make hostile human factions more visually distinct from uscm crew, or provide a unique corner icon for them

[misto]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): there were some significant friendly fire incidents during todays upp incursion, an SO was gunned down, and who knows who else? take steps to make this less likely.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): less upp on upp accidents, less marine on marine accidents

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): make the uniforms much more different from the various uscm uniforms, or provide a unique squad-type icon on the corner of their sprites that designates them as upp. the latter is preferential imo. this can also be applied to any other hostile human factions.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): the mechanism for overlaying squad type corner icons is already in place in the code, please make use of it

[TheDonkified]

No squad icon, because if UPP are supposed to be stealthy, that would screw them over.

However, +1 to more distinct armor.

[Swagile]

The armor IS distinct, the reason said person was gunned down was because he was wearing UPP Commando gear.

If you wear the clothes of the enemy, expect to get shot. That is the risk you take.

[MrJJJ]

UPP event happened? ah fuck

[coroneljones]

I would say the uniform is already distinct at a glance

[dylanstrategie]

I don't understand this suggestion, at all. The armor sets are visually different, and if you're going to wear enemy stuff, you shouldn't be surprised if you risk being shot by someone. We're not gonna give you a big "THIS IS AN ENEMY" sign over hostile factions

[Scrat505]

Although I do think it would be nice for UPP, CLF, and Freelancers to have squad huds that only they can see to help them quickly pick out their medics, leaders, and heavies.

[dylanstrategie]

That's a more distinct possibility, yes. But you shouldn't be able to see this from the other side

[Scrat505]

I will make a standalone suggestion for that when I'm home

[Steelpoint]

Wearing the enemy's uniform is inviting friendly fire.

Now having a HUD icon when you are a ERT or similar to distinguish squad mates is a good idea.

[SecretStamos (Joshuu)]

Their uniforms are distinct enough that there's really no question between the two sides.

The issue is when they start to loot gear (particularly helmets) from one another.

[Snypehunter007]

Enemy (Non-USCM) uniforms are distinct enough.

Asking this to be locked.