3-D Spotting returning?
I'm personally not a fan of the 3-D spotting but it sounds like it may be making a comeback.
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Amazed that I haven’t seen this mentioned yet..
Spotting/ pinging distant targets does not work properly since they introduced changes to spotting.
It worked before the update. Now it doesn’t.
When you ping a distant target to put a red dot over them, you can barely see the red dot and enemy info above them!
The red dot literally flickers briefly and then you an even see it!
This applies to both your own pings and pings performed by your squad mates.
You literally can’t see them!!
You end up having to look away from the pinged enemy to put them in your peripheral view to try and get the red dot to show up.
You end up location-pinging the ground next to the enemy just to show squad mates where you’re trying to ping.
Location-pings work fine and you can see them clearly as always.
Pinging nearby enemy seems to work ok.
But direct pinging of distant enemy is now broken.
I will say this yet again..
How the hell is it possible that an update like this can be pushed out when it doesn’t work?!
Dice obviously couldn’t even be bothered to test the pings. If they had, they would have seen that they don’t work.
Seriously, it’s like Groundhog Day with every update 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
- @creepnpeep yeah they need to revert the recent change as something was broken along the way.
Weird, you've been seeing this for weeks now? I've been having no issues with regular spotting (on PS5).
Haven't noticed this either.
What I have noticed is that this spotting feature is a straight upgrade over the spotter gadget you find in the Nighthawk and some tanks.
You can still use the 'new' spotting feature while in the sitting seat. It has essentially zero cool down versus the 1-2 second cool down you find while using the gadget.
@AngrySquid270 wrote:Haven't noticed this either.
What I have noticed is that this spotting feature is a straight upgrade over the spotter gadget you find in the Nighthawk and some tanks.
You can still use the 'new' spotting feature while in the sitting seat. It has essentially zero cool down versus the 1-2 second cool down you find while using the gadget.
No, they've definitely changed 3D spotting with the latest patch.
Maybe it was intentional because you were able to spot enemies at very long distances with the first patch but now they don't spot.
Though it would make more sense if 3D spot had a range limit
- @DaMutha1 Been doing it since the last update.
Distant spots are barely visible. Literally almost invisible.
You get a vague flicker of a red dot - and that’s only when you look away from the target and put it in your peripheral vision.
- @creepnpeep I’ve noticed the old ping system take two presses of Q now, rather than one. Sometimes it doesn’t spot at all, so I’ll mash the button and suddenly it will mark, then unmarked, then mark again. Too bad a good 50% of the time my squad can’t even see it. I know they can’t as we have comms and they tell me they can’t see it as they run in and get waxed by the player I’d marked. Swing and a miss IMO, which is par for 2042.
Spotting does not seem as precise as before. Also I can never tell if the vehicle that I am trying to spot is actually being spotted.
What happened to the green "Go here" marker? I can not do it anymore on PS5.
@Skill4Reel wrote:
Spotting does not seem as precise as before. Also I can never tell if the vehicle that I am trying to spot is actually being spotted.
What happened to the green "Go here" marker? I can not do it anymore on PS5.
According to the notes the location marker was removed:
- Pressing the ping button once will no longer place a location ping, but instead check for targets such as soldiers, vehicles or objects near the point of that placed ping.
yeah I am seeing pretty much the same, when spotting with a drone as Casper I get the XP from spotting but the red markers either do not show on the enemy or the appear for a spilt second and go away. My clan mates say that the spotted targets do not show for them either. I have also noticed that the friendly dots are only showing now if you are near them. Something seems like it got broken with markers in this last patch.
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