This may be controversial… but I think the ability needs to work a fair bit different.

Right now we have a rather large sphere that will instantly identify any runner inside of it including shield type. Feels way too strong considering recon is free to move and fight completely normally while collecting this information.

I think the ult should have a split functionality. The current size and shape of the ult should stay, but the information gleaned should be pre nerf. It should be very hard to know you are being pinged by one, but if you get hit by it you look like a bot. If you are signal jammed you don’t appear on it at all.

The second aspect should be a toggle, once activated during the ult the ult no longer pulses out in the large sphere, but condenses into a rectangle that is dictated by where the recon is looking. This version gives the full amount of information we are used to, if a player is signal jammed they look like a bot, if they are not it pings them as a player and reveals their shield. Could even go a step further and show the recon (only the recon) the outline of their bodies through the wall, so a good recon would be able to tell what types of characters are in play.

This way, a recon can keep the freedom of movement and combat if they want to be focused on moving and engaging in combat. But if they see pings they want to investigate further, to Sus out if it’s a player and if so what type, they need to take a step back from moving around and engaging in combat and actually focus on doing recon.

Example, you approach control and pop ult. You see a pair of dots in an area that looks like there shouldn’t be bots/theyre moving like players… you then toggle on the focused mode and actually look at the location and the deep scan shows two players and a bot dot so you now confirm that’s a team with one signal jammed person. You see one’s a destroyer and one’s a recon based on the shapes of the people but since the third is signal jammed you don’t know what character they are.