Supression Effect

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Originally Posted by Higby

So, I wanted to offer some alternative thoughts for how suppression effects can actually be beneficial. Its a gauge of threat. When you're being affected by a suppression effect, you know you probably don't want to stick your head up right now because someones about to shoot it off.

This adds a lot to something BF3 does very well, which is helps you recognize when you're under threat. This allows them to have extremely powerful weapons which do a lot of damage quickly, but it doesn't feel OVERLY punishing because you usually know between bullet whiz by, screen blur, screen shake, etc that you're under attack without you having to take damage to find out. Thats something we need to work on for Planetside 2 also. Now, for us that should be an edge bluring effect that doesn't obscure your main sight line, because you're going to be under a lot more fire most of the time. We don't want "suppression" to be something that actually hurts your accuracy and is tracked by the other team as a way to get points, it'd just get to spammy. But, it is a critical part of weapon power, threat detection, etc

Sounds a lot better than BF3's implementation. S'long as someone firing near me doesn't nuliffy my aiming that sounds nice.