I tried finding another thread that answered this, but couldn’t find it. Even googled it and found nothing, so I apologize if this has already been answered.
I’m not sure what is going on, but has anyone else noticed that some players have radar while others don’t? Not trying to complain, just trying to understand how some players have this MAJOR advantage over other players.
I just know that two days ago I was doing very well with 15, 16 kills a match. tonight I get on and I’ve been relegated to under 10 while others are getting 25+.
I started a match that was short a few people. When other teammates started joining I noticed it was getting peculiarly harder to sneak up on them, not to mention they seemed to know where I was.
I started watching replays and noticed that when I was getting 'head-shott’ed that there was a red arrow DIRECTLY pointing at me even if I wasn’t in view. All the killing player had to do was to turn and follow the arrow. I didn’t think that particular advantage didn’t kick in until the specializations, but a SR-7 had it.
When I tried to ask the player how he got it he didn’t answer and immediately quit out of matchmaking. So this brought up my curiosity. I went and reviewed the match and not only did he, but his teammate(they both had the same TAG) had radar and where using it to hunt us down. Upon further review I noticed that the player who joined our team had it as well.
Was this a promo or pre-order where you gain radar in SWAT for an advantage? Or is it some kind of glitch?
*And if it is a glitch I don’t expect anyone using it to fess up either.
I’d guess it’s a glitch or mod of the stalker(?) specialization which lets you see the last person you killed. Either way you can’t get the legit version til level 50+ preorder or not. I would do the little report thingy on their profiles.
Please understand I am not trying to complain. I love this game as I have loved And still own ALL of the HALOs. I just want to know so I don’t play SWAT anymore until, if it is a glitch, it’s fixed.
Too bad too, SWAT was one of my favorites from REACH and I was excited to see it back. I’d hate to think that some sort of promotion is ruining it for those who don’t have RADAR(if it is a promotion).
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I’ve never reported one player, let alone THREE. How do I do that?
Just so you know, that’s normal for everyone. If you kill someone in Swat then their kill cam will show you having a little red arrow above your spartan. No cheating, no special give away. Also, you can hear people running and walking. So obviously you can’t walk up on them without them hearing you, especially if they are wearing a surround sound gaming headset. It’s also easy to know someones location from watching kill cams and from knowing the area where you last got shot.
I assure you that you aren’t walking around with an arrow over your head. Only in kill cams.
Okay, thanks. Answers the red arrow over my head in kill replays.
But it still doesn’t answer the question how three of the players had RADAR when I watched the match replay in Theater.
The other players don’t show RADAR, only those three players.
How do they have RADAR when we are in a SWAT match?
Perhaps the RADAR is just for the Theater? I could be wrong because I haven’t made a point to specifically remember, but check and see, and I’ll do the same. As mentioned before, Spartans walk loudly enough to give themselves away IF the enemy has their TV loud enough. With a standard volume setting, they probably wont hear you.
It is a glitch with the join in progress system. You can join swat with radar and you can join flood and be a human with an assault rifle not a shotgun. they have problems with the join in progress system but the will not address it till at the earliest Feb when the title update comes out
> Perhaps the RADAR is just for the Theater? I could be wrong because I haven’t made a point to specifically remember, but check and see, and I’ll do the same. As mentioned before, Spartans walk loudly enough to give themselves away IF the enemy has their TV loud enough. With a standard volume setting, they probably wont hear you.
I know this is old but it is driving me nuts. 343 do something about this. There is some kind of Radar cheat being used in Halo 4 SWAT that involves a red arrow being over enemy heads.
There are three reasons I know this is not just the kill cam.
I have watched my opponent track that arrow when I was behind a wall where there could have had no idea I was there. I wasn’t moving, I wasn’t talking but they were aimed at that red arrow long before I actually moved because I heard THEM moving.
In more than one video you can see the red arrow over the rest of my team. Why would the kill cam show where the rest of my team is?
The arrow only appears with some players, not all. If it was part if the kill cam feature, shouldn’t it always be there?
I play mostly swat and have begun keeping track. 75% of the games I play involve this cheat.