Thanks for contributing so much cross. I'm bookmarking this thread.

not sure if you are looking for new items or variants of items only but here are some.

encrytion scripts: these would be used to lengthen the time it take to hack something if these are implemented I think all hacking speeds should be look at see post https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=946347#post946347

pulse armor repair: have a burst of healing say 75 hitpoints but give it a cool down period kinda like the active scanner

deployable "walls": make shield and armor version. you could drop these to give you cover temporary. Make the shield one have more hitpoints but mercs can walk thru it. armor less hitpoints but you can't walk thru it.

webifier: slow down target aiming could be something like the repair tool now. gain points for kill assist.

holographic decoy: you would deploy a nanohive item that display a decoy merc on the tacnet not sure how useful it would be put could help snipers/nova knifers

other then that I like your ideas as long as the claymore style proximity keeps a short timer on it Don't want obj and cqc turning into minefields. also maybe variant grenades would be could to like.

smoke: because smoke is cool.

corosive acid : low dmg the either cover the ground with acid doing dmg our creates a cloud of acidic air that would by pass shield damage armor?

[P7]Active scanner

Active Scanner ~ I have not played with this since its reintroduction, I would happily welcome feedback and discussion from those players who have tested it.

Active Jammer -~ This may very well be an entirely new piece of equipment, or it might be a type of "scanner" within the current line. In either case its function is the mirror image of the Active Scanner, providing a temporary localized profile dampening effect for the merc and friendly forces within the active radius by jamming scans when triggered. This would have zero cloaking effects, the alteration would not be visual it would only effect aspects tied specifically to the profile attribute, such as TACNET.

Does its job fine, could use a bit more range, as soon as the wp for it comes into effect it will perform as it should very well

I am disgusted by how little attention this has in a sea of bad posting.
I have +1'd all the things.

[P1]General Deployibles

Hardened gear
Stealth gear
Countering Equipment - With all of the suggested diversity and utility being added to the equipment line it seems only fair that some extra tools and rewards be giving out for counting this equipment as well. In that vein

[P2]Nanohives
Specialized resupply
Vehicle repping hives

I like all these ideas.

I think the hardened and stealth gear, may be able to be elegantly dealt with in an alternative way. Give each deployed equipment a known scan profile. Currently, unskilled medium suits can see anything 50dB and above while STD scanners can see 46 dB, ADV 36dB, PRO (1) 28, and PRO (2) 15.

Having 3 tiers of equipment.

All STD and most ADV equipment would be 50dB, and passively scannable by most suits and all scanners.
'Stealth' variants of ADV gear would be 45 dB. Scannable by precision enhanced suits and ADV scanners.
All PRO gear would be at least 45 dB, while the stealth variants would be 35 dB requiring a precisioin enhanced scout, or a PRO scanner to detect without LOS.

Along the Active Scanner line: I could see the active jammer shutting down deployed equipment for a few seconds - suddenly those nanite clusters are no longer running and the uplinks have an added delay to spawning or cant even be chosen for a few moments. Or possibly making the deployed equipment disappear for a few moments so that people would not know where they are without seeing them on the ground. Just a simple small EMP burst directed that way just to mess with the enemy.

I like most of these ideas. My concern comes from the suggested repair tool - the proto one that negates damage. Oh, i like it but with as much repairing as I do - seems too far between reps - that it would become the only repper anyone runs with. In this new version of the game the clones are finished off way to often, disallowing a pickup. So there are few survivors that think enough about their situation to run away and be repaired.

Too often it seems that when meeting the enemy wave the group is either destroyed or fully armored, an extreme to either side. That leaves me with very few repper options and nanite injection options. To that end I've been running more and more repping hives for area repps with greater success.

Personally I would like to see all the repper tools burst rep for the first few seconds or so then settle into a steady stream of healing and have a cool down for that rather than causing me damage. Enough HP that I could save a merc that is nearly dead for just a few seconds to see if he has the brains to back away and get healed.

Note, in the new patch, somehow equipment will be 'scannable'... I'm wondering if this means they have an, as yet declared scan profile?

They already have a long range and a broad range, maybe one that has a very large scanning area thst only pics up vehicles

Myself, I've found that the lack of health bars and names has severely limited the utility of the repair tool, as I can't reach a friendly player in time to rep them even if they ask for help. Likewise, the increased tendency of squad-mates to be instantly clone-killed has made needles oftentimes a poor investment, and I've taken them off of most of my suits. My corp-mate who uses healing hives has had some success with them, but it often leads to using them for healing and seldom actually receiving any ammo from them before they're expended. Uplinks and standard hives still seem useful for war points, but their true tactical usefulness is still dictated by situation. I'd far more like these points to be addressed than the addition of new features. Also, I particularly don't like the idea of stealth uplinks, there is already ample opportunity for enemies to spawn directly behind you in this game.

Still seeking more feedback here, also does anyone have thoughts related to the upcoming shield bubble and cloak?

Where are those confirmed to actually be on a near term timeline? Just don't want to get up expectations...

Not sure if this has been suggested but I would like to see a nanohive that offers a scanner pulse for a set amount of time or so many pulses. Would be useful for defense of a point.

Would also like to see points given for destroying uplinks. That is a primary target of mine when I am deploying uplinks and is a crucial activity as far as I am concerned. You get 50 for one kill but how many enemy combatants are stopping by eliminating an uplink? You get points for destroying a CRU.

A rep tool that offers a secondary fire mode that deals damage so you can run around with the retool out and defend yourself at the same time. Nothing crazy, like a semi auto pistol or make the healing beam deal damage to enemies.