Did you know we already have passive scanning?
Probably not, because it's hilariously broken and has been pretty much forever.

Your first point sickens me, by the way. Active scanners are OP as it is atm, wanting to run them without even having to switch is a lolworthy idea.

I, highlighting the enemies on the radar for an extremely brief period of time, just enough that you see them coming before whilst hacking, resupplying, etc.

Might be reasonable to have this as sort of a "remote explosive" thing.
Except it's a "remote scan" thing.
Range and precision increases per skill level.
Up to .. 30m?

This might be considered by some to be unreasonable. but personally, I find the field-of-view automatic forward ID (reguardless of your scan range or precision skill) to be EXTREMELY unreasonable. So this is small potatoes compared to that.

I would like something like this but it does scan forward, and can be planted on walls. If you put it in a corridor it would provide Intel on which direction the enemy is coming from. I'm imagining a tripwire like laser scanner, that if the enemy passes through they would light up on your HUD. This would be very good for defending the research lab I would imagine.

why not in a grenade slot?

Did you know we already have passive scanning?
Probably not, because it's hilariously broken and has been pretty much forever.

Your first point sickens me, by the way. Active scanners are OP as it is atm, wanting to run them without even having to switch is a lolworthy idea.

OP? Explain.

They're OP because they can pick up such a huge amount so easily.
The area covered is gigantic - the degree angle barely matters because you can spin it on the spot. You only need to cover someone for an instant to have the scan apply. Once the scan is applied, there is no way for them to do anything about it. A suitable active scanner will pick up an all-skills maxed scout with three profile dampeners. Some of the higher tier scanners can paint a target for over 20 seconds, with nothing they can do about it.

This completely breaks the stealth mechanics, 100% breaks them. It becomes impossible to sneak up on someone if you're a bright dot on their radar.

So I've been experimenting with the active scanner (it's ok. It won't be replacing my RE's) and I found some annoyances with it.

1) You have to have it out to use it: As an assault, I want my gun to be out 99% of the time. I would also like to know where the enemies are. So for instance, I'm trying to capture the only enemy point left. Obviously, there will be quite a few enemies there. Assaulting the point will be a little tougher without knowing who is where and where is what. It would be very useful for me to be able to have scans on a point while still being able to shoot people.

2) Only being able to scan in front of me: I know a person can just turn around a few times and get a full 360 view, but that takes too much time. I would like to place something down and go. Not pick it out turn around switch it back and THEN go.

So what's the solution? A Scan beacon. A droppable little capsule that can stick to side surfaces. You could argue that the Active scanner is a "logi" equipment, but here's something more "Assault Friendly"

STATS I am away from the game now so the stats will mostly be words not numbers. If you guys find anything I failed to list and/or sounds completely OP/UP, list some suggestions below.

Slot- Equipment

Cost- More than the Active scanner. (Can't really give any numbers. But not too crazy expensive) Give it some disadvantages to it's sister. as well as advantages.


PG/CPU- This one I have no clue about. Maybe you guys can put some ideas below??

Scan radius- This should be less than the active scanner, but this should be a 360 degree scan. Maybe a radius of 25-50m?

Pulse Interval I didn't mention above that the scans should be in pulses instead of one ongoing scan. A pulse interval every 3 seconds. Lasting for 120 seconds.


PROS:
- A drop and go item
- Better for assaults
- 360 degree scan
- Long lasting

CONS:
- Cost more than the active scanner. (Now that I saw this, maybe it can be called the passive scanner
- Less scan radius
- In pulses so there will be a short time where your scans aren't visible.
- Limited. Unlike the active scanner
- Can be scanned by other types of scanners. So it can pulse on your radar to tell you where it is. Making it available to destroy if it causes too much trouble


Like I said before. If you guys find anything I failed to list and/or sounds completely OP/UP, list some suggestions below.

A suitable active scanner will pick up an all-skills maxed scout with three profile dampeners. Some of the higher tier scanners can paint a target for over 20 seconds, with nothing they can do about it.

They're OP because they can pick up such a huge amount so easily.
The area covered is gigantic - the degree angle barely matters because you can spin it on the spot. You only need to cover someone for an instant to have the scan apply. Once the scan is applied, there is no way for them to do anything about it. A suitable active scanner will pick up an all-skills maxed scout with three profile dampeners. Some of the higher tier scanners can paint a target for over 20 seconds, with nothing they can do about it.

This completely breaks the stealth mechanics, 100% breaks them. It becomes impossible to sneak up on someone if you're a bright dot on their radar.

you're trying to prove your point, by being inapproprately vague about details.

There is only ONE, proto level scanner that can do that, and my bet is that almost no-one uses it, because the other proto scanner is more useful 95% of the time.
the one that can pick up a fully damped scout, is not the one that paints for 20+ seconds. It only paints for 5 seconds.


Unless you can see someone equipping a logi suit with BOTH scanners? which would mean the suit cost would be roughly 50k for the scanners alone?
(the special one, is 30k, all by itself) !

Don't think so

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Is there a way to make this deployable Passive/Scan beacon not OP? I understand that scouts get screwed over with active scanners now. You find him and with the improved hit detection he's dead in a second.

But even then, can these be balanced? If it means giving scouts a lower scan detection. As in LOW. A level 5 scout with scan damping skills shouldn't be popping up on the radar.

I don't know. I don't play as a scout so I can't speak of how bad active scanners are.

Is there a way to make this deployable Passive/Scan beacon not OP? I understand that scouts get screwed over with active scanners now. You find him and with the improved hit detection he's dead in a second.

But even then, can these be balanced? If it means giving scouts a lower scan detection. As in LOW. A level 5 scout with scan damping skills shouldn't be popping up on the radar.

I don't know. I don't play as a scout so I can't speak of how bad active scanners are.