Suggestion: The Knockout Timer

What's going on gang, Vigilante here and I am just absolutely pumped for DCUO to finally go live on Jan 11. The game does so many things right but in addition to those things, there are bound to be some aspects of the game that may need to change or actually, go back to the way it was. The one thing I'm talking about is the Knockout Timer.

I've heard people complain about this on different forums and I can say that I'm one of those voices that's calling for a little change with it. The way the timer is now is this: your ally goes down, you race over to them, and if you get there in time, you hold circle (for PS3 users), and hope to God that you don't get hit or else you'll loose your buddy. The way the knockout timer was before when the PS3 pre-order beta first launched was this: your ally goes down, you race over to them, and if you get there in time, you hold circle (for PS3 users), and the timer stopped while you revived your buddy. As long as there was green around the gears icon on your ally's head, you could bring them back if you held circle. I think the latter was a better way to do this. Now, if you're more than 10 feet away from your partner when he goes down, then you don't have a chance in hell of bringing him or her back because even if you do make it before the timer runs down, it won't matter because the knockout timer continues to tick down regardless and this leads to a lot of failed rally attempts and a butt load of frustration. Stack that on top of it being interruptible and while you have something that's far from a game-breaking problem, it is terribly annoying. I'm hoping that this gets rectified either on the launch day patch or sometime in the next 2 or 3 patches. It won't stop me from playing the game but it is a nuisance to deal with. What are your thoughts on the subject?