Luna McDuffing
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Posted - 2014.11.20 19:27:00 -
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I'm a gallente logi. This logi excells really well at point defense. If you could get two of your friends to protect an area this is a really good logi to have because of the high HP. Offensively speaking a a different story. The problem like you said is that this suit is slow and moving from cover to cover leaves you expose.
My beef with the scanners is the price. Unless I'm in a PC or if my squad members agree to bring out proto heavies I refuse to use a proto-suit and by extension a proto-scanner. The price for the equipment is ridiculous and even with proto scanners it is near impossible to scan a scout so it kind of defeats the purpose of a highers cost scanner. Because of this I narrow my use of scanner to the following 2 models.
#1 A-45 scanner. This scanner is reasonably priced and has a good duration. i think that with the gallente logi bonus it last nearly 15 seconds. It does takes about 20 seconds to cool off but, that is only 5 seconds of downtime. it also has a 100 meter scan which is great when you want to scan an area before invading.
#2 the credon proximity scanner. This has a reduced range of only 60 meters but, still, it is a very good distance for this game since most battle happen withing this 60 meter range anyways. It only last 10 seconds but it has a cool down of about 10 seconds too. With the gallente bonus means that thee is no downtime between when one scan goes away and the second one kicks in. I like it but, i haven;t had the opportunity to use i much because of the cost. When I did tried it I was not able to confirm that it can detect most scout. If this is not the case then again, it kind of useless.
My tactic is not to continually scan. Well, at least not with the A-45. My tactic is to keep my eyes open. When i see an enemy I then point them out to my squad member with my scanner. Pretty much I'm their eyes
The question then is if you can't scan most scouts then what is the point of a higher tier scanner. What i would like then is to have the proxomity scanner at the advance level. Currently you can only get the proto level which again is too damn expensive.
All other scanners seem worhless to me because of the cool down time or other factors that make them unpractical. For example, what good is it to only scan someone for 5 seconds. That is useless especially when the cool off time is so high.
So yeah, think scanner need a revision in the sense that the war machine is always running and new and improve equipment is always being created. That being said, nothing about the current scanner meta is game breaking so I think this item will be put at the bottom of the list. |