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[Appogee]

The most important thing to do while dead and spectating is harangue and mock your live team mates for their poor aiming and piloting skills.

This makes them try harder and increases your team's chance of winning.

[o0Marduk0o]

Thought you have to d/c right after dying? At least this is what ppl are doing in my matches...

[TheArcher]

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.

Giving information on the enemy is exactly what the pilot you're spectating would be doing, if this game had full in-game voice comms like most other team games I see. So all dead people are doing is being voice comm substitutes.

Outing an AFK's location is bad. I have seen several people guard base by playing AFK.

Outing a DC is ok *if* it won't affect the outcome. (I have seen one case where it did matter. Conquest, down to 1v1. The player for the team winning on Resources DCs. One of his teammates globals the location. If the last living player had listened, the DC would've been killed. The last player did not listen, however, so the winning team wound up with 1 DC and the rest Dead.)

[Darth Futuza]

Sometimes I allow myself to die off early so I can focus on giving my team information/directing their tactics (of course I don't do this on purpose, usually its something like suicide marches that result in 2 of their deaths and my own death - so its totally worth it). I don't feel guilty at all. It helps us win and it makes the game actually have strategy.

[Steinar Bergstol]

Dead backseat drivers. Are they more annoying than your nagging mother in law? Tonight on 60 Minutes.

[Throe]

Sadistic Savior, on 27 September 2013 - 06:38 AM, said:

No. Technically, it is kinda cheating. You are blabbing about stuff your character would normally not know.

I can't speak to what the point of spectator mode is, I'm not sure the devs have really given a clear statement on what they planned players to use it for.

However, your statement is only true if this is a role playing game. It is not a role playing game, it is a 'Mech combat simulator.

[Darth Futuza]

Steinar Bergstol, on 18 March 2014 - 03:23 PM, said:

Dead backseat drivers. Are they more annoying than your nagging mother in law? Tonight on 60 Minutes.

Hey its better then no driver at all.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Darth Futuza, on 19 March 2014 - 01:22 PM, said:

Hey its better then no driver at all.

Sometimes