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Either it was to prevent players from getting lost, or to force players into combat with the next set of enemies. Those are the only things I can think of. They are pretty pointless since Strongholds are separated from the main open world.

It was left in as an artifact? Really? Hells dude, almost every time I play Scar Temple someone, when it's not me, gets stuck behind that 2nd encounter barrier!

Is respawn new? I never noticed or tried the option until I spawned into broken boss encounter, and one of the guys on the map suggested we try it at once. Weird effect, but didn't fix the boss fight.

Maybe I wasn't clear. I'll try again.

The dev I alluded to said the barrier was no longer necessary and would be removed with the next patch. I took that to mean in an earlier design of the stronghold, the barrier was necessary. But with the stronghold we saw at game release (once at level 30), it was not.  Like the human appendix, it might have served a purpose at one time, but no longer … hence my reference to it as an artifact … from an earlier version of the stronghold. And we only notice it when it causes trouble (both the stronghold barrier and the human appendix). 

I've been caught on the wrong side of the barrier several times.  I didn't even think to try respawn … but the next time I got trapped on the wrong side of the barrier, after the dev's comments, I immediately hit ESC and Y, respawned wherever, got teleported to the other side of the barrier, picked up my loot and rejoined the team.  Instead of waiting until they progressed to areas farther into the dungeon, where I would finally respawn and miss the loot.

As biggydx said, the respawn option was already there, I just didn't know to use it … which it why I questioned BioWare not telling us when the barrier issue first came up.  Given how Hrungr and MT capture virtually every tweet from the devs … if BioWare told us, we'd know.

Despite what the dev said, if the barrier had been a one way barrier (you can move forward but not back) then none of this would have been an issue … which is what spawned my comment about the devs perhaps using the wrong barrier in places. The other thing that would have helped … if someone was trapped on the wrong side of the barrier, it should have triggered a tether-based teleport sooner than what it did … given how tether-happy the game seems to be at times … the long delay to get caught up with the team is … interesting. 

There were issues with barriers in the Tyrant Mine that BioWare fixed … apparently they didn't bother to look if the same issues existed in other strongholds. Maybe too many fires burning their butts (known bugs) to think about other things that were not quite so hot at the time.  But that's just more speculation on my part.

Again, hope this longer version of the points I was trying to make helps.

I just hope they don't put a giant button in the middle of the screen to warn people about this like they did inside Fort Tarsis.

Does anyone know what Banners are?

I notice that at least one of the challenges I've completed awards a couple of banners called something like Ranger 02 and Ranger 09 but I have no idea what they are or how to access them?

Let me grab a screenshot... Here's my 'Founders banner' from the LOD.



They display in the 'Squad' screen when you are suiting up.

You can swap them out with others.

Most of the time you can respawn from your map screen (I understand there are cases in HoR where that doesn't work).

The fix is in next week's patch 1.0.4.

Counting from top to bottom, left to right, my favorite banner is #5 … doesn't specify a Javelin, but the game overall. While the Storm is my favorite, I've been playing (and learning to play) all four Javelins.

Plus … I don't use any of the cool vanities for my Javelins … all mine have the same "rode hard and put away wet" look … head canon for my Freelancer being of humble beginnings, using old suits passed down from retired Feelancers … when you struggle to buy sandwiches for your cypher, you probably don't spend a lot of coin on paint jobs for your mechs.

So all the cool banners that emphasize some awesomely beautiful Javelin schemes … don't quite fit. Number 12 is probably the only other one I considered, but went with #5 instead. And it's true, unless you are rooting around, there is a good chance you won't see it early on in the game. Once you start playing with consumables, you will probably notice banners folks you play with are using.

And EB … what SJ said. For PC, hit ESC, then [Y] and it will respawn you on the correct side of the barrier. Like you said, it is very frustrating. Buried in the Twitter thread is some info from the devs on how it came about, as well as the workaround (which always existed, but I was unaware of its existence until the dev posted). And also, like SJ says, next week's patch will fix it (whew!).

Thanks everyone, I'll give it a go some time. Can't say I use the Social tab much

I've had a few people following me around in freeplay. At that point, I just left freeplay. Try to follow me now, weirdo.

I had some random follow me around too!
And then I thought yay friends!
So I thought I'd use the wave emote to them (this was after a good 10 min of being stalked)
Which caused them to promptly leave...