During my Blast Radius playtesting, ck and me were talking about palette respawns once again, and how it doesn't work bosses aside in the vanilla game, despite the several uses of pal21 respawn troops especially in the first 3 episodes.
Now I'm thinking again, basically all those red liztroop spawns in the game are "straight in your face" ones, where you can clearly see the same flashy animation that is also used by the red troop's teleport. For example in Hollywood, that weird respawn in the cinema chairs look like some kind of introduction for the red troop, similarly to the one at the backdoor. Then there is a second one from both routes in the main lobby before you can get the shotgun. I mean, the troop spawns in flashy style, and can use the same flash later on.
Similarly, the straight into your face respawn troops in Red Light District (in the bar shooting the girls), Death Row (in the church), Launch Facility (at the start), The Abyss (near at the end with the deep abyss), and several others in Incubator, Warp Factor do the same. The most common respawns are not straight into your face, and none one them are using palettes. I didn't check beyond mid-episode 2, I guess this whole concept had been lifted later on, but this is a trend that is not a coincidence.
