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[b1ackadder]

I know this is not exactly a patch feedback, but i regard it as such, as it has not been fixed for about a dozen patches now.

Every 1 out of 5 matches someone drops someone in my team - sometimes me, too - who has that IFF bug.

There was no statement yet from PGI; I reported this issue first on April 18th this year and the response basically was "We already know".


Please understand that this bug is an occasional matchbraker and people start to get really frustrated about this.

So can we please get an update what is up with all that?

[Chagatay]

More like every match and if I am really lucky more than 1 mech.....

[senaiboy]

I forgot this bug was still around and I ended up shooting a friendly assault's back for a whole minute before I realised my mistake.

This really should be looked into as it causes quite a lot of grief sometimes.

[Product9]

Yeah, I come around a corner chasing a Raven 3L and see a Spider. I immediately assume the Spider is protected by the Raven's ECM, so I shoot him with an AC/20, legging him in one shot (who says Spiders are hard to hit?).

He was a friendly with the bug. At least he was cool about it when I explained things. It seems he also couldn't see me, and shot me with some pulse lasers before he realized we were on the same team.

Please fix this and the chat. I'm tired of hitting backspace every time I want to send a chat message because it types the key I use for chat when I open the chat.

Edited by Product9, 28 September 2014 - 07:13 PM.

[Troutmonkey]

Yep, I'm still getting the bug too. Alpha'd a friendly medium and blew off his arm. I don't think he was none too impressed.

[Troutmonkey]

Wow, this IFF bug is absolutely rediculous. Just came out of a game where at first there was only one ally without a marker, but by the end of the game at least 4-5 of my team members were missing markers. The opportunities for grief here were great, and one accidental shot from my Jager-DD would have ended any of them.

Not only that but I was unable to tell where my team mates were on the map, leading me to think we were down to only 2 or 3 mechs left.

Edited by Troutmonkey, 30 September 2014 - 05:31 AM.

[jackal404]

Agreed. Had this in two of four matches last night. One was lance mate, other was from different lance.

Of our four man, two couldn't see our lance mate (same guy) IFF, none could see IFF for guy from different lance.

[Barkem Squirrel]

last night in a private drop with my team, I had to dodge shots from friendly and enemy mechs.

Call out in chat, if in a mixed team or PUG drop who and what type of mech has no hud. In a 12 man, talk about it and fire some close warning shots at him. Just to remind him, not to hit him.


One thing, fratricide will still continue until this bug is taken care of. No way we can get around that.

[Modo44]

Yay, my first TK in I do not know how many months. Some poor Jenner pilot looked like he was flanking us under ECM cover, but stopped in front of my whale. This is some next-gen meta, guys.

[driftrobot]

River City - Assault
Had 3 mechs on my team with no IFF signatures
Ended up UAC/20'ing our ecm kitfox...

Please fix this!!

Edited by driftrobot, 03 October 2014 - 12:48 PM.

[KodiakGW]

Add me to the list. Probably why my W/L for today right now is 12/22

Sick of being shot by my team almost every drop. Only a handful figured it out when I looked at them and didn't fire back. Too late though. Damage was already critical on my 40 ton CDA-3M.

[Fubbit]

Still seeing this bug also.

I would really appreciate a response about fixing this.

I'm sure everyone else would too.

[b1ackadder]

Your move PGI, what's up guys!?

[Toothman]

I've never had an IFF problem until the latest patch. While its still not frequent, 4 matches in about 48 hours its really annoying. Not sure if my experiance is the same as others but I've had both enemies with blue triangles and friends with red triangles. Nothing like running a light into a resource controll point, ignoring the mech behind you because hes blue then having him blow out your back and only then having him show as red.

[Troutmonkey]

Toothman, on 22 March 2015 - 07:34 AM, said:

I've never had an IFF problem until the latest patch. While its still not frequent, 4 matches in about 48 hours its really annoying. Not sure if my experiance is the same as others but I've had both enemies with blue triangles and friends with red triangles. Nothing like running a light into a resource controll point, ignoring the mech behind you because hes blue then having him blow out your back and only then having him show as red.

Best post this in patch feedback with a screen shot / video if possible. There's no need to necro year old threads.

[Something Wrong]

lol, I encountered this bug in a rather memorable way in my ECM D-DC Atlas...

I was on Crimson Straight, my team was hunting down the last 2 enemies and we killed number 11. However, my friendly blue triangle didn't show for the entire team, so they all literally turned on me. My entire team because of this bug ripped into me. It was only after my repeated furious typing to cease fire in chat did they finally stop after they had blown off both arms and a leg and left me stripped everywhere else. No apologies, no words, they just turned and left.

That being said, I then turned and TKed 3 of my team in the back before the rest turned on me and finished what they started. My only regret was not being able to finish off the rest of my team.

Edited by Sum Ting Wong, 22 March 2015 - 05:33 PM.

[PurpleNinja]

We should have a new section: