Some spotting Qs

[Borscope]

Ok, the guide says vehicles w/ passengers spot better due to more eyeballs.

1:If I have a vehicle w/ say; vision 40, carrying infantry without any kind of NVGs, do they increase the vehicle's chances of spotting out to the 40 hexes (and visibility is say 10)?

2: Does the vision rating increase spotting chances (within the vision range?) even if visibility is greater (i.e. TI picking out engine heat behind netting or whatever)?

3: Do enclosed/APC class vehicles differ from open-topped/tank rider in spotting ability?

4: Any chance of incorporating a "spin-search all my units" button in the future? I read that the AI has something like this in a recent patch. (My right click mouse button is about worn out now!)

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Mobhack]

1) AFAIR - having passengers helps the spotting chance. All units use the best spotting equipment, so if it has TI, it will use it. Just like the commanders pintle AAMG gets the TI benefit, there is no individual differentiation as it is a unit variable.

2) TI will spot things better. Any night vision helps a little bit in smoke - a unit with II (30 vis) can see grunts behind a little smoke that its just offloaded rifle section (vis 0) cannot see, even in daytime.

3) passengers are passengers. No difference.

4) pardon me but I have no idea what you are talking about here.

Andy

[Wdll]

For 4, I think he means have it so that it auto search/look around for enemy units. So you choose one of your units and instead of turning it around on spot to detect anything, it automaticaly does it or use a button to do it when you want to.

[Mobhack]

We have no plans for that.

Cheers
Andy

[PanzerBob]

I guess he'll have to manually prod his troops to be more vigilant.

[Borscope]

Thanks for the info on 1-3. As for 4, no worries. Helps the AI and punishes lazy commanders. A broken mouse button is just another random breakdown of CoC