XD make it an actual equipment and not a weapon that can kill scouts.

Not gonna lie, this is a pretty cool idea. I wouldn't mind having a suit that deploys these things like uplinks. Something like 2 max active, 3 carried. 50 meter radial range. Bam. +1

A deployable scanners give far too large an advantage to the defending team, or the team closest to the supply depot. There's already enough of an edge provided by triage/ammo hives and uplinks. Doing this to the scanner would mean constant scans and no downsides of a) having an equipment slot used up, as you can drop your scanners then switch to a different suit or b) having to use the scanner repeatedly to refresh scan data, which ties up your weapon.

There's also the matter of putting them in places unreachable by anyone but dropship pilots, which under the right circumstances could make them near impossible to destroy.

Nope, disliked it in COD and I dislike it here.

What I find hilarious is folks whining about the scanner now. What changed about the scanner that made it OP? Nothing.

What changed was sharing targets on the radar when anyone on the team/squad had them in their field of vision. What this meant was that you were pretty much always on radar, at all times cause SOMEONE would see you. So nobody cared about scanners.

Now that the radar is a little less OP in general, scanners are standing out.

So the folks whining about scanners dont actually feel the radar is OP (as its less OP than it used to be), they just either dont want to be vulnerable while scanning (i miss out on kills due to scanning all the time) or they dont want to lose their former equipment (im guessing nanos with armor rep).

Radar may or may not be OP in this game, but its not new to the scanner. In fact, radar is less OP now than it ever was and the intended role of low radius suits now actually have a point since you can get under most scanners and arent on everyones radar because one person happened to spot you across the map.

So... a t-ugs?

I would think you want a deployable passive scanner... Active means you would need to activate it to scan. I would rather want to know a red dot is there without having to activate it.