Yes, while you are right that if the SL is not engaging in CQC he is not killing as much BUT he dies less, thus saving his team a ticket and allowing his squad to not waste valuable time moving from a flag spawn point to the action on the map. I wasn't trying to say completely avoid CQC all the time, just be more careful about going into it-this is where the Pulse Meter is most useful. For example, going into Central Camp on Gibi is generally confusing when you have an IDS going but you don't know whether enemies are on the top floor or bottom floor. A quick Pulse Meter check takes maybe 1-2 seconds and then you know the positions of enemies both upstairs and downstairs. Its a pity that most people I see who are playing support don't have the Pulse Meter in their kit in favor of the IDS on primarily infantry maps (yes I agree that on armor maps the IDS is more useful-sticking to vehicles and such-but for CQC in my experience the meter has been more useful to me, including not needing to check my minimap for locations of enemies nearby. That delay itself makes the pulse meter's cooldown time less of a hinderance in comparison.
Also, yes the IDS-movement is great but the pulse meter is always with you as well.
I still think that the overkill point is valid. The Otus (and Pulse Meter) scans the area around you and puts those NetBat diamonds on your main screen. The meter/otus scans about every 3 seconds so you have a pretty good idea of where the enemy is. It may not be "exact" but the enemy won't have moved so very much during that time, even if he is sprinting in a completely different direction you will most likely have seen him if he comes toward you and if he is going away then he isnt very much of a threat for the time being. In CQC, having to check your minimap to see where enemies are is a a pretty annoying problem and gives the enemy more time to kill you. The diamonds on your screen from the Otus/meter stay for a considerable time and by then the meter/Otus will be most likely going again. My questions: why would you need to check your minimap in CQC when you could just simply keep looking at your screen? Especially as in CQC the distance between yourself and the enemy are close enough that the Otus will detect them and mark them automatically without you having to do so much as look up.
Quote: "there's a reason why the IDS is a top-tier unlock and the scanner is at the bottom"
This actually is misleading. DICE decided in every unlock tree that the first and third unlock were going to be ones where you had to equip them and they took up a place in one of your 2 equipment slots. The 2nd unlock of EVERY tree is a passive unlock (i.e. Netbat, x4 scope, advanced ammohub, etc), and the 4th unlock are always weapons. So technically, the scanner is 1 of the 2 highest level unlocks apart from the weapons in the support kit (the other being the sentry gun). The IDS however, wasn't introduced until NS came out, so really, the IDS isn't a "higher" level unlock, its just another one that was inevitably going to HAVE to be on the top of the unlock tree. Otherwise there wouldn't be any unlocks for NS at all.
As for the point you made about relying on your SM's rockets, thats not entirely true. As I said earlier, when you are Support it doesn't matter what you have unlocked, you have an UNLIMITED amount of nades. If you get out of the way (which shouldn't be so hard on most maps, considering the amount of cover around) you can lob a few in their direction, throw down an ammohub and start blasting away at them. At worst you distract them or scare them away long enough for an ally to take care of them, at best you score a direct hit and kill em.
Sorry if I've offended anyone with all the shooting down of tactics.
And yes Nine. Thousand you're right. Canucks FTW :P
I think Zhohar's from Vancouver too eh?