Flashbanged name tag

(FireWorks) #1

Hello guys!

Im not entirely sure how the flashbang works on team mates with FF on. Sometimes they lose their name overhead looking like possible enemies.

Is that when they are blinded as an extra negative effect?
Is that when I saw the flashbang on the horizon and only have a very limited flash effect?
Or what else?

Id like to talk this in regard of not so standard situations. I had situations where people run into a room without their name tag and got shot. No sign of a flashbang or whatsoever before.

(jazevec) #2

Speaking of flashbang, I wonder: how does it work on consoles ? Does it temporarily turn off your aim assist as well ? Otherwise, you could fire accurately despite being blind. That would be a glaring oversight, yet I wouldn’t be surprised to see it.

(kilL_888) #3

as far as im concerned, the nametags disappear when you are blinded by a flashbang, even for a very short period of time.

i can be totally wrong though.

(Stormchild) #4

Flashbang makes everything white including nametags. If FF is on, it will also affect your team mates the same way it affects enemies. If FF is off, it will only be a punctual flash for your friends, nothing as serious as for the enemy (unless all you affect are your friends and no enemy). At least that’s the theory, and more or less what I experienced in-game.

(Smoochy) #5

on PC i still hit people. remember where they were and pray and spray, if you get a red outline you’ve hit them and keep firing there :slight_smile:

(jazevec) #6

Tampa is probably the best counter to flashbangs !:stroggtapir:

(Smoochy) #7

agreed, this is how i find it

(Smoochy) #8

one of the big weapons, chinzor or gotlung :slight_smile:

(Scrupus) #9

[QUOTE=FireWorks;352634]Hello guys!

Im not entirely sure how the flashbang works on team mates with FF on. Sometimes they lose their name overhead looking like possible enemies.

Is that when they are blinded as an extra negative effect?
Is that when I saw the flashbang on the horizon and only have a very limited flash effect?
Or what else?

Id like to talk this in regard of not so standard situations. I had situations where people run into a room without their name tag and got shot. No sign of a flashbang or whatsoever before.[/QUOTE]

I don’t really know if it’s intended or not, but I’m quite sure this changed after the last big patch a few weeks ago - didn’t notice any problems with friendly name tags before that, and thought it was a bug. But I dunno really, perhaps it was always meant to be that way.

(Apoc) #10

IMO its a bug. If your teamates get flashed at all by anything then they lose their name tag…i cant see how this makes sense, i mean if i run into a room of flashed teammates, yet im not flashed, i should have no problem seeing my own teammates should i?

Very annoying bug also, often leading to many tks.

I feel it was meant to be that when you are flashed you cant see anyones name tags, but whats happened is its just removed yours and anyone elses when you get flashed, so even if a non flashed player comes in…you still have no nametag till flash had gone off.

So either these are bugged or this is a new type of flashbang that takes your sight and your identity (lol).

(FireWorks) #11

Thanks for summing that up again, Apoc! I have an aweful writing style:/

Exedore can you comment on this one, please?

(Qbix) #12

Agreed, removing the name tag, sometimes even for unnecessary long periods if time, should be fixed.

(Smoochy) #13

the name tags can be annoying anyway. example:

one of your team is stood with a wall between you both, between you and the wall is an enemy. it often looks like he is on your team as you a name tag above his head.



friendly                    enemy                  you
                    
   x            WALL          Z                     x
(Stormchild) #14

+1

I also had problems with nametag not showing, or taking time to appear, for some reason. I am unsure why this is happening, but sometimes when I forgot which side I am on, when I see a friendly without name tag among others with name tags, I usually start shooting by reflex, thinking it’s an enemy. Then the name appears and I realized he’s one of us…

(TruGamer97) #15

I just shot at people highlighted in red

(FireWorks) #16

Thats a problem on servers without the red tint. Also clan matches are played without it atm

(Cynix) #17

We noticed this for the first time while scrimming last night. This definitely did not happen before and I’m certain it’s not an intentional change. It is really annoying though… led to quite a few TK’s.

I’m not sure whether it’s tied to the flashbang or not. This happened sometimes when neither I nor the person whose name I couldn’t see were blind; although it’s possible that a flash had just gone off nearby. They lose both their name and their class icon, which makes it virtually impossible to quickly identify someone in this game. You certainly can’t identify them before it becomes necessary to start shooting.

(nephandys) #18

The effect everyone is describing occurs on the 360 version which has not received any recent updates and always has. Friendly names disappear anytime you are affected by friendly or enemy flashbangs. Maybe intentional?

(FireWorks) #19

As Cynix described it, it happens also when people dont get actually blinded because they are out of range but still have seen the flashbangin going off.

I dont think they changed it, but it took a while for us to notice :slight_smile: Before it was just another TK :smiley:

(AmishWarMachine) #20

It seems kinds silly to me, that in games with FF on, that the flashbangs blind teammates. I mean, flashbangs are meant for breaching, what good do they do if I’ve blinded my teammates along with the enemy?