Non-lethal weapon - netgun - for capturing creatures & engineers

I would like to see more exploration with gameplay options. I think the die and re-spawn as a default, places too little value on the players avatar. A player loosing their characters freedom, raises the question of the best use of play time, this I am not denying. My observation is that a lot of conflict play is kill or be killed, for most this gives playtime satisfaction, but after many years of play this style offers little in the way of nuance. I ask myself what am I missing out on in terms of how encounters can turn out.

RPGs deal with this problem, so is it possible in SE ?

The switching out of your character is not a problem, it is not being able to switch back to your original character, should you wish to do so, that is the issue, a choice that you no longer have because you terminated your character. RPG party games solved this problem by allowing you to control more than one character, when one character is stuck you can use another to rescue them.

When VS4 NPC characters are available, SE could make switching the player control from one character to another possible.

weapon options can set this whole thing alite.... net cartrige for rocket launcher, concussion rounds for rifle, cripling an engineers arm or leg with a pistol and "high impact" rounds