PCM 2011 The Basics part 4

Ok in the last post I talked about the "right click on opponent" type feature for countering attacks and follow sprinting, this looks like:

Now in this icon you can see the counter attack and the follow sprint icons but we can also see one other icon, this magnifying glass is the observe rider icon. This feature allows us to observe an opposition rider in the stage to check out how he's feeling. This can prove to be a long time consuming affair however as their are 5 stages of observation.

Here you can see three separate stages of observation as said this figure does go all the way upto 5. I'm not sure about how the randomness works as if a rider will observes facts or not but below is a level 3 observation of vino.

Not sure why its so horrible to read but yeah this is a stage 3 observation. As you can see you can check his overall energy bar his current feelings in the "3 phases" I talked about in the last post. These observations will eventually indicate the exact feelings be it +5 or even -5 etc.

A stage 5 observation of Brajokvic:

The disadvantages of observing is that while doing so your rider is unable to perform attacks (at least this is what I think if I am wrong feel free to correct :D). Unfortunately the observing feature is a little underpowered in my opinion. It doesn't really provide you with information that is all that useful. Overall this is more of a "nice feature" than that of a practical one.