tracking on the cz suit is pointless, on mav it speeds up your "to clone or not to clone" decision, and oh its a guard, im outI have Enhanced Tracking on one of my Dominator suits and I don't think it's that great. Doubling your scan range doesn't really give you any tactical advantage, though at least you'll know the name of the person you're about to shoot
That's my concern about Backpack Capacity too. It's more useful while you're stockpiling; after you've maxed out your materials not so much.
Night Vision is a marmite mod; I love it on my ship too. On foot it let's you spot things at much much greater distances than the flashlight (or Enhanced Tracking).
Improved Jump Assist... good point, well made though I can't see any accurate stats for that on Inara yet; does anybody have it? Sprinting in stations does save a lot of time though.
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The Enhanced Tracking is supposed to improve or add Field of Vision (FoW). If I am not mistaken, it should be able too tell if the tracked person is currently able to see you.I have Enhanced Tracking on one of my Dominator suits and I don't think it's that great. Doubling your scan range doesn't really give you any tactical advantage, though at least you'll know the name of the person you're about to shoot
Any Info about how this works, and how useful it is?
I am probably not so good at assaulting, but like sniping.
Source?
As far as I could work out it just increases the range at which you can scan and decreases the time it takes to scan. This is corroborated by the Inara page I linked to earlier.
According to Wikia, surely outdated. My wishful thinking from the listed Modification Effects "Increases LoS Analysis Time, LoS Analysis Range, ..."
Edit: inara also states "LOS ANALYSIS RANGE" and "LOS ANALYSIS TIME", but this is probaly just to distinguish long range analysis from a scan with the Profile Analyser.
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I'm leaning towards Improved Jump Assist for the third slot and maybe Quieter Footsteps for the fourth. That would make the suit fast, stealthy, capable in the dark and I could more easily jump out of trouble, or between buildings to avoid attention. That's the theory anyhow.
It would be great to hear from someone who has either of these mods in a pre-engineered suit on their effectiveness before I visit the Engineers.
It would be great to hear from someone who has either of these mods in a pre-engineered suit on their effectiveness before I visit the Engineers.
I'm hoping that they update the NPC intelligence to include some sort of stealth aspect, which will include both visual and audible levels. If they do, having that light on will be a massive shoot-me
I think I'm going:
1) backpack capacity (i actually found a G2 mav with this at a station. Suck it)
2) quieter footsteps. I initially was not going to do this and just having silencers on the weapons... but there are many times when i either want to get in stealthily without killing due to not wanting to lose rep, or have to cuz its the mission, and sometimes the difference is getting into the restricted zone, downloading data, and leaving in the split second before the occupants turn around. Added benefit is i can do almost everything else faster where i would normally crouch.
3) increased battery capacity. Helps when breaking in and when fighting. And when fighting is when i really want the extra juice.
4) increased ammo for when there are a lot of scavs or have to wipe out an entire settlement.
I'm questioning both 3 and 4 tho to add increased sprinting.
1) backpack capacity (i actually found a G2 mav with this at a station. Suck it
)2) quieter footsteps. I initially was not going to do this and just having silencers on the weapons... but there are many times when i either want to get in stealthily without killing due to not wanting to lose rep, or have to cuz its the mission, and sometimes the difference is getting into the restricted zone, downloading data, and leaving in the split second before the occupants turn around. Added benefit is i can do almost everything else faster where i would normally crouch.
3) increased battery capacity. Helps when breaking in and when fighting. And when fighting is when i really want the extra juice.
4) increased ammo for when there are a lot of scavs or have to wipe out an entire settlement.
I'm questioning both 3 and 4 tho to add increased sprinting.
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I managed to pick up a maverick with Improved Jump Assist and it makes a noticeable difference. Not sure how to quantify how much of a difference it makes, as I stumbled across it quite early on, but I definitely miss it when doing CZs in my dominator.
Get a good run up, and time the bursts well, and you can cover a fair distance without touching the ground. Feels like it charges quicker as well, so you can string together multiple, good bursts if you time it right. Also, feels like it allows me to cover open ground quicker as well as it maintains sprint speed while you soar (i.e. sprint, jump, sprint).
Not as useful on high gravity worlds.... in fact it's nearly killed me from fall damage on a couple of occasions!
Anyone got any info on Reduced Tool Battery Usage vs Improved Battery Capacity ?
There is literally zero info of what tools are affected by the first one so the second might be better overall (cells recharge-wise?).
But if the second one halves the usage of all the tools that have icon above energy the it's most likely better choice.
There is literally zero info of what tools are affected by the first one so the second might be better overall (cells recharge-wise?).
But if the second one halves the usage of all the tools that have icon above energy the it's most likely better choice.
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I'm curious here, what makes it so handy? I could picture it on a Dominator constantly burning outdoors and shielded, but the Mav tends to operate in areas where you have power available all over the place between your own batteries, the boxes, the ones in buildings, the various charging points, and the ship/SRV eventually. Since popping the consumable is instant, I never thought about that mod but you obviously see it differently.
Here I finally got the backpack on the Mav, and it's a massive QoL for the compulsive looter, haha. For the rest, I'm thinking of NV for sure, but after that, I'm torn between Improved Jump, Quieter Footsteps and Longer Sprinting. That's 3 for only 2 spots, decisions decisions... Anyhow, plenty of time until I have the G3 upgraded to G5 and the engies unlocked for all the mods.
The best option:
Don't, because there's no purpose.
Don't, because there's no purpose.
The best tool for spotting enemies in the dark is their flashlight.
Depends on what you’re doing. I see the energy cells I carry as a last resort.
with the extended battery I can run around a settlement killing a halve dozen scavengers, cut through three doors and still have enough battery left to charge up an unpowered settlement.
it pretty much means I never have to care about my suit charge status. I notice it most when I go use any other suit now.
Any trick to finding pre-engineered suits? I check every pioneer store I stop at, but haven't seen one yet.
The description says it does, but the description lies.