From cheds new announcement here
60-second outside hit protection
Immediately after leaving the hospital or jail for any reason, we'll apply a 60-second attack delay on outside hitters from the moment the faction member becomes available. This only applies to full members in ranked wars.
This provides an attack window for the opposing faction before defensive mercenaries can snipe them.
Aside from the obvious implications of mercs being nerfed quite a lot, being able to mug people during RWs is going to become a lot more difficult. Every now and again you'd see a green leaf in a RW who wasn't aware that their newbie protection wasn't active during RWs.
Having Mercs hosp you when going to sleep is going to be almost impossible now aswell, which could have been fairly easily avoided by changing the 60 second delay to not trigger when someone meds out at their own accord.
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