freebirdpat
Base Rapist
+5|6758
TotalBF2.com: It still appears that many people are being affected by the Red Name Tag problem. Will this be resolved in the next patch?

Armando: My policy is to not say anything about what may not make its way into a patch. I don't want the community to get worked up about something that may not happen. However, on this point I will make an exception. We are working on this bug. The problem we are having is that we need a reproducible case in order to know exactly what needs to be fixed. I have asked the community for any information that they know of regarding the server they were playing on, whether autobalance was on or not, how many players where in the game, and whether the players with the incorrect nametag color were team switched or not.

Even if we don't nail it down for 1.2, we will continue to search for the cause.
Lets see if we can nail this one down. Has anyone been able to reproduce it? For those that experience it what were you doing before hand?



My personal experience was I was playing Mashtuur City, end of round the teams were rotated. I rotate back to USMC because I like flying in the blackhawk, so did some of the people I were flying with the round before. Some of those guys that switched had the red name bug, I did too. One new teammate decided to shoot all of us.

Also seems to be partly a clientside problem, because on the scores list on one guy I killed on a different server/map, he showed up on the enemy team, but was wearing my uniform, and it showed that I killed someone outright, and did not TK on the scrolling list of x [m1a1] y instead of x [teamkills] y.
YELLOWJACKET
Member
+2|6761
almost every time it happens to me its on moders wake server
Lestat<CoN>
Didnt Do it
+9|6709
I find i get it if i move to another team sometimes b4 i die but not always
pinky_81
Member
+1|6794|Denmark
Well - often it seems the autobalance creates the bug... Actually I believe it is when a player tries getting to the other team and is autobalanced right back instantly...
Seth Infinite
Member
+3|6744|Houston, The Republic of Texas
I joined a game in progress last night, Warlord. I was instantly TKed 5 times by different players all at the spawn point. I'm assuming that I was the victim of Red Nametag.
voltage
Member
+46|6845|Sweden
Actually I tried to reproduce it earlier today. I think a way to reproduce it is crucial to solve the problem.

Last time it happened to me, I made a kit-switch before it happened and want to believe that it triggered the bug. Seems noone else mentions changing kits as a probable cause nowadays though.
thinner44
Member
+1|6814
Wake in the latter days, but it used to be Kubra dam. I don't normally play when the server is full 32 or 64 and I'll play on any server from around the world... and it usually happened when I was auto switched (most of my hours are lone wolf, or billy no mates ).
7h3647h32in6
Member
+0|6728
Recently has happened to me twice on sharqi. I was sniping as MEC, saw a red man running out of our uncappable base (figured he was there to take out our arty) and I fired off one shot, got a team damage, fired again, and got a kill (not a teamkill). Happened to me once more in the same server.

Bizarre or what?

Laid no claymores, wasn't in a vehicle, just good ole M95 and me.

Last edited by 7h3647h32in6 (2005-12-28 08:59:24)

wayneakagod
Member
+17|6752

pinky_81 wrote:

Well - often it seems the autobalance creates the bug... Actually I believe it is when a player tries getting to the other team and is autobalanced right back instantly...
Yes, I think this is definitely one of the causes.
freebirdpat
Base Rapist
+5|6758
Yeah, it seems to certainly revolve around the autobalance, or maybe even the bf2cc's auto switch.
BatfinkJr
Member
+0|6723|Sydney, AUS
This has happened to me on three occasions.

If I'm autobalanced, I'm OK. If I'm autobalanced a second time in the same round, it happens.
In any game where I'm swapped more than once, i instantly logout and jump on another server to avoid the problem.

In fact, I now join squads to prevent autobalancing, thus sidestepping this problem altogether. I've never had a red name tag issue whilst in a squad.
{DGC}{jr.}Blitzkrieg
Member
+10|6841|Arizona
the only time i've seen it in mass (lots of people on my team with red tags) is on a 24/7 wake server. i see it every now and then on other servers, but this one had about 10 diffrent people with red tags. my guess was that it had 99 rounds until the map restarted and the server got mixed up with players switching teams every round. i havn't been victim to it, but i've killed many a teammate because of their tag. hopefully EA reads this thread and figures something out by the next patch.
JeeSqwat
Tactical Specialist
+41|6734|Canada
lol
{HMS}_Sir_Del_Boy
Member
+69|6714|th3 unkn0wn
They NEVER had this problem on Battlefield Vietnam so why haven't they sorted it out yet? If I see someone with the colour bug I just ignore them and let one of my team mates shoot him 1st just to see if he really is the enemy.
Razgriz131
Member
+0|6704
I had one game on Oman where a guy that was gunner on my tank had a red tag. Later he joined my squad but he still had red tag.
freebirdpat
Base Rapist
+5|6758

Razgriz131 wrote:

I had one game on Oman where a guy that was gunner on my tank had a red tag. Later he joined my squad but he still had red tag.
Yeah I have seen that same problem, even leading to a squad having 7 members.
{HMS}_Sir_Del_Boy
Member
+69|6714|th3 unkn0wn

freebirdpat wrote:

Razgriz131 wrote:

I had one game on Oman where a guy that was gunner on my tank had a red tag. Later he joined my squad but he still had red tag.
Yeah I have seen that same problem, even leading to a squad having 7 members.
Ah, but wot's even better is the time my bro {HMS}_R0dney somehow got revived by the enemy and ended up wearing the enemy uniform.

They killed him in the end when they realised that his name wos red and that he wos killing "team mates" LOL. It only happened once and my brother only realised wot had happened when they killed him and he saw with the death cam that he had the MEC uniform on even though he wos on the USMC team. Strange game this BF2.

Last edited by {HMS}_Sir_Del_Boy (2005-12-28 20:43:37)

=NAA=TheTaxidermist
Member
+6|6739|In a van down by the river
Some guy had the red tag glitch and he was commander.  His name was red but he had the commander star.  Odd.
lobo76
Member
+2|6714
solution is simple, no? remove all tags or make them all same color, so tat we are forced to recognize uniforms.
it might even balance the air vs ground power problem. without red tags, the aircraft will have a bltch of a time, finding out who to strafe....which is true (i think) in the real world.
-_{MoW}_-Assasin
Member
+13|6733|Australia
ahh, but havnt you heard of Spies? Spies infiltrate other countries wearing their uniforms and kill them
Modern Day example

and yes, they DO need to fix this
Cybargs
Moderated
+2,285|6721
theres a bug when i switched to MEC, i had USMC player model and spawned at USMC place , racked up points and ppl were like wtf?!@!
https://cache.www.gametracker.com/server_info/203.46.105.23:21300/b_350_20_692108_381007_FFFFFF_000000.png
freebirdpat
Base Rapist
+5|6758
Yeah I had that problem once too. Spawned as USMC, at a enemy spawn point.... Didn't last long enough though because I didn't know.
usmarine
Banned
+2,785|6767

Not sure if this is a bug or a hack......... I was playing warlord on SF today and saw something new to me.  There was a guy, in a squad, on the SAS team, with a blue tag but dressed in arab gear.  I saw him jump next to an SAS held flag and the flag started lowering, so I killed him.  Then I got slapped with a teamkill.  At the end of the round, he was still on the SAS side and was in the top squad.  How the hell can this be?
BlackJackBob
Member
+2|6759|Canada
I've been wondering about these stupid name exploits .. with the orange text and large font. I wonder if this can conflict with the server coding? causing problems for either the EA account server when the prefix is attached or fubaring the actual server you're on.

Maybe this bug first appeared when that first asshole fucked with the prefix coding?

I find that text really annoying.
plaid_retina
Member
+10|6700|Memphis, Tn
Most of my TK's are due to the red tag bug. I killed most from a distance so I couldn't get a good look at their uni, now I am on constant watch for uni's so my TKing score doesn't get worst.

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