Spotting

[Envenom]

I saw a previous thread about this but it's old beans. We have new information thanks to E3, so new thread.

I've been watching the E3 demo and haven't seen anyone spot yet. Perhaps I've just missed it. Has anyone seen this feature used yet? Does anyone know how this function works? Is it 3D spotting like in the BF series or is just a mini map icon?

Can anyone confirm this? Does anyone have any information about this?

Thanks!

[Top Sgt]

yes you can spot. marg just said so on livestream. I dunno what button it is yet however

[Xyntech]

Q to spot.

I hope if they keep it, they make it an Infiltrator specific ability. Would be pretty cool then.

[MacXXcaM]

As long as it's no BF3 style 3D spotting I'm okay with it.

[SoNaR]

Think I remember them saying it was "Q" to spot, over the live stream... Guess the people playing the demo just didn't realize there was a spot function. :P

It's to bad too, would have liked to see how it worked. :/

[Envenom]

3D + minimap?

[Bags]

The vehicles were all on minimap, but spotting put a tiny, faded triangle over their head. Even at night I had trouble seeing it on things, unlike BF3 where it's a huge glowing beacon even during the day.

[Pella]

Soon as your spotted in PS2 your going to be lit up by 300 players.

BF3 was bad enough on a 32 player map.

Will see how Beta goes.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Pella

Soon as your spotted in PS2 your going to be lit up by 300 players.

BF3 was bad enough on a 32 player map.

Will see how Beta goes.

Whoa, squads can have 300 players now? Because last we heard, Spotting was squad based or a small AOE around yourself if you certed it as recon.

[megamold]

Originally Posted by Pella

Soon as your spotted in PS2 your going to be lit up by 300 players.

BF3 was bad enough on a 32 player map.

Will see how Beta goes.

they said spotting is something that is for your squad only, so only a max of 10 people will see a spot

[Pella]

Originally Posted by Bags

Whoa, squads can have 300 players now? Because last we heard, Spotting was squad based or a small AOE around yourself if you certed it as recon.

Fair comment. i missed that.

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by Bags

Whoa, squads can have 300 players now? Because last we heard, Spotting was squad based or a small AOE around yourself if you certed it as recon.

Cool. Missed that. Good to know.

Sounds like spotting will be pretty decent.

[Logri]

Nice, I heard them talk about spotting as wel during the stream, and I was curious as to what spotting actually is... now I know, interesting idea, I like it.

[Soothsayer]

It was also said that as an infiltrator you can spec into the spotting cert tree and open it up to a wider amount of people than your squad (like people in your immediate vicinity.)

[Turdicus]

Even with the beacon above players it was extremely difficult to hit them at night. In the day 3 stream a sniper kept shooting under a beacon where he thought the player would be because it was impossible to see the player himself. Needless to say there was much missing