Q. Night vision goggles

[Nikel]

In a land battle during the night, Marine units have problems detecting enemy units.

Added to their sensors, night vision goggles 3rd generation of 2 types, and they will detect contacts at the same distance as with binoculars, you may win some crucial seconds though

The nearby green contacts detected by another units are not updated.

Or in another example, you will not see who fired at you and advance beyond them not sighting anything. The red side has not night vision devices.

Is it a bug or WAD? Feature not added?

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[bsmithwins]

Is movement affecting detection? I'd have a hard time spotting too while moving at a rapid walk

[Nikel]

No, moving at 1 kts or 2 km/h and seems to happen the same.

In this example, the contact was detected at the same time and at the same distance by the binoculars and by the night vision goggles.

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This is the scenario if you want to test. The 2 Marine units with night vision devices are separated from the rest, 1 sniper and 1 platoon.

[SunlitZelkova]

What terrain is this fight taking place on? Or is the varied/detailed terrain turned off?

EDIT- Just saw that the scen takes place on Kharg Island. Assuming you have detailed terrain turned on, I would suspect that is causing the odd performance.

Another thought I just had- "generic binoculars" may be more powerful than actual infantry binos because they function as the large, fixed mounts on ships as well. So the advantage that NVGs have might not be as pronounced.

If you want the NVGs to give X side a more dramatic edge, you could try removing the binos Y side and just leaving them with their Mk 1 eyeballs.

[Nikel]

Thanks for the suggestions.


Deselecting effects of terrain type, more red units are detected. Most of the times, 4 seconds advantage for the night goggles over the binoculars, but in some cases there are no differences. Maybe it is noise.

With the terrain effects on, and removing the binoculars, the detection is done with the night googles, and the naked eye is very difficult that is used, but one detection happened before than with the night goggles. It seems that to have binoculars add significant detection capabilities during the night.

I think something is going on.

The effects of the terrain type help in the hiding, so it is working and add realism.

But the night vision googles should be much better than binoculars in a night combat.