It has almost 0 effect on me and my teammates. It's called situational awareness, learn to use your eyes and not only rely on a mini-map. If you are in a group communicate. Even if you are in a pug which I do often, its still not that much of a hindrance.
I come from heavy playing of Battlefield 3, CoD, Halo, CSS and so on, all of which you rely heavily on your mini-map. Which is where im guessing most the players who are complaining about it are coming from. These are players who heavily rely on their mini map. Learn to change. Seriously, ECM is not overpowered even if the entire enemy team has it.
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I don't get it, I do a ton of pugging also without groups, still dont have a problem with it. Even if we lose Ill usually end up near the top of the list and our loss is usually from being a PUG and lack of communication, not because the other team had more ECM.
People, ECM is perfectly fine. Does anybody agree with me?
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Communication is why your losing, not ECM. (ECM is just the new excuse)
If you are in a PUG vs PUG it should be as simple as typing. Just a little type work like "Stick together", "Push" or w/e will win a match in a PUG vs PUG along with some situational awareness.
If you are in a PUG vs Pre-made then your loss is not because of ECM its because they have a better platform to communicate on. However, PUGS look at it as "they had more ECM so they won" not the fact that the soul reason they won was because of better communicational ability.
If you are in a Pre-made vs Pre-made then it just comes down to communication + skill. How well can your team communicate and work together compared to the other team. You also should have a little situational awareness.
Edited by Unstruck Fury, 16 December 2012 - 10:09 AM.