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.

Honestly, it would be better if anybody who is near a player with a scanner will receive the signal.

But, that would take sophisticated development on CCP Shanghai's part and I guess they're having it hard enough with the basics that are still being tweaked.

You hire out to a sweatshop this is what you're going to get. Right now squad scanning is a quick fix the problem of easy team scanning and stomping.

Sam Beckett can attest to that.

Poor bastard is probably still leaping...

Edit - Man...i'll feel old as **** if no one gets the reference

That was a great show. Thanks for bringing back the memories, you two.

Yes, you remind me that we are still missing a robust communication infrastructure.

We don't have anything beyond the squad level which limits strategy to the squad level. This will need to be fixed before DUST can fulfill its promise of an FPS/RTS game.

I don't accept the "Selfish Squad" explanation because this is a hard limitation that affects even PC where everyone would chose to share.

The best attempts are those that use limitations of quantum physics to keep the number of linked sets to a small size. The problem with that explanation is you could propagate the signal on a higher level network (between squads) as suggested by your thread.

I like that because it gives some reasonable lore reason while giving a way around the limitation if you want to spend a slot.

One good reason would be to avoid noise on the general tacnet of your team when the information gathered by a squad are supposedly only usefull to the said squad. anyway, lore is overrated

Yes, notice the use of the word squads, notice that it is used twice. The "shared passive scanner vision for squads" is disabled; now this can't mean shared passive scanner vision between squads is now disabled because it's already has been disabled since the start of Uprising. With that understood it makes the 2nd time it's used a poor choice of words by your interpretation. If they meant that the results of active scanners are still shared between squads; why not say it that way or better yet, why not just say it's shared with the team.

Now you say you still see enemies when someone not in your squad uses the active scanner but I personally haven't noticed random enemies lighting up and pulsing until one of my usual squad members decided to use the active scanner. I'm not saying they intend for it to be one way or the other but here's something to think about: they say there's currently nothing in the code to prevent drop uplinks from being used by the team yet occasional there are uplinks that I can't spawn on while there also being others in the same match that I can even though nobody but me in the squad has them. Then there are matches where my uplink is the only one down yet nobody spawns on it while in other matches everyone spawns on it. My point being that results from CCP's coding are always consistent.; there could be some obscure bug throwing a wrench in the system at any random time.

Use mics or stay together. Lone-wolfing and then fearing you can't get back to your team is silly. Either you do or don't.

People should be taking advantage of the "stealth" buff. Walking around corners to hide your signal, ducking when an enemy vehicle rides pass, taking pot shots and slipping behind a wall so quickly that their comrades can't see where it came from...

This is the time to really bring in new tactics and organization to dominate battles.

Because squads may have different objectives amongst the team. Let's say something like Squad A goes to Objective A while B goes to B. This allows each squad to scan for targets that their squad will have to contend with. Also, if scanners shared between the entire team it can easily be confused. Whereas there might be only 5 enemies, you see 10 because you just happen to be looking in the direction of B. Let's say you were going to hide around the corner to jump this glowing chevron about to round that corner. Oh wait, that chevron is all the way on the other side of the map. The enemy on my radar was actually on the roof and is now shooting down on my head.

Squads only require information that is essential to their squad. There is no need to mix up the information of the two squads, it opens up too many opportunity for mistakes to be made. Teamwork isn't everyone doing one job, teamwork is everyone doing their job to provide a good result.

The quantum scanners lend a huge advantage when you have someone constantly scanning in a squad. It would be game-breakingly OP if only one person on a team needed to constantly scan so that everyone on that team had the same intel.