CleanNeedles
The Pyramid Order
The Nova Foundry
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Posted - 2013.09.05 04:14:00 -
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So as my first post I figured I'd loose all the stops and let it rip. I've done some playing and testing today and here is what I have discovered. Unless a team has 2 or more ACTIVELY scanning players they scream "the *** is OP" or "my *** isn't working." Yet when they had the scanners nothing was wrong because "Hey both teams get it". I couldn't have cared less today about weapons or auto aim. As a logi I am more often concerned with allied health bars and names than enemies. So I played with the active scanner. Imagine my surprise when MY ENTIRE TEAMS hit,kill,and survival rates skyrocketed every time I clicked scan, and low and behold if I approached 2 full squads of redberries outside a 30 degree scan cone from my nearest teammate; not only did THE WHOLE enemy team not see me, when i did finally appear on someones radar 4-6 guys could turn and start firing and i was all 1.3 bunny hoping and doing a great stroke of logi evasion till...... BAM...... "You have been scanned" .... Every bullet, piece of grenade shrapnel, and belt buckle withing that 30 degree cone pierced my brain stem. I'm thinking "No way". It's not possible every weapon or projectile now depends on radar signature of target. So i tested it a little more. If I went 1/4...0/5..... 0/7 and became a glorified radar beacon my team won handily every time. Luck me i got to stand around waiting for my scanner to recharge and then scanning again. I couldn't blame my team mates. They weren't watching the kills scroll like i was or the map like i was. They were busy shooting people. I had time. I sat all day with my scanner in hand blasting the enemy with inconsequential EM waves. Finishing somewhere between 13th and last nearly each time. I had time to watch the kills on BOTH sides almost perfectly match the duration of an active scanner. "You've been scanned".... 4 of my teammates die.... I click scan..... 3 redberries die..... oodles of matches. Watching both sides mill about like ants till a scanner on one side or the other went off.... then both teams POURED into 2 - 16 strong funnels in the 30 degree cone and FED EACH OTHER. Scanners and recon make or break you now.... not weapon... In NONE of the scenarios above did i see one particular weapon take as strong as an advantage as I believe any are being given. As soon as my team was scanned we died from forge guns, mass drivers, ARs, and grenades and vice versa. Don't believe me? Try it. Run 6 matches in militia gear of your class with an active scanner. then run 6 in your proto suit with out one. Then you tell me why it seems hes shooting you in the head before you even clear the corner. |