I played matches the same day that update came out and never encountered a 10second countdown.

he was referring to the border retreat time that have been reduce to 10 sec

+1

I give a Recc for this.

The North Border was set up to defeat border-hiding/humping aircraft.  Then it was "improved" to include ships; now it's "perfected" with a guaranteed loss of your ship if you drift over the invisible cliff.  No amount of OH and "RUDDER FULL STARBOARD"  for a 180* turn will do you any good.

The art of fixing one problem; and breaking another.

Recc'd because I hate the fact that you have to be in the monster ship to not get retreated from the border.

If you have a slow ship 15 seconds is not long enough to turn around and re-enter the playing area.

Yes!! everytime I try to turn around my engs suck and I its always at the last sec I was just about to get back in. Which is why I try to stay south and dont even bother starting the game north. Got a lot of losses on my record cause of this and loss some great rounds and exp.