Originally Posted by Immigrant
Guys, guys wait and think a bit...!!! For christ's sake! even though it's "cool" it actually reverts to blind-spotting exploit problem so actually big no! that shadow/ghost idea is as bad as 3d spotting. the whole point is not to "mark" the spotted guy with anything for everyone on the main 1st person screen. Good snipers could just spot a guy through bushes or in the night and fire at his "ghost" immediately...so we have the same crap all over again. Also it a lot of work, devs would have to implement a whole new system... putting stream camera to the corner of your screen is way easier.
Yes main problem with pop-up comm link would be getting used to it, and player would have to look away from the center of the screen to get the info, but I believe this would be the best solution we heard of so far.
Ratstomper's idea with reticules is good. However I don't like the screenshot part since it would be tricky to always get a good screenshot in first try and provide the necessary intel. thus it could get spammy (guy misses, makes bad screenshot, gives no useful info and has to to another one again), com-link camera (live stream) is superior to static screenshot in every way, and is as easy to implement.
I will revise this part to include that idea:
HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE? When spotter gets in the position and presses "spot button" his view turns to camera mode something like motion sensor which marks the targets near the center of spotter's field of sight with reticules (target would have to be at least 3-4 seconds in the center of his screen to get marked). In this mode spotter cannot shoot or move, he can only tilt his view up-down and left-right so he can follow the target to some extent if it moves off screen. After that if spotter locates some targets or even before he can choose to press the "transmit button" when he wishes to stream this piece of video intel directly to his team(squad).
IMPROVEMENTS we got with this correction are: 1. camera mode looks like looking through binoculars so the weapon of the spotter is removed as a obtrusion in the screen. 2. reticules will help others spot the enemy spotter is try to show them more easily so they won't have to look hard to find him in their "spot cam" pop-up window. 3. this kind of camera will actually be of some assistance to the infiltrators too (a help tool of a sort) since they will be able to use it to find targets more quickly when sniping (especially at night), but they won't get easy aim feature since they will have to change to the "normal mode" before actually firing at the target and reticule at it will then disappear.
p.s. stream spot cam could perhaps appear over the minimap temporarily to save the screen space.
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Maybe give the infiltrator a new item; binoculars. If they want to do a spot of spotting (yeah bad pun was intended) then they'd have to switch to the 'nocs to stream. And if this was implemented, they'd HAVE to put a system for the rest of the squad to disable the feed for themselves
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