how to fix push areas not preventing player spawning?

[dollarsadmin]

i made a base map recently and used push areas to prevent player spawning in certain places. it worked perfectly the entire time. dozens of players have played on the map and i have died quite a few times on the map; i have not noticed any issue with spawning and there have not been any complaints. it worked perfectly.

so i made some drastic changes to the map in order to create a new map from it. shortly after that i noticed that the push areas on the new map were not preventing player spawning, even though they are technically the same push areas from the old map, since it's just an edit. i even deleted those old push areas and made new ones, but they are still not preventing players from spawning in those areas.

so far i have only tested it out myself. the newer map is spawning me in the air, random parts of the base, inside of walls, etc. push areas simply stopped working.
what is even stranger is that even when the push areas were working, i did not put push areas in the air because i figured it wouldn't spawn players mid air anyway, and it did not. for some reason it only started spawning me midair when this problem started occurring.
also this is only an issue with the newer map. after testing the original map again, the spawning is still perfect there with push areas properly preventing player spawn.

any idea how i can fix?

[ditzy]

Topic moved to Bug Reporting, Help & Support.

How large of an area do your pushers cover? As a general rule, if over half (50%) of your map is covered by pushers, they will no longer properly prevent players from spawning in them.

[Eric Gurt]

Game tests like 2000 random points on level as for possible respawn point. It means during these 2000 tries there should be found not just point where player can stand, but also where he won't be seen by enemies, enemy projectiles, won't be in water, and won't be in pusher.

I think if respawn is possible when there are few players, in mode like DM it can become even less probable as other players will block some of usual spawn points.

After these tries game just gives up and spawns in random point, possibly even in walls (but I think it should ignore enemies and pushers after certain amount of tries. Nonetheless, it is likely to have as much as possible of areas of map to be suitable for respawn where all rules can be met).

[lrv]

You could make several closed areas from which you automatically get teleported into the pushers when you spawn in them.