a timer so we can keep track of when the Titan will spawn?
How do you feel about showing the respawn timers on the minimap? They would be explicit, so they would be easy to learn (as in, you don't even have to learn them) and reduce the burden of knowledge for new players.
You may argue that it "reduces the skill cap" or "dumbs down the game", but is memorizing timers, or going as far as tracking them with a chronometer (I've seen that in LoL) an interesting skill to test for you?
This probably just hasn't been implemented yet. Titans for example used to have a respawn timer, so I think it's going to come back.
Other games have done the on-map and minimap timers with success, it's just something we haven't gotten around to just yet. The timers act as a great call-to-action, which is what these neutral objectives serve as anyway. There's definitely features surrounding those, and involving timers and visual representations, that we want to eventually target.