lol. I think what it needs a small change in mechanics. It takes a while to run a scan - 2 sec or so. If something gets a jump on you while you are scanning, which is not that uncommon, you are caught with your pants down as you cant insta switch to your weapon. I see that this is an inherent weakness and that some ppl like it that way. What I would prefer as a scout at least is to be able to cancel my scan and ista switch to a weapon. Or make the duration of targers on HUD longer - right now it's 5 sec - if it changed to 7-10 sec it would make it more useful.

From what I've understood, if you have your passive dampening skill maxed out, it will defeat a basic scanner. Dampening modules plus skills into dampening will defeat higher level scanners.

EDIT: You don't wanna do anything else in Dust without support around, don't scan without support around. I don't scan, but having a scanner in your squad is invaluable now a days. It helps to find enemy troops, and that's important and all, but it helps to find those pesky hidden Drop Uplinks as well, which is huge in these post 1.4 matches.