I wonder what purpose the 15secs deploying time in the pre-match lobby fulfills apart from wasting life time? 
I mean when I already chose my mercs and then I have to wait 15secs for nothing doesn’t make much sense for me.
In general I always had the feeling I’m spending too much time somewhere in between the matches.
As I recall it was previously stated by the devs that this pause is to allow the other players on the server to load the model and texture info for your mercs.
Yep, it’s to allow the other players to load your selected loadouts.
And yes, it’s poor implementation and very annoying.
if only we could at least spec teammates in those 15 seconds. they dont have to see our model; why cant we just watch the game as if dead for those 15sec, ts really annoying to stare at the freaking clock, hearing gunfights in the distance.
Its even more annoying when you are stuck with the 20sec obj video while you are already in game and can move your character ‘off screen’. At least Im learning how to memorize spawn-objective pathways blindfolded because of it