Played a few TDM matches this morning.  Honestly, I couldn't tell the difference.  I had a couple of deaths due to a recently killed opponent spawning within one corner of me.  On Seatown and Bootleg, I believe.  Dome, too, but there's probably no getting around that on that particular map.  Killed an opponent in the Outpost bunker, tried to exit out the back tunnel, same person was ADS at the tunnel waiting for me.  Wasn't happy about that.  HaHa.

Agreed, after playing a couple hours just now I felt that something was keeping things a little less ridiculous than usual. Maybe the lag was cutting me some slack or the enemy team had more Christmas noobs than normal, hard to really tell if it was the changes to the spawns.

But supposing the spawns' new upgrade was in fact responsible for this modicum of improvement, then its nice to see the devs actually make an attempt to refine their product. It goes without saying that doing so should be on their agenda. Still, to think that IW is actually demonstrating competency is a very pleasant surprise.

Now if only we can get them to do something about the akimbos, lag compensation, and superfluous clutter in their maps.

Just to be sure, what version number should I be seeing in the upper right hand corner of the multiplayer menu after this update?

No down load assume hotfix?  If the tweek has implemented its subtle, no obvious changes to DOM. Only played a short time though.

YUP

It's trash worst spawning ever i'm furious why should they spawn behind me everytime i kill a player. Example: Domination on Dome we control A and C Flag which left them in B flag/building. They would spawn B flag for about 1 to 2 deaths then spawn in dome without any of my teammates near B like WTF? C flag I was at bunker stair way and the players where spawning right behind me. Same for the rest of the maps it seems.

Played a few games of TDM today. Spawns were horrible. Got killed. Spawned. Turned corner. Got killed by same person. Garbage. If this is how they fixed them, I'll have to play a bit more to decide, but it doesn't seem promising.

all i can say is thank god for tactical insertion because this so called hotfix as not done much at all to fix the shitty spawns i know it was just meant to fix the revenge/payback spawn but for example i got dropped into a game of Dom right behind a enemy. i didnt use tac inser in this game i wanted to see what the new spawn was like and it spawned me in the exact same spot 4 times in a row and each time the enemy was closer and closer to me. this week as been incredible bad for me, i am taking zero damage before i die, im not crying lag compensation here because i dont fully understand what it is but i do know that this has been happening to me more and more recently to the point that i have put the game back in the case for a couple days because the only kills i can get is when i shoot someone in the back or they have not seen me, it seems like everyone but me has the look of death,they dont need guns to kill me  they look at me. i die! it has been like this off and on for me since release

Its the same. The same in DOM, the same in Drop Zone, and the same in TDM.

They can't fix it because of the map design (most are small).

comment: horrible spawn system for demolition attackers respawning near objectives and defenders all the way across the map which is not logical for that game type so it fails badly and just took a huge dump on my favorite game type as the people who actually play the according to the objectives are caught defenseless when enemies spawn and kill from behind and this IS a horrible a logical reason for teams to camp a single area in order to prevent the spawn location switch...

idea: if its going to stay like this then atleast send a message whenever the spawn locations switch like a radio call "incoming reinforcement" or something kinda like the gears of war 3 notice if anyone ever played that online and noticed whenever the enemy team got to close to the other's spawn location it would switch and alarm the everyone with a radio call... thats an idea.