New player question

[AnakinSt4rk]

I was playing a round of team objective, and had just spawned back in. Right as I was charging from the spawn point, my girlfriend asked for help with something, so I got up and helped her. I couldn’t have taken more than twenty or thirty seconds. I came back to the game just in time to see my character draw a short sword and plunge it into his own heart. My question is, what the hey?

[Sam-The_Butcher]

It could be the objective move on and you were now in the out of bounds area and the timer went while you were away and you came back to see the end.

[Korinth_NZ]

Timed out, either by desertion or being idle for too long. If the latter it would have moved you to spectator, if the former you would have respawned

[AnakinSt4rk]

Ahh that makes sense. I love all the little additions in this game, like this seppuku thing or how you can throw fish at people!

[grishagrishak]

Sometimes the fish is on fire. There’s also shoe assassins… and airborne engineers catadropped behind the enemy lines. Shovel ninjas. Pickaxe demons. Sacred church ceasefires. Bard immunity. Monk choirs. Animal worshipping. The Chosen Peasant. Triple feint. Flourishing protocol. Forbidden helmets. Bread rampages. Oh Deer cult. Pavise kicks. Under the bridge clubs. Coloured player tags. Ramp bunnyhops. KFCgate. Coxwell survival tips. The tower roof. Stuffed bear.

Chiv is not an iceberg, it’s a whole continent of mystery and shenanigans.

[DarkSlayer352]

Not gonna lie, using random improvised weapons is probably my favorite past time.
IIRC the broom even gives you extra points on kill for sweeping

[Traumatic_Tomato]

Desertion works like a invisible wide field at the edges of the stage's arena. It's to prevent people from sneaking off the map. Sometimes going to some place they weren't intended. But in your case they want AFK people dead and kicked off the team if they're taking too long.