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Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2013.02.27 21:10:00 -
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Beren Hurin wrote:What's wrong with the scanner LAVs?
Too short of range (80m is not much on a 2 square kilometer map), too unreliable (most active scanners can't pick up an Assault Suit with Dropsuit Command 2) and it's very fragile (the LAV, that is).
+1. Love this idea. |
Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2013.02.27 21:31:00 -
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Beren Hurin wrote:Aeon Amadi wrote:Beren Hurin wrote:What's wrong with the scanner LAVs? Too short of range (80m is not much on a 2 square kilometer map), too unreliable (most active scanners can't pick up an Assault Suit with Dropsuit Command 2) and it's very fragile (the LAV, that is). +1. Love this idea. I personally don't agree. I can get my methana easily into the 4000 EHP range, still fast, with a scanner, then if you think about how you can cover 100m in no time you can basically scan the whole map in less than a minute. Yeah I agree that they don't pick up everything, but if they did, then sensor dampeners would be pointless. I'm hoping that scan precision can be modified for LAVs, but it is possible to make a survivable patrol vehicle. I'm guessing once ECM and jamming comes into the game we will see more uses for sensors and counter sensor ops.
I think you over-estimate how often the Sensor Dampener is used, to be honest. A frontline fighter won't waste their time with it.
The Active Scanner has a precision of what, 45? That's the baseline scout-suit. A Scout-suit with Dropsuit Command 1 or Scan Dampening 1 already beats it. An Assault Suit with any combination of the two equaling level 5 (dropsuit command 3 and scan dampening 2, for instance) beats it.
Even then the handheld Active Scanner didn't work at all and there's no way for us to readily be sure that the Active Scanner on the vehicles is working. I say this because I used one on a Dropship and hovered in the center of a city sprawl with it on and a Heavy somehow snuck up on my team.
Explain that, please - as I don't think it's highly probable he had Scan Dampening 5 and a Prototype Scan Dampener. |
Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2013.02.27 22:04:00 -
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Coleman Gray wrote:Hmm, perhaps have it so only the squad that activated it gets the beneit too?
Nah. More practical to have one squad Scan and the other OB. |
Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2013.02.28 05:53:00 -
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Jax Saurian wrote:This is a grand idea but I think it should be a war barge thing and maybe take 1000 WP instead cause it's easy to get 500 WP especially when in a squad so you could have almost constant scanner sweeps the entire game and I agree with red dot that it should last about 30 seconds but there should also be a counter for this though so you could chose between jamming their radars for maybe 15 seconds (or more) or the scanner sweep.
1000 is a little steep for a temporary scan...
Edit: Especially if it's for your squad only... |
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