Greetings.What I mean is this: Every time I either have a Bangalore on my team or my enemy is a Bangalore, the most common issue is that I literally can't even see my enemies faintly while my enemies seem to be perfectly able to hit me with weapons like Spitfire, Flatline or R-301, as it can be heard by the gunfire. And as far as I'm aware, neither of these 3 have digital threat optics. So how come my enemies can see me perfectly while I have zero ways of determining my enemy location inside the smoke? I doubt enemies take wild guesses of my location and always hit me right where I am.

@LaughingSharko I'm not American but I think It's a saying. "Jack S**T" means "nothing".

@Cheese9Man Lolz Sharko knows that. He was referring to the actual ‘name’ jack as a joke of naming & shaming.@Lord_Scorpion34 Jeez, you guys are so drunk that even I figured what he meant upon reading it without him explaining it. Too much of a niche joke to chuckle but witty nonetheless.

It's been pretty sketchy ever since that change when they made the Switch port. They reported fixing it, but Bangalore smoke and Caustic gas clearly do not consistently function quite the way they are supposed to. What I have noticed is that lighting (specifically, the direction of) has a strong effect on visibility. If you're on the right side of the smoke, you can see pretty well. I find Caustic's case to be worse, because the highlighted vision one is supposed to have in the gas seems to only function sporadically.

@Peri_Longbow_plz The weapons you described (not so much the r301) are what I would spray into smoke until I start to see dmg being done.

@Lord_Scorpion34"Same. Sometimes I can't see jack in the smoke but people hit me like it not even effecting them."Sorry, too many caffeinated beverages, methinks.

Someone care to genuinely explain to me the physics behind Bangalore smoke?

18 Replies

MandatoryIDtag
5 years ago
Smoke go swoosh.
Nah seriously though, bangs smoke is a real butt pain. It all depends on crap like distance from the smoke etc. It's hard to explain really but if you have a play around with it you'll see what I mean.
pandareno1999
Hero+
5 years ago
It's been pretty sketchy ever since that change when they made the Switch port. They reported fixing it, but Bangalore smoke and Caustic gas clearly do not consistently function quite the way they are supposed to. What I have noticed is that lighting (specifically, the direction of) has a strong effect on visibility. If you're on the right side of the smoke, you can see pretty well. I find Caustic's case to be worse, because the highlighted vision one is supposed to have in the gas seems to only function sporadically.
B0n3SawMcSizzla
5 years ago
@Peri_Longbow_plz The weapons you described (not so much the r301) are what I would spray into smoke until I start to see dmg being done.
Peri_Longbow_pl
5 years ago
@MandatoryIDtag @pandareno1999

It's somewhat what I've been experiencing lately. A lot of the Bangalore I play against seemingly know there is some kind of way to see through the smoke. Which is probably why the pickrate is so high right now. At first I assumed it had something to do with graphics settings, but none of them have changed anything regarding the visibility, so it must be something I don't know about (yet)
pandareno1999
Hero+
5 years ago
@B0n3SawMcSizzla wrote:

The weapons you described (not so much the r301) are what I would spray into smoke until I start to see dmg being done.

That's a really good point.
MandatoryIDtag
5 years ago
The issue for lack of a better word, has always been there with bang smoke, the issue that @pandareno1999 mentioned just heavily exasperated it.
What your enemies will be seeing is a flash of your silhouette, which is just enough to track your movements. I'm not sure if it can be manipulated as the criteria of distance etc seems to just change at random. I think the time the smoke has been active also plays a big factor.
gg123xyz
5 years ago
@MandatoryIDtag i shoot the smoke when i see i hurt sum1 i fire there blind i got more than 1 person that way.
ILostT0Loba
5 years ago
@gg123xyzI have finished downed guy getting rezzed that way
Lord_Scorpion34
Legend
5 years ago
@Peri_Longbow_plz Same. Sometimes I can't see jack in the smoke but people hit me like it not even effecting them.
GH0STEDbyME
Hero
5 years ago
@pandareno1999 Pretty much this. Her smoke can be a bit dodgy depending on where you use it. Sometimes you can see through it clearly other times you can see naff all.