Frankie V, on 10 May 2013 - 05:32 PM, said:
Whats so special about arm bands now that the skin forcing feature has been added?
The armband colors allow you to identify which enemy you just saw, which gives you an advantage. If you play with or against the same players for a while you pick up their individual play styles. So you know how to act yourself. It makes a huge difference who you just saw. If it was some random newbie player on a public server you don't have to worry too much about him turning around or hearing you, etc. If it was the best player on the server you better watch out.
That's what I would say is the reason why the individual enemy armband colors are nice to have. Contrary, I don't see any good reason to disable them.