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[Piney II]

When I'm dead, I'll watch the rest of the match, but I keep my mouth shut.

[wanderer]

If that was the case, then you wouldn't see folks in the channel, with {DEAD} next to their names.

You're the same people who used to whine about legging being "dishonorable", too.

Space gundams do not have e-honor. That leads to white knights who crusade against back shots, uneven teams when you nuked their suicide light 30 seconds into the game, and combining peanut butter with plutonium in unlicensed nuclear particle accelerators.

[Davers]

Danny Fubar Col 21C RHG, on 27 January 2014 - 11:29 PM, said:

I agree 100%!
The Dead Spectating should have no in game chat what so ever!

If you take away the ability to chat in game than only players using 3rd party communications will be able to talk. Bad idea.

[Carcass23]

Giving out any information about the enemy team is cheating, coaching on basic concepts that give no intel is not cheating.

[Darth Futuza]

Danny Fubar Col 21C RHG, on 27 January 2014 - 11:29 PM, said:

I agree 100%!
The Dead Spectating should have no in game chat what so ever!

Ewww...how boring. If we're going to go by that logic that we should introduce permadeath. If you die, your account is deleted. Realism at its best.

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As a spectator I tend to take over as a commander, offering the team advice of where to move to, call out armor stripped enemy mechs, call out targets to lrm boats, advise which resource to cap first/last etc...

Also I enjoy chatting up with other dead spectators.

[Colonel Fubar]

Com's should be turned off for Dead spectators for this very reason.

[xMintaka]

Carcass23, on 29 January 2014 - 08:16 AM, said:

Giving out any information about the enemy team is cheating, coaching on basic concepts that give no intel is not cheating.

The enemy players can do the exact same thing. So no, it's not cheating. You must assume that a dead enemy is doing the exact same thing.

Anyway, who's to say that when you die you don't magically become Mech Command?

[Edustaja]

If playing solo I usually switch mechs and level another one.

[Remarius]

Danny Fubar Col 21C RHG, on 08 March 2014 - 11:53 AM, said:

Com's should be turned off for Dead spectators for this very reason.

Some threads are full of sad people who need to get a life.....

Stop posting such drivel in the New Player Help sub forum.

Edited by Remarius, 10 March 2014 - 12:52 AM.

[Mycrus]

But but I like to RP that I went to mechhalla and then rage quit.

[LiGhtningFF13]

Do it the Battlefield Style:Shout/Write in general chat: CHEATER or HACKER found !

[IraqiWalker]

Danny Fubar Col 21C RHG, on 27 January 2014 - 11:29 PM, said:

I agree 100%!
The Dead Spectating should have no in game chat what so ever!

That makes no sense. See even when a pilot ejects, they still have the comms system on their helmets. Not to mention that most of what we type is usually things we would have communicated immediately instead of 3 minutes later after dying, because the comms system in this game is non-existent.

Also, keep in mind this is a GAME, we're supposed to help each other learn how to play it better, so that we could all have fun. You might want to play with full immersion, or god knows what, but more than 50% of the player population don't really care about that.

Even games like counter strike allowed spectator mode, in fact it allowed us to have free roam cameras in spectator mode, and I don't care how competitive you think you are, you're not even 30% as competitive as counter strike players are, and you don't hear them complaining about it.

Plus, it doesn't harm you or your team if your opponent's spectators help their guys. You keep playing right, and you'd win, if you don't, and lose, then regardless of whether their spectators helped them or not, you were never going to win.

[Colonel Fubar]

IraqiWalker, on 10 March 2014 - 06:21 AM, said:

That makes no sense. See even when a pilot ejects, they still have the comms system on their helmets. Not to mention that most of what we type is usually things we would have communicated immediately instead of 3 minutes later after dying, because the comms system in this game is non-existent.

Also, keep in mind this is a GAME, we're supposed to help each other learn how to play it better, so that we could all have fun. You might want to play with full immersion, or god knows what, but more than 50% of the player population don't really care about that.

Even games like counter strike allowed spectator mode, in fact it allowed us to have free roam cameras in spectator mode, and I don't care how competitive you think you are, you're not even 30% as competitive as counter strike players are, and you don't hear them complaining about it.

Plus, it doesn't harm you or your team if your opponent's spectators help their guys. You keep playing right, and you'd win, if you don't, and lose, then regardless of whether their spectators helped them or not, you were never going to win.

You sound like a self-full filling prophecy, good luck with that.

[Egomane]

Please take your agenda about changing game functions elsewhere. I suggest feature suggestion, as it belongs exactly there.

[Furiel]

I will support turning off in-game chat for dead players as soon as MWO is able to isolate and turn off the 3rd party voice comms for all dead players as well. Otherwise it's hippocritical because all it does is make life even more difficult for PUG drops because it further restricts their communication options while enhancing the communications advantage pre-mades have.

If you are going to try to keep the "dead" from communicating you need to take an all or nothing approach, otherwise you're just being a hippocrit. And since I'm pretty sure PGI isn't going to be able to get permissions to be able to mute voice chat on external servers you might as well quit while you are behind.

[Felio]

Just be aware there's a fine line between relaying intel and playing armchair general.

Well, it's not all that fine of a line. But it does get crossed from time to time...

[Tarfu503]

I saw this (dead spectating ) backfire once, sort of. It was the end of the match one mech, a shadowhawk, was left who everyone thought was a dc. They told the other team where it was. It had no damage and was idle. As the first enemy approached the mech sprang to life blasted it (a jenner) and took out the the remaining two as they came in one at a time. "Sorry telephone call" he messaged.

[Fang01]

I really dont want to hear anything that a one minute wonder zombie napoleon has to say.

[BlackDeathLegion]

Best thing I do, once Im dead is:
QUIT MATCH, then select a different Mech and drop into a NEW GAME!

[ImperialKnight]

what you can do and what you should do are completely unrelated.

best thing to do when dead if you're staying to the end is to help out team mates by coordinating through chat. if you're grinding, just d/c out and go to your next mech.

is coordinating while dead cheating? not according to the rules of MWO. if it were, the function would be disabled and/or it would be spelled out in the code of conduct.

if it's your personal belief that it's cheating, feel free to spectate quietly. but don't try to tell people it's cheating, because it's clearly not, in this game.