Spotting
Making an enemy vehicle visible to your whole team, which is what turns a position into a target.
Also known as spot, lighting up, detection.
Nothing can be shot at until it is spotted. The game runs vision checks between the spotting vehicle's viewpoints and points on the target: if a line of sight exists and the distance is inside the target's detection range, the target is revealed to the entire team.
A spot lasts while the check keeps succeeding, plus a few seconds of grace after it stops, which is the window in which a vehicle that has broken line of sight is still shootable.
Damage dealt to a target you spotted is credited to you as assistance, which is how the contribution of a scout is measured at all.
Related terms
View rangeHow far a vehicle can spot enemies, in metres, capped at 445 metres no matter how high the figure climbs.CamouflageA vehicle's concealment value, which shortens the distance at which it can be spotted.Assistance damageDamage an ally dealt to a target the player spotted or tracked, credited to the player who made the shot possible.Proximity spottingThe rule that any vehicle within 50 metres is spotted regardless of concealment, as long as line of sight exists.Passive scoutingSpotting from a stationary concealed position, using view range and camouflage rather than speed.