Snipers are getting nerfed next update on daytime maps
The system uses goggles fitted with two selectable filters, alongside a beam shaper that can be mounted on any kind of pointing laser, allowing operators to actively scan for hostile optics.
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“For example, if you are out in the woods and you shine a flashlight around at night, you see deer, you see coyotes and other animals looking at you. This does the exact same thing, except that it identifies optics that are looking at you.”
Ok this is technically credible defense but it reads like a Call Of Duty/Battlefield/Battlebit balance patch.
Sounds like a real self defeating tool, If it emits it can be detected.
And someone figures out a way to fabricate a cheap decoy that they can scatter across the battlefield
Like a handful of cheap lazer pointers zip tied to tree branches.
Or any of the existing anti-reflection devices already in use.
Or they fabricate cheap wireless (or wired ie optic fibre) eyes that they scatter across the Battlefield.
You could then use these systems to provide direct and indirect fire coordinates.
Updated versions of what the US scattered across Vietnam during Operation Igloo White
Shit you could probably just do seismic sensors now without any optical or microphone system and it would provide a heap of data.