Scrotacus 42, on 28 August 2013 - 01:56 PM, said:
I still had a hard time seeing the real advantage.....it seems like a lot of the time the stuff you could see on the other side of the hill would have been still possible to see from within the cockpit.
tbh, i am not sure if it is smart form me to answer you on this, this thread isn't abotu that topic and probably should not be. However, in the very beginning, you can see and hear him telling his guys where they are going. You can see enemey mechs walking bewteen the buildings, with no red triangle above them. The triangles appear, once oyu cann see those enemys from your cockpit.
Sure, one can argue, they might be under ECM, but then skip to about 1 minute into the video.
He can see the catapult, but it is not marked with a triangle, so actually no one has line of sight to it, or it is ECM guarded. As soon as he steps up the ridge, the triangle appears and he can lock it.
That's a situation where he got a HUGE advantage with 3pv. He was able to look over the ridge without getting shot. If you'd do the exact same thing in 1pv you'd die and peope would yell at you for being stupid and doing a facecheck without a scout - and they'd be right.
So there it is, a HUGE advantage gained through 3pv - this is the reason why people didn't want it or wanted a 1pv only queue and this is why people are raging now.
Edited by Elder Thorn, 28 August 2013 - 02:12 PM.