I honestly think that Spawn Camping is the most toxic loophole of gameplay in OW2.
Being new to the game, I’m sure I’ll get flamed and trolled for this. However, I do believe that my suggestion would be interesting and favored by many.
Whether it’s in unranked or (especially) Comp, I feel that spawn camping is a huge and toxic disadvantage. Teams have a whole map to battle each other. If the attacking team doesn’t even have a chance to get out of their base, then how are they to even compete on the actual map?
I feel that there should be a home-team damage boost near the spawn base and it diminishes the farther away you get. And when the opposing team is close to your spawn base, there should be a damage reduction, which diminishes the farther away they get. I feel that this implementation would make it much more fair and much more balanced when competing on a competitive level.
Additionally, the + sign health spawn windows are inside the spawn area. Enemies are able to shoot and damage and/or kill INSIDE the spawn doors. That’s an +even bigger disadvantage, and should be eliminated.
Thoughts?
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That’s why there’s alternate exits. There’s only two reasons you being camped. The matchmaker failed, as usual. Or no one is going through the other doors. You can also go Widow and shoot from inside.
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It’s not the matchmakers fault…
But yes, there are alternate exits that can be taken so that you can pressure the other team. If you play Widow and get a pick, then you’re rolling out with no issues. If you’re support, play Zen or Ana and get a pick or a nice anti nade to push the other team away… There’s ways to get out, you just have to find out what works for ya 
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I agree plus if u do go out the other exits you will probably get killed so the only way I see to prevent spawn camping is to have the enemies have a certain amount of time to camp before they are sent back to their own spawn area
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lmao this guy is defending match making. He must have a high visual rank that he wants to keep even though it’s not accurate.
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As dumb as it is, spawn camping always has been - and likely always will be - a tactic in the game. It’s a cowards’ strategy but it gets people kills and points which is what they’re going for. If you see your team camping try to stay back and use the retreat callout. If the other team is camping you, use alternative exits and heroes that can evade their defenses (Sombra, Moira, Realer, etc.). You can also use shield heroes to mitigate damage and allow your team to make a move. Good luck out there
Talk about a 2 month old post XD
I’m not defending the matchmaker nor my low rank. I’m giving a few options on how anyone could help get out of a spawn camping situation. Not sure why you’re being so hostile about it?
If you’re being spawn camped it means that your team is worse than the enemy team and you will probably lose even if you could 5v5 every time. Sorry to be so direct with you, by it’s the truth. I’ve had games where we’re spawn camped in diamond by masters/gms, it happens and it’s because of the matchmaking problems.
If I get the opportunity to spawn camp the enemy team, I don’t feel superior or toxic, I feel like I’m tryharding further to win. Because to me winning matters, that’s what I play for. I won’t give you the chance to win against me if I can.
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I get the try hard but it’s still not ok because how can the enemy team fight you if you’re spawn camping them explain that one
I’m not convinced the enemy has an advantage by camping outside of my spawn, they should lose.
However, if that’s happening and you’re losing it’s due to terrible, awful, awful matchmaking.
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I don’t know how you get spawn camped. It’s easy to fight your way out.
I have to say if you’re getting spawn camped in this game more than rarely the game may not be the issue. Ive been stuck on support once or twice and its honestly cause the tank/DPS arent countering and are being hard countered by better players. Only option is to counter pick and push back but that hasnt happened the few times ive seen it.
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AGREED. Sym can throw turrets INTO the spawn. People saying “multiple exits” must have never been hardcore camped before or beep killed while still inside the area the other team can’t get into. You should NOT be able to take damage IN spawn.
They can stay in spawn until all 5 are spawned, then engage with ultimates if any, otherwise pick dive and dive onto the enemy supports. Let your supports inside the spawn to safely heal. If you fail, keep doing the same thing until you charge up ultimates at which point you can’t lose if you all press Q.
But still, if you are getting spawncamped it most likely means there is a skill difference in the teams and you will lose either way. Just try to observe the better players (enemy) at this point and learn from their actions or capitalize on their mistakes.
It is incredibly hard to be spawn camped because you have Ashe, Widow, Bastion, Ana, Ramm, etc. who can all safely kill anyone trying to spawn camp you. If youre being battered down so hard you can’t even kill them with a Widow from spawn then it is either match making skewing you with people so incredibly high outside your skill range they can somehow make that happen or you just don’t know what you guys are doing. It is very hard to get spawn camped, most of the time trying to spawn camp is throwing the game because you will always lose that war of attrition.
I sometimes play as bastion and I still get spawn camped because of the enemy team picking torb, ram, rein or DVa and I get that they want to get kills but the only way I see them getting kills is to back off of enemies spawn to like halfway across the map or closer to their base because that way players can fight without being spawn camped because spawn camping is the dirtiest trick to farm your ultimate to get kills
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I agree if the enemy camps my teams spawn that should count as a automatic loss for them because some players need to learn when to back off from a enemy teams spawn
A loss for being good at the game?
Oof. As bad as Blizzard is sometimes their bad decisions don’t even come close to some of the subzero takes on here.
Why?
Spawn camping is a legitimately good strat.
Be it one player camping a respawning support.
Fully team camping to deny any cart push.
And so many other examples.
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The only time I ever got spawn camped in OW1 was when I ran into a six stack of smurfs. In OW2 it happens every other match, and I can end up on either side! Yesterday I played Lucio and was literally booping the enemy back into their spawn. IMO that’s 100% a matchmaker issue. That or I randomly became an OWL Pro for 10 minutes…
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