Sentries Don't Recognize IDs in Hand or PDAs

[Surrealistik]

Bug Description:

Per the subject.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Move your ID from your ID slot to your hand slot, or put your ID in your PDA while in the detection area of an active sentry.
2. Get shot.
3. Rage because the Sentry should be able to detect and recognize your ID in any location where it would normally work on other ID sensitive equipment in the game.

[Azmodan412]

Confirmed. Was a field doctor. I took off my PDA to scan a marine who was wounded. I got shot three times by a sentry and it put me out of the round.

[Surrealistik]

Plox fix

[Sarah_U.]

Okay sentry so we said fifty...
Ten... Twenty... Thirty... Fourty... Fifty thallers, here you go. Pleasure doing buiseness with you.

[Jeser]

It's, kinda, a feature and intended, I think.

[Surrealistik]

The sentry gun shooting you while your ID is in hand and clearly on your person or in your PDA is a feature?

[Jeser]

The sentry gun shooting you while your ID is in hand and clearly on your person or in your PDA is a feature?

First is a feature, second one is well-known for a long time and since no one still fixed it, I assume, it's a feature too.

[Surrealistik]

If it's a feature, I'd like to hear it from the dev team.

That said, if so it's a pretty dumb feature that your ID has to be specifically kept in the ID slot without being in anything despite the fact that an in hand ID (or ID in a PDA) works with pretty much anything else.

[forwardslashN]

I'm not sure about this. The gun recognizes your ID via infrared laser or something, so it knows you're a friendly. If you're holding it in your hand or it's in a PDA, it wouldn't recognize you.

[Surrealistik]

I could maybe not see it not recognizing your ID if its in a PDA (though let's keep it real, the PDA would probably be configured to work with the sentries and vice versa as that would be a glaring design flaw), but not recognizing it if it's in your hand for all to see and scan? Wouldn't your ID essentially transmit some kind of signature anyways, such that it would work no matter where it is on your body? If it's visually IDed only (which is not especially good design; what if you're turned away from it for example?) it would still see it in your hand.

[forwardslashN]

So here's the deal, turrets WILL recognize you if you're holding an ID. However, the moment you switch your hand so that your ID is in your inactive hand, they will shoot you dead. I might change this behavior in the future.

[Surrealistik]

Yeah that should probably be changed; the only thing that makes sense is that the ID itself transmits some kind of signal that the Sentry recognizes.

[Jeser]

Oh. That explains why I never was shot by a sentry despite holding ID in a hand. I was always taking off ID when I need to install deployable barriers and I always do that only under turrets cover and never was shot. Thanks, Noize. A bit more information on a game mechanic.

[forwardslashN]

Fixed.