DUST Search - scan precision question

ninja draco wrote:

Sana Rayya wrote:

You need to look at your scan radius, not the radius of your minimap. The radius of your minimap is 100m. I'm not positive but I think that the scan radius of a proto Gallente scout is at max, 36m (with both range amplification and the Gallente scout skill at proto). So in theory, you should pick up mercs with a higher scan profile within 36m of you even if you don't have line of sight on them.

If you were to equip 4x complex range amplifiers and 1x complex precision enhancer on a proto suit, you could passively scan a 102.88 m radius with a 32.4 dB scan precision. Unfortunately this data would only be available to you, and not your squad, so active scanning as always would trump passive scanning. You'd also be paper thin.

my scan radius is 16m i have had many instances where heavies and mediums are very close to me and they do not appear on my radar, they can't all be wearing dampeners, theoretically most mediums and heavies within 16 meters of me should always be painted on my radar thats why I think the game mechanics are broken

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Broonfondle Majikthies Bannana Boat Corp Relentless Heroes Alliance 553	Posted - 2013.12.06 12:01:00 - [1] - Quote ninja draco wrote: Sana Rayya wrote: You need to look at your scan radius, not the radius of your minimap. The radius of your minimap is 100m. I'm not positive but I think that the scan radius of a proto Gallente scout is at max, 36m (with both range amplification and the Gallente scout skill at proto). So in theory, you should pick up mercs with a higher scan profile within 36m of you even if you don't have line of sight on them. If you were to equip 4x complex range amplifiers and 1x complex precision enhancer on a proto suit, you could passively scan a 102.88 m radius with a 32.4 dB scan precision. Unfortunately this data would only be available to you, and not your squad, so active scanning as always would trump passive scanning. You'd also be paper thin. my scan radius is 16m i have had many instances where heavies and mediums are very close to me and they do not appear on my radar, they can't all be wearing dampeners, theoretically most mediums and heavies within 16 meters of me should always be painted on my radar thats why I think the game mechanics are broken Remember 16 m in this game is practically next to you. the first ring of your radar (the one very uncomfortably close to your centre marker!) is 10m and the second 50m and the final limit of 100m. 16m is nothing at all. With Gal scout to pro and the range enhancement to lvl 5 you will have 36m. your lvl3 so your suit has a range of 20.8m. Reasonable but only useful in building and dense terrain with lots of obstructions. its still uncomfortably close. Realistically if you really want to explore this part of the suit you need range amplification and also range amplifiers added to your low slots (personally i'd stick to 1 or 2 modules as the stacking penalty gets ridiculous after that, but in theory if you did max it out and filled it with the best mods you could fill most of your radar screen with your passive scan) Lets say you get to lvl 3 with range amplifiers as well: 16m x 1.3 (+30% from suit) x 1.3 (+30% from skill) = 27.04m Now 1st mod is 100% effective and an enhanced is +35% ( x 1.35) = 36.5m 2nd mod is only 87% effective (so only adds +30.45%) =47.6m In fact crunched a few numbers. In theory if you had lvl 5 skills in suit and scan range and 2 proto range enhancing modules you'd have a passive scan radius of about 72.5m - Nearly 2/3rds of your radar Sounds like something your interested in? Not going to lie, that will make your suit very vulnerable and it is a hell of a lot of skill points but that is what it's capable of. "...where Bylothgar the Ill-postured was made King of the People With No Name But Decent Footwear"