kompster

I'm a bit curious about a specific map marker that reveals player positions within a certain range. I was playing on a server earlier and was west of Berezino, I and another were watching flashlights and flares in the town, trying to plan our approach. After about 10 minutes of scoping the town we saw a message in direct chat asking "who is southwest of berezino?" ... which happened to be us, I pulled up the map and saw blue dots marking not only our positions but the person's position in town and the directions we were all facing. Is this normal? Is it based on a difficulty setting similar to that of player tags? Anyhow, knowing our position had been revealed we fled and since I feel much more paranoid knowing anyone can spot somebody within a certain radius simply by pulling up the map or waving the cursor over surrounding landscape till they see a name... Any discussion is welcome and appreciated.

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