To the dumbasses who think 3D spotting is fine just the way it is: Did you watch the video included in the article? The shit is broken.

this need to be taken off, the spotted players should only appear on the minimap

How I would do it:

Must be in direct line of sight to be spotted.
Only visible to people on the same squad rather than the whole team.
Only flashes on for about 3 seconds as an "indicator" for snipers to focus.

As someone who was in the Alpha I can confirm that this was the number one problem. In the forums in battlelog there was a thread that had over 3000 posts about the 3d spotting problem.

Basically, you would spawn and then start spamming the horizon by pressing q repeatedly and if you could spot them (even if there was foliage blocking your line of sight of them) you could shoot them. There is a video out there of this (though I don't know if it's still up) which shows a guy sitting in a bush, unable to see out of it, use 3d spotting to pick people off without exposing himself or being able to actually see what he's shooting at.

The only way to "fix" this is to simply remove it from the game.

3D spotting could be fine, you just shouldn't be able to spot someone if you don't have line of sight to them, as that sniper/recon is doing in the trailer. If ANY object blocks your view, you cannot spot. That would be fine in my opinion.

I think spotting is a great feature in battlefield that encourages teamwork and discourages people camping in the same location for the duration of a match.

I agre that it definietly needs work, especially from watching that video link in the article. But if they can program bullets not to go through every wall, why can't they program the spot command to not work if there is no physical line of sight?

Spotting is one of the tactical features that really set BC2 apart from the pack for console shooters. I get the general feeling that BC2 is underrated for the most part on this website because it wasn't a "true battlefield game" and was designed with console players in mind. But if it wasn't for BC2, many console gamers (like myself) may not of been introduced to this more complex, team-oriented, tactical online shooting action.. we'd all still be stuck playing twitch shooters like CoD, Halo, etc..

Why are they so reluctant to create a new Bad Company??

Definitely agree with the title. If they make Bad Company 3 then that would definitely be a step in the right direction!

It’s done. The current development team has no idea why people liked BF.

BF3? They need to go back to BF2 for the mainline. Heck, I'd settle for true-to-source remakes of BF2 and BC2 (w/ Vietnam). Everything they've done in the 'modern' era is just bad.

Doubt they will smh which is messed up

EAis pretending to be one of those deaf mutes

I've not played 2042 myself but after v I don't feel like it. I played a few hours of v with friends but it feels ultra sterile I can't figure it out but the game looks and feels clinical. The storys in the campaign were also bland and uninteresting and felt like a dull trudge through checkpoints as you waited for an ending.

I've played the franchise dating back to it's original PC launch and PS2 spin off games I did enjoy 1 overall and it's take on placing you in different scenarios and battles was interesting but not all that good imo as you couldn't really connect with any characters longer than 2 hours.

hardline for all the hate it recived was a fun story and a new take but a bad mp game

I feel like v overall was the turning point and instead of showing the gritty reality of war they turned everything sterile and presented it in a clean cut boring frame in order to pump it full of weird micro transactions overall they spent far to much time on trying to implant ray tracing and other graphical flourishes and forgot to make the game enjoyable

I mean thats all we've wanted since BF4 but they keep doing everything we don't want.