I'm getting very tired of the mission endings... when you escape you only go to spectator and there is no text like "Humans won" and so on...
When you get nothing from escaping the people wont do it. Almost everytime half of the team spectates for 5 minutes when 4 guys do not escape but only camp and shoot zombies. Make somesort of clear ending text or something so that people would feel that they do something when escaping.

Maybe a nice little flower for those who escaped....

Just kidding. Maybe some more exp or something?

I totaly agree i'm sick of people not getting in the chopper, escaping through the doors e.t.c.

Escape->press and hold "show cursor"-> click at the "play as a zombie" button located at the top right-> EAT!

Normally the survivors get so frustrated by being swarmed in the spawn they change out of free will. And those few that stay at unreachable places are frustrating, but they'll soon find out that there's no ammo at their hiding place...

I think there should be benefits for escaping in time to make it much more tempting. Such as gaining a level next map if you escaped. One free level a map would hardly hurt.

Also when the game orders players to escape I think more zombies should spawn or perhaps maybe even turning the zombies into runners like i remember in beta This way escape is more of a good thing rather a bad. This combined with the player zombies to make sure the survivors don't just camp where the AI is incapable of getting them would make anyone retreat back.

maybe as the game progresses, as you complete killing fred and case, maybe the zombies get like x2 fasters, and 1.5x stronger, and then again after you complete after another objective, so people WANT to escape, or else zombies just eat them.

All your idea's sound great!

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ive seen it once so far on the slaywatch map. there where about 9 players, and the map ended. i escaped, with 3 others, the rest stayed shooting for a bit longer. when we all respawned and went at them, like 3-4 of them ran into the escape point with us chasing them.

it was quite fun. we got everybody to escape except 1 dude. but he got so spawncamped he died before he could even pick up a weapon. after that he just left.

alot of fun, and i think it is like it should be right now. if in the future it becomes a real real big problem we'll just have players force spawn as zombies to kill anybody remaining behind. should still be fun.

but indeed, a clear tekst who won would be nice. but at the end of the round/map.

i think once the blackhawk comes the zombies get like infinite health and if you dont escape you just keep getting eaten :ph34r:

I'm not the type to escape right away. If we've rushed through the missions and theres still 5+ minutes left on the clock, I'll have myself and nice little zombie-shoot-em-up until the final countdown. I don't worry about other spector players, nor when I'm finished do I worry about other live players not finishing because, as Nekro said, just click spawn as zombie. If I am one of the few not escaped I enjoy being pushed back and overrun by player zombies until I am eventually forced to escape. Likewise, if I've already escaped, I enjoy going zombie and pushing back living players into the escape zone.

That being said, definately though, it would be awesome to have some sort of animation sequence/hud message letting the player know with out a doubt, what exactly happens when you escape.
I'd suggest perhaps more EXP the faster you escape, that way its a trade off. You can decide to escape ASAP and get lots of EXP, or you can decide not to escape and try your chances at getting EXP by shooting more zombies/players. The first option garauntees you a lot of exp, the second option has the possibility of giving you more exp, but your not necessarily garaunteed it (depends on how many zombies you shoot).