+1 I like the idea of an equipment designed to take out other pieces of equipment. However the equipment spam could easily be solved by making the uplink/nanohive limit tied to the person instead of the specific equipment.

Wow the first equipment spam thread i have found that i agree with but maybe the ASD could have a place-able variants. This could create a tactical choke point that needs to be fluxed or disabled in one way or another. FYI i am also a support logi

how can it scan and take out uplinks ontop of a building if it cannot go through walls?

interesting idea but I can see many flaws. It may work better if the "disruptor" disabled equipment temporarily over a certain range like 60m @ 180-¦ for 10 seconds with a 45 second cooldown. this would give you enough time to engage and clear an area.

If it can be placed like a RE then I could see that making up links and stealth attacks more useful.

how can it scan and take out uplinks ontop of a building if it cannot go through walls?

interesting idea but I can see many flaws. It may work better if the "disruptor" disabled equipment temporarily over a certain range like 60m @ 180-¦ for 10 seconds with a 45 second cooldown. this would give you enough time to engage and clear an area.

+1 I like the idea of an equipment designed to take out other pieces of equipment. However the equipment spam could easily be solved by making the uplink/nanohive limit tied to the person instead of the specific equipment.

thats my point to put more tactics in the game and less who has the better gun

The real problem with this ideal is that I can still spam this stuff and just hide afterwards
or switch into a suit that going to help them live as long as possible. Also if the hive or
uplink is now tie to how long I live does that mean fully that my equipment is really tied
to me (by fully tie to me I mean if I don't die my equipment doesn't die to case I didn't)
I'm going to be honest here it got to be worth it to me if we're trading of stat's.
Another thing I want to ask is what happens to the unlink if I go down not die just down.
Will it just disappear. Will it reappear refreshed if I get picked up? What happens?

What I am saying is that it is based on you rather than your equipment. So if I have a regular uplink, a hacked uplink, and a R-9 uplink then the maximum I can put down is two R-9s. Since the maximum allowed from a regular or hacked uplink is 1 then you can only have 1 uplink down at a time, however if you put down a regular and an R-9 they will stay because the R-9 can coexist with 1 other uplink or another R-9.

By that method the maximum amount of uplinks possible per person is 3 instead of the current 14, the same would apply to nanohives.

his idea sound like it would just mean even more equipment spam to ensure yours works.

Could you maybe going to a little bit more details about how this would make more equipment spam?

then I'd place these ASED's and MY equipment to screw you from placing your equipment...

The scanner mechanic sounds a bit OP. A better idea (imo) has been suggested before several times. Sadly, with no dev tags.

It was mentioned briefly above. Basically, it's an equipment jammer. Either specific to uplinks (but not nanohives) or not. Basically you place it down and in a certain radius if any equipment gets deployed, it 'pops' and does not get active.

Now, this also has high abuse potential, but as a static, one-time deploy piece of equipment (as opposed to a mobile disintegrator ray like in the OP) it would be a little easier to control. For example:

1) Only 1 can be carried at STD/ADV, 2 at proto. So you can't litter an entire city with them and lock it down.

2) There is an absolute and team radius. Meaning: While it jams enemy equipment for say, whatever, 25m at STD, 50 at proto or something (pick your own random number), it also jams ALL equipment (including other jammers) in a smaller radius, maybe 10m. This way you also can't blanket a large area because you won't be able to place any of your own equipment down either.

3) Big fitting cost so you either have to be a logi or totally gimp your suit to carry them, and it would be unrealistic to carry 2 kinds on the same suit.


Some other things might need to happen, like a timer on it, or some kind of warning that a jammer is active in the area when you select equipment from the wheel or whatever, but the things above would probably keep it in line.

Note: I am a support logi and known mass user of equipment. Hell, I wrote the guide to using drop uplinks. I like this idea because it adds another strategic layer and gives me another new toy to play with.

Honestly I dont think that many (good) support logi's would be dead-set against this kind of thing. Most of us actually hate equipment "spam" because it gives us a bad name, litters the map with useless crap, and takes away WP from us (because it's invariably some non-logi trying to mindlessly farm WP with no thought to tactics).

2) There is an absolute and team radius. Meaning: While it jams enemy equipment for say, whatever, 25m at STD, 50 at proto or something (pick your own random number), it also jams ALL equipment from either team (including other jammers) in a smaller radius, maybe 10m. This way you also can't blanket a large area because you won't be able to place any of your own equipment down either.

I like this. However, I feel it should jam both team's equipment over the jammer's full range so you have to be careful when you try to use it. E.G. wait until a large portion of your team has gathered before you breach. This would decrease the viability of a straight up zerg rush while the enemy is jammed.

Also, If it only blocked the enemy's equipment after a short distance then they could easily be used to lock down objectives with supply depots. I.E. Place one just far enough away from your own spawn hub but still within your defendable area, then replace as necessary using the supply depot.

Also, would it jam CRUs and mCRUs?