Fellow logibrosbananas,

It would appear to me that Uprising changed the way how revival requesting dusties appear to anyone who's equipped with nanite injectors. Sometimes fallen revivable mercs have the revival icon on/around/somewhere near their soon-to-be-corpse, other times not.

I do recall someone complaining that even tho there are plenty of logibananas around, they're not getting revived. I do believe this to be the cause of that.

I find the current state of the revival mechanics to be inadequate due to this aforementioned blurb.

tl;Dr - CCP, FIX REVIVAL INDICATORS

Edit:


ShwerShwerShwer:
"The downed player has to call for help to be seen"

I suspected that, dunno why I didn't write it into the OP.

I'd suggest having 2 different revivable icons, one for people who are revivable and one for people who are calling for revives and the option to decline/request revives on the death report.

Allowing you to call for help from the "kill screen" is a great idea. We should be able to add that easily.

We will also take a look at how we can improve the kill screen and overview map to let you understand if you're in bleedout or dead.

Also before people assume people are just not hitting call for help I have confirmed and reported a glitch where even if you click call for help your revive icon is still no where to be seen.

On the "automatically call for help" feature, there are many voices both for and against. Allowing you to go to the overview map directly gives you the opportunity to make a tactical decision if it's better to respawn in a new location or run from where you are.

I can think of two possible changes of the top of my head that might improve the system (apart from fixing actual bugs of missing icons, etc):
1. We always show the bleed out icon, but with some ammendment or color change if the player actually calls for help.
2. We allow you to configure automatic "call for help" when in bleedout.

What do you think?

On the "automatically call for help" feature, there are many voices both for and against. Allowing you to go to the overview map directly gives you the opportunity to make a tactical decision if it's better to respawn in a new location or run from where you are.

I can think of two possible changes of the top of my head that might improve the system (apart from fixing actual bugs of missing icons, etc):
1. We always show the bleed out icon, but with some ammendment or color change if the player actually calls for help.
2. We allow you to configure automatic "call for help" when in bleedout.

What do you think?

I think you could go tell the higher ups at CCP that polls are useful, and you could post a real one :/

I like choice one

Honestly, the single biggest issue I have with reviving people is THEY AREN'T WHERE THEIR INDICATORS ARE! this has always been an issue, but it seems far more prominent this build. You go to revive someone, but you can't find where the server thinks their corpse is.

Possible solutions: Increase bleed out timer, or increase revival range.

this, alongside the better indication that someone is down and revivable would be awesome :)

First of all: remove the "kill cam". Waste of time feature really.

-Make it exactly like in Chromosome, bleedout screen.

-Call for help/go to map option

-When selecting "go to map", can still "call for help" or deploy to another location.

Easy.

I would prefer 1, but how about you let the Logi's choose, as outlined here.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=74250&find=unread