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Sana Rayya wrote:Beren Hurin wrote:Bunny Demon wrote:I kind of agree although the only way a scout will be able to share enemy locations using passive scans is over comms because I believe they changed it so only active scans are shared with the squad Nope. As of right now, passive scans are shared with squad. I confirmed it with my squad last night. There is no doubt they can see the red dots my suit picks up. The only difference is that I think while the red dots more slowly fade on my screen, I think they more likely flicker off on theirs. So its kind of seems like the broadcasting scout can 'see more' if they are moving around and may accidentally blind their team to dots that appear then disappear. I also run a passive scan suit and according to my squad, they only see my scan results if they are within scan range of me - did you find this the case, or was your squad able to passively see the enemies you saw, even when your squadmates were across the map?
I'd assumed OP meant you lead your squad to prey by visually following them rather than using some sort of shared passive scan. I'd be really surprised if passive scan was shared with the squad - I've not heard of this mechanic working this way. That said I've been soloing all the time for the last few months so wouldn't have noticed it myself....
What passive scan range did you all have? Because base scan range is only 10m or 16m for light suit, which is bugger all really, so the ability to determine whether or not someone else's p-scan is picking up reds on your own tacnet is kind of inaccurate.
Unless you're running p-scans at 50m+ in an L5 Gallente scout suit or something? Curious
Anyway yeah generally, looking forward to more diversity in 1.8, esp. increase in p-scan ranges - it's a mechanic that can really make for nice ambushes |
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Posted - 2014.03.06 20:05:00 -
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Beren Hurin wrote:IAmDuncanIdaho II wrote:Sana Rayya wrote:Beren Hurin wrote:Bunny Demon wrote:I kind of agree although the only way a scout will be able to share enemy locations using passive scans is over comms because I believe they changed it so only active scans are shared with the squad Nope. As of right now, passive scans are shared with squad. I confirmed it with my squad last night. There is no doubt they can see the red dots my suit picks up. The only difference is that I think while the red dots more slowly fade on my screen, I think they more likely flicker off on theirs. So its kind of seems like the broadcasting scout can 'see more' if they are moving around and may accidentally blind their team to dots that appear then disappear. I also run a passive scan suit and according to my squad, they only see my scan results if they are within scan range of me - did you find this the case, or was your squad able to passively see the enemies you saw, even when your squadmates were across the map? I'd assumed OP meant you lead your squad to prey by visually following them rather than using some sort of shared passive scan. I'd be really surprised if passive scan was shared with the squad - I've not heard of this mechanic working this way. That said I've been soloing all the time for the last few months so wouldn't have noticed it myself.... What passive scan range did you all have? Because base scan range is only 10m or 16m for light suit, which is bugger all really, so the ability to determine whether or not someone else's p-scan is picking up reds on your own tacnet is kind of inaccurate. Unless you're running p-scans at 50m+ in an L5 Gallente scout suit or something? Curious Anyway yeah generally, looking forward to more diversity in 1.8, esp. increase in p-scan ranges - it's a mechanic that can really make for nice ambushes That was the point of the OP. Sorry if it wasn't clear. I was refering to Ramps or range amplifiers as extending your base scan range. Scout suits are getting a buff to base scan range from 16m to 20m while logis are going from 10m to 15m. This means that when you stack ramps you can get logi and scout suits to passively scan quite a bit (and share this info with the tacnet).
Heh no, that part was crystal clear, what I meant was I assumed you meant you could lead others to prey by them visually following you, not because there is some sort of shared p-scan mechanic. I'm not aware of any sharing of passive scan at all. The idea has been booted around various threads over the last 6-12 months or so, on many occasions, but I never saw word of it being implemented. |
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Beck Weathers wrote:Dont you mean it will become which ever team has more LAVs with onboard scanners whiping up and down the map?
Those are active scanners, and they won't work the same way in 1.8. They will take snapshots instead of lighting everything up as you go. |
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Posted - 2014.03.06 20:20:00 -
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Beck Weathers wrote:IAmDuncanIdaho II wrote:Beck Weathers wrote:Dont you mean it will become which ever team has more LAVs with onboard scanners whiping up and down the map? Those are active scanners, and they won't work the same way in 1.8. They will take snapshots instead of lighting everything up as you go. I have my doubts that CCP would take into acount both hand and vehical scanners. Also dosent the vehical scanner pulsate scan? as in it dose multi snapshot scannes?
Perhaps, I'd assumed an active scanner was an active scanner, but I never thought about how the vehicle one appears to work slightly differently before. hehe time will tell come release! |
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