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There is a bug with squad member nicknames not being displayed. Its really hard to keep unit cohesion now, please take a look at it as it is really hard to do any tactical entry or anything without knowing who is your squad or teammate. Not to mention moving in formation etc. If its not a bug and you (Devs) did this on purpose then please, bring back the old model of displaying the nicknames as this is a bad step in Arma-like direction.

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This issue has been regarded several times now, use the search button.

its not a bug.

bf2 engine only supports up to 64 nicknames shown or something like that.

Sierzant_Grubas wrote:There is a bug with squad member nicknames not being displayed. Its really hard to keep unit cohesion now, please take a look at it as it is really hard to do any tactical entry or anything without knowing who is your squad or teammate. Not to mention moving in formation etc. If its not a bug and you (Devs) did this on purpose then please, bring back the old model of displaying the nicknames as this is a bad step in Arma-like direction.

If there are more than 64-player(s) on a server, the rest 65-100(36) will have no nicknames or rather name-tags.

So it is not inteded by any means? If so then you made my day guys. I am playing this game for like 5 years now and i would be really dissapointed if it would lost some of its "arcadish" elements.

Arcadish is not even a good word as in real life situational awareness is kinda better than in PC game. You can tell who are you looking at just by the silhouette of the person you know etc. IF its only number of people related then its all good

I also agree that i was too hasty with creating of this topic but the issue really concerned me as i misunderstood it

So, just to be sure. The nickname diplaying etc is still the same as in earlier versions of PR?

What the devs (and players) found in the beta was that on a fully populated 100 player server, only 64 players out of the 100 would have name tags. The other however many there are would not. As it is not possible to force the game engine to draw the name tags for the remaining players, the only options to the devs were to either leave it as it is, with some players missing name tags, or to eliminate them all together. The devs went for the latter, and now you are unable to see player names unless you are at extreme close distance AND the player you are looking at has a player number of 0-63.

So yes, it's sort of intentional, sort of forced upon them through the evolution of 1.0.

And no, the name tag display has been changed from previous versions.

That's what i was afraid of. Well how about a 64 server? Or even 32? Or even skirmish one? No tags because there wont be sufficient number of them on 100 player server - nice logic.

Sierzant_Grubas wrote:That's what i was afraid of. Well how about a 64 server? Or even 32? Or even skirmish one? No tags because there wont be sufficient number of them on 100 player server - nice logic.

All nametags are visible (if hovered over) on 16, 32, 64-player(s) maps and servers, sir.

Yeah well that solves nothing cause hovering over and waiting for them to appear takes more time than would take you to recognize your buddy in real life i am afraid. As when you hover you got to wait a second or two

Nametags are removed, because only few of them showing makes great confusion. And it works pretty well, as it is, so pay attetion what you shoot at and have comms with your squad

Oh god but thats wrong you know? If i wanted a simulation i would play arma3 or OFP but here i liked it being a little arcadish, little easier to play..

Maybe at least make nicknames visible for your 6 man squad? I think they are isolated in terms of draw distance etc, really, it would make teamwork much easier than it is now, i tried to play again and it is just pointless

Nope impossible. You squadmembers names also depend on their playernumber. Deal with it. You will get used to it pretty fast.

Yeah they are but it would be nice to have at least one or two squad members visible. I dont want to get used to something that is broken. This game will never be a sim because of engine limitations it should not follow the arma or anything cause it cant keep up in that race it should on the other hand be a bit arcade variant of war game with realistic theme.

There are only 64 nametags available, whilst there are 100 players. We have no fix for this - at least not at this point. It's not possible to display nametags for your squad, or a select number of people, it's either all (64) on, or all off.

Closing this thread now, we've had numerous threads about nametags already.