The enemy team does not need to be aware of the captains identity before 90 seconds have passed. Removing the visibility of the captains identity for enemy players during the “free respawn” time will remove confusion of players who do not know about the details of the current iteration of combat recon.
Also it would fix a bug, where the “Downed a Captain” is not always awarded for killing a captain.
TLDR:
Remove the visibility of the captain icon for the first 90 seconds for enemy players
Grant the damage buff after the first 90 seconds have past (thanks Katovskiy for the hint)
Hmmm, sounds interesting, but it will change the tactic in this mode significantly. Right now we are thinking about Detonation changes, combat recon is already good enough.