Quil Evrything
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Posted - 2013.09.06 17:42:00 -
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Vrain Matari wrote:
I agree. As unscientific as it is, my intuition is telling me that the scanning mechanics are not reliable.
Oh, the MECHANICS are perfectly reliable. Put yoursef, and your enemy, in the same place, on the same map, with the same position, and you will get the same results. that's "reliable".
Contrariwise, "relying on your scanning to ensure that no-one will never sneak up on you", is unwise.
Note that wall types and thickness have an effect on passive scanning, and some other types.
i THINK but have not verified, that there will be walls of a particular thickness, that basically have the same effect as, for example, a -5% db precision. So, whereas you would normally pick up all non-damped suits all around you... a wall behind you may still allow you to passive scan medium suit, but will no longer warn you about that scout suit sneaking up behind you.
So, cover, can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it helps ensure no-one can shoot you from a distance.
On the other hand, it aids people in sneaking up close to you.
Hmm. I'm going to have to do more of my scanning experiments, this time geared towards walls, I think
PS: I have no problem hearing tanks from some amount of distance. 30m I think.
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Quil Evrything
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.09.06 18:05:00 -
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Yan Darn wrote:
I have to rely on audio cues to detect tanks too - I would like like to rely a bit more on the passive sensors my suit gets a bonus to....
It is rather stupid, that the sensors have a hard range, yet precision ratings, blah blah, use dB notation.
They should be consistent, and actually USE THAT, in a realistic way.
That is to say:
If I have some kind of microphone, capable of measuring some kind of noisemaker that is 40dB loud, @10m...
That same microphone is capable of measuring a similar noisemaker that is 46db loud, @20m.
This is real life physics.
http://sengpielaudio.com/calculator-distance.htm
"We get a level drop of 6 dB per doubling of distance"
So, if a scout suit can 'hear' another scout or light suit suit @10m.. it should be able to detect a medium suit at almost twice that, and a heavy suit, at alost FOUR TIMES that distance
Heavies "sneaking up" on scout suits, should be pretty near impossible. Fix this please, CCP!
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