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Sana Rayya
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Posted - 2014.02.05 11:13:00 -
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Not getting scanned is worth the sacrifice in HP, so long as you take advantage of being unscanned and play as a stealth suit. This means you should never engage a target who knows you are there unless you are very confident you can take them down before they can kill you. If they have more HP than you, it's stupid to engage them in a 1 vs 1 "fair" fight; you should be getting the drop on them and killing them before they realize what direction they are getting hit from.
This is the same principle that allows low EHP scouts to surprise and destroy higher EHP enemies without taking significant damage. Stealth and surprise can overcome EHP so long as you are clever.
Parkour Practicioner, I think you are overdampening. If you have proto scout, you only need Dampening 3 and a basic/militia dampener to avoid 28dB scans. If you have advanced scout, you need one complex at Dampening 5 or two basics at Dampening 2 to avoid 28dB scans. The Duvolle focused is practically impossible to avoid but nearly no one uses it. |
Sana Rayya
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Posted - 2014.02.05 11:31:00 -
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The reason why dampening is so CPU intensive is because when you use it, it makes an entire class of enemy equipment useless (when applied to you). Scanning and being unscanned imparts a huge advantage over scanning and still getting scanned, and it should and does require sacrifice to obtain.
In pubs, most people only run ADV scanners so you'll only need one complex dampener to evade them. If the numbers were fudged so that proto scans could still be evaded by only one dampener, then they'd slowly fade to uselessness as people realized that evading 99% of the scanners out there only required one slot.
But as some have said, the scanning mechanic will change making them far less effective than they are now. So I think that dampening will also have less importance in the coming build; when it's harder to fire off effective scans, the need to always run dampeners goes down. |
Sana Rayya
WASTELAND JUNK REMOVAL
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Posted - 2014.02.05 11:47:00 -
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Also, guys - you don't need an Adv and basic dampener to avoid Adv scans. Two basics does it just fine on a medium frame.
I don't think anything good will come out of allowing proto scans (except the Duvolle Focused) from being dodge able by using a single slot alone. This just makes it way too easy to dampen all of your suits with little sacrifice, and if it were that easy, everyone would run one and scanners would be useless (except for the Focused which everyone complains about despite no one actually using it). |
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