Quicksilver Kalasa, on 19 February 2016 - 10:16 AM, said:
The higher up you begin to play, the less most of this matters.
Don't get me wrong, it is still useful, but not near as useful as predator vision was.
I would rather say it is the exact way around.
A high level player will have learned how to spot mech silhouettes from the terrain, not requiring any visual help and also be able to precisely hit it. Also the reason why you see so little 4x zoom in tier 1.
On the other way around a low level guy will get very little advantage from a good long look at your paperdoll, he most likely will not have the knowledge of how to take advantage off the defficiencies in your build (very hot, short range etc) and in many cases not even be able to focus cored components. But should you be seen with an entirely cored out st on an xl friendly mech in a tier 1 game you can be certain to not have a pleasent round remaining, every hostile will be itching to shoot that side off the next time chasis x pops up behind some hill.
The higher you get the more important information warfare becomes.