Like most duvolle gear, it's being spammed to no end.

Although an adv scanner will work for like 85-90% of the situations

Who uses the fouced? No, just nerf it for everything, then rebuff it for Gal Scouts. We get our EWAR, and people doesn't have to worry about getting scanned 24/7. Also, Logi's finally can't do something better than Scouts

I use the one where it puts the enemy on blast for 16 seconds with a 100m range .

Lol I just run as soon as I notice the scans aren't being prevented anymore...cant do anything else and if anymore slots are sacrificed I might as well just blow myself up and save them the trouble.

Dude no one uses the focused scanner because the quantum is so much better.

Besides, the real problem with scanners is not ONE prototype one, but the way that dampeners lower your profile. One complex dampener should lower you below adv scanners for any medium suit, one complex should beat proto scanners for light suits.

unfortunately, you have to use more than one complex dampener just to avoid adv scanners with most suits, which is stupid.

Not to mention there's currently no actual "counter" to scanners. Profile dampeners are simple prevention, as they don't actually make scanners useless or not worthwhile to use. A radar jammer or TacNet jammer would be an awesome way to counter scanners.

Honestly my Cal. logi. should be able to block proto scans considering I have Dampening lvl 5 and a complex dampener yet it doesn't.

Ok

I understand what your thinking, but the idea is the duvolle is a scout catcher, that's what it is meant to do.
This doesn't make the scanners unbalanced, the way scanners work is unbalanced.

1) Once you scan, you can switch back to your light weapon
This is problematic because there is no negative to doing a quick 360 and the getting intel for the next 30 seconds

2)Scans 'Tag' players physically showing there tag to 100% accuracy, 100% of the time
This is problematic because having THIS much intel without a drawback is a little unfair

3) Tagging lasts for ridiculous amounts of time
4) Scans have incredibly long ranges

Ideally I think scanners should work more like the movement detectors in ALIENS.
The scanner sends a pulse intermittently that 'tags' the player, but this tag is only updated with each pulse
Furthermore as soon as you change to a weapon or other equipment the tag data is lost

So you might choose a short range scanner with moderate prescision, that comes with a short interval to give full real time info to a squad.

Or you might go for ultra long range moderate prescion but with an incredibily long interaval, which would serve more as global battlefield intel, such as where you predict groups are moving to.

As for being able to detect scouts, there should still be one, but it is only short range, moderate interval and incredibly small FOV

Hold on so your only problem with scanners is that there is one that can detect everythin?
Thats it?

You don't care so long as the scout is completly invisible to radar?

I'm sorry but there should be a counter to EVERYTHING, in the case of profile damping thats the scanner. If the way scanners worked wasn't so problematic it wouldn't be a problem.

I hate having to run a basic and complex on my full stealth scout.

I think non scouts shouldn't be able to carry scanners. Or if they can, then they blip on enemy radar if their scan profile is higher then the scanner they are using.

Damn, guess I haven't run up to one in pubs.

I just ran a match and was scanned with a complex mod and level 5 skills across the board, I figured that was the focused scanner, seems I was wrong.

Cat Merc had a fantastic idea that addresses both the efficacy of scanners and dampers(and a whole lot else if taken to it's logical conclusion) in one beautiful system. Here.

Basically scanners and dampers would leverage the base suit values. This would mean that scouts would profit the most from the mechanic, effectively leveraging scanning/damping modules more than any other suit was capable of. It solves the scanner problem nicely.

I think it's a great mechanic and could add a lot of immersion and depth to the game, and it could be profitably employed to other areas than just scanning.

I think that proto AS equipped on only Gal Scout should be able to detect other scouts who have dampening skills. In other words AS should be dependent on the user's built in scanning strength. Logi should not be as good with AS as scout.

The fact that no amount of sp can send us to complete stealth vs scanners is rather irritating honestly. I beat all adv scanners currently with an enhanced dampener and my skill increases, but since theres no benefit for me taking it to max level, due to the one scanner that will still catch me regardless of skill points, I dont bother. That should never happen honesty.