3rd Person is widely considered as cheat for different reasons:
Concussion does not work on people playing 3rd Person.
3rd person allows to view through nearby walls, which, for example lets you view the whole basement from ramp room in 2fort and several other locations.
The different aiming can be easily learned with parameters making 3rd person nearly appear as 1st Person.
Lower framerates are not an argument, too. Every wallhack has an heavy impact on performance. Sometimes realising how widely its spread in Half-Life based mods, these people have either very fast machines or the benefit is obviously higher then the lower performance.
To keep this short:
I personally think, that Punkbuster with just a few cvar detections (many are crap for TFC) can avoid using it.
I think the playoffs have to be PB required like in nearly every other league all over Europe.
If 3rd person is not considered as a cheat and there won't be any countermeasures to avoid cheating, [FsA] is thinking about dropping the league. And I know of some other Clans who don't want to participate under these circumstances, too.
For me the vote on Punkbuster does not work. I am correctly registered, logged in and have not voted yet.
PB can be hosted on any machine. The best way would be: The guy reffing the game sets up a PB before he connects to the game server. It only needs the IP and rcon, similar to the Veterans-IRC-announcerbot.
Waiting for the patch: well great, so ppl can cheat using the 3rd person bug in the first 5 or 6 games and after that not anymore? Well, doesn't satisfy me, sorry. A way of preventing that already exists, so why not use it?
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