Is an incentive of WP really necessary? Isn't it good enough just knowing how many enemies are ahead, what direction they are facing and where they are going so you can get the drop on them not incentive enough?

I would like a new variant of the active scanner called the target designator, it would work at sniper ranges.

I think CCP should give us the power to decide what is on our HUD to a reasonable degree.... i.e. nametags.... I don't think they should make that decision for us, give us the option to toggle them.

This seems like a good opportunity to tell you about some of the scanning related things weGÇÖre currently testing internally.

What are we testing?

• The active scanner shares all scan results with your squad.

How is it going?

Pretty well, quite happy with it so far :-)

This seems like a good opportunity to tell you about some of the scanning related things weGÇÖre currently testing internally.

What are we testing?

• Shared vision for squads disabled.
• Team member chevrons only visible when they are in LOS. Squad chevrons remain 3D (stick to the edge of the screen).
• The active scanner shares all scan results with your squad.
• Pretty little pulsing effect on things that have been scanned so you can understand why you are seeing them and why they disappear.
• HP bars and name tag visible only for what you are aiming/firing at.
• Hit indication if FF is off is disabled.

Why are we testing this?

• We are unhappy with how much noise there is on the HUD. It often gets in the way (tags in particular) rather than helping you understand what is going on. We want to clean it up.
• We feel that scanning in particular is unclear, you often didnGÇÖt really know why you see some things and not others.
• We want active scanning to be a more important tactical mechanic.

How is it going?

Pretty well, quite happy with it so far :-)

I would like a new variant of the active scanner called the target designator, it would work at sniper ranges.

I would like a new variant of the active scanner called the target designator, it would work at sniper ranges.

You will always see team mates on the minimap and if they are in front of you. You just will not have the annoying chevrons sticking around at the edge of the screen for guys that are not in your line of sight.

This seems like a good opportunity to tell you about some of the scanning related things weGÇÖre currently testing internally.

What are we testing?

• Shared vision for squads disabled.
• HP bars and name tag visible only for what you are aiming/firing at.

Don't like.




What?




Can you give us the option to turn these off instead of making it mandatory? Some of us aren't distracted by more than one thing on the screen and can handle multiple sources of information at once.

This is going to be an odd and unpopular request but I feel it's worth throwing out their. Can we just remove the health bars all together. As I have found it makes for much more tense gameplay and encourages players to think before they shoot

This seems like a good opportunity to tell you about some of the scanning related things weGÇÖre currently testing internally.

What are we testing?

• Shared vision for squads disabled.
• Team member chevrons only visible when they are in LOS. Squad chevrons remain 3D (stick to the edge of the screen).
• The active scanner shares all scan results with your squad.
• Pretty little pulsing effect on things that have been scanned so you can understand why you are seeing them and why they disappear.
• HP bars and name tag visible only for what you are aiming/firing at.
• Hit indication if FF is off is disabled.

Why are we testing this?

• We are unhappy with how much noise there is on the HUD. It often gets in the way (tags in particular) rather than helping you understand what is going on. We want to clean it up.
• We feel that scanning in particular is unclear, you often didnGÇÖt really know why you see some things and not others.
• We want active scanning to be a more important tactical mechanic.

How is it going?

Pretty well, quite happy with it so far :-)

we dont talk about scanners much to keep them under the nerf radar

You will always see team mates on the minimap and if they are in front of you. You just will not have the annoying chevrons sticking around at the edge of the screen for guys that are not in your line of sight.

Actually looks pretty good in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyGxjCMXago&feature=youtu.be&a

Anyone as an individual, or corp, making good use of it?

For the first bullet point: You provide inadequate comms for communicating intel without significant chatter. Now you're suggesting that you're thinking of making inter-squad chatter a tad more crucial. Nopenopenope. It's also pretty damn hard to spot tanks at the moment, which is a detriment to the tank vs. tank gameplay. Removing team sight actually exacerbates this issue in an already ailing gameplay role.


For the second: So what you're saying is that you're limiting active scanning results to squad members only. This will encourage fewer of the things, not more. The active scanner already has severe penalties associated with its use. You have to take it out and hold it in your hands for one. You've also got the problem that targets are informed that they've been scanned. The better you make the scanner, the more of penalty you turn this notification into. So yeah, devoting an active scanner to an equipment slot in 3 squads isn't worth the utility since it's just going to add to the egregious amount of chatter.

Yes shared vision for squads and teams is disabled in our current internal build. Personally I've found it makes the game more exciting.

Agree on it needing WP rewards. We're doing our best to get to those as soon as we can.

Cloaking is still on the table, not going to speak about that atm though :-)

Then we need cordinates or something like that on the map, to be able to call out positions
either that or a TAG command, like the ones that the squad leader can issue, but for everybody, just to pinpoint a location

We need a team wide comms wheel. Matches are chaotic enough as it is and these changes are likely to turn pubs into a lonewolf rambo fest without any way to communicate apart from team chat (that nobody uses most of the time)

Please, CCP Wolfman account for the general lack of practical communication options between blueberries before green lighting these changes.