So I was helping this new guy today, spawned an AT for him so we could go build a base and I could explain the mechanics. Only it turns out that despite my ANT being certed to have a 600m cortium radar the guy I was chatting with could only see it to 200m. I'm hoping that this is a bug and not intentional game design to handicap new players being gifted helpful tools.
I think this might be how the game works. See, with stuff like cosmetics, utilities, frames and such, those are intrinsically tied to the vehicle from the moment it spawns until it despawns for whatever reason. Passive systems, I think, are mostly tied to the vehicle, like the afterburner, but the way the Radar operates is more similar to an engagement radar or - more related - Sweeper HUD. So in this case it's probably down to the users upgrades. Probably isn't intentional though, so yes, likely a Bug.
