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How recognizable will armbands make me?

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I do think the armband would be ok but all we been given is the armband will just be yet another article of clothing. I'm already guessing we may get something other than just more cloths cause even with customization its still easy to copy or confuse. I'm having a hard time recognizing people in game yet real immersion would have a way for me to know if I know the person I'm looking at since in real life it is rare you find two people to looking the exact same and you may know the difference but in game you can't tell as well. They pick up a new backpack so I'm gonna shoot I guess.

 

I'm wanting to be able to recognize one of the armbands in my group if I can't recognize a friend so well. By this I mean I don't care about different colors if it can be copied. It's still not realistic enough.

 

My suggestion is my teams armband looks the same but anyone else would always be different in my eyes and in a 3rd party it would all look the same since to them they don't know any of us. Also a drawback is if my enemy kills my friend and takes his armband I will recognize that armband as my friends so it still looks like my colors. That way I can be tricked as well and the armband can work like a mask on my friends face and someone just wears the mask (meaning I've never seen my friends face but the same mask and his voice is muffled). Example: I make 5 armbands and pass them to my friends. One dies and it gets taken and they fall into the group. Im now walking with the enemy and we all are wearing green. Well his friends walk up with red bands and he shoots me in the back. It is either that or some kind of icon on their head but that breaks immersion.

 

Another idea being able to wear it in certain places but having to remove the cloths that may be obscuring it such as neck, forehead, wrist, belt, ect.

 

I'm just wanting this to make some sense. Yeah if I die I may be a new person and my friends don't look like my friends anymore but if I do know them for some time I should recognize their face which is rather near impossible in a game compared to real life.

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I understand what you mean, sort of like in Real-time strategy games that allow Friend-Or-Foe colours. Instead of every player having a different colour, your allies are yellow and enemies are red etc.

 

I'm pretty neutral on the idea, on one side it WOULD be 'unrealistic' but I guess it compensates for not being able to recognise faces like you would in reality.

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You know how much friendly fire happens in real life don't you?

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You already have armbands, on top of all the other ways to visually distinguish yourself from others. What more do you want?

 

And as for facial recognition, I can't recall the last time I even saw a decently geared player without face cover. Everyon's wearing bandanas, balaclavas or other masks as soon as they pick it up.

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