Team Killing

Kiith · 10-07-2005 4:52pm #1

does anyone else have the problem, where only about 50% of your team, actually have their name in blue over their heads? its really annoying the hell out of me (and the people i keep driving over).

anyone know if its a bug, or am i not supposed to see the blue names?

fightin irish · 10-07-2005 4:58pm

You are supposed to see the blue tags alright. It's deffo not the tk'd players fault. Im not sure biut i think its alot down to your video settings, But in saying that sometimes a player looking right will have no tag on top then he may turn left and the tags appears clearly.

humanji · 10-07-2005 8:20pm

I get that sometimes. They appear only if the crosshair over them for a while and then it appears. And a fair amount of time it doesn't appear on vehicles. The only way I know they're on my side is that there were red tags over the guys who were shooting at them!

Berns · 11-07-2005 10:40pm

Could check the mini map till give a slight idea where own team are :rolleyes:
I'd try have it zoomed in till the max when on the ground like, then see as much as can when in the air, nice for distance tanks with a air 2 ground or tow missile in passanger seats of chopper or jet.

Ponster · 12-07-2005 8:09am

I've been playing it about 15 hours now and I never have towait to see the red/blue tag as I can tell from the colour of the uniform.

In a lot of forums people want EA to remove the red tags and just display blue ones.

It's silly if you're in a tank and hit 'X' for the smoke when the AT guy just has to move the mouse around until he says your red tag name and fire.

Jumpy · 12-07-2005 8:17am

Ponster wrote:

I've been playing it about 15 hours now and I never have towait to see the red/blue tag as I can tell from the colour of the uniform.

In a lot of forums people want EA to remove the red tags and just display blue ones.

It's silly if you're in a tank and hit 'X' for the smoke when the AT guy just has to move the mouse around until he says your red tag name and fire.

Err, tags dont show up in smoke. I mainly snipe and I have tried the waving around until a tag shows up and it never does. It has to clear a bit first before a tag will show up.

Jumpy · 12-07-2005 8:21am

Last night as well on TiG, I shot at a heli that was at least 300m away with the US sniper rifle. I had assumed that it was an enemy as sometimes even at that range a tag will show up.

Woops. One. Single. Shot. - My best personal shot ever! I will never get a shot like that again!
It brought down a full transport heli!.

Of my own team

Spear · 12-07-2005 9:00am

Jumpy wrote:

Last night as well on TiG, I shot at a heli that was at least 300m away with the US sniper rifle. I had assumed that it was an enemy as sometimes even at that range a tag will show up.

Woops. One. Single. Shot. - My best personal shot ever! I will never get a shot like that again!
It brought down a full transport heli!.

Of my own team

I managed something similar last week. Fired radar guided stingers at a enemy jet, which then went beyond visible range. The missiles followed it and hit a blackhawk with 4 friendly lads on board who flew in between the jet and the pursuing missiles. Naturally all four of the gits hit the punish button for something I couldn't possibly be blamed for, resulting in my only kick to date.

I've never seen the red tags wrongly appear though.

Ponster · 12-07-2005 9:40am

When I go prone as an AT guy I can generally see the tank's tag through the smoke after about 2/3 seconds. i'll test it some more later this evening.

Jumpy · 12-07-2005 12:13pm

Oh..and I got a defib kill too. Hee hee.

c0y0te · 12-07-2005 2:46pm

I find if you are ever in doubt, the safest thing to do is hit the commo rose and SPOT the nme in front of you. If it's not a defined enemy - it won't report it as APC or Infantry etc. It will simply say 'nme movement' or something like that. If it is a defined enemy - it will not only identify it for you, it will then map it on the mini-map for everyone else as well.

I know it's not an ideal solution - but if you have a spare few seconds, in a well hidden spot to make a determination, use the commo rose

c0y0te[IRL]

][cEMAN** · 12-07-2005 2:58pm

It's a bug. Your own team show up with red above their name. I can't remember if it's a bug with the person seeing it, or the person who has the red above their name.

I've been the person with the red above my name before. I was getting shot to hell and screaming at everyone killing me, till someone said "But you're the enemy - your name is red".

Ponster · 12-07-2005 3:26pm

The bug where friendlies appear with their name in red is due to being auto-balanced and the server thinking somehow that you're still on the other team !
I don't know if it's Kiith's problem here though.

Kiith · 12-07-2005 11:55pm

well, the problems gone now (hopefully for good) but since every 10 seconds i now get a "There is a problem with your connection", the game is totally unplayable. its nice to see my 2meg connection is working

fightin irish · 13-07-2005 12:17am

Kiith wrote:

but since every 10 seconds i now get a "There is a problem with your connection", the game is totally unplayable. its nice to see my 2meg connection is working

Is this not PB trying to update itself? I thought winters put a post , (maybe on this thread im not sure) as to update it manually so it doesnt try it during game play.

Kiith · 13-07-2005 12:31am

ok, ill try changing punkbuster settings......can anyone tell me how, since its not in the game menu (or at least i cant see it)

nm, found it. will try manually update it, and will let you know if it works

Kiith · 13-07-2005 1:24am

nope, its not punkbuster. i tried the manual install, and it was still ****, then i tried on a non punkbuster server. its bloody annoying, but i cant think of anything else to do.

other games work perfectly. CS...no lag. Farcry....no lag. WoW....no lag (i know its different for an rpg)

i'll try posting on the main BF2 forums, but im not holding my breath. and i quite liked the game too

Pongo · 13-07-2005 1:44am

As ][cEMAN** said, it's a known bug as far as I know. Hopefully the next patch will fix it. That is of course, after they've patched the first patch. Hopefully they won't have to patch the patch for the patch, cos that could mean it'll never get fixed.......

magick · 13-07-2005 1:53am

press q! press q! oh the amount of times ive heard that on bfv

Pongo · 13-07-2005 4:57am

Ah, but it's not 'Q' in BF2, It's left alt I think...

Berns · 13-07-2005 10:03am

& the amount of ppl that still run over them with a jeep full of people :mad:

Prior Of Taize · 13-07-2005 12:39pm

Kiith wrote:

well, the problems gone now (hopefully for good) but since every 10 seconds i now get a "There is a problem with your connection", the game is totally unplayable. its nice to see my 2meg connection is working

I have a 4 meg and it does the same 0_o :mad:

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