It's still an unfair advantage. You might not be able to shoot in 3rd person, but merely using it to see over a hill or building is enough to give you an edge.

I personally would prefer 3rd person, I love to see the beauty of the mech in all along with the environment.

Ya thats, a good advantage. If the 4 added views get in the cockpit it would help finding infrantry and elementals but not very well. Swarms of elementals work on getting rid of mechs, Why? Because mechwarriors have a limited view. 3rd person would help mechs avoid swarms of elementals way too easily. Elementals aren't that fast with there tiny legs. There jump jets can make them go faster but there not enough to chase a mech. Also, a swarm of elementals would get blasted way to quickly if the mech pilot could see them all. Elementals use the ambush tactic against mechs. If mechs have 3rd person view they would be more likely to not run into a trap of elementals.

Just look at the current VTOL and helicopter in Crysis. In first person your more unaware of incoming rocket attacks. In 3rd person you can see almost every thing and it makes it easier to find infrantry to shoot.

3rd person view can be taken advantage the most as a camper or defender hiding behind an object or hill out of radar range. One of the reasons why jump sniping was so effective is because they could see over the object, hill, and there attackers can't. This gave the jump snipers a visual of there attackers first which means when they pop over the hill they know exactly where to aim and shoot first(unfair information). The attackers will have no time to counter act the jump snipers shots or even have the chance to stop them from happening because the jump sniper would of already shot them and is already descending back into there hiding place. If they didn't have third person view they would have to show them self's for awhile to get a visual or look around for something to shoot at. That time where there looking around will give attackers there chance to counter act the sniper but if they miss it boo hoo you get shot.

Don't tell me that just because you guys nerf jump sniping by adding recoil that'll be the end of it. you don't really need jump jets to shoot over a hill. 3rd person view can still be used to get information(unfair). "Information is ammo" like the cartoon episodes of Battletech, said. yes, I watched it on youtube. A mech fast enough to get it's self over and back over the hill is more then capable of full filling this job. The real advantage is the 3rd person view not the jump jets.


Everyone can do it but it's better used while sniping. 3rd person view makes sniping more effective then other tactics on the battlefield. Sense, it's more effective it is more used because it guarantees more kills and lesser deaths. Soon the battlefield will be filled with snipers almost completely and all the game will be is sniping. Then the game will become boring because all it is, is sniping.  Thats what happened in MW4.

I think 3rd person view should never be optional for online players, but only for spectators. First person with the added 4 views is the ultimate medium in between both.

You can look at someones elses mech running through the landscape. You'll have all time to see every mech go through the maps. It's not hard to ask a friend to take a pic of you in your first mech right? Maybe a offline 3rd person camera in the testing grounds, training boot camp, or a photo shoot so MechWarriors can not only be pilots but super models. 

Don't forget the Down view that MW4 had in the cockpit it looked like a blurred camera view.

3rd person infantry views?   

Can by default it be turned off?

I don't think 1st person will take anything away from the work the 3d artists are doing.
I'm sure there will be close up battles, and even in 1st person, you will see the amazing work people have put into the game, just before you make a smoking wreck of a hostile Mech. 

Personally, I would probably admire all the quality work while I'm testing the Mechs on the range, if that comes about.  But while I'm actually playing the game, I would probably tone down the graphics and concentrate on the battle.

If there is a 3rd person view, I would be all for it being locked to a front quarter view looking at the Mech.  Sure, you can see all the pretty-pretty but you cannot see where you are pointed at all.

Or, maybe allow for an external view where you cannot control the Mech but you can pan around.  Make the transition between that and first person be intentionally slow to prevent it being used as a crutch.

Yes I agree, it is more entertaining to fight in third person and not third person.