Ping/highlight your location on the map overlay when you open it

Plasma

Hey,

When you press TAB to load the map, I spend a few seconds looking for myself on the map - I'm not immediately sure where I am.

It would be great if the game flashed my location / made it obvious where I was on the map as soon as I opened it.

SideOfBeef

I've had the same issue since I started playing this game. The map is quite busy, and the player icon isn't very distinct. I know some bitter vets will say you should learn to deal with it, but you could say that about any element of the UI and it would be just as wrong.

Techercizer

Well as a Marine, you instantly know your map location before you open due to your minimap.

Personally, I would not want this; it would be distracting, and for me, useless. It's easier to just know where in the map you are than to have a messy visual effect when you try to flip open the map for a glance.

Rover

I can see this being useful for newer players, but if it does get implemented, I'd really like the ability to disable it as well.

Laosh'Ra

this has been suggested before and i'm all for it.
i just thought of an idea which is probably not as eye-candy but it will allow players to find their position instantly, without any animation etc.:

drawing a horizontal line with the y-coordinate of the player and a vertical line with the x-coordinate of the player (basically a huge cross with the player at the center, maybe drawing a small rect around him which connects to the lines). this could easily be scaled to any display-resolution as well. i guess the lines should not be cluttering the map, so using transparent or dotted lines or whatever might be more appropriate.
it might also help to only draw at the edges of the screen instead of using full lines, so more like stretched triangles pointing to the player position.