Appia Vibbia
Opus Arcana
Orion Empire
21
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Posted - 2013.05.09 15:44:00 -
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Appia's Skills: Profile Dampening 5, Precision Enhancement 5, Range Amplification 5, Gallente Scout 5. . . on a 10m base scan range becomes a scan radius of 20m. 2 complex range amplifiers increase that to 29m (50%+50%+45%+45%) or more if calculating points works differently.
45 dB Sig Radius. Scout and Dampening get it down to 30 (rounding up). 2 Complex Profile Dampeners get it to 7 (rounding up). (-10%-25%-25%-25%)
Scan Precision of 45 dB. 10% from skill. so 41, 20% from 1 complex precision enhancer becomes 32.
So by this, The only people can can pick up my suits would be someone invested in precision with 4 precision enhancers...
or Line of Sight.
The new Active Scanners are cool. they straight-out tell you the 3 most important things: Range, Precision, and Angle.
We can calculate our range and precision, but they have never released the passive scanner's angle. it should be 360-¦ and less than 120-¦ means it isn't helping.
So the basic Active scanner can't find Light frames. much like heavies, logis and Assaults. the ADV scanners have a precision of 36... still can't see me. The prototypes have a 28, with the most expensive at 15... none of those can find me.
Yet somehow, I was playing a skirmish and a heavy found me. I was watching him, making sure I was always to his backside or at the very least behind cover. He hunted me down like he knew exactly where I was, no dumb luck involved, he knew exactly where to go.
The new "enhanced graphics" took away my ability to snipe. It took away my ability to find targets, light them up with the SR and give tactical advice to my team. The messed up controls and input-lag have made it impossible for me to use my scrambler pistols effectively... So I'm out in the game reduced to 2 Toxin SMGs (because I spec'd into Scanning, Scout, SR, and Scrambler Pistol), with the goal of running around and hacking things in OMS/Skirmish, and taking out any campers as I cause hit-detection problems by jumping around or circling people faster than they can track (which, to be fair, I can't keep up with 100/100 sensitivity either) |
Appia Vibbia
Opus Arcana
Orion Empire
28
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Posted - 2013.05.11 17:53:00 -
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Ric Barlom wrote:Appia Vibbia wrote: blah blah blah, Appia talks a lot. Thanks for the feedback, and let me be the first one to tell you that I feel your pain. I've also invested into pretty much all of those scanning related skills and that's a lot of skill points right there and it seems like there's a lot of problems with this mechanic. Now let me ask you a question: Can you detect people with your radar, inside your radius, behind walls or hills if you, or someone else, don't have a direct visual on them? Because I can't, and I know my precision is lower than their profile.
Interesting effects: On Skim Junction, where you get that giant planetary defense gun with the 3 rings, I was walking along the outside of "B." Without line of Sight, I did pick up a Heavy Frame suit that was coming towards me. He too was circling the wall so I was indeed able to see his marker on my tacnet through the wall.
At the same time there were enemies near "B" n the otherside of the wall. They were lit up because they were engaged in combat, but then my bluebies messed up royally and lost a 6 on 3 battle so the chevrons disappeared as their names showed up on top in the kill list.
Ric, are you sure of your scan radius? That is that first circle on the radar is only 10m, then each score after is 5m.
my low slots in my Gallente are 1 mlt kincat (such a huge SP tax on that now) 1 STD armor repairer, 1 complex profile Dampener, and 1 Complex Range Enhancer. so my scanner picks up things within 24.5m
I have also picked up someone that was within the 24m radius who was up above me on a platform. The helipad looking structure. I was on the backside of the structure while they were on the front side... that was actually the heavy who hunted me down. |