Why Does Motiontracking Never Work?

Tomten

<div class="IPBDescription">It doesn't work :(</div> Motion tracking VERY rarely works for me. All I see is the dots for each enemy Hive. Is this something that only happens on some maps, or is it a problem that effects certain players?

I'm confused. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

Inexorable

Not sure, but I've heard it's servers which actually turn the motion tracking off. Since I've seen it both ways, and there have been some notorious cases of people hacking the NS code to hamburger I'm inclined to believe it.

xBaD_AcCuRaCyx

I haven't been noticing this since most of the time...I'm in the CC getting flooded with noobs for HA/HMGs. But when I'm actually out there and the Motion Sensors are upgraded...I usually see my targets. I'm pretty sure that if a Kharaa stays still, that it won't show up. But I'm not sure if aliens with cloaking or some other type of strat can keep the motion tracking off their tails. I heard something about having alot of Motion Chambers or something and they become untrackable again or something. Can someone clearify on this? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->

Infini7y

No, the manual clearly states that motiontracking reveals all the cloaked aliens within its range. However, if aliens are staying still, it won't show up blue dots. I know few servers without motion tracking showing up and I do believe some admins abuses their rights because they like playing aliens with cloaking.

saint0z

its a alittle bugged, i've had the most sucess with mt on bast and caged, i usually don't take the risk of upgrading it unless im on those maps...

Sirus

build another observatory thing farther out, it will increase the range, thus increasing the circles u see, theyre simply outside the range of ur building

Discobird

Motion tracking works reliably for me. I play on ns_caged most of the time.

Bluee

I do not believe Motion Tracking has a specific range. At least, it shouldn't, I don't remember the manual saying as such, but I didn't exactly look for that piece of info in the manual.

Broken MT is so fricken annoying... that's 45 RP down the drain and a lot of lost hope. Hardcode MT just like you hardcoded resource values!

ianski

With motion tracking upgrade:
As marine: anywhere on the map, if an alien moves, you should see little blue circles moving around.. similar to hive-sight
As commander: if you're looking down on an alien that's moving, it shows as little red squares skipping around, shame that the internet lag makes it skip along.. but hey, nothing's perfect.

If an alien tries to cloak within range of the observatory thingy, they can't.. they simply don't cloak. Of course, if they stay still, they're still not visible as blue circles/red squares but a marine can walk up and see him.

The MT'ing has always worked well for me

Tomten

I don't understand how some of you always get MT to work, when it almost NEVER works for me <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Is this a problem that Flarya is aware of and that he's working on fixing?

This bug and the Siege Cannon bug is the only two bugs that REALLY annoys me, would be great to see both of them fixed.

Narfwak

Motion tracking makes any moving aliens appear as blue dots on your HUD. The closer you are to an alien that is moving, the larger that dot will be. Motion tracking has unlimited range, and is not related to the circle made by the observatory. The observatory supresses cloaking, but as a building is not at all related to motion tracking (other than researching it there).

Scanner sweep is an ability the commander has. This makes a loud *ping* sound in the area it is used, and large blue circles can be seen radiating from the point of origin. This reveals anything to the commander - aliens outside of a marine's FOV, cloaked aliens, anything. I also believe it reveals cloaked aliens to marines.

Anyway, this thread belongs in the Tech Support board. Don't put bug posts in the Strategy forums.

humbaba

::PooF::

Moved to Tech Support.

HavoK

I have a similar issue. There was one game on NS_Caged in 1.01 that I noticed MT working really well. Since 1.02 came out, it doesn't seem to work for me. I see the hives, but nothing else. I've had aliens that I KNOW are running behind a wall but MT does not pick them up. I've also been surprised dozens of times when I was looking at the wall the alien came around.

/shrug

Sirus

Well, I'm stumped then. I tried to rationalize why it didn't work, but i guess i was wrong. I can add and say that sometimes it MT doesnt work for me.