Thread: tips on friend or foe

You got blue and red, right, blue is friendly, red is hostile. Green means that person is in your squad, and you should NEVER shoot this person.

Enemy text above their heads will ALWAYS appear, regardless of commander assets. The Diamond on your NetBat only appears when a squad member has engaged with that enemy. The most common thing to look for is the opposing team's weaponry, otherwise, know that the EU has orange shoulderpads, and the PAC is all grey and black. Also, blue text above friendlies helps you determine enemies from friendlies. You'll pick up the patterns as you play more, and as everyone will tell you, get the Voss tree of unlocks FIRST THING. The Defribulator scores you a lot of points, and your teammates will love you. The advanced med hub helps heal more people at once, and your teammates will love you. The Voss is easily the most effective assault rifle, and your teammates (may*) love your for it.

*Unless you keep on teamkilling.

Also, squad up with members of BFH, BD, VTRX, ][5th], and others that you see on the right side of your screen that are resident clans. They're always ready to help you out.

Edit: Triangle, Diamond, it's all the same to me, I just don't pay attention that hard.

You also get the red diamonds over enemies if your squad leader has one of those sensor drones, but don't rely on that, since people don't use them too often. A far better way to tell who's who, and one that happens much more frequently, is looking at the minimap whenever there's a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) overhead or someone's put down a sonar, which is signified by expanding concentric circles in a given area. Within these circles, enemies will show up as red dots, with an indicator showing which way they're facing. You can also change the map scale with the "n" key.

This is very useful for sneaking up behind people and giving them the shank. Also, even without a scan, if you see someone in the distance and they don't show up as friendly on the radar, give them a long-range surprise present to the face.

Originally Posted by Rustxko78

Everything they said. Just to add one more thing that might help. Look at your arms at the beginning of the round. One camo set is almost black, and the other is seems dark and white splochy. If you look at your arms, you can tell which camo you are wearing therefore the other whether it is the lighter or darker is enemy. You'll get used to the difference.

Sometimes the red triangle doesn't pop up right away, so it is good to know your camo. Today, I began playing a round and an enemy ran around the silo right in front of me and ran past me. Because he didn't make an aggressive move toward me and the red triangle didn't pop up right away so, I didn't fire, then I looked at my camo, and I popped him in the back while he was walking away not ten or fifteen meters in front of me. I guess it didn't pop up for him either. The difference was that I knew my camo.

Hey, this is great information. I have been playing for a little while and still haven't gotten the hang of identifying the enemy without seeing the red lettering... and I get killed a lot waiting for some positive ID. I don't know how many hapless teamates have suffered from surprise confrontations.. maybe this will help. Thanks Rust...

A good rule of thumb is this: If they're not within 20 meters of you, 90% of the time, they're hostile. Usually you're with your squad, or separated, and are moving with a friendly squad, you're usually facing where the enemy is coming from, and that is sometimes quite a ways away.

Mini map. Use it. If you see them on screen but not on the map then they need to die from lead poisoning.