Its cheaper, and safer to use an lav to do that.

Still visibility restricted to squad....

With a ship dedicated to aerial support and target location, I would like to see this view propagate across the whole team.

Infantry with hand scanners can stay squad only, but vehicles in an AWAC and support role... I'd like to see that be team-vision.

Still visibility restricted to squad....

With a ship dedicated to aerial support and target location, I would like to see this view propagate across the whole team.

Infantry with hand scanners can stay squad only, but vehicles in an AWAC and support role... I'd like to see that be team-vision.

Honestly, I'd think vehicle scanners should do team-sight as well.

I can see why they limited infantry scanners, especially with how they highlight enemies for a long period after the scan, but for something like this that is so range dependent, I'd like to see it benefit the team as a whole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnRw-wc_v6I

For those of you who aren't subscribed to him, this shows how you can now paint reds over a massive radius with Dropship Active Scanners.

I'll see if I can convince CCP Wolfman on letting scanner results go team wide or if its feasible when they implement wp rewards for it. However with 1.5 around the corner this role may be removed albeit temporarily at best so it may be a good time to get a shoe in on the subject before its reintroduced.

I'll see if I can convince CCP Wolfman on letting scanner results go team wide

I feel 5 WP for scanning an enemy, and only an enemy sounds like a good enough reward. Then 10 WP if someone on their team kills a scanned enemy. Now, if there's 3 huddled around a corner, that's a possible total 45 WP for scanning those 3 and teammates killing them.

I was thinking more about scanning a guy and then if he gets killed you get the assist. Just plain scanning is open to quite a few abuses. As for once per life thing not sure how much more of a bandwidth load that would be over the temporary one's we have currently.

Seems like it would take a long time to abuse it. Dunno how it would be worth the effort.

.....As for once per life thing not sure how much more of a bandwidth load that would be over the temporary one's we have currently.

Simple boolean property on the class would do it using the same procedure that assigns Assist values. So in the same way the game tracks assists it only needs to track a scan as if it is a bullet strike. If I scan you then same code that assigns a bullet strike so i get an assist assigns the same value. Only on death a sub Proc assigns me 5 not 25 wp.

I you die and I scanned you I get WP.
I get nothing if i didn't scan you. Just like an assist.
You only need a boolean, Int ID or Str to track if it was me that scanned you and if have you died since that scan

I want my AWACS pilot to sound like this.

Oka Nieba, I love you!

I love how many Ace Combat fans I seem to keep finding around here.

Your point being?

He was demonstrating by just hovering there, but what you can also do is keeping it running while you fire at targets below you, so you're providing both air cover and intel on enemy positions at the same time.

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easy to chase him away

You made it sound like CCP is testing a new scanner specifically for dropships that gives it at least twice the range of the ground vehicle scanners.

But I do agree that using a LAV is easier. The new dropship camera looks pretty clunky to me, what with it being right up the ship's rear. It's too bad there's no system in place where you can place the camera where you want before deploying, and when you get in the ship, it goes to your preset.

.....In case you haven't watched his other videos, Judge is a dedicated DS pilot and this provides utility to the squad since he's already going to be ... In. A. Dropship.

The fact that he wasn't firing was obviously for the sake of making the video as opposed to implying that ADS pilots should just sit there with a scanner on. That's the difference between an LAV scanner and the DS scanner ... with the DS, he can also be killing things, quickly move 4x people, and prompt the other team to switch to AV so his infantry can kill them on the ground.

I love how many Ace Combat fans I seem to keep finding around here.

...easy to chase him away

you have never fought me and my pilot and tank buddies or you would not have typed that. Condor squad and the tanks from We are Legends would like a word.

In the interest of not derailing this thread, check your mails in Dust.

In which case, you simply fly away, get your hp back up, and then fly back in for another run.

easy to chase him away