Wait a minute. It turns out that the "Hide my teammate names" under interface settings isn't bugged. you CANNOT remove teammate names in unranked/ranked BUT, you can do it in casual. I thought it was bugged for the longest time as I never play with it on, but in ranked its on.
So basically its FORCED on even if you have it as "Off" whenever you are in a "competitive" game-mode aka unranked/ranked where as in quick match it acts normally so if you take it off, its off
Ubisoft is effectively forcing this feature onto their playerbase after 6 years of it working "correctly" and STILL giving us the option to disable it but it wont work. I have been reporting this as a bug for the past 2 months to my contact in Ubi, and even they didnt know
Dont get me wrong, this isnt a big deal at all. It's rather minor. but it makes NO FUCKING SENSE what so ever, and its just more "wtf is going on" added to the fiesta.
@Pengu You don't see the nicknames when you are in a drone it seems to me, even in ranked
@Pengu Must be rough, my teammates names setting works fine in ranked
@Pengu it’s extremely annoying - i’m never going to call out teammates by their ingame name, but instead their real name if i know them or their operator if i don’t :( i hate having name tags on