-1, it would make domination on the one map (the one in which the objective is inside, but can be orbitaled because it has no roof, you know, the one in which some of the best firefights take place) even more hectic, with all the smoke grenades, and flux grenades, and locus grenades being tossed, it would just be chaos in which everyone just shoots randomly...


Actually, +1. I'm all for more chaos. Pew Pew!

Here is my take on it for a little concept/clarification. Hope you don't mind. Let me know if this is kind of what you are thinking or if I'm way off base. Also, OP/UP?

Smoke grenade releases smoke and covers an area for 35 seconds, increasing to 100% coverage over the first 5 seconds then gradually dispersing at 3.3% per second and covers 10-15-20 meters depending on std/adv/proto with the grenade being the epicenter of the smoke coverage. People will be unloading rounds into a cloud and having no clue if they are hitting or not (since, you know, no LOS to see the hit bar flashing and dropping.) This will give people time to get away or get to hiding to recover from a barrage.

The only thing I'm worried about is the 35 seconds. That may be a little long. Maybe cut it down to 25 seconds where the first 5 seconds it is building and then 5% for 20 seconds dispersion rate. I just want to make sure it is there long enough to make a difference.

I would actually prefer for crosshairs to still be red. The amount of dispersion that comes off when hitting a cloaked scout is already hard enough to track to make it a challenge but doable to escape from. I feel the smoke should work the same way especially because if you used the smoke to begin with it's probably for one or two reasons:

1. gtfo, in which case your body isn't there to begin with. it would be funny to see people running through the smoke trying to melee tho. Either way, you aren't just going to be standing still in the smoke. Having crosshairs turn red makes it a challenge to use in the right way.

2. and how I really want this to work. To revive a fellow merc. This is where dragging a body would be the ultimate as laying down smoke, running in, dragging away, revive would be EPIC. But I can see smoke being a great thing for getting to teammates to turn the tide of the battle back in our favor.

Having no crosshairs would just create I think frustrating chaos. We'd have people shooting in all directions (FW would be even more horrible with that FF) and/or people running in and engaging in that super hard ultra CQC environment.

However, I would love to get some video of someone running into something in the smoke, thinking its a redberry and realizing afterwards that he's repeatedly hitting a wall he's just running into.

*sigh* I didn't say the smoke was a wall. I said it would be funny if while running through the smoke they ran into a wall and thought it was a redberry and started meleeing it.

As for the red crosshair on cloaks, I feel it's a correctly balanced system.