CAPS LOCK BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!

I WITHDRAW ALL PREVIOUS NEGATIVE STATEMENTS ABOUT ACTIVE SCANNERS!

Seriously, those things are BEAST.

If you've got 4 slots or teammates handling hives and uplinks on a 3-slot suit, you NEED one of these things. That's all there is to it. Period. SENTANCE!

I ran about 4 hours of matches with a friend and his pickup squad and about half way in I was sold. I skilled in to just the basic scanner and with nanite injectors a mess decided to drop it into my injector slot.

Almost garaunteed victory! No joke. I mean... Sure, I run with some of the scarriest and most insane people in DUST here, and nobody's ever gonna look at the player list and think, "OH Shi... Chankk's on the other team!", but this thing is a massive boon to both yourself and your team's tactical knowledge and thus overall squad and team capacity.

I'm tired, and it's mad late, and I'm crashing after some important PC battles, but knowing where your enemy is, where they're coming from, where they're going. Just awesome. Not to mention the possibilities with area knowledge of where to drop OB's for the most devastating effect. One guy at the objective or half his team around the supply depot?

Also, the scanner continues "working" after triggering it's effect so you don't need to stand there holding it like an idiot as it was in previous builds. Just throw out a scan, switch back to your rep tool or weapon, and let you and your team go to town on reddots who wonder how you and your team magically know precisely where they are.

Not to mention the ability to pick up flanking enemies and squads and set up traps to counter their traps. I'm always settin' traps! Team fighting ahead of me, scan the roadway to the left, oh, 2 guys are coming... prepare a present of RDX for them and pop it as they walk right over it. AHHHH! Manditory tool for Demolitions logis.

Look, I could rant for hours, but I'm suddenly in love with this thing and my pub suits are definitely rocking this. Proto once I get it will almost invariably have one of these loaded as well now.

Now if only we could get "Kill Assists" benefits for scanning and pointing out enemies who die within a brief time of being sighted by the tool.