CRAZY IDEA : "Do you want to respawn here?" / Deathgate

[Goblinounours]

@Goblinounours

@Spoygg

what triggers me the most is stupid stupid way that it teleports you from the place you died. OMG what a frustration if you are on any world that has extreme terrain. I literally need minutes to find the place I was working/hunting on. What a bloody waste of time. And I don’t get the point at all, you have another portal in sanctum to teleport wherever you want, and also it’s a thrill to run out of tough situation, if you died by poking creatures too much. I don’t need this hand holding at all. Especially when I die from a stupid fall damage in my own base, what the bloody hell is that about??? Why would you teleport me out of the base, to the foot of the mountain so I have to ascend 100-150 block? It’s enough that I died, in my own base, from fall damage.

Don’t get me started on that. A few days ago, while killing mobs on the surface, I died and the Sanctum warp sent me in a very small cave which happened to be sealed (no big tunnel to get out), and with an elite hopper a few meters away from me, and I had no hammer or light in my tool-wheel, so I was grossly unprepared for that encounter… Let’s just say it did not go well.
Sometimes, the warp opened on the edge of a cliff so that when I got through the warp, I instantly fell and died.
Then, there’s that time when it opened 2 blocks away from a river of lava.

When stuff like that happens and I’m with friends on Discord, we have this running joke of somewhat singing “in my safe space!” from South Park.
And we end-up doing that waaaay more often than I’d like.

I get why the warp doesn’t open rrrright where I died because you can die in lava, and that would be awkward, but yeah, trying to spawn you elsewhere ends-up being way more frustrating that the alternative, especially when you’re like “OH COME ON, I could’ve had this!”.
I’m not sure, but I think it’s in Diablo 3 where, when you die, you get a pop-up which lets you choose if you wanna get back to life right where you died or if you wanna be brought back to the level entrance. That should be how Boundless operates too.

And you know what? This deserves a suggestion!

I think this quote from a discussion in another thread sums-up the suggestion.

We should have the same options :
• Revive at corpse
• Revive in a random spot, far away (current mechanic)
• Revive at home beacon

Maybe the death penalty could be different depending on what we choose.
I wouldn’t mind having the XP debuff when I choose to spawn back where I died (or at the nearest possible spot if I died in lava), and no malus if I choose to respawn in a random spot, far away. There would then be some tactical choices to be made.
Maybe the option to revive at our home beacon could have a requirement like paying a price in coins equivalent to the price for warping there?

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On a related note, I would also suggest another option :
What if we had “Deathgates”? Now you may ask yourself “lol whut?”.
A Deathgate would be a public waypoint. Any dead player would have the option upon dying to revive at the nearest Deathgate. They would be expensive to make, but would also be something that big guilds could add to world capital-cities or portal hubs.
Now sure, the obvious ‘con’ would be that some trolls could try to lock players in sealed rooms where the Deathgate is, but I’m sure they would also be smart enough to know that the sealed player would report them right after.
The pro would be to allow players to get back to a safe space easily. And now I’m gonna stop writting because I gotta get that South park song out of my head again.

[ctrl-64]

this is a really good idea, I also don’t like the 50m teleportation when you respawn, it doesn’t make sense for every type of death.

I really like the idea about deathgates, that would give some awesome functions for minigames or parkour courses! if you miss a jump over a lake of lava or high enough elevation, back to the checkpoint!