Nope its ussful!

Options are good. Make an off switch.

Please turn it off so you don't know I'm hunting you.

I honestly never notice it. Just like the "Enemy is hacking...".

I don't think it should be removed, but I don't think it should be text. Instead you see a light around the edges of your vision as if your visual signal picks up interference from being scan. It should be sublte, but better than text.

I honestly never notice it. Just like the "Enemy is hacking...".

I don't think it should be removed, but I don't think it should be text. Instead you see a light around the edges of your vision as if your visual signal picks up interference from being scan. It should be sublte, but better than text.

:facepalm:

I have the scanner. You are the scanned. I like watching people start spinning around when they get scanned. If you don't know you are being hunted you have less chance to react. My favorite thing is hunting hill hugging snipers. I scan them and they still sit there, unmoving, uncaring, soon to die. If you could turn off the notification and did that just means less tactical awareness for you.

Since this is your thread why don't you go to Feedback/Requests and request the off switch. Makes you feel good when they use one of your ideas.

No because knowing you are being watched isn't useful?

I swear people think everyone using the scanner is a super brick tanked logi or assault suit with like an AR or something.

I use proto scanner on my scout suit. I would be lost without it. The minmatar light / scout suits are pathetically weak , even the gallente scout seems 'tough' compared.

I cannot battle head on in a big fire fight, ever since 1.4 scouts have to play smart and tactical. So yes please do turn off your notification, hell run in a straight line and never look behind you! Thanks.

Its called tactical awareness, my 6 man squad likes to know where all of the enemies within 100m are for ~25 secs. We have escaped several flanking attempts because we have scanned the enemy and can see them coming.

You don't like it, I understand that. I personally don't like being scanned as I am Logi and I die if someone looks at me wrong. But at least I know that they are within 100m (on average) of me.

So! Many! Exclamation! Marks!

I think that if the scan precision of the scanner is 20% less than the scan profile of the suit, the 'you have been scanned' message shouldn't appear.

For example, using the basic active scanner with a precision of 46db against a medium dropsuit with a profile of 50, the message would appear. But using the advanced with a precision of 36 wouldn't show the message.

Just to make the ADV and Protos better scan precision worth it besides being able to scan the occasional scout.

How about replacing "you have been scanned" with "merc giving out free bacon."?

There is a HUGE difference between knowing someone is following/hunting you, and knowing someone is following/hunting you AND that they know PRECISELY where you are at EVERY second. FFS! Are the implications of that difference that freakin' subtle?! If you're scanned, you can't effectively flank, or play with REs. There's no possibility of sneaky ninja moves or managing to lose the enemy in an installation. If you come head to head with someone who scanned you, they're going to get the first shot every time. If you're standing just around a corner and you get scanned, you're about to eat a cooked core locus grenade! Scanning is amazing, and being scanned sucks, and I can't understand why you don't want to know about it.

Of course I know where the enemy is generally, but if I want to be able to cook grenades with perfect accuracy, and know exactly where to throw it for a triple kill before I even poke my head out around the corner, or line up my SCR headshots before strafing out, or know that there's some kid with AV nades and a nanohive lurking on that rooftop, I'm going to need a scanner. It's a tool, and an extremely useful one at that.

If you really want to get rid of your notification, that's fine by me. You're just gimping yourself. Knowing when you're scanned and when you're not is important information.

Well if people want to turn it off, let them turn it off! I have no problems with that.

If a little text really makes them that angry then hell, give them an option to turn the damn thing off. I think its a foolish mistake however.
For me as a scout it makes a lot of difference if I get scanned or not (Most the time I have prevented the scan) so IF I see I have been scanned I know someone else is using a good scanner. For me that is highly useful information.

So yes make it optional, lets not turn this into an argument.