Gallente with regular plates. It's easy to navigate to a supply depot and swap fits so you can throw down a quick triage and repair then switch back to a scanner or whatever. I think some people here lack the creativity to be a scout.

Triage hives (not compacts because they do F-all!) are far too CPU/PG hungry for most light suits.

Regular armor plates slow us down, even just a little reduces the gap between light suits and medium suits to basically nothing but the eHP gap is still huge. That leaves your only advantage the lower profile, which disappears the moment someone brings out a proto scanner. You can still avoid most scanners by using PD mods but then you're giving up slots for reppers, reds or greens.

There's a hell of a lot of creativity in the scout community because we have to try out some wacky fits to find anything that'll work. For one, I run dual sidearms, so I can free up CPU for damage mods and a complex repper on my adv gal scout but even with electronics to lvl 5 I have to use a CPU mod to fit it all.

And one last point - "It's easy to navigate to a supply depot" ??? It's easy to find the one supply depot on the map, that may or may not have been destroyed by the time you reach it or may or may not be in enemy hands and if it's not available, the only way to swap fits is to run all the way back to base! Not easy, not quick.

Everyone dies in seconds and a propper scout should always be the one to initiate a gun battle.

One supply depot?

Yes. Most maps only have one supply depot outside of red lines there days.

I win plenty of face to face gun battles. It is not impossible to get around an enemies cone of fire like a lot of people claim.

What is this crap?

A positive Scout/Heavy thread?

People actually enjoying playing with these suits?

VERBOTEN!

Forgot to add "proof" to this thread so I went and played a match real quick.

http://i.imgur.com/6wLJehK.jpg

Forgot to add "proof" to this thread so I went and played a match real quick.

http://i.imgur.com/6wLJehK.jpg

I run a lvl 5 Scout w/ lvl 3 dampening, & only a proto scanner can find me when not running a dampening module. If I run a basic dampening mod then i'm pretty much invisible.

I have tried every scout fit imaginable, all I'm trying to say at this point is to try and stack plates and extenders, grab the stupid AR and play the game for what it is. I have felt the same scout pains as everyone else in this community and I have found something that has been working for me. I would honestly like to hear from those who have tried this model, and I thank those for debating. Debate is how we get **** done.

That's actually a good point tbh. Thanks to CCP giving every shmuck with a militia AR a huge crutch, there is simply no point in running proto suits anymore.

I'm all for taking cover, but to die in 2sec because people don't need any aiming skills whatsoever to hit with every single shot is ridiculous.

Using a Ar an bragging about a picture isn't scout bro, knives an shotguns is scout!
Coulda been sniping from the red line for all we kno , but I do kno that's not ur knife score!

All that proves is that you stole wounded kills wit a unlimited ranged weapon in my eyes, cuz if u were scout, you would never post something so dumb as scouts are beast!

Your a assault in a fast suit!

Scouts are still tissue paper. Once spotted you are almost always dead. I find speed is the most important. If you can sprint at 10m/s you can flank fast enough to get the drop on people.

The speed also allows you to avoid large groups of enemies. The only issue with the speed is you cant use that as a tank. Its more for flexibility.

Local reps on a scout dont make much sense to me. You are better off carrying a compact hive and giving yourself more armor or green pill. If your running remotes then you need the speed and stamina to GTFO.

Also the flux prototype scanner goes to 18db. Its also very difficult to fit and is exceptionally expensive (32k). Very few if any people will ever utilize it considering it has a lot of drawbacks. Only people who probably have the pg/cpu to fit that is the gal logis. I have yet to be scanned when I run two adv damps on my sneaky build.

HOWEVER, at the end of the day scouts are UP because other suits can do the roles of a scout using a lower tier. I can fit a std logi with enough damps to become invisible to active scans and still have 2 equipment and more HP and a higher tier weapon.

Considering what way current scouts play, *any* upgrade is going to let us wreck face.

If and only if the AR is brought into balance.

A scout is only a scout if he / she uses knives and shotguns and to get 20+ kills I must have been jacking kills. I love you guys.

Ya bro I'm not ripping on you but I gotta ask, do you have a lot of sp or a lot in scout?
Have you ran sg or knives an snuck rite up on someone an had them dead to rites an your knives or sg didn't register , only tapped them on the shoulder so they could turn around an smoke you in one burst, an your bodies are so close that his AR barrel would actuall be past your body an your weapons still do no damage yet your dead in seconds?

Do you have millions of skill points an still can't fit anything on ur suit without mix matching basic an proto gear because of crappy CPU ?

Did you play in the beginning of beta when shotguns worked an we had 6 slots an 2 equips?

A lot of us have an this is why guys disagree with "beast" because that's what they were now their just disappointing but we make it work praying they become half of what they were .

Shared vision being disabled helps, but that's taken away by AR power an range, sp an skill s don't matter like they used too

Heres the thing, people seem only to use scouts in pubs, when it comes to PC scouts are in no way imaginable viable. PC is what the game should be balanced around, can ANY of you actually say scouts are balanced for PC?

Nope. This is essentially why no one really argues against scouts being UP.

Though as Satori says - we do get the best moments. If you've played the new Tomb Raider, my scout is a lot like Lara - yeah im a bit more agile and that, but it comes down to being downright scrappy and ignoring this 'stand and deliver' kind of gameplay which seems to be common. I rarely kill someone by 'accident' - it's because I made sure I was in the right place, at the right time against the right enemy - and then made sure I had a back up plan - and then an escape route!

Also agree with him about the scout losing a little magic when they get some love. Which is why I hope the love comes in the form a of tricks and skills. A lot of the base stats are fine (kinda...) - apart from scan range which is a ******* travesty.

I'd love things like no fall damage/no damp recovery time, some kind of stamina friendly vaulting capability, two equips would be nice - though we should get reduction to equipment grid use rather than general PG/CPU bonuses.

I don't want the scout to get a 'buff'- I want the scout to be more 'scouty' rather than be underweight assaults.