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[Sarevos]

A teammate "Amos the red" powered down behind me so he was off my radar. As I moused over this unmarked catapult the reticule turned red for some reason. I moused back and forth a few times, still red... odd i thought it stays gold on a powered down mech. So I thought he was an opponent who shut down to quit the fight and opened up on him. Then as he powers up the reticule turns gold again and i see the big blue box but he dies XD. Just want to say my bad man I'm grabing the fraps and sending it to the devs in a bug report but I totally feel bad about murdering you. But hey, atleast there are no more repair bills XD.

Edited by miSs, 21 December 2012 - 06:31 PM.
title: language

[IIIuminaughty]

my redicule never turns red unless I shoot a mech, any mech. O_O
and it doesnt turn blue either O_O

Edited by StrataDragoon, 21 December 2012 - 08:55 AM.

[Kaspirikay]

StrataDragoon, on 21 December 2012 - 08:55 AM, said:

my redicule never turns red unless I shoot a mech, any mech. O_O and it doesnt turn blue either O_O

Yeah, same. It should go blue if you FF a friendly, I suppose.

[Legendary357]

Glad to see some honesty! And well done having some balls and apologizing.

[TB Freelancer]

Honest mistake, but yeah I'd feel a little bad too.

[Thomas Dziegielewski]

Feature upgrade just went in. Powered down allies will be visible to targeting as if they were not powered down.

I do think it should be a different icon but that will do for now.

Mid January Patch, two patches from now.

[Sarevos]

Thomas Dziegielewski, on 21 December 2012 - 09:10 AM, said:

Feature upgrade just went in. Powered down allies will be visible to targeting as if they were not powered down.

I do think it should be a different icon but that will do for now.

Mid January Patch, two patches from now.

WOO thats awesome lets make incidents like this a thing of the past lol

Edited by Sarevos, 21 December 2012 - 09:11 AM.

[Maver0ick]

Exact same thing happened to me. I mistaken a powered down friendly for an ECM clocked enemy.

[Moro Ibex]

What people should really take away from this tread is that it took 6 posts and 28 minutes for an official response -and- a time frame on the fix...and on the Friday before Christmas.

Screw the "PGI sucks at communicating" people.

[PropagandaWar]

Lol. Last night I was in a furball holding my own against two in my hunchy and a cent buddy of mine who shall remain namless starts blasting me. At first I was crap that hurt. Then it happened again I say do it agin and Ill blast you. So I get hit again. Now im hurting Im fighting a friendly and two enemies. He goes boom and types damn yellow screen. LMAO. I hit him over comms going you didn't hear me and he goes what. HAHAHA. It was to funny. I said to him after the fact who else pilots a bad *** phracken hunchy.

[Warrax the Chaos Warrior]

This post needs more epic poetry, that's the only thing that gets you forgiven after a TK

[Moro Ibex]

Ahem,

We the lucky few who have the opportunity to celebrate the holidays with friends and family. We must not forget however the fallen before us, felled by an over zealous team mate who only thought of the destruction of the enemy. He leaves behind a young wife who will be forced to raise their three children alone. We must look past this tragedy however and focus on the enemy ahead. We all have our personal fights to fight. Some worth fighting, some probably not. This young widow must now face a new battle of her own while our unknown fallen friend knows not the pain of life. I leave you reading this with the words of a movie long lost to history.

Why...why are the innocent punished
Why the sacrifice, why the pain
There aren't any promises, nothing is certain
Only that some get called, some get saved
We commit this body to the void with a glad heart
For within each seed there is a promise of a flower
That within each death, no matter how small
There is always a new life, a new beginning

(Okay so I paraphrased the last bit a little so it would sound right.)

[vettie]

well I guess this explains what happened to me last evening. I was on River City Night and followed some team mates up thru city on the water side and just before the broken bridge we turned to the right where contacts were spotted in the water. As we get close to the edge of the river I see 2 maybe 3 enemy mechs walking away from us. I type in team chat, I will go attack them from behind and try to draw them back if you guys will waste em. I got a couple of positive responses so off i went.

I got within range of a Hunchie and a Cataphract and started shooting, circling and then zig zagged my way slowly back to the trap making sure trigger and happy were after me. After I got to the ambush zone, my guys start unloading on ME. I am like what? I type in STOP FRIENDLY HERE.

The friendlies cored my little NON ECM Raven and then the 2 enemies finished me quickly after MY guys blew my weapons off.

I typed in WTF? and then Damn when I died, We eventually won the match, but I was thinking what a bunch of jerks. I see now, maybe wasnt their fault. Good to know. BUT I never powered down and I did not have ECM, the Raven 4x crap doesnt carry it and cant carry it, but you have to complete the tree to get the 3L to master.

[Kaijin]

Moro Ibex, on 21 December 2012 - 09:25 AM, said:

What people should really take away from this tread is that it took 6 posts and 28 minutes for an official response -and- a time frame on the fix...and on the Friday before Christmas.

Screw the "PGI sucks at communicating" people.

Some are better at it than others. Thomas is exceptional. That said, there does seem to be a slight trend of increased Dev communication, which I hope will continue to blossom.

Edited by Kaijin, 21 December 2012 - 10:58 AM.

[Joe Mallad]

Sarevos, on 21 December 2012 - 08:42 AM, said:

A teammate "Amos the red" powered down behind me so he was off my radar. As I moused over this unmarked catapult the reticule turned red for some reason. I moused back and forth a few times, still red... odd i thought it stays gold on a powered down mech. So I thought he was an opponent who shut down to quit the fight and opened up on him. Then as he powers up the reticule turns gold again and i see the big blue box but he dies XD. Just want to say my bad man I'm grabing the fraps and sending it to the devs in a bug report but I totally feel bad about murdering you. But hey, atleast there are no more repair bills XD.

by any chance where you trying to use TAG on him when he was shut down? I found that even when you run your TAG laser across a friend, your reticule turns red also.

[Sarevos]

Yoseful Mallad, on 21 December 2012 - 11:19 AM, said:

by any chance where you trying to use TAG on him when he was shut down? I found that even when you run your TAG laser across a friend, your reticule turns red also.

Fricking bingo that mustve been it, thats so bloody dangerous, i specifically used it because it deals no damage >.<

[Wormrex]

You think that's bad, I've once AC2 bukakke a fellow atlas to death, do you know how long that takes? He even went through 3 shutdowns. oh the fun of ECM, confussion and yay for fix incoming.

[Lootee]

Good. I almost destroyed a teammate in a powered down Atlas in the volcano. He looked just like an enemy ECM unit.

I must have hit him with the AC20 4-5 times. Then when he finally powers back up he has a blue marker on him. Needs fixing definitely.

Edited by PanchoTortilla, 21 December 2012 - 11:36 AM.

[Socket7]

vettie, on 21 December 2012 - 10:29 AM, said:

my little NON ECM Raven

I think I found the reason you got TK'ed.

[Ronan]

Thomas Dziegielewski, on 21 December 2012 - 09:10 AM, said:

Feature upgrade just went in. Powered down allies will be visible to targeting as if they were not powered down.

I do think it should be a different icon but that will do for now.

Mid January Patch, two patches from now.

That's kinda cool. Should help situations like the OP's and prevent some otherwise inintentional friendly fire.

Does this also open a door to a new module/component? An IFF Jammer of some sort? that'd be interesting, strategically speaking. Or crap, depends on your view point.