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objective or in a tactical location, being effective tools for defending a location or advancing the front line. The spawn host disappears after the Strogg player respawns at its location, so the spawn host can only be used once. Conversely, players utilizing the GDF Medic class can disable and remove Strogg player-created spawn hosts by zapping them with their defibrillator pads.
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310:Camping (video gaming)
270:Doom II: Hell on Earth
32:Spawn (disambiguation)
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183:id Software
148:video games
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933:Paper doll
898:Fog of war
843:Characters
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790:Video game
673:Companies,
663:Terra Nova
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368:2007-03-04
348:2014-11-26
316:References
168:Despawning
160:Respawning
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1085:Overworld
903:Game over
875:Mechanics
492:Concepts,
286:instances
124:June 2012
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1111:Strafing
1078:Map seed
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983:Spawning
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602:Spawning
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531:Grinding
516:Cybersex
483:TinyMUCK
304:See also
152:spawning
1024:Scenery
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526:Griefer
463:GodWars
430:DikuMUD
425:AberMUD
298:pickups
278:MMORPGs
108:scholar
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115:JSTOR
101:books
1008:Warp
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819:Life
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282:mobs
264:Doom
188:Doom
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