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[Creovex]

Am I just wigging out or has other people been seeing ghosts mechs in matches? For example, I was playing Forest Colony yesterday and keep seeing a KitFox following my group. He didn't identify as enemy or friend, never fired, wasn't on any team list or showed a name but was obviously being controlled by someone.

Was this an observer??? This is the 3rd time I have seen this so either I am going crazy (quite possible or something else is going on)

NOTE: He/she picked a great match to watch as we went down to the wire, all 15 minutes, with a final score of 9 v 8 final death tally with the last kill happening with under 15 seconds left.. (we got the win and I got the last kill while getting pummeled by turrets, thanks KitFox-C!!!)

[BourbonFaucet]

Ghost heat? Ghost 'Mechs? What were they thinking?

*drinks rolling rock*

[Malcolm Vordermark]

That is some bug with marking friendly units. It has been around for a while but seems to have become worse recently. I experienced it the other day when half my team was not marked including a player I dropped with. You can not see observers.

[Rhaythe]

There is a bug in the game where allies may not show up on your friend-or-foe system. It usually resolves itself within a minute or two of the match. You can see an example here around the 1 minute, 50 second mark:

[Mechteric]

I've only seen a couple of occasions where a friendly mech did not identify with the blue triangle, once this even led to someone friendly firing on that mech because it was assumed they were an enemy. Only way you could tell if they were friendly is they show up on your radar I think.

[Why Run]

Occasionally a Lance-mate will not appear on the map nor will he have any ID using the Q button. They appear invisible unless you look at them. Weird bug, havent' actually seen it in the past week though.

[RangerGee412]

See it happen. Buddy was playing and he started firing at a spider. He thought it was an enemy ecm mech but was a friendly on my screen. Guy didn't come up as friendly or anything when pressing Q

[MonkeyCheese]

Been getting this occasionally since the last patch, never had it before then.

[Creovex]

RangerGee412, on 20 June 2014 - 06:17 AM, said:

See it happen. Buddy was playing and he started firing at a spider. He thought it was an enemy ecm mech but was a friendly on my screen. Guy didn't come up as friendly or anything when pressing Q

Well the crazy part is I looked at my friendly mech listing, who in game has what. And there were only two (2) KitFoxes listed (me and another guy) and I saw the other guy. Yet there was 3 on my side. That is what really threw me for a loop.... anyways.. I was curious.

Edited by Creovex, 20 June 2014 - 06:37 AM.

[Nicholas Carlyle]

Rouken, on 20 June 2014 - 06:13 AM, said:

That is some bug with marking friendly units. It has been around for a while but seems to have become worse recently. I experienced it the other day when half my team was not marked including a player I dropped with. You can not see observers.

Yeah I shot someone recently because of it.

There are some major IFF issues.

[Hangfire]

Had it happen a few times,, normally from the start of a game, it normally corrects it'sself within a couple of mins but if the firefight starts early it can get a bit iffy >.<

[Jeb]

yeah I almost shot one of my team cause of it a few weeks ago

[MechWarrior5152251]

I have blasted more than a few mechs thinking they were under ECM:(