Hi. I’m playing with my girlfriend, in the Squads mode, but we have a hard time finding each other in the game world. I can press M and see the marker 1 or 2, but that’s not good enough. I don’t want to hold M all the time just to try playing together.
Could you please add a name tag on the character that my friend is playing, and also a different color for the AI soldiers controlled by my friend? Then playing together would be much easier. Thank you.
You can also see her marker on the mini-map if she is nearby, but I strongly agree with this. It makes playing with friends a bit annoying, hard to stick together.
+1
Hey developers, this should be 100% implemented! It is super annoying to play with friends…
Team color - Blue
Squad color - Green
Friend color - Yellow
I think this is best option
I agree that playing together with friends in a platoon is currently not supported well.
Seeing names in game is not necessary though.
When one presses the tab key one sees the number of each squad that is part of the platoon that the human player is in. Some improvements are still necessary however.
Currently triangles indicate friendly forces (green for the player squad soldiers, blue for friendly squad soldiers and light blue for the soldiers of the human players that are in the same platoon as the player). On the mini map you can see a 1, 2 or 3 indicating where the squads are of the human players that are in the same platoon as the player.
This is not enough. Some suggestions:
1.) The colour difference between light blue and blue is not clear enough. Instead of light blue something clearly different should be chosen, for example white or yellow.
2.) Human players that are in the same platoon should have their soldier markers enclosed by a circle with the number of their squad in the platoon (so a 1, 2, 3 etc.). That way human players can see who the human controlled soldiers are in their platoon. Only the soldiers that are actually directly controlled by a human player should have their marker enclosed by a circle with a number, not the AI squad soldiers. The enemy should never be able to see these circles and numbers.
3.) The above should be clearly visible on the main screen. The current need to constantly look on the mini map or even full map to find the human players in a platoon and their AI squads should be reduced.
Last but not least, at match start human players in the same platoon should enter the map at the same point as the human platoon commander so the human platoon can start to work together at match start.