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[Black Fish]

So I had the ol' familiar crash right when the 'mech starting sequence' started. I quickly relaunched and rejoined to find that I left the physical mech and became a ghost!
flying across the map like I was in a map editor!
here are images (sadly the map was oriented to the mech):

My Battlemaster on the bottom right corner


for some reason the cockpit is showing through the mech (probably the place where it's spirit was released)


passing through terrain

[MerryIguana]

Had the same thing happen last weekend. Free look spectating was really cool, add it already PGI.

[El Bandito]

Can you still communicate with your team? Will be a good spotter for sure.

[Wiley Coyote]

Out-of-mech-experience? Could you pass through other mechs?

[Black Fish]

I was able to use chat, but since the layout was oriented to the 'mech it was hard to figure where I was (I eventually resolved to calling the enemy 'green cataphract' etc.)

[Reitrix]

Black Fish, on 21 March 2015 - 10:42 PM, said:

I was able to use chat, but since the layout was oriented to the 'mech it was hard to figure where I was (I eventually resolved to calling the enemy 'green cataphract' etc.)

And this is precisely the reason we will never get it as a proper spectate mode.

All it will do, especially in group queue is have one guy drop in an armorless Locust, run full speed into the enemy, get torn to shreds then spectate and call out enemy positions over voice comms.

Would it be cool? absolutely.
Would it be used primarily as a "Satelite" view of the battlefield for the benefit of their own team? Absolutely.

So we will never get it.

[Cyborne Elemental]

Which is exactly why text chat and Voice comms should be disabled upon death.

[Reitrix]

Mister D, on 22 March 2015 - 02:28 AM, said:

Which is exactly why text chat and Voice comms should be disabled upon death.

TeamSpeak, Skype, Ventrillo, etc.

Can't prevent people talking or chatting with outside programs.

The only way it would work is if the Enemy 'mechs were invisible to the spectator unless it is targeted by a friendly.

[stjobe]

Black Fish, on 20 March 2015 - 05:41 AM, said:

for some reason the cockpit is showing through the mech (probably the place where it's spirit was released)

The reason for this is - that's how our 'mechs actually look. The cockpit is a separate object, often larger than would fit in the 3D 'mech model, and positioned so that we get a good view "out of" the 'mech no matter how bizarre the head/cockpit arrangement.

The cockpit is usually invisible to everyone though, and can only be seen from the inside.

[Alakan]

You can fix it by leaving the match again and rejoining. IF your mech survives until you get back.

[White Bear 84]

El Bandito, on 20 March 2015 - 06:07 AM, said:

Can you still communicate with your team? Will be a good spotter for sure.

God mode so OP.

[Escef]

Black Fish, on 20 March 2015 - 05:41 AM, said:

for some reason the cockpit is showing through the mech (probably the place where it's spirit was released)

If I were to venture a guess, those areas of your mechs geometry that aren't rendered are because they are somehow still tagged as not being viewable because the client still considers you alive and in the cockpit. I suppose it gets you extra fractional frame per second.