Scouts have no real role, it is CCPs forgotten child (kind of like CCPs mutant baby the Commando), despite the fact that it has been here forever.

1.4 won't change much for scouts, losing vision of both your teammates and the enemy will have both positive and negative effects, so that is pretty neutral. Active scanning still does nothing for wps and only is really effective if you have a full squad.

CCP has mentioned that they are going to look to see what they can do in 1.6, but considering that is 2 updates ahead, we know the glitch correction cycle will push that back another month, so I am guessing 1.7.

Again this is not to say that people can't play scouts, its just that you are performing with diminished results.

What scouts should be is the enemy team divider or anti logi, either by giving away the position of the team or by group harassment/disorientation through EWAR.

On the bright sides I do believe we are the best nova knifing class still

1.5 will get a hot patch which they give more support wp across the board and 1.6 will be the scout patch from what I read.

Also what you have described is what economists call a comparative advantage, the fact that logis may do it better but most of them don't want to waste time and points flanking means that the more desperate scouts are more willing to fill in these roles is where the scout fall into game play.

You and I fill in similar roles, but we aren't counter logis but in fact logi lites. Scout Alpha strikes are lower than medium frames which ironically make sniping much weaker and riskier. The only reason we focus on "high" damage is because we can't continue on a traditional sustained fight. Meaning the only "assassins" roles we can actually function in is KInCat Shotgunning and KInCat NKing. You can definately hold your own with positive k/d ratios operating in these roles

Also disorientation is a one v group tactic aka team divider (what I call Beta Scouts), assassination in the heavy damage single target assassination (which I call Alpha Scouts). Scouts need to be versatile enough to be able to choose one of these two function, currently the tools for Beta scouts are lacking a bit and the risk/reward to Alpha scouts is heavily leaning towards a much higher risk. The reason for flattening scout ratios despite skill investment is because the skills themselves have a comparatively low effect on the fact that cqc scouts go in there is a 50%+ chance of death before getting your 1+ kills since speed tanking has its limits. Meaning there has to be more enter and escape options given to the scout, in fact if scouts got a unique method to break disengagements along with speed that alone would make the scout worthy of forum tears.

the scout is about stealth. Even a basic is like a Med frame with profile dampening at level 5 as standard. and a proto scout can evade even Adv scanners. Sadly its taken this long for the gameplay to help in that role but hopefully today will see a lot more of them on the field. Time to hang up the Logi suit for a while and sharpen my knives. Watch your backs

I agree funny enough that the additional hacking bonus goes to the minni logi. Oh god I would murder for this skill on my gallente scout...