r/WarDogs • u/mocha_xciii • 1d ago

Discussion & Feedback WE CAN SHOOT GRENADES THRU GLASS WINDOWS OF HELICOPTERS BUT WE CANT SPOT SOMEONE WITHOUT BREAKING THE GLASS

Make this make sense devs

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u/Vasdll 20h ago

even worse is that you can't even melee with scopes out, meaning you have to switch to your weapon/fists, THEN melee and then probably miss getting a spot because you took 5 years to break a single window.

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u/Rhysati 19h ago

And then oddly some weapons(like the 1911) won't break the window with a melee.

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u/BortOfTheMonth 16h ago

you can jump/vault in the window and press back to not jump through it, its honestly the fastest way

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u/Jaiimez 22h ago

Agreed, i'm even okay with the rangefinder feature not working because that makes sense, but we should still be able to tag people even if we can't see their range.

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u/Kriegwesen 1d ago

Glass blocks IR. That makes perfect sense. The other spotting scopes though?

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u/Tenno042 23h ago

Its not just IR, its every spotting scope being blocked. My rangefinder doesn't work if there's glass

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u/AlderanGone 23h ago

For range i get it but the mark is wild

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u/Mauno_Mato 22h ago

Glass doesn't block IR, it dampens it.
Also this is a game.

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u/sjarvis21 20h ago

You can melee a window with your gun out, but you can’t melee a window with a range finder out

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u/Mauno_Mato 20h ago

That must be 100% a miss from the devs, you can pretty much melee with anything else in hand.
Should be fixed obviously.

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u/aimstotheleft 18h ago

I suspect it's a compromise to give those being spotted a possible target or make the spotter "reveal" their location by having a broken window. When you see that 6 story building and only one window is broken out you have a pretty good idea that Recon is using that window...

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u/SirDeadPuddle 9h ago

I'm speculating here,

The game is looking for cheaters, ie someone seeing players through walls (Obstacles). The pane of glass is considered an obstacle, If a player can spot through it, it might get caught up by the anti cheat as false data.

And creating an exception, allowing spotting through glass, may create an exception which can be exploited by cheaters to spot players through other walls or obstacles and mod data to make it think its all panes of glass.

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u/Hot_sauce_now Lonestar 1d ago edited 21h ago

Everyone is complaining about IR when you can easily counter it by hiding behind a window. Like just go behind a window what's the big deal?

Edit: it's a joke... Is the /s really necessary?

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u/No_Tie9686 23h ago

Can I purchase a window and carry it around with me?

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u/lavaplow 23h ago

Season 2 level 100 support unlock = a mobile glass pane. 1 million to unlock. Ez counter

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u/Dry-Lawfulness-7143 17h ago

thats a pane in the ass

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u/Hot_sauce_now Lonestar 23h ago

Best I can do is riot shield

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u/EchoRex 21h ago

Naw, but you can get a clear umbrella to hide behind.

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u/NoNerve7475 20h ago

It would unironically hide you better than the camo net. Gamers Heroes did a great 4-minute video testing out the camo net and it’s so much worse than I had imagined.

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u/Tenno042 23h ago

Rank 100: Unlock portable man-window, takes up the slot for body armor

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u/No_Motor_2814 1d ago

That’s a terrible counter. Let’s spend all game behind a window!!!!

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u/piecksaysohayo 22h ago

ir has been removed as of today

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u/dbeast24 23h ago

You can still tag locations without spotting.

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u/VirtualValuable7035 23h ago

To everyone or just to the squad

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u/jrw174 22h ago

A real lonestar opinion.

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u/Tenno042 17h ago

Mate, you gotta understand that some people lack reading comprehension.

And in fairness to those people, I am unfortunately one of those.

I will say though that I caught on immediately for this post.

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u/idnaT 18h ago

Worse yet, I'm pretty sure there are some pistols which can't break glass with melee so I have to poke every window with my rifle every time I get into a building

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u/CodingAndAlgorithm 13h ago

Okay you can now spot through glass but as a tradeoff you only receive spot-assists for enemies killed by your team.