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[Belorion]

Ever just need to take a deep breath... you all are freaking out over nothing.

[MischiefSC]

To clarify for those who didn't see 3PV in the tests -

You can't see your own mech that well. It's a poor vanity view.

It doesn't help with orientation of your leg/torso. In fact it's more confusing; you get close to a wall and your camera view gets mushed up.

What it does do, and do well, is let you see over hills and around corners and it takes very little skill to tap F4 to stop, identify what mechs are where without exposing yourself, what sort of mech they are, what direction they're facing and a bit about their loadout before tapping again and moving on.

What it will also do is tell the other teams exactly where your team is so even if you never use 3PV if the guy on your team following you is your position is totally blown.

It's not even like MW3/MW4 where 3PV was just the superior method of play. You played in 3PV to be competitive and 1PV was there for tryhards and singleplayer scenarios.

No, this is an amazing approach of taking 3PV/1PV mixed play.... and making it worse. I'm speechless.

[Appogee]

Didn't they swear 1PV players could opt out of playing against 3PV players?

I don't see that option. Or is that managed by the MatchMaker depending on whether you toggle it on by default or not?

[Sparkymarkyp]

Thank God for Domino's Two for Tuesday on Patch days

[Deathlike]

Almond Brown, on 20 August 2013 - 10:24 AM, said:

Some of them might read the Patch Notes perhaps.

I've seen people demonstrate over time that this doesn't happen often enough. Even some of the guys I play with ask "what has changed"... not to say they are ignorant... but even Blizzard patches force feed you patch notes so you have no excuse.

[Destructicus]

Deathlike, on 20 August 2013 - 10:20 AM, said:

Instead of the iceberg for the Titanic, we have a waterfall. Full speed ahead!

"It was the sim of dreams"
♫♫♫
NEAR
FAR
WHERE EVER YOU ARE, I'LL SEE YOU WITH 3PPOV
ONCE
MORE
PGI LIES A LITTLE MORE
♫♫♫



Titanic Theme by candlelit recorder

Edited by Destructicus, 20 August 2013 - 10:28 AM.

[Chronojam]

Deathlike, on 20 August 2013 - 10:20 AM, said:

Instead of the iceberg for the Titanic, we have a waterfall. Full speed ahead!

Lots of cheering just before hitting bottom?

[Rascula]

(Holds breath and awaits even more exciting ranting from the over-excitable fan base who can actually type or use a computer for anything other than shooting frikken lazors...!!)

[Straylight]

A note about 3PV:

The point is to help newbies with situational awareness as it pertains to how a 'mech moves in its environment. If it accomplishes that ("oh, I see, so which way my legs are pointing is where I move, but I can look around independent of that. So it's like WoT, not CS"), and encourages them to switch to 1PV once they get the basics down, then I'd say working as intended.

[Pig On The Wings]

Just yesterday was thinking that it would be cool to try a 3d view and its here. Thanx Guys!

[Farpenoodle]

I can understand why the split queues aren't in yet. And largely this patch seems positive. But making 3PV the default view new people start in leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I think I can understand why you guys would think it's a good idea but it's not. Because of the minimap, people who learn the game on 3PV only are learning a fundamentally different version of the game than we are. They're not going to understand what "head to E4" means until someone explains it to them. Because it's default many of them are never going to know how superior 1PV is for aiming and think it's normal for their crosshair to be jumping all over the place. Which is more likely to turn people off rather than what I assume to be your desired effect by doing this. It's great that they can use it as a learning tool and even as an entirely valid way to play then game, but the game is primarily designed around 1PV and you should be enforcing that.

[TitanFall]

PGI, i just want say thank you for all!
Nice patch, the game is not perfect at all but awsome to play now!

- Project Phoenix: done
- Sarah's mech: done

<3 this nice community

Sorry for bad englich im from switzerland.

[Coralld]

My fear is that you will be able to see over cover safely, see whats on the other side with out exposing your self, then switch to 1PV and then pop up, fire, move back, go back into 3PV. This WILL happen.

[Ransack]

Sparkymarkyp, on 20 August 2013 - 10:14 AM, said:

Surprised they haven't mentioned the Kintaro CT fix - said this was being done today but nothing about it on today's message (so far).

Will it be in....

nope, that's next month

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This is just a quick message to say we're working on a fix for the Kintaro's CT taking most of the incoming damage, and it will be going live on the September 3rd patch! So take heart, Kintaro lovers, your fix approaches!

Edited by Ransack, 20 August 2013 - 10:30 AM.

[Almond Brown]

Squarefox, on 20 August 2013 - 10:12 AM, said:

3rd Person?? WTF? The community voted serveral times against this (with ~ 90% against 3rd person) and you just bring this? Ok, you just told me, that you don't want money from me anymore.

Dude. That 90% was this Forum. The "MWO Community" at large, is not the same as this BT GEEK fest.

[Takony]

This is exactly the laughable crap that was expected. Oh and where are the separate queues for 1PV and 3PV? ****.

[scJazz]

So where are the patch noooooo.... I mean ohhh I like it. Lots of neat content, fixes and The Dreaded 3POV!

[New Day]

Viper69, on 20 August 2013 - 09:54 AM, said:

I am as casual as it gets and I never play any game in 3pv. Unless you are using the term "Casual" in a different way than its actual meaning. Casual does not equal new or inexperienced or even dumb, it means we are not serious. Which is funny because most serious competetive gamers are the ones who take advantage of a 3pv in any game they can access it. Go ahead and tell me I am wrong

ALERT, ALERT. Casual players now spend 120$ on non existent games and have over 4000 posts on forums
Average players or whatever, you know what I meant.

Edited by NamesAreStupid, 20 August 2013 - 10:30 AM.

[Robin Wolf]

John MatriX82, on 20 August 2013 - 10:04 AM, said:

Am I right? I think so..

That's a problem with a lot of people around here...

[Chill Bill]

Virus Skin - YES! FINALLY!