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  • verb Present participle of respawn.

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Examples

  • Last Splicer Standing: Civil war played in rounds with no respawning until a new round begins

    BIOSHOCK 2 PS3 Review – Collider.com 2010

  • There is an alternative to respawning though, although you may not encounter it in your first game.

    MAG Review | CurveHouse.com 2010

  • Will worldwide shortages of oil lead to the respawning of the Napoleonic Wars, but on a global warming scale?

    The Unpleasant Future 2008

  • If I do the same in Far Cry 2, I either see nothing but empty African wilderness, or I'm geographically funneled into one of the respawning checkpoints.

    A Spoiled Gamer, Am I. Ben Abraham 2008

  • I got addicted to the goodies from the fast respawning crates there.

    Nov. 18th Tabula Rasa Gaming Journal--Munchie Gets a Turn trinfaneb 2007

  • I may have to rewrite the review slightly as I totally left something out that drove me up the wall: respawning enemies.

    BioShock Adam Whitehead 2009

  • It allows the respawning player to intentionally alter his tactics upon retry, instead of being forced to deal with the exact same setup each time.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Steve gaynor 2009

  • In many multiplayer levels in World at War, regardless of what game type you are playing, the matches turn into races to grab the respawning tanks, and if you lose, to blow them up.

    Game Review: Call of Duty: World at War (PS3) 2009

  • It allows the respawning player to intentionally alter his tactics upon retry, instead of being forced to deal with the exact same setup each time.

    Basics of effective FPS encounter design (via F.E.A.R. and F.E.A.R. 2) Steve gaynor 2009

  • Also, while there are still waves of endlessly-respawning enemies, there's notably less than in the last two Lego games, and they're less inclined to turn up while you're trying to do something fiddly.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Greg Tannahill 2009

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