somewhere else someone mentioned that active detection should send out a "ping" to the seen agents, especially since it works in pulse-mode now.

other solution could be - active detection lowers your masking equally for same time. (Mechwarrior active radar like)

I had a sonar style thing in mind ...

The detector & masking modules are basically what "shrinked" the Beta territories. Instead of roaming an island checking every nook and cranny for people, you just run a few Castels with detectors in ~2k bubbles up and down the island for 5-10 mins, if they spot something converge and destroy, if not move on to another island.

Maskers/Detectors have been introduced ~7 months ago.

With Masking/Detection devs gave all the advantages to the attacker.
Masking/detection values of all bots further amplify that.

It was and still is unbalanced for the following reasons:

* to counter one detector everyone in your squad has to fit a masker
.. means that you do not counter a detector with maskers but by using a detector yourself
.. maskers are usually used by the attacker because defenders usually have a detector
* the fastest bots are also those who are difficult to detect
* the marker range on your radar became useless
.. to be continued

The motto of that patch was "Hide & seek" but in fact its more like: "Seek, you can no longer hide"