Surely heavies should show up on my radar if I'm an assault or scout player. The amount of times I've been in my scout suit with precision enhancer equipped and been snuck up on by a heavy while hacking a point!

Is this a bug?

P.S LAV and tanks make noise right? so why don't they show up either. This whole murder taxi thing wouldn't be a problem if I could actually see them coming at me on my radar.

Thoughts?

The math on the scan range suggests even with extremely high skills and modules you still can't see very far, I don't remember the exact numbers but it wasn't very far.

Yes, because heavies need to be easier to kill... I'm more annoyed by the invisible LAV...

Unless you're using an active scanner device the onboard scanner isn't effective outside of large range in front of you. It's never worked properly either from my understanding.

So I have a 360 degree 10m scan radius and then a longer scan length in front of me?

Is that what you're saying?

Let me clarify a bit. Your scanner won't find people behind you unless they're almost on top of you. But in front if someone is hiding behind terrain if you get within a certain distance they'll show up.

Scanning in general - unless the active ones - aren't reliable.

Sorry I don't know the number ranges - as a heavy this hasn't really mattered to me since I always keep someone behind me.

...in the form of one piece of equipment, which nobody uses

That little circle on your radar (the inside one) is 20m out.

Your scan radius is half that.

10m is NOT very far at all. A pistol is effective out to 60m. Keep that in mind. Also, when you look at someone they show up on everyone's radar. This goes for you as well. If someone is looking at a red, they're on your radar. There's no "increased" scan radius in front of you. Simply what you or someone else is currently targeting.

Shooting (for example a bluedot in your tank... towards the MCC) doesn't increase your scan profile. Nothing does, not even running.

There are a tremendous number of misconceptions around about how radar works... generally based on other games I find.

Hope this helps some people... since even in this thread people appear misinformed.

On my scout suit my scan precision is 45db plus I'm running a precision enhancer which gives my and extra 10% (4.5db) so any thing that makes a noise of 40.5db and above should show up on my radar right?

A heavies scan profile is 65db.

the scan range is 10m so if i'm hacking a point and staring at my radar If a heavy spawns I should be able to see him and react. instead I just seem to hear the HMG and then death.

Are you saying he's more than 10m away so that's why he's not on my radar?

Maybe I need more explanantion on the radar. Because things pop up on it that are certainly more than 10m away.

Feed me knowledge.