As simple as that, do you guys know what happens when a scout sees "You have been scanned"? they either run away to swap to a more dampened suit, run away and quit the game in a safe spot, or go off as far away from the scanner as they can (lets go sniping). Scouts, and I mean any scout, should have the potential to be free of being scanned, with gallente scouts needing less or even, no dampener mods.

After you guys understand what it's like seeing that thing burnt on top of your TV screen as a scout, then I'll take your views into account, because right now you just won't understand. Being seen on the radar as a scout is the worst of the worst, unless we're talking brick tank AR scouts. Understand, every other scout relies on stealth, and scanners completely destroy that.

As simple as that, do you guys know what happens when a scout sees "You have been scanned"? they either run away to swap to a more dampened suit, run away and quit the game in a safe spot, or go off as far away from the scanner as they can (lets go sniping). Scouts, and I mean any scout, should have the potential to be free of being scanned, with gallente scouts needing less or even, no dampener mods.

After you guys understand what it's like seeing that thing burnt on top of your TV screen as a scout, then I'll take your views into account, because right now you just won't understand. Being seen on the radar as a scout is the worst of the worst, unless we're talking brick tank AR scouts. Understand, every other scout relies on stealth, and scanners completely destroy that.

As simple as that, do you guys know what happens when a scout sees "You have been scanned"? they either run away to swap to a more dampened suit, run away and quit the game in a safe spot, or go off as far away from the scanner as they can (lets go sniping). Scouts, and I mean any scout, should have the potential to be free of being scanned, with gallente scouts needing less or even, no dampener mods.

After you guys understand what it's like seeing that thing burnt on top of your TV screen as a scout, then I'll take your views into account, because right now you just won't understand. Being seen on the radar as a scout is the worst of the worst, unless we're talking brick tank AR scouts. Understand, every other scout relies on stealth, and scanners completely destroy that.

As simple as that, do you guys know what happens when a scout sees "You have been scanned"? they either run away to swap to a more dampened suit, run away and quit the game in a safe spot, or go off as far away from the scanner as they can (lets go sniping).

Are you a time traveler from 1.7? Dude, scanners have been nerfed back to the stone age and clacks. Clacks man!

You guys don't understand, none of you guys picked up what I meant. People are suggesting buffs to scanners, so that they can pick up 4x complex dampened gal scout + cloak, I'm simply disagreeing.

You guys don't understand, none of you guys picked up what I meant. People are suggesting buffs to scanners, so that they can pick up 4x complex dampened gal scout + cloak, I'm simply disagreeing.

It should be possible for a scanning-focused Logi with an Active Scanner AND modules fitted to augment it (which requires there to be modules which affect the stats of Active Scanners) to pick up a cloaked non-dampened or a dampened non-cloaked Scout without having to fully proto themselves up.

So what you're saying is that NOTHING should be able to counter scouts?

Wow, that's the stupidest idea I've heard today.

Everything in this game needs some kind of counter, otherwise imbalance will ensue.

You guys don't understand, none of you guys picked up what I meant. People are suggesting buffs to scanners, so that they can pick up 4x complex dampened gal scout + cloak, I'm simply disagreeing.

So what you're saying is that nothing should be able to counter an active scan?

Wow, that's the stupidest idea I've heard all day.

Everything in this game needs some kind of counter, otherwise imbalance will ensue.






Do you see what I did there?

It already has a counter. It's called a cloak. They may show up on Radar, but still hard to see with the naked eye.

Also, a scanner doesn't protect you in the slightest from the scouts (or anyone else) from shooting at you. Dampeners and the cloak however certainly prevent people from shooting at you by virtue of not knowing where the hell you are located.

It makes the scout close to god-mode invulnerability. You people complained with your shrill tremolous voices how tanks were "god mode" because you practically couldn't hurt them. How hypocritical of you to propose that scouts should be pretty much the same thing (but rather than having impenetrable protection you propose that they should be virtually invisible to everything).

If cloaked scouts shouldn't have a counter, then neither should my tanks.