spawnpoint

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A form of spawn point — A location on a game map in which a player, bot or item spawns.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounspawnpoint (plural spawnpoints)

plural spawnpoints

  1. alternativeAlternative form of spawn point.

    On most Minecraft servers, after you die, you just appear back in the last bed you slept in . . . or at the spawnpoint, if your bed was destroyed or you haven’t slept yet.

    2016, Sean Fay Wolfe, The Elementia Chronicles Book 3: Herobrine’s Message, HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 130
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    Good grief / How to raise hell in four (extremely annoying) steps… / Spamming / Rain grenades down upon an area, resulting in an unavoidable artillery barrage and massive loss of online life. As sadly found in many a spawnpoint near many a bout of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory these days. Sigh.

    2007 March, PC Zone, number 178, page 19

    The first Modern Warfare had largely average gameplay from what I could see, following the standard Call of Duty model of a single path filled with enemy spawnpoints that continue to spit out an infinite number of enemies as long as they're ahead of you.

    2012 January 19, Stephen Lea Sheppard, “Sheppard’s Video Game Pie: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3”, in Vice, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021
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APA

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Chicago

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