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.

Wow I need a scanner to see someone is hunting me? LMFAO!
I WANT you to come find me! I will pop you in your head before you even get close!

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.

: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.

Another illiterate! I said OPTION TO TURN IT OFF!

My display lights up like the 4th of july! Just keeps flashing CONSTANTLY! Im about to put a black sticker over it on my tv. LOL That wont be a distraction at all!

You have been scanned.

only retards pay attention to the notification... I don't need to see it on my screen every 5 seconds of gameplay to know im being hunted by some idiot who NEEDS a scanner to find some enemies.

******?

Finding the enemy is rarely the problem. Picking my fights and setting up the situation to my advantage is the plan.

If I scan the other side of the building and see a pack of proto pub-stompers that can't survive without running in a full pack of six then I go somewhere else. If I see someone on their own or with just a friend or two I position myself for the best tactical advantage. I run lightly tanked and heavily dampened -- on my own. If I have the advantage of knowing when someone will stick their head past a wall then I can take down someone in a super tanked suit before they can react.

That's called "thinking." Something many players lack.

only retards pay attention to the notification... I don't need to see it on my screen every 5 seconds of gameplay to know im being hunted by some idiot who NEEDS a scanner to find some enemies.

******?

Finding the enemy is rarely the problem. Picking my fights and setting up the situation to my advantage is the plan.

If I scan the other side of the building and see a pack of proto pub-stompers that can't survive without running in a full pack of six then I go somewhere else. If I see someone on their own or with just a friend or two I position myself for the best tactical advantage. I run lightly tanked and heavily dampened -- on my own. If I have the advantage of knowing when someone will stick their head past a wall then I can take down someone in a super tanked suit before they can react.

That's called "thinking." Something many players lack.

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

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 ******* common sense to think someone is following you...

only the stupid need some notification that someone is following them.

quick advice... YOUR ALWAYS BEING FOLLOWED IN DUST 514!!!!!!!

Replace it with;

'PREPARE TO DIE!'

you have been scanned... 5 seconds later you have been scanned
you have been scanned... 5 seconds later you have been scanned
you have been scanned... 5 seconds later you have been scanned
you have been scanned... 5 seconds later you have been scanned

pretty much every game

Replace it with;

'PREPARE TO DIE!'

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.

I will drop 6 heavies on ur head from 200m up. You wont see that one coming!

So! Many! Exclamation! Marks!

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.

The more you whine on these forums void, the more I wonder why you bother playing?
This game doesn't cater to your tastes, and I don't think it ever will!

Now I will assume you have seen the results in an active scanner?
You can see where they, and via yojr radar get an approximate distance and the direction they are facing!

If someone can see that kind of info on me, I wanna bloomin well know, and so should you!

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."?

They still NEVER find me! I'm up in the tree dumb dumb!

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.

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.

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.

You have been scanned.

Action Button: Counter Hack

Person who scanned you is over there. Follow the little red light.

Would be nice in EWAR scenario.

It's a simple request to have an on off switch. I could care less if you want it flashing in your face all the time! I want it to turn off!

Like I ALREADY said, I run front line! The ENTIRE match for me is "YOU'VE BEEN SCANNED". Its not like you cowards hiding somewhere never being scanned! I already know what time it is when I step onto the field!

All of you who say the message is useless are truly ignorant.

All the text in the world isn't going to convince you the scan message is a good idea.

Makes me wonder if all of you are just playing ambush al the time...

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.