Friendly infiltrators to be highlighted..

This was in the infiltrator section... thought i would offer it up to the masses.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/1gaqgg/infiltrator_cloak_identifier/

* Wait's for low settings to make you stand out like that EVEN to the enemy *

Hrmm, that's kinda good... Everyone seems to always shoot at the friendly infiltrators..kinda pisses me off since I have to wait out the damaged shields constantly to have to wait again and again.. like wtf? You just shot me earlier..

I think its bad

This is a terrible idea. I can count on one hand how many times I've been TKed because of our cloak, and I wouldn't even have to use all five fingers. This is a "quality of life" change that doesn't actually improve the Infiltrator's quality of life.

Agreed. Can't think of anytime ive been TK'd because of my cloak.

Maybe it's for the future " Quality of PS4 players life " .. Really hope they don't go the route of adding any simplified console aspects to the PC version

I keep tellin u soe are trying to cater to the young gamers, they always do it. This is just the first of the stupidity nerfs.

The glowing faction color thing isn't necessary really. Can look neat from a certain perspective, but it doesn't matter what color they glowed since you will never see the blue if red or the red if blue. That does however mean that it's gauranteed free range on every non-faction-color Infiltrator you spot, and even on higher settings its only hard if they're standing still.

I hope this is a stepping stone to revamping the LOW graphics shader, if only to get people to stop complaining about it.

My only concern is that with some HA near it might be confusing.

Sure why not, however i don't think that was an important issue, even though i did shot some friendly dudes by reflex when they ran around the corner cloaked.

edit: why do some of you think it is a bad idea?

When people get killed by SMG infiltrators often they tend to get paranoid.

It sounds not so great to me.

That fraction of a second where you're checking for a dorito is literally the only chance an infiltrator has when moving amongst a group. Take that away and the cloak has dramatically reduced close-range utility.

Meanwhile, FF incidents on cloaked Infils just aren't that common, from what I've seen.

Maybe this is meant a "quality of life" upgrade for those people in those infiltrator highlight reels that always seem to be getting pistol/knife farmed by some guy running through their lines...

I get shot point blank sometimes while I'm giraffing it up. On the other hand, I've run around rooms full of enemies racking up killstreaks before being noticed before. Gotta take the good with the bad I guess.

As you know, the Infiltrator cloak is not perfect. Despite this, one of the major reasons you're able to use it effectively in close quarters is because of the confusion & indecision it causes. If the 'invisibility' of the cloak fails me when I'm darting through enemies (which it does sometimes), I'm banking on their split-second indecision when trying to identify me as an enemy to get me through. If my enemies know friendly Infiltrators glow, then I will no longer be able to rely on the indecision my cloak causes, making my difficult job even harder.

I understand the premise behind this change, but this is just an unnecessary nerf masquerading as a quality of life change that no one asked for.

As I shoot any cloak on sight, this will be of benefit to me as I won't have to waste ammo, and accrue grief points for shooting friendly infiltrators. I'm not saying its needed, and if its removed, I'll just have to continue to shoot every cloaked infiltrator I see. Better save than sorry.

True.
After thinking about it, I don't want this in the game.
I rather get FFed on than to always get shot at because they don't know if it's a friendly or not.(which isn't that hard to tell)

Terrible change. Now if you see any sort of glimmer without a faction glow to it, just shoot. No need to check, the game already did for you!

Further dumbing down to cater to noobs and CLEARLY beginning to address console (read: even bigger noobs) players as well.


How much longer till BF4 comes out?

This takes away my license to bomb friendly infiltrators Sad :/

Why do friendly infiltrators keep spamming their cloak button in friendly areas? If I'm sitting there as an engineer/heavy/max and not getting snipped then an infiltrator isn't getting sniped either. I don't use infiltrator much but when I do, I don't rely on the cloak that much.