DRUNKKZ3

I don't believe everything was completely hated globally by players although some of the major changes generally were. I think those same major changes were blowing under the carpet what could be considered as good improvements to the game (5.2 patch notes had quite a lot of changes).

Even if we would want to, reverting to 5.0 would not really be an option as it would take A LOT of time to get there while keeping the content that had to drop with 5.2.

It is pretty much going back to what it was with 5.0 where it would only trigger if you aim directly at an enemy player, the angle is twice narrower so it is also less likely to accidently happen. The distance at which it happens is comparable to that of BF4 now (with also a smaller angle than BF4).

Again, this is not spotting as this is not information that you share to friendly players, this is not adding a spot on the minimap and this is not activating the "You're spotted" widget of the player you aim at.

What would be your feedback/suggestion on this?

If you can see the player and are aiming at him directly within 20m it would. If you cannot see him then it should not.

This is a part we will very likely keep in some form. Note that this feature has been live way before 5.0's release and the angle was actually quite wide. Further tweaking is of course still on the table.

It will be re-enabled up to 20m with this update, outside of that you will have to look at your squadmate to show his name exactly like in 5.0. We could revisit this further again if needed.

Nice, now the same with a FG42!

nametags above squad mates will come back, no nametags on squad mates in vehicles is a bug i'm looking at too.

I understand the tone, no offense taken. I appreciate that there is a lot of feedback on those changes, good or bad.

But minimap spotting hasn't changed with 5.2? If anything most of the actual spotting has been nerfed if you read the patch notes and there is effectively less spotting going on.

I hear your feedback and the common opinion that i can read on the addition of the "enemy acquisition icons" though.

I'm not the right person to respond to the TTK topic. That being said we are not blindly ignoring the feedback and as you may know, we will be discussing this internally with the right stakeholders on Monday and I would guess we will be responding officially afterward (but I am also not the person that can exactly tell you when/what/how either).

Thanks for reporting, would be keen to get video examples of bad occlusion of enemy icons through walls etc if you ever get the issue again.

This issue was present before with regular spotting but it's definitely problematic and even more obvious with the enemy acquisition icons introduced in 5.2. Smokes are blocked by a simple sphere that blocks icons, spotting, aim assist etc... in the sphere.

The problems that we have is:

• The smoke visual effect is not a sphere and it's likely that the sphere does not block the edges of the smoke as a result.
• The smoke visual effect is affected by wind a lot but the sphere will remain at the same position (especially when the current weather is storm)
• The sphere does not really change size similar to what the smoke visual effect is, this means the sphere is often "removed" early on and while the visual effect is still active, it's not blocking anything anymore.
• Certain smokes actually just don't block spotting/icons at all (will be solved in a future patch)

I've been looking at improving the occlusion of icons/spotting...

Playing on Xbox One? Seems like there is an issue since Patch 5.0 where no occlusion is happening on certain maps.

There is much less spread now actually, this is what was meant by "grouping consistency".

They don't explode any faster, that remains unchanged. When you throw back a grenade you actually slightly increase the fuse timer. On cooking grenades, we discussed it a few times and while it would be fairly easy to add we don't really want to add it as this would invalidate certain grenade types like the impact grenade and potentially lead to frustration from getting killed very often by cooked grenades.

I don't really think scout will be the weakest class in 5.2 with it being one of the few mostly unaffected classes in terms of weapon balance changes they will surely become more popular with players tending to gravitate a bit more towards BASRs (especially the more experienced players).

In terms of spotting changes, 5.0 had seen the spotting flare radius increased from 15m to 30m and the spotting duration increased from 15s to 30s. Those 5.2 changes here aim to get away from the potential constant up-time of two spotting areas of 30m radius that could easily happen combined with the ammo stations.

I would argue recon has some of the most powerful gadgets in the game (flare + spawn beacon). When used to their full potential they can give a crazy advantage to the player and its team.

Virtually a low-intensity spot-light projected on the soldier at all times that dynamically adjusts with the contract of the background.

It has also been tweaked in this update but wasn't added in the notes, it shouldn't happen anymore.

It's under this note:

Somewhat reduced how close to the airplane a Fliegerfaust projectile needs to be in order to detonate. This means players will have to correctly predict plane trajectories and be more accurate inorder to deal consistent high damage to a plane. (What does somewhat mean, this with reduction in hip fire will encourage aiming down sights more which is not a nerf to the effect)

The range increase will have a rare impact tbh. Predicting correctly a plane's trajectory 3 seconds ahead is very unlikely, close to lottery unlikely.