Rainmaker - Warning don't retreat

[Marmalade]

I am sorry if this has been brought up before, but I couldn't find anything searching the forum.
But I just played rainmaker mode on kelpdome, and after picking up the rainmaker and trying to take a route that went back into our starting zone (the rainmaker was in our zone already so I wanted to take the route the goes right and over the ledge), a big red message popped up saying "Warning! Don't retreat", which totally confused me so I turned around and got splatted, haha.

Anyway, when did they add this? And how long/far can you go before something happens? Do you just explode if you ignore the message? What even counts as retreating?

 

[Kebab]

If the message shows up the timer counts down faster than normal

Basically the message shows up if you're too close to your base but I wouldn't worry about it if you get out of there as fast as possible

 

[CM2]

Fun Fact: You cannot retreat with the rainmaker to your spawn point. It's to prevent you from stalling the timer to win the game.

 

[Psycho_Wendigo]

I have found the retreat mechanic to be pretty forgiving, normally in Kelp Dome after stopping the RM coming into your base from the left, it'll let you take it over the walkway on the right.

Not sure what happened in your game

 

[Zoot]

Anyway, when did they add this?

It's been there since day 1 of Rainmaker.

 

[Marmalade]

I have found the retreat mechanic to be pretty forgiving, normally in Kelp Dome after stopping the RM coming into your base from the left, it'll let you take it over the walkway on the right.

Not sure what happened in your game

Yes, that is exactly what I wanted to do.
As all 4 enemy players were waiting on the left side by the passageway I thought I would take the right route, but I didn't even get close, I was just approaching that direction and I got the warning.

Also I never heard of this mechanic before, and saw it for the first time that day.
I just wonder what triggers it?

 

[Lucarii]

It seems to be triggered whenever I go backwards or stall for too long trying to find a safe route. If you're playing normally it shouldn't be too much of an issue, just try and find a path as quickly as possible.

 

[Toaster]

This only happened to me twice, it happened in my first rainmaker match when I was trying to find a safe way around the enemy team in kelp dome. It happened again in camp triggerfish when the game went into over time and I was trying to avoid be splatted.

 

[MacSmitty]

If you don't press forward with the RainMaker, it'll explode and splat you in the process. It's happened to me once, and I was too dumbfounded to actually take a photo of that.