leova, on 24 September 2014 - 09:47 AM, said:
WG, has this actually been changed? Has the fundamental Scouting/Detection mechanic changed??
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A big "Splash Screen" would be nice on first login, or a new Training video to explain the Operations/Missions....
I'm glad to see someone picked up on my comment about the spotting. I had played over 2000 games at the time of the update, I was extremely excited to get into a match after the updates using my Crowell that has 4 perks(BiA, Mentor, Recon, Situational Awareness), almost 5, and the equipment Binocs, Camoflage, and the other one that costs gold to remove that increases sight distance. Anyway, It was a horrible disappointment, it was completely different than before every game I played for the next hour or two when I was trying to spot. I would come up over a hill, wait to spot enemies, if I didn't see any enemies I would wait for the Binocs. Then suddenly, I'm getting shot after about 3 seconds, I frantically back up behind the hill, and then I'm 'detected' magically behind the hill. The detection seems to be a bit weird too in that sometimes when I'm completely out of enemy LOS I'm still detected for long periods. Anyway, basically, I couldn't scout like I normally did, it made my binocs useless for my usual scouting where I would jump up a hill and wait for them to kick in before dashing away, and it's extremely dangerous everytime I use a scouting tank because I'm used to that 3 second warning and now I just don't get it. Now I'm always hit before I see the warning.
As to the Ops, I highly agree. I read about the Ops in the News, and it looks like I'm not the only one who thought it was automatic. I just happened to read here on the Forums about how you could only activate three, and this was my second time on the forums!! So I went back into the game, and noticed the Ops tab where I never even look on the screen anymore. Who knows how much I missed out on because of that, considering it was at least 2 hours in when I finally came on here to complain about the detection. 