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[Kottonmouth]

I like the idea of being able to ride around with my teammates dead ghost style. I imagine I will be playing mostly with a set group and will want to stick around and see how they do. However, for the public masses this might not work. Let us stay and watch to the end of the match, if we choose to. If you don't want to ride along with teammates, you should have to option to bail out and go find another match.

For the hardcore out there look at it this way, I imagine that a great deal of those dieing soon and then bailing out will be the less developed mechwarriors out there (read as "cannon fodder"), now with such a system each one could die upwards of 3 or 4 times in the amount of time needed to win a single match. If all them are doing this, they are having more fun and probably learning more through trial and error PLUS it acts as an easy kill multiplier. Everyone wins.

Unless you don't like winning. Then you lose. But losing for you is a win. So tough luck.

[Tazzie]

Necrodemus, on 26 June 2012 - 09:26 PM, said:

I'm not sure why this would be considered a penalty. It's a gameplay mechanic.

Gridian explained it better than me... It's a penalty only if you are forced to watch the match for the remainder of the match and unable to join another match etc. it may be interesting to be a spectator on day one but as time goes on...?

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There is no respawn except in the previously mentioned (but not yet implemented) extended matches where you may have a dropship full of 'Mechs overhead. If you just want to respawn and play then there are a number of other F2P games available.

Not quite sure what you are getting at here?

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Regarding cutting your losses.... I'm under the impression that you will be able to log out of the match and get in another 'Mech (if you have one) and join another match. I could be wrong. There's really no alternative for this type of game.

This is exactly what I was getting at and obviously failed to communicate effectively.

[Robovski]

I'm with the spectate or join a new fight crowd (in a different mech). In fact, I can't find it at the moment, but I'm pretty sure the ability to go to a new fight I inferred from a dev Q&A answer about the Founder pack - that is, having the 4 mechs means you will always have something to keep earning with.

I like spectating if things are going good or I'm learning the map or checking out someone's style, but sometimes I just want to get back to playing.

[Schtirlitz]

Devs mentioned there will be spectate only for your team.

[Robovski]

VOIP being 3rd party, that is somewhat abusable (like in a certain Tank game). That is just a fact of life though.

[KitLightning]

VOIP always has been an exploit, though that's only if the "dead" player can spectate the others while the battle is still active. It really doesn't matter if the "dead" player only can see the battle from his own teams side or not, its an extra set of eyes on the field that are not hindered by having to fight or concentrate on eventual combatants.
Never would I conform to such activity available during a clan match, its a bad can of worms waiting to erupt, and can cause a very bad atmosphere between players with accusations etc.

Nah when you die I'd go for this any day:

KitLightning, on 04 June 2012 - 04:45 AM, said:

When you die the screen goes black and a little man, hmm and a rather recognizable one may I say, dressed in a fluffy suit wielding a sturdy teddy-bear in one hand and a lollipop in the other appears, asking if you have been a nice boy. If you say yes and the answer is accepted he will start dancing his well known boogie-woogie moves from the 70's and hands you his lollipop, and with a firm facial expression he tells you to "DO NOT LICK IT before you enter the purple room to the left". However if the answer is wrong, oh dear you are not going to like that, cause he will take out his lollipop, lick hard on it and, well I can't go further into it cause its a rather sticky affair, specially the part where he intentionally starts hugging the teddy's head ...

[John411]

Bloodweaver, on 26 June 2012 - 08:25 PM, said:

Spectate sounds like a dirty word, and the beer doesn't help.

According to what I've read, at this point you're limited to viewing from your teammates' cockpits. Might change.

I don't know man, spectating from someone elses cockpit sounds even dirtier.

[Tooninki]

Hobgoblin13, on 26 June 2012 - 08:18 PM, said:

Well...I hear the is a bright light and you see family. But if your really bad you go to this bad place named california.

Bright light, yes theres one BIG bright light when your Mechs reactor goes BOOM!


But i would stay away from that light...

Edited by Tooninki, 26 June 2012 - 11:33 PM.