Hey folks. Just a thought for balancing off the 3rd person mode:

In another game the issue of being able to look around corners without exposing oneself at all was solved with the introduction of a for all clearly visible 3rd person camera drone with a blinky on it. That might help in this game as well. I think if you can look around obstacles you should have to expose yourself at least a little. That said, I understand the appeal of the 3rd person view because it does look nice, so getting rid of that would be counterproductive. So maybe a simple blinky at the cameras position would solve this unbalance here too. Just a thought, deal with it as you please. Might reunite the divided hives.

Here's an example video where you can see the camera drones in the other game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybD2eGnd-Fg