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its not my court, nor my ball, but a reasonable answer to the question seems to be this:

a simulation of real world peripheral awareness which is restricted by technology..

so while not perfect the dots are in arma for a good reason.

Problem is, in all honesty, it's not even close to a fair or accurate simulation thereof - on servers where it's still enabled, I can be running at full sprint, only to catch sight of a large grey dot on the right of my screen - I'll turn and look, and after much searching, I'll spot a 'monkey' zombie just loping around about 200m away. It's allowing me to see things I would have otherwise never have seen if they'd been directly in front of me, let alone on the periphery of my vision.

However, I appreciate your stepping up and providing at least some kind of justification for the feature - if only OP had done the same rather than just claiming he was 'done' and 'wasting his time'. :)

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its not my court, nor my ball, but a reasonable answer to the question seems to be this:

a simulation of real world peripheral awareness which is restricted by technology..

so while not perfect the dots are in arma for a good reason.

How come games that are made for pvp don't have them? Of course you can increase the fov up to 85° in CoD if i remember right but you can also increase it in ArmA...

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How come games that are made for pvp don't have them? Of course you can increase the fov up to 85° in CoD if i remember right but you can also increase it in ArmA...

im not a developer of pvp games so maybe im not the right person to ask that question? :P

i assume you have played other pvp games in the past?

most dont claim to be mil-sims, most are played on tiny maps, some have mini-maps that show a lot of information.

all i know is that the developers of arma chose this method for a reason as they stated in the manual.

please note that i havent personally defended the need for peripheral dots up to now, i can understand/see that sometimes they are too obvious, but i also think that they are there for a reason and taking them out should not be done lightly.

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im not a developer of pvp games so maybe im not the right person to ask that question? :P

i assume you have played other pvp games in the past?

most dont claim to be mil-sims, most are played on tiny maps, some have mini-maps that show a lot of information.

all i know is that the developers of arma chose this method for a reason as they stated in the manual.

please note that i havent personally defended the need for peripheral dots up to now, i can understand/see that sometimes they are too obvious, but i also think that they are there for a reason and taking them out should not be done lightly.

I gave you beans simply cause you have stepped up; and Enforcer probably confused you with the OP

Anyways, good ridance, that's why the Alt (and evend 3rd person view) is there, so the dots are useless for Dayz (not for Arma though).

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