I don't like the idea of lighting up forge guns the same way though. Unlike the guided missiles, there is no lock on that would paint your dropship/LAV/HAV/gocart and thus no signal that would tell you "hey, someone's gunning for you." The idea of detecting the charge up of the forge gun is an idea, but leads to a slippery slope. HAVs and turret emplacements can also mount large railguns that charge before firing; a system that can detect a forge gun charging should pick these up as well. Charge sniper rifles are smaller, but operate on the same principal... do they get detected? If sniper rifles can be detected, what about scrambler rifles?

A possible solution (a variation on Silas Swakhammer' idea, really) could be that charging or holding a charged shot drastically increases that player's profile, to the point that they could be detected without line-of-sight or the use of active scanners. This would force players using such weapons to relocate between shots to not become sitting ducks. They wouldn't light up for the whole world to see, (like with a scan) but anyone looking in the general direction could detect them. I would like to see a system like this used for sniper rifles, if only to discourage camping in one spot.

Does the pilot really need to detect every forge gunner on the map any time they fire?

If Swarms are announcing themselves when they lock on, and forge gunners are glowing like they've been scanned or shots are streaking across the radar, pilots need a way to detect rail shots too.

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