No downed player nicknames shown - bug or feature?

(Ashog) #1

I have already metioned this before about the PC version but for some reason it doesn’t receive enough attention imho.

One of those tiny but annoying issues in Brink is that as soon as you get incapacitated (downed or gibbed), you can’t see nicknames of the enemies running around you when you point at them with the xhair. The same happens when you incapacitate someone and look at him or look at a downed teammate.

Is this a bug or a feature? It hasn’t been so in W:ET or ETQW, so I don’t see why it shouldn’t work in Brink.

I wanna see who has just downed me or teabags me or who is the owner of that nice outfit, who is remaining in the room after I’m downed or gibbed, I wanna see whom am I gonna revive next and his class (which is very important - how am I gonna select a fireteammate or an obj class to revive if no info is shown about who it is lying down there?).

This is an issue that removes a part of enjoyment and tactics from the game.

Please comment.

(jazevec) #2

I think it’s just supposed to look artsy.

(wolfnemesis75) #3

Is it the blue Ark symbol that you see?

(sereNADE) #4

im curious about this myself

(FireWorks) #5

You never see enemy names except in the obituary and scoreboard.

What annoys me more is that the “xx throw you a revive syringe” msg fail too often. Either never show up, or show on the wrong person (when you cross a blue trace, you get the syringe msg instead of the downed guy)