KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2014.04.01 11:18:00 -
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I read what they did to the scanners and it seemed like a dumb idea but hey, this is Dust. None of my squad mates carry them anymore and I see one or two ... a day down in the Dust now. This was the first time I tried it in 1.8. I immediately hit the Supply Depot (there was still one in the map, thankfully) and dumped the fit. After battle I went in and removed the few remaining Scanners I had fitted. Two, not a big deal.
Double ugly beating with the Nerf Hammer of Doom. It is really funny to think of what a piece of useless gear the scanner is now. CCP/Shanghai killed TacNet so we would be forced to spend SP/ISK/AUR on scanners. Now we don't have the TacNet, we don't have scanners that are worth 1 solitary ISK and we have cloaking fields. Which seem a little OP unless you are in a Derp or a Tank. Even Tanks have to be careful as the scouts have two equip slots so the REs delivery system is nearly invisible.
Hmm. Maybe there is a pattern here? 
And so it goes.
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KalOfTheRathi
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Posted - 2014.04.01 11:37:00 -
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Orin the Freak wrote:I didn't like scanners anyway. They are working as intended. They are long-range, directional scanners. Not your personal radar device.
In 1.7, they were just that. Scan, 360*, full idea of who is where. totaly eliminating any element of surprise.
Now, you have to rely a lot more on passive scans, and your eyeballs. it made the game a lot more interesting IMO. The game was fantastic in Chromosome. TacNet showed you where your squad was, Red Dots showed up when they were targeted by Greens and occasionally Blues (never understood the separation). It made me feel like I was in the future, fighting a science fiction high tech war.
Now, nothing works, you have to target your squad to see who they are (no LOS, no luck sucka) to see their health bars. I didn't like the scanners when they dropped. We lost an equipment slot to use them and with the knowledge that the scouts were going to be cloaked SOON(bs) they seemed kinda pointless.
And now they are, again. Only funnier and uglier than before.
Don't go complaining about Mercs using the equipment CCP/Shanghai designed and forced on us. Point your finger to either Iceland or Shanghai, not to Mercs suffering under their incomprehensible plans.
Maybe they will start designing features to work like they want them to work first. Any reasonable gamer would have discovered the 360 degree trick. Took me under five minutes. I suspect many beat my performance.
And so it goes.
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