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[Mudhutwarrior]

I think my biggest issue with UAVs is no one calling them when they see them. Too many times they have been over my head for the duration yet those who are in position to say something are in tunnel vision mode.

In an assault by the time you back out to get guns on them their time has run out.

[Khobai]

OH NO YOU HAVE TO USE ANOTHER VISION MODE TO SEE THEM

if anything it helps justify having other vision modes in the first place...

[Pjwned]

The biggest thing that I really hate about UAVs is how inconsistent it is to be able to target them. I have seen a large number of times where a UAV is in plain view just from looking up (while not even being far away either) and I'm almost never allowed to target them to let the team see the UAV on the radar, meanwhile I don't always have arm mounted lasers (that can reach far enough) in order to deal with it.

Can somebody explain that crap? It is seriously annoying.

[GeistHrafn]

Pjwned, on 23 June 2015 - 03:50 AM, said:

The biggest thing that I really hate about UAVs is how inconsistent it is to be able to target them. I have seen a large number of times where a UAV is in plain view just from looking up (while not even being far away either) and I'm almost never allowed to target them to let the team see the UAV on the radar, meanwhile I don't always have arm mounted lasers (that can reach far enough) in order to deal with it.

Can somebody explain that crap? It is seriously annoying.

It makes sense that such a small target would be hard to pickup on radar, therefore you need to be very close.
If you can see it, shoot it down. If you can't (torso mounted weapons, etc), call it out in VOIP so someone else can.

[Mystere]

I Zeratul I, on 22 June 2015 - 10:50 PM, said:

My setup is as stock as possibru.

No macros, no color calibration, no lead fishing weights stuffed inside a mouse to give it a better feeling of balance.

Mouse? People still use them? In 2015 no less?

Mundanes.

[Bilbo]

DarthRevis, on 22 June 2015 - 01:33 PM, said:

Or how easy....

Must be the colors on my monitor but i see two blue blips on a white background in the first picture.

Not that hard to see on my rig....even without "Silent film Era" Vision. Maybe my monitor colors are wack....



I am also partially color blind BTW....

Yeah, at full resolution they are perfectly visible for me as well.

[XxXAbsolutZeroXxX]

Mystere, on 23 June 2015 - 06:57 AM, said:

Mouse? People still use them? In 2015 no less?

Mundanes.

Right now I'm using a laptop and a touchpad.

Not that anyone cares, but maybe someone will get some lelz or entertainment value out of that and make it worth typing.

:T

[Pjwned]

Rhazien, on 23 June 2015 - 04:47 AM, said:

It makes sense that such a small target would be hard to pickup on radar, therefore you need to be very close.
If you can see it, shoot it down. If you can't (torso mounted weapons, etc), call it out in VOIP so someone else can.

The problem is that if you need to be so close to the UAV that you can't even see it by looking up (due to limited torso pitch) then that's pretty damn stupid now isn't it? There shouldn't be an unnecessary burden on me to go out of my way (beyond simply spotting it on my radar when it's in plain view) to let people know that there's a UAV overhead either. This solution is very similar to "your teammates can see that you're NARC'd so it's fine if you can't see it" which was also stupid and (after a long time coming) a NARC indicator was added to the target's HUD a while ago.

Edited by Pjwned, 23 June 2015 - 10:05 PM.

[Nightmare1]

I Zeratul I, on 22 June 2015 - 12:59 PM, said:

The appearance of UAV's could be changed to make them equally recognizable on all maps.

Why you ask? Possibly to address something called game balance. Does that make sense?

Or you could just do the common sense thing and use heat vision on that map.

[Koniks]

Xmith, on 22 June 2015 - 01:45 PM, said:

Why worry about them. They appear to be out of range. Why worry about UAVs that are out of range?

So that you can put your arm reticle on it and drop an artillery strike.

L2P.

[Revis Volek]

Mizeur, on 23 June 2015 - 03:03 PM, said:

So that you can put your arm reticle on it and drop an artillery strike.

L2P.

Im surprised it took someone that long to post this...

[Xmith]

Provided there are mechs to drop artillery on. Unless you see red triangles, dropping artillery could be a total waste.

[PurpleNinja]

I'm a lot more worried by the fact that UAVs are not carried away by the winds.

[Mystere]

PurpleNinja, on 23 June 2015 - 07:50 PM, said:

I'm a lot more worried by the fact that UAVs are not carried away by the winds.

Here you go. Read the first paragraph.

[Pjwned]

Mystere, on 23 June 2015 - 08:03 PM, said:

Here you go. Read the first paragraph.

Neat.

[Zen Idiot]

if you're walking around in frozen city without thermal on then not spotting UAVs is the least of your worries

[PurpleNinja]

Mystere, on 23 June 2015 - 08:03 PM, said:

Here you go. Read the first paragraph.

Not quite sure if they can withstand the winds of Frozen City map.

[Escef]

Pretty much the first thing I do after startup sequence in Frozen City is swap to thermals, you can't see s*** in the damn snowstorms.

[YueFei]

Mystere, on 23 June 2015 - 06:57 AM, said:

Mouse? People still use them? In 2015 no less?

Mundanes.

Be seein' ya.

[Koniks]

Escef, on 23 June 2015 - 08:50 PM, said:

Pretty much the first thing I do after startup sequence in Frozen City is swap to thermals, you can't see s*** in the damn snowstorms.

The map has dynamic weather. It does clear up at times.