We have yet to see all the racial Scout suits in game so here's an idea that could be added to one of them, or to a Pirate faction 'racial' variant later on

Incorporate a second equipment slot on the racial varient of the frame, only at the specialized proto level but have it be present.
Perhaps even scale up the CPU and PG a touch to account for running that additional item.

The virtues of this are several, it allows for a new role specialization, a sort of "light support" class which can fill a kind of triage role in the absence of a full Logi or until a Logi arrives on the scene. It would allow for snipers to play even better with the team, giving them options to deploy with a scanner as well as their hives, or hives and an uplink thus allowing them the autonomy to get into over watch where they're needed to relay intel to the team without diverting support resources away from the thick of combat. This would also provide for an infiltration role once the shield bubble and cloak arrive, having a scout cloak and move behind hostile forces to set up an entrenched position, or a team of two scouts moving in, both cloaked and deploying shield bubbles and uplinks.

Of course there would need to be balance trade-offs and the specifics of those depend on which race, or pirate faction, the suit is ultimately slated for, but I think this could add a lot to the game in general.

Also as a long time support player it would be a nice touch in my view to provide a few more roles for support than the standard medic/logi that most players know. Not only would increasing the support roles add diversity to game play but it would also increase competition for earning the support WP which would make for a healthier meta.

Thoughts and input, especially from Scout players and Logi, are most welcome

Cheers,
Cross

I feel that 2 equipment slots and higher CPU/PG is something that all light frames could use. Perhaps restrict 2 equipment slots to the scouts, but light frames in general need some love.

I support it mostly for the scanner tbh. I'll write up a longer response SoonGäó.

While I normally enjoy your ideas and how eleganty you present them, I have to ask a question of why do we need/want this idea? Any suit with an equipment slot can place down a hive or use a repair gun, these are not solely linked to the logi class. For snipers...they honestly now don't use nanohives for the most part because it shows people exactly where they are on the main map if anyone has spotted the hive even if the sniper remains hidden.

Also, once scouts get the ability for cloaking, I believe the enemy will have the ability to hack hives, uplinks, etc, so just putting these things down might not be to helpful, also when equipment slots are put into a class, typically other slots are lost, such as with the logi most of them loose the side arm. For a scout, being able to use multiple high end gears and being able to adequetly protect themselves with enough modules would be very had as the light/scout have very low PG/CPU so if the PG/CPU was boosted this again has to come out of somewhere else in the light frames.

I have a feeling that your idea would be more of espiange and using R/E's and putting down proxies and other things that mess with the enemy rather then a light suit being logi related. Cause as most people know, any light suit that is standing still is a dead light suit unless they are hidden far in the mountains and are lucky enough that no one finds them.