I'd actually like to see the armor repairs removed from nanohives altogether. I've found it's pretty much impossible for anyone to kill me if I stack two armor hives together and dance on top of them. I've never been sold on them being able to do anything more than return ammo, and even then I think they resupply at way too fast a rate for some weapons.

If you want your armor repaired, you should be finding a logibro with a repair tool. Nanohives being able to repair armor simply lessen the importance of logistics teammates. Unless it was changed so that only logistics suits could use these variants, or the logistics suit natively gave a bonus to nanohives they threw down. (The latter seems like it would be somewhat broken)

If anyone can be a mock 'logibro' simply by equipping these nanohives, it makes it much less of an incentive for people to train up logistics. Less incentives for people to actually train logistics is a very bad thing. Logistics players are the unsung heroes. You want people to take this role whenever possible. They are champions, and even if their stats are terrible, logibros are what win fights.

You get 2 for every equipment spot you spend. So, most higher end suits can get four nanohives.

The problem is, if people put their nanohives in good spots, they are very hard to shoot or nail with a grenade. If anyone has seen where I usually hang out on communication maps (Not the highest roof, but the raised platforms along the path near the west gate. Good look nailing those nanohives with a grenade, it'd take an excellent cooked throw, and when I'm up there it's almost impossible for someone to kill me without a couple really lucky shots.