Just curious as to thoughts. Only appears on said character's scan radius when the DU is in the radius, or it appears on everyone's map once one team member is within the scan radius. I am assuming everyone is okay with the latter since it follows the same as players, but I could be wrong.

And stop showing them and nanohives through walls.

Almost but not quite. Similarly to how players that are passively scanned don't appear on everyone's radar, DU that are passively scanned shouldn't either. However, if a player is looking at the DU then yes put it on everyone's radar, spotting like that is fine.

Geirskoegul, I'm not saying making them invisible. All I'm saying is making them subject to your scanning radius. By no means should there be any drop uplink with a low profile signature, they should all be high as to be instantly detectable. But what the heck is the purpose of having a scan radius if you are able to detect things well outside of it?

What we are gaining by making them subject to your scan radius is actually being able to stage surprise attacks. Especially considering one of the best suits for carrying the uplinks is the scout suit since they can infiltrate the enemy bases undetected, but as soon as you pop an uplink down now your cover is blown.

They weren't always like this. In Chromosome you had to simply realize the enemy are attacking too frequently and then go search for the uplink. It added more to the gameplay. I didn't see anyone back then complaining that they should be visible on the far edges of of your minimap, but now their are tons of people complaining that they should go back to how they were.

What if CCP just implements a low-spawn, stealthy drop uplink? Scout suit sneaks into enemy base, drops stealth uplink. Only lasts for 5+ spawns, but it's enough to get a full squad behind enemy lines to hit them from both sides.

I would be far more comfortable with an idea like this. The Dust version of BLOPS and covert cynos. Limit it to other scout suits that can spawn at it, perhaps, and now you have the means to sneak a force behind enemy lines, very difficult to detect, and cause trouble by back-hacking them or boobytrapping their ****. BLOPS used well in EVE can be amazing, and it'd be cool to see something similar in Dust.

I was getting ready to argue with you from a gameplay pespective, but then you went and proposed a very cool, and very balanced idea - BLOPS uplinks/BLOPS scouts. Maybe BLOPS uplinks should be composed of a sender unit and a receiver unit?

What i liked most in Chromo was having to infer/hunt/destroy uplinks. It was good gamplay. Placing uplinks while redlined was interesting and rewarding gameplay also.

With uplinks as they are now in Uprising, they will not be a redline-breaking tool in pub matches, which leaves pubbies with virtually no options in a redline situation.

I was getting ready to argue with you from a gameplay pespective, but then you went and proposed a very cool, and very balanced idea - BLOPS uplinks/BLOPS scouts. Maybe BLOPS uplinks should be composed of a sender unit and a receiver unit?

What i liked most in Chromo was having to infer/hunt/destroy uplinks. It was good gamplay. Placing uplinks while redlined was interesting and rewarding gameplay also.

With uplinks as they are now in Uprising, they will not be a redline-breaking tool in pub matches, which leaves pubbies with virtually no options in a redline situation.

I would be far more comfortable with an idea like this. The Dust version of BLOPS and covert cynos. Limit it to other scout suits that can spawn at it, perhaps, and now you have the means to sneak a force behind enemy lines, very difficult to detect, and cause trouble by back-hacking them or boobytrapping their ****. BLOPS used well in EVE can be amazing, and it'd be cool to see something similar in Dust.