Remove permenate friendly markers during gameplay

[The Deadhood]

Just like the suppression effect is simulating your soldier being scared/confused/whatever, the team markers simulate your soldier having the ability to distinguish friend/foe. There's enough team killing that happens already with the markers, taking them out would make the game more frustrating.

This doesn't mean its perfect. I've proposed a solution to the marker issue, Make the markers appear after focusing on a friendly target. This means when you aim/look at a friendly the marker would appear either immediately or after a certain amount of time. If the player is unable to identify based on visuals, the simulated soldier can identify it. This removes UI clutter, removes the ability to see teammates through walls, removes the ability to see where teammates are dying (through walls or not), all without removing the friendly markers entirely. The only teammates you should be able to see at all times are your squad mates.

You don't need to see your entire team represented on your UI. You can already see your entire teams location on the map. Make people look at their map more often and you will see an increase of people playing the objectives. How often do you think the average person looks at their map outside of spawn selection? You should be checking your map often.

Its the best solution imo.

[★ Smokes, Let's Go Ψ]

Yep, this is the best way to do it and should be a no-brainer for a game like this.

Many people have brought this up over the last two years - but the devs seem to prefer these ugly icons cluttering your screen.

[Strontium Dog]

I got a perma ban on a team dixx server after turning off the icons and getting half a dozen tks, I wouldn't recommend it.