Well I kinda figured out that there had to be no link between the viewing distance and what the AI "sences". That's why I do all I can to prevent the game from beeing "laggy" since I prefere playing with a view distance of 2000-2500 as a minimum since there is nothig more enoying than being killed by something that is not rendered on you screen, which makes it invisible and invinsible. I mentioned it above, and you said it your self
OMG, put that sniper dude on a hill, and he will have you crawling from 800 Meters!
I allso did some testing a while ago and when it comes to SNIPERS which have no radar it seems to be of some importence what kinda riffle he has got.
1. If he has a "light" riffle like the M21 or Dragonov and you are standing on a plane dersert with a Clear Line of Sight, he will as you say have you dancing from 800. He would most likely hit/kill you with the first 2 shots.
2. Same weapon config but with you in a window of a 3 or more story building, he will have have to cirlce you in, in most cases, after he gets aware of you. Then he typically uses 4-6 shots to claim he's trophy, that is if you dont move to much.
3. Now equip him with a heavy girl like HK MSG90 or HK PSG1, he will get very nasty even if you are behind a window. Now to make shure of my distance to the sniper I have measured him out by having a sec. unit in my group and pointing at him. I have been killed from 876m!! Single shot, severel times even when I was standing in a window, which makes me much harder to spot. If you are in the open it dos'nt seem to matter if you are standing walking running crawling, or driving an open or closed vehicle. He will in a very professionel manner make you sit and goble in your own blod, with a single shot in your head any where below 800.
So since we can't alter to much in AI Snipers "Radar" without making him unrealistic or plain dumb, I guess we will have to see which changes there is to come in the future. But if anybody have an idea how to do anything to the TANK Radar, I am just as curius as M_S_Holder to get my hands on some info.
[RT]SuperTron