Hud Revealing Cloaked / Hidden Enemies?

Hypergrip

<div class="IPBDescription">something in the changelog...</div> Found this in the changelog (complete changelog - Beta Discussion)

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O Now you can see your teammates health and armor percentage by looking at them. Enemy player names are drawn without this info in red.
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Everybody that's benn playint UT for a while knows, that the best way to find a cloaked player is simply to look around and wait for the enemy's nickname to show up on the hud.
How will this be in NS?
I think this might be quite "buggy"... as in 1.0x the Auto-help "warned" you of alien turrets, although they were not in LoS but behind a corner.
I don't think showing enemy names is necessary... you'll see it in the top right corner after they killed you anyway <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

-my2cent-

Hyper

5c0ut-WHoR3

Hmm you got a point. But if you were looking directly at a cloaked alien it isnt completly cloaked and you can actoly see it darken the surface behind it. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

th0r0n

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Yeah, but that's actually an intended part of the game, using the HUD as a cheap wallhack isn't.

To be honest, I think the only thing you need enemy names on the hud would be is to maybe find out who the gorge/comm/jp'er was, and even then it's not that important.

That said, I don't think many people are going to spend 5 minutes in a room sweeping their crosshair around looking for a cloaked alien.

Frikk

I'm pretty sure this doesn't display cloaked enemies. We noticed that first time it was in a build. Flay has fixed this. (If I remember correctly)

It's also fun to know who your shooting at, if you notice the feature at all. It kind of gets lost most of the time in the fighting tbh. The teammate health/armor thing is a GODSEND though.

Mintman

Yeah, showing the teammates stats is invaluable in a HA rush as you know exactly who needs welding (played on servers that have it as a plugin) also nice to know what health the hive is at. Is hive health displayed in 2.0?

Frikk

Nope. As far as I can remember. (i'm just gonna put that in my sig i think)