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[Snazzy Dragon]

Friendly UAVs no longer show up on the minimap reliably and the HUD showing if a friendly UAV is up was removed. I have seen so many people shooting down their own team's UAVs because of this. I bet you don't even notice yourself; you have to hold the Q (default friendly overlay button) to even see if it is a friendly UAV now.

[RestosIII]

Wait, seriously? I haven't played since last Friday. Dammit PGI, fix this.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Yeah I have shot down probably 10 of my own UAVs because they don't show up as friendly, in fact they look just like the enemy UAVs used to look like so I generally don't notice they are friendly until it dies and I don't get the UAV kill message. Really it was something like 7 or 8 that I shot down before I realized I was shooting down friendlies and only because of a really pissed off teammate who ripped into me for shooting down his UAV.

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

Isn't there a toggle to turn all those symbols back on?

Even without it though, tap Q and see if it pops a blue symbol. It's trivially easy and lets you keep the relatively clutter-free HUD that PGI is intending as default now.

[Jingseng]

Clutter free isnt useful if you lose information you needed.

That is to say, not all contributors to clutter are equally bad... some of the clutter was actually good and necessary. And some of the replacement clutter is unnecessary. For example, I don't really need to know the weight classes of teammates in my FOV. I just need to know they are allied.

[El Bandito]

PGI dun goofed.

[nitra]

glad i saw this .. ill be sure to hit q now before shooting down uavs ... i hate to think how many of my teams i have shot down ...

[Beaching Betty]

I dont mind about this but it sucks when your teammate shoots down your own UAV... DOH!

[jss78]

Beaching Betty, on 21 December 2016 - 12:32 AM, said:

I dont mind about this but it sucks when your teammate shoots down your own UAV... DOH!

That would've been me, a couple games last night. I remember thinking that goddamn, the opfor's really bringing those UAV's tonight .... OH well.

I can get used to the new system, but friendly UAV doritos was one bit HUD clutter I never did mind.

[Vellron2005]

Yeaaaah... If PGI wanna clear up the HUD clutter, then removing UAV's is not the way to go..

Having this UAV information is very important, and pushing special buttons (like we don't have enough) takes away precious seconds. Also, the "Q" button is defaulted to this? Really?!

Don't you guys think that people already keyed more important functions to such a finger-friendly button? (Mine is fire weapon group 3 - usually missiles)

Bad call PGI..

[The Unstoppable Puggernaut]

PGI PGI PGI PGI, PLEASE FIX THIS.

I've just realised how many friendly UAV's I've probably shot down. All I hear is enemy UAV and I trust that to be correct. Even if I stare at one, it doesn't show as friendly so I shoot it. Then it shows as friendly as the PPC's hit it.

Just some simply playtesting would fix this, it's not rocket science. Listen to the people dammit.

[soliloquy 777]

nitra, on 20 December 2016 - 11:54 PM, said:

glad i saw this .. ill be sure to hit q now before shooting down uavs ... i hate to think how many of my teams i have shot down ...

same here.... although come to think of it do you still get the "uav kill" txt for shooting down your own teams uav's... ?

[Fox the Apprentice]

Levi Porphyrogenitus, on 20 December 2016 - 05:44 PM, said:

Isn't there a toggle to turn all those symbols back on?

Even without it though, tap Q and see if it pops a blue symbol. It's trivially easy and lets you keep the relatively clutter-free HUD that PGI is intending as default now.

I play with icons on, and the UAV icons are gone.

[Mystere]

Levi Porphyrogenitus, on 20 December 2016 - 05:44 PM, said:

Isn't there a toggle to turn all those symbols back on?

Even without it though, tap Q and see if it pops a blue symbol. It's trivially easy and lets you keep the relatively clutter-free HUD that PGI is intending as default now.

Jingseng, on 20 December 2016 - 06:32 PM, said:

Clutter free isnt useful if you lose information you needed.

Vellron2005, on 21 December 2016 - 01:18 AM, said:

Don't you guys think that people already keyed more important functions to such a finger-friendly button? (Mine is fire weapon group 3 - usually missiles)

That's what a HOTAS with lots of well-placed and logically-assigned buttons is for.

Edited by Mystere, 21 December 2016 - 09:32 AM.

[nitra]

soliloquy 777, on 21 December 2016 - 08:00 AM, said:

same here.... although come to think of it do you still get the "uav kill" txt for shooting down your own teams uav's... ?

nope no kill txt less some one else got the kill txt but im pretty sure thats why im not seeing kill txt on some of the uavs i have taken down ..

sure i sounded like a moron too when saying theres a uav above !! shoot it shoot it !!

[Teslar Kain]

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[GrimRiver]

I've already shot down a few of my teams uavs thinking it was a enemy's light that snuck one up on us.

The bad part is, it doesn't show as my team's uav until after I shot it down.

Is this a bug? Wait, what am I saying, of course it isn't a bug.

[Appogee]

Yeah I was shooting down friendly UAVs like crazy until someone politely pointed out the issue

[Zibmo]

Beaching Betty, on 21 December 2016 - 12:32 AM, said:

I dont mind about this but it sucks when your teammate shoots down your own UAV... DOH!

I don't know how I feel. Most of the time I can overspend my patience trying to get people to look up occasionally. Now, if they do, they are just as likely to shoot down my UAV as the enemy's. <Sigh>

[Paigan]

Snazzy Dragon, on 20 December 2016 - 03:46 PM, said:

Friendly UAVs no longer show up on the minimap reliably and the HUD showing if a friendly UAV is up was removed. I have seen so many people shooting down their own team's UAVs because of this. I bet you don't even notice yourself; you have to hold the Q (default friendly overlay button) to even see if it is a friendly UAV now.

Uhm. This.
Uhm. I might have been one of them. I shot down at least one, maybe two friendly UAVs by accident because of this. And I glanced 2-3 but noticed the mistake in time.

The friendly UAV indicator is REALLY important!