[FS HappyDay]

Frankie V, on 10 May 2013 - 05:32 PM, said:

Whats so special about arm bands now that the skin forcing feature has been added?

The armband colors allow you to identify which enemy you just saw, which gives you an advantage. If you play with or against the same players for a while you pick up their individual play styles. So you know how to act yourself. It makes a huge difference who you just saw. If it was some random newbie player on a public server you don't have to worry too much about him turning around or hearing you, etc. If it was the best player on the server you better watch out.
That's what I would say is the reason why the individual enemy armband colors are nice to have. Contrary, I don't see any good reason to disable them.

[FS Frankie V]

Happyday, on 10 May 2013 - 05:53 PM, said:

The armband colors allow you to identify which enemy you just saw, which gives you an advantage. If you play with or against the same players for a while you pick up their individual play styles. So you know how to act yourself. It makes a huge difference who you just saw. If it was some random newbie player on a public server you don't have to worry too much about him turning around or hearing you, etc. If it was the best player on the server you better watch out.
That's what I would say is the reason why the individual enemy armband colors are nice to have. Contrary, I don't see any good reason to disable them.

Ahhhh OK now that makes sense.

[diRf!Nikki]

Frankie V, on 10 May 2013 - 05:32 PM, said:

I have to ask.

Whats so special about arm bands now that the skin forcing feature has been added?

You can force the texture color of the enemy skins to anything that you wish and BladeKiller has already stated she would be willing to make any skin color by request, including hot neon pink if you want.

What exactly does skin forcing have to do with anything with the armband?

A lot of players rely on armband colors to differentiate who they're going against on the other team and what weapons they're probably using based on the player.

**Whoops, didn't realize there was 2 pages. But yeah.

This post has been edited by Nikki: 10 May 2013 - 08:57 PM

[FS BladeKiller]

This happened because we had a bug with the armbands displaying as black for enemy and I forgot that with g_armbands 0 it should show the players' choices for enemy as well as ally so all three options ended up with it as the team colour for enemies. We will fix this.

[=jF=docDude]

BladeKiller, on 12 May 2013 - 05:52 PM, said:

We will fix this.

Cool! Thanks!