Display enemy names

Now, for all the simplicity of the gameplay that Battlegrounds 2 has, there is a thing or two that is absolutely great about the game. Nay, not great. DELICIOUS. In .17 or the beta, one thing comes to mind. The fact that your ENEMY'S name was displayed just like your ally's. Think, just THINK of the possibilities with this small change. Well, actually, just one possibility. Now, I don't want this implemented in the game all the time, but giving the servers the ability to turn this on or off would be awesome. I have no idea how to program, so if it's hard to do, who cares. BUT! Back to the possibilities: basically, killing the EXACT same person, over and over again. Think about it: in BG2, it was actually possible for me to run accross the battlefield and single out one opponent, and stab him to death multiple times. WITHOUT EVER FIRING at ANYONE ELSE. I can say this... it pissed the HELL out of some people, and was absolutely HILARIOUS. (It goes without saying that the gameplay in BG 2 is pretty bland and needs my unique set of 'challenges' to keep it interesting.) Then you could turn on alltalk, and start challenging people to duels, in the middle of a blazing gunbattle.

Imagine if you could Scout and see your opponents names!
*hides*
*breaches front lines*
"Lets see.... nope... not him.... hmm, pass.... BOOM! headshot!"
*hide and relocate*
*repeat x10 times.*

My god... the disruptions you could cause. It makes me quiver inside.

edit: yes, as Dumpster Fox put it, this IS institutionalized griefing. I can't imagine anyone but me voting for it, and even then, in only certain circumstances. It's really more of a "black hole" suggestion.

 

it would be good so then i can pick you out of the crowd of enemeys

 

I thought I was the only one who did that in BG2. People's reactions are hilarious. Empires NEEDS this!

 

Someone watches Colbert.

 

the enemeys names should show up in a different color or somthing tho

 

goddamnit i HATE it when names appear. it's especially bad when there's smoke and you just scan your crosshair through it to find your enemies.

plus it feels so unrealistic! it would be like if everytime you killed someone they're ragdoll started flying around like an unleashed ballon. it just looses so much of the atmosphere for me when you get that.


buuut... you did say as a server option. i guess if a server wants this, then fair enough. but frankly if it got onto every server i would be very sad, like if there was an option for massive death katanas- sure it is kinda fun at first after you've played the game for a bit, but it does kinda ruin the game.

and how often are you actually going to want to not kill another enemy just so you can kill another?

 

I don't really see the point of this. If it's an enemy, I'll kill them. I don't care who they are!

 

You my friend have to learn something about the HUNT!

 

Is Empires so 2 dimensional that the only fun you have is killing the same person over and over?

 

No,actually, it's very complex and doesnt really need this aspect at ALL. Battlegrounds 2, on the contrary, get's HELLA boring VERY fast. That's why I was so pissed when this 'feature' was removed from it.

For Empires, this kind of thing would be like icing on the cake, or depending on your view of the feature, poop on the cake. Either way, it's going on top of a cake that is delicious as more of a.... lagniappe, if you will. I know I'm mixing metaphors. I don't care.

 

yeah me and bobby B always try to meet up somewhere for a motar fight..

And when someone starts to talk shit, its always good to pick them out

 

I only see people endorsing this idea so that they can stalk certain players and frustrate them. So we're going for institutionalized griefing, now?

 

I would use it to make sure I killed Simon first in a crowd of enemies.

 

Seeing enemy names is stupid,
especially if they pop up instantly.
And if they don't they're useless (gameplay wise).

 

Most of the time it's the other way around :p My ears are still recovering from the entire ventrilo channel screaming in anger after he pwned us all when we were balancing weaponry on the R&D server on emp_escort. :p

On-topic: Don't like the idea. Sure, "the hunt" can be fun, but you shouldn't detract from the fun of others just so you can have more.

 

Really, really dumb idea. This is one of the things I hate the most in FPS games; you're camouflaged, invisible, or hiding inside a bush or something, only to get shot by someone who luckily happened to move his crosshair over your body, noticing the text that popped up.

 

Oh please no, this just sucks in every game I play, I've played deathmatch games where my team literally dissipated around me because they were being singled out one by one until they d/ced.

 

You revived the thread just to say no? How stupid can you be?
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