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This clip is made on latest beta version 0.14 beta 3 hotfix, I'm not sure if this is a bug or intentional, so I'm putting it in feedback, and not in bugs for now.
What the clip shows is enemies seemingly detecting me by just checking my laser sight is on. If it's not intentional this might be happening bcs it's 7:20 AM in game time, and perhaps game thinks it's still night. But If that's intentional choice, I think it needs to be toned way down and/or made way more nuanced.
It makes sense I guess to be detected by using a flashlight at night, but even then, I think enemies should immediately lose you if you turn it off, because of how dark it is at night in the forest, unless they all have built in NVGs (and we still don't have access to them btw). I've attached a screenshot to remind ppl how the night in the forest without a light source looks like, although they might think it's just a black square.
But coming back to laser sights, just turning on my laser sight while pointing it at my own feet during broad daylight should NOT result in me being swarmed by every single enemy in the nearest vicinity who somehow instantly pinpoints my exact location. This just looks ridiculous, not realistic, makes laser sights completely worthless, and even worse, into a noob trap for people who do not realize how much attention they bring to them.
As for enemy aggression, I think enemies detecting me this way in the stable build wouldn't be as egregious, because at least rifle mimics usually held their positions and shot at me from long range, while in this build every single enemy just swarmed me all at once. If their aggression level is also intentional, the rules should be much more fair. And if it's technically impossible for them to realistically react to laser sights, I rather have them not react at all. Enemies in this game aren't even human after all, them being a bit more oblivious would not break my immersion nearly as much as what I'm showing in this clip.
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