Multiplayer name tags are disappearing when a player is more than 5km away from you. I’ve not seen a soul in the beta until I did some flying with a friend tonight and that’s when the bug became apparent.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
every flight.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
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Start a flight, preferably with a friend to test
Have the friend fly more than 5km away from you and watch their name tag disappear
I noticed that during the MS Community flight on Friday as well. The nameplates were only visible from a distance of about 10 km, but on the EFB map, the multiplayer aircraft were visible from greater distances. And there were only 3 multiplayer aircraft, so there was no hiding due to a large number.
Had this today with 1.6.7.0 in FlyInFriday as well, could see planes on the efb map, but needed to get like to around 2nm close to them to actually see the nameplates.
It seems the name tag draw distance is back to 5 NM at least in the current iteration (.18) of the SU4 beta. Please don’t make us suffer through that again. 100 NM or more please.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Every time traffic goes past a nominal value of 5 NM, the nametag disappear. (It’ll roll over 5 but never over 6, and if you catch up to it, it’ll never pop in at 5 NM or more, maybe 4)
REPRODUCTION STEPS
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Load into the sim with multiplayer enabled, with a friend/group for easier testing
Slew or fly away from the traffic. Notice traffic tag will disappear slightly after the 5NM point. Tag will disappear before 6NM
YOUR SETTINGS
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[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No
[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX 3060ti 8GB
[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? None
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<insert video of traffic in front rolling over 5 NM range, then disappears>
The last 3 iterations I believe. The release notes for the previous iteration stated it as fixed but it wasn’t and it’s still 5nm in this most recent .11 update
Multiplayer traffic including the traffic tag does not render past the 5NM point. This bug was rectified in an earlier version of the sim (I think SU1 or SU2) but is now back in SU4 beta. Traffic tags should be rendered to a much greater distance, I believe SU3 renders it to maybe 100NM?
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
This bug happens all the time.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
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Load into the sim with multiplayer enable and next to another multiplayer aircraft. Needs to be less than 5NM.
Slew or fly away from the traffic. Notice traffic tag will disappear slightly after the 5NM point. Tag will disappear before 6NM
YOUR SETTINGS
If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.
What peripherals are you using:
[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No
[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX 3070
[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
MEDIA
Screenshot not available as it would just be a blank screenshot when the bug occurs.