Kit nicking-diversity-multiracial country

[Rapid12]

Quick question.

If you waste an enemy and then nick his kit, do you then don his uniform as well as carry his gun?

I'll tell you why I ask.

Chinese soldier next to me but wearing a Brit uniform (I was playing as Brit), I looked at him through the scope and thought of him as a team mate. He looked at me and then killed me.

Realism indeed. PLenty of people with Chinese origin walking around my town, so why not think him as team mate?

So, straighten this up for me, please.

[Harrod200]

It's a bug that came with .85, when you take a kit you take the helmet too;

If a Brit picks up an INS kit they don a headscarf, and if an INS picks up a brit kit, they get the webbing & helmet.
Same with US, Chinese, MEC...

Apparently it's a manhour-intensive job to fix.

[DankE_SPB]

Apparently it's a manhour-intensive job to fix.

no-no-no thats the most badass bug i ever saw

[JohnTheRipper]

The worst bug ever because people are using coalition kits when insurgent to get up close to us or british soldiers and it sucks to much because you have that split second to ID them before you fire or not.

[Zi8]

^ like in real life. I like this "bug" very much. Changes the gameplay pretty nicely especially on ins/jungle maps where you can sneak up on enemy

[gazzthompson]

any one else have little to no problem identifying people? i honestly dont find it hard, even with this bug.

[DankE_SPB]

sometimes, but the point is they cant identify you i remember somebody even tried to heal me

[Tartantyco]

any one else have little to no problem identifying people? i honestly dont find it hard, even with this bug.

-Indeed. Only time I might be unable to identify a soldier at first glance is on Kozelsk(I think it's because it's a little darker) between Russian Riflemen(Only that particular kit) and one of the Militia kits(I think it's the Squad Leaders), but when you see that it's all green then you're go to shoot .

[Tartantyco]

sometimes, but the point is they cant identify you i remember somebody even tried to heal me

lol, me and one guy from the other team sat on each others' side of a room staring at each other. He had come in when I was healing myself with the medic kit I'd just stolen. Because I had the bag in hand I tried to play along and we just sat there on opposite sides for about 10 seconds before he noticed(When I switched back to my weapon). Epic lulz.

[McBumLuv]

The worst bug ever because people are using coalition kits when insurgent to get up close to us or british soldiers and it sucks to much because you have that split second to ID them before you fire or not.

Because it's all the fault of those nasty insurgents... This bug isn't relevant with the coalition at all

It's amusing at times, though it can be a headache. It's not that big of a deal, frankly. But when Russia finally get's its player models, then it won't be a problem. But then again, it's also created the Taliban with the head scarves, right? Aren't they insurgent player models with retexturized militia headgear?

If someone really dislikes this, help by modeling opfor soldiers. They don't get nearly as much love as anyone else, and anyone who works with them gets my love

ETA: nice double post, Tartantyco

[frrankosuave]

So...what changed with .85 that made it occur that didn't exist in previous release? we could still take enemy weapons, but i don't remember donning their headgear....

[gazzthompson]

something about the kit geometry's

[Qaiex]

It wasn't the line of code that was going to make people drop their helmets when they die? :O damn it!

[RedAlertSF]

Only problems I have are with Russia and Militia. It's hard to identify them from long distances.

[OkitaMakoto]

So...what changed with .85 that made it occur that didn't exist in previous release? we could still take enemy weapons, but i don't remember donning their headgear....

In order to make the Russian, Chechnyan and Taliban[maybe not one of those, and maybe an additional] forces, we used varying kit geometries from various factions. Like a webbing kit from one, a helmet from another, a backpack from another.

Because of this we get the bug you se now.

So its basically either have some really nice diverse looking troops that look close to what they should look like and suffer this bug....

Or have troops that can only have ALL of the US geometry, ALL of the British Geometry, ALL of the MEC geometry.... and therefore would look just like the one we took the whole geometry from instead of the mix and match....


Make sense? Im sure I did a terrible job explaining...

[JKRMAUI]

Makes perfect sense...and I'm a fan of this "bug" and hope it's reclassified from "bug" too "BOOOYA!"

[Solid Knight]

For me it's pretty obvious weapon people have switched kits. They don't look right. The only time I have problems is when they are only partially exposed and mixed in with our forces.

[nick20404]

If you are close enough to see there kit you are close enough to see blue if you aim at them.

[frrankosuave]

Frak-ing taliban...

[Viki]

Makes perfect sense...and I'm a fan of this "bug" and hope it's reclassified from "bug" too "BOOOYA!"

I'm also a big, big, fan of this so called "bug". It's more like a feature to me, hope it doesn't get removed.

All the best,
Viki