interface/ui Hiding capture point floating diamond

[ALIEN109 1,321]

Situation :

• You are playing on Karelia and there is an enemy tank on a hill. He spot you, take a lucky shot and damage your engine. You aim in the general direction of the incoming fire but you are not able to see anything because a big red/blue floating diamond marked 'A' is obstructing your view. Meanwhile, you opponent has no trouble to keep firing at you because he has the element of surprise, is behind a cover and can see the flames coming out of your damaged engine compartment. You are spectating your last moments like a sitting duck
• You are playing in a AAA and you are staying near your teammates who just captured a zone. Suddenly, you hear a aircraft engine noise. You know this is your time ! A rocket-loaded P-47 is coming to strike on your teammates. You know you are their only hope of survival. It's closing in, you look around but...you can't see the plane because it is hidden behind the floating blue diamond...boom...your team is dead !

 

Suggestion :

Add the ability to configure the display of the diamond icon on HUD.

This could be done in several ways (it would be great if all options were available) :

• set the transparency of the icon
• set the scale/size
• choose the gamemode in which the icon is displayed
• add a keybind to toggle their display
• option to disable it completely

 

Even if hidden on HUD, the capture point icon would still be represented on minimap.

 

Benefits :

• Increased immersion
• No more/less "I can't see him !" situations

 

Extra screenshots (similar options already in game)

Spoiler

 

[leroyonly 4,310]

Open for discussion. 

[Agelistrator 1,460]

I fully support this suggestion and wonder why it's not implemented yet!

As an RB player the diamonds are immersion breaking and they cause gameplay problems as well in certain situations. 

Any seasoned player knows exactly where caps are anyway (also there are the flares and also the minimap to guide towards them even if disabled)

so all the diamond does is obstructing your view and ruining the scenery if you played a map more than a couple of times

Edited April 21, 2018 by Agelistrator

[kamikazi21358 998]

Should be option in options, I play a lot of SB Tanks and I would turn this off.

It would be nice if they did the same with the blue smoke.

[NAM_Biohazard 114]

There is a mini map to display which marker is where.

So why not just leave the white circle on the ground and delete the icon that shows A or B.

Love ur idea

+1

[nordkind 51]

absolutely! It obscures the view more often than its good. 

And at night it has a Huuuuuge beam around it so, brighter than the moon which blinds you basically.

[OldDeadMan 1,299]

Change the flare smoke color based on who has the cap, and I'd be all in. 

[Dodo_Dud 5,074]

At night I pray it gets capped fast. It is so blinding, you can't see a thing near it.

 

At least make it dark grey at night and translucent during day.

[Target1331 3,055]

Definitely support it, plus I don't think it would be a hard suggestion to implement with a choice in the settings.

 

Best regards,

 

Phil

[Vilab 140]

i support this moreover, i would suggest removing/reducing the flare smoke too, it makes spotting much harder. 

[Princess_Pinch 5,625]

I think most RB players had that thought at least once, i really want them gone from the game. +1

[Exelcia 118]

I think that both the floating marker as well as the coloured smoke marking capture points should either be removed or made possible to disable. In my opinion, the smoke just makes the maps look worse and ruins screenshots.

[Kasukaru 2,164]

Oh yes, so much +1 !!! Please implement this! Both the smoke and the icon are really annoying.

[2odiac 24]

YES and hide it specially in the scope view. no matter the game mode.

[whosmans 70]

+1000

[corevino 308]

+1 like 

[CokeSpray 7,274]

Suggestion passed to the developers for consideration.

[leroyonly 4,310]

As the massive floating capture point diamond has been hidden as per update 2.1 New Power,

 

Moved to Implemented Suggestions.