Active scanners only broadcast to members of your own squad, and I want one good lore reason to explain this immersion breaking mechanism.

If it has to be this way for game mechanics at least give me some believable reason why a team leader would prevent one squad from sharing intel on enemy locations with other members of the team.

It can't be a technological limitation. A single packet with a pair of coordinates that is already being broadcast won't stress the communication system. They can transmit the trillions of bytes required to transfer human consciousness in a second.

Ummmm, huh?

Active Scanners as in the equipment module work for the entire team.

Passive Scanners as in the suits built in device are the ones that are only for the squad you are in.

Lore wise?

EWAR got good enough too good to have target information shared over team routers anymore. Probably IFF overrides.

Bacon

Wrong on both counts from what CCP says.

They removed squad shared (passive) vision and limited active scan info to the squad level.

Where have they said that?

I am still seeing people when someone on my team is using an active scanner and I am not in their squad.

Even the patch notes say: * Shared passive scanner vision for squads disabled (results of active scanners are still shared with squads) ... notice the use of the word squads plural form the of the squad...means more than 1.... surely ccp can't be that incorrect with the use of the word in the english language.

Active scanners only broadcast to members of your own squad, and I want one good lore reason to explain this immersion breaking mechanism.

If it has to be this way for game mechanics at least give me some believable reason why a team leader would prevent one squad from sharing intel on enemy locations with other members of the team.

It can't be a technological limitation. A single packet with a pair of coordinates that is already being broadcast won't stress the communication system. They can transmit the trillions of bytes required to transfer human consciousness in a second.

This may be a good example of where game balance has to trump "Realism" again.

Realistically these suits would also have electronic eyes on the back of their heads making it impossible to be stabbed in the back. but hey

You are probably correct.

I can't see any possible working reason for the limitation other than "It's more fun to limit teamwork because it's OP."

I'm surprised you're not asking about the team shared vision being removed if you're worried about immersion, it only makes sense that suits would share scanned info with others on the same team.

I'm surprised you're not asking about the team shared vision being removed if you're worried about immersion, it only makes sense that suits would share scanned info with others on the same team.

EDIT: The best question about lore was when someone asked why aren't MCCs just destroyed by orbital strikes.

EDIT: The best question about lore was when someone asked why aren't MCCs just destroyed by orbital strikes.

Per the OP, "Give me a good reason to keep your team in the dark"

*drum roll*

It's the video game equivalent of "The wizard did it!"

Active scanners only broadcast to members of your own squad, and I want one good lore reason to explain this immersion breaking mechanism.

If it has to be this way for game mechanics at least give me some believable reason why a team leader would prevent one squad from sharing intel on enemy locations with other members of the team.

It can't be a technological limitation. A single packet with a pair of coordinates that is already being broadcast won't stress the communication system. They can transmit the trillions of bytes required to transfer human consciousness in a second.

Active scanners only broadcast to members of your own squad, and I want one good lore reason to explain this immersion breaking mechanism.

If it has to be this way for game mechanics at least give me some believable reason why a team leader would prevent one squad from sharing intel on enemy locations with other members of the team.

It can't be a technological limitation. A single packet with a pair of coordinates that is already being broadcast won't stress the communication system. They can transmit the trillions of bytes required to transfer human consciousness in a second.

Ok so the tacnet is a highly encoded and incredibily sensitive infantry infrastructure, it runs on quantumly entangled particles, that transmit data via a synch pair, one in the suit one in the mcc, this allows data to be streamed instantly across ANY distance without delay, however decoding and sharing this information requires energy equivelent to that of the sun^100, becahse of the way quantum particles work.

Would that suffice?? This theory actually works in real life to, it took years to test because transportation was a real problem, you see quantum particles are so unstable, if you look at one kt breaks!!