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Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2014.04.06 10:42:00 -
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IceShifter Childhaspawn wrote:But my passive scanner (which operates on sound)
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Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2014.04.06 11:12:00 -
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Tech Ohm Eaven wrote:MINA Longstrike wrote:Passive scanning is not necessarily sound based. its nonsense a HUGE vehicle has LESS signal footprint or presence than a much SMALLER dropsuit?? its idiotic be it magnetic or thermal or acoustic or ion field or sci fi shield strength based whatever this thirty ton vehicle can tip toe around the map but this skinny stealth based scout is much more visible ? ROTHFL
Doesn't mean a NOT-SOUND-BASED sensor would (not) hear a vehicle from further away than it (doesn't) hear a dropsuit.
I agree that vehicle PROFILE should be raised, though. Unless it's already significantly higher than a Heavy suit. Which I don't know. Anyone? |
Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2014.04.06 11:15:00 -
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Cat Merc wrote:MINA Longstrike wrote:Passive scanning is not necessarily sound based. Considering the profile is measured in dB, and the precision too, I think it is.
Considering the profile is measured in a not-sound-specific unit that's used to compare power and intensity of signals more often than it is to measure the volume of a sound, you think that the scanning is sound-based?
That's... uhhhh... interesting reasoning. Care to explain further? |
Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2014.04.07 06:41:00 -
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This thread was saying vehicles should show up at LONGER RANGE THAN YOUR SCANNERS DETECT.
The reasoning was that your scanners are sound-based.
I countered that argument by explaining that there's absolutely no valid reason behind that assumption, and it's far more likely to be based in some other form of signal intensity which WOULDN'T have a huge range advantage when picking up a tank.
I specifically stated that tanks and other vehicles SHOULD be easily visible to any dropsuit scanner. The ONLY thing I was arguing against is making them show up at long range.
I know that "officially" tanks have 200dB profile, but in practise, they really, REALLY don't. I've frequently had my 50m+ scan radius at <30dB ignored by tanks and LAVs, and occasionally Dropships as well.
I know I can hear them and that's fine, but they SHOULD be showing up on my scan when I hear something really close behind and and turn around to see an enemy tank in Shotgun range that's not on my scanners until I'm looking at it. That's just not right. |
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