It's called precision enhancement and range extension.

It's called precision enhancement and range extension.

What CCP needs to do is reduce our profile and tell us how passive scanning work. Basically passive scanning is supposed to be a weaker but constant variation of active scanning, while active scanning is a more potent but inconstant variation of passive scanning.

I like passive scanning because I like to scan with a weapon out, but CCP won't tell me how it works

What CCP needs to do is reduce our profile and tell us how passive scanning work. Basically passive scanning is supposed to be a weaker but constant variation of active scanning, while active scanning is a more potent but inconstant variation of passive scanning.

I like passive scanning because I like to scan with a weapon out, but CCP won't tell me how it works

Or we could do this.

If we are self promoting - here is a description of active scanning. Passive works in the same way, with the execption of the fact that there is no shared vision (meaning flashing red on your squad) and you use passive numbers and skills modifications, instead of using the numbers of the module (which cannot be modified by skills).

All scouts need a passive scanner suit built into the suit. Wherever the scout goes enemies and their equipment light up within 25m around them. This will allow scouts to play a recon role and flank behind enemy lines revealing their positions and get some quick hit and run kills before retreating. With this scouts will have a viable role and reason to have an existence on the battlefield both pub and competitive play.

That's kinda common knowledge in Scoutland bro.

Both which barely work, im talking about a passive abilty exclusive to scouts that work as an active scanner, but passive.

Edit: That works for your squad/team

The way the post reads, that you don't know how passive scanners work, it doesn't appear to be. Just sayin' if it's common knowledge why ask the question?

Look at the scan range and strength of your suit. These are base numbers and can be altered by your skills (though the "show info" only shows the unmodified numbers). If your range is 10 meters, then red dots will light up on your mini-map provided their scan profile is higher than your scan precision.

Skills that improve your scan precision will reduce this number. For example, if you have a 10% bonus and your precision is 50 base, your modified number would be 45. Anything with a scan profile that is 40.5 or higher will show up within 10 meters.

By the same token, your scan profile is reduced by your skills as well. So if you have a 10% bonus and your base profile is 45, thne your modified by skills # becomes 40.5. You won't show up on the above example's mini-map.

There are also skills to add to your radius - largest base radius is 10 meters (I think?); if you improve this by 10%, it goes to 11 meters.

Make sense?

It's called precision enhancement and range extension.

It's called precision enhancement and range extension.

And how does that make passive scanning on the Scout a way to provide intel you your teamates?

I've said this before and I'll stay it again. Basic Light Frame suits need a 15m base scan radius. Scout Suit should make enemies in passive scan range light up on TACNET for teammates.

If those two things happen, Light suits in general, and Scout suits in particular, will be MUCH more viable. Combine them with passive scanning that ACTUALLY WORKS CONSISTENTLY, and it'll be awesome. For now, passive scanning doesn't always work on enemies outside your vision arc (at which point it's practically useless because YOU CAN SEE THEM ANYWAY). Passive scanners NEED to be 360 arc, or they're useless for a Light suit. Even if they make the 15m range AND 360 detection arc exclusive bonuses to the Light Frame suits, then Scouts get the addition of sharing data, that would work.

This is a big no for me,

If you did this, that would mean that scouts would not get any benefits or wps for using the active scanner because the enemies are already lit up. Also it would mean that others would be getting kills that you are setting up yourself through shared vision. And lastly, having shared vision by scouts means that scouts vision will be limited, I'd rather have no shared vision but give us a much greater range of vision and we can communicate that to others.

you may not have wp for using the scanner, but that'll benefit all your squad and will empty an equipment slot for you to fit a drop uplink, wich will net you wp, or whatever other dildo you want to put in your slot

Both which barely work, im talking about a passive abilty exclusive to scouts that work as an active scanner, but passive.

Edit: That works for your squad/team

This is a big no for me,

If you did this, that would mean that scouts would not get any benefits or wps for using the active scanner because the enemies are already lit up. Also it would mean that others would be getting kills that you are setting up yourself through shared vision. And lastly, having shared vision by scouts means that scouts vision will be limited, I'd rather have no shared vision but give us a much greater range of vision and we can communicate that to others.

If you did this, that would mean that scouts would not get any benefits or wps for using the active scanner because the enemies are already lit up.

Also it would mean that others would be getting kills that you are setting up yourself through shared vision.

And lastly, having shared vision by scouts means that scouts vision will be limited, I'd rather have no shared vision but give us a much greater range of vision and we can communicate that to others.

beside that, if you dont want to die in 0.5s then scouts dont have the slots to fit them

I'm pretty sure MY Scout suit doesn't need slots in order to "fit" the passive skill bonuses from the two skills mentioned.

Assert's point still stands, of course.

Scouts used to have a base range of 25m on the passive scanner. We lost that in Uprising, along with a 6th slot at proto levels...

Getting those two back would be a start, sure enough, but quite frankly we needed some love even before those nerfs.