this change is the sole reason why some of the heists (see: Birth of Sky) have absolutely insane, unbeatable spawnrates now
this is absolute lunacy, nobody asked for this, it only made the game worse and it was not even done properly
ONLY WORKS AS HOST
spawn point delay behavior differences:
before update 240.3:
groupai director used up a spawn point
it was put on a 15 to 20 (rng) second long cooldown
groupai director used up other available spawn points due to the long cooldown of the just-used-up spawnpoint
if all spawn points happened to be on a cooldown when the game wanted to spawn an enemy group - it reset all spawn point cooldowns
This might go well with the Less Cop mod, as that mod only decrease the max cop but they still respawn at fast rate so.
now with both I may can feel the good old day again.
Prolly closest you can get to old pd2 feel without downgrading or installing overhaul mods.