We are planning on giving Scout role some love in the future. We can see their performance dropping in game overall.

Scan results from scout suits should propagate to the entire team.

That'd be a buff for everyone else but Scouts.
How would that this help Scout performance?

That'd be a buff for everyone else but Scouts.
How would that this help Scout performance?

It's a buff in that scouts would gain an actual role in a team. As you yourself have pointed out, everything a scout can do, some other suit can do just as well with more eHP. Scouts sharing passive scan results allows scouts to do something no other suit can do--provide a constant stream of tactical data without alerting the enemy. I.E. the scout becomes the eyes and ears of their squad as a scout should be.

Can this hurt lone-wolf cqc hunting? Yes, if you squad with randoms who don't understand you are trying to lone-wolf... while in a squad. Otherwise, there is no real downside to the scout. If a scout moves off on their own, the game will be the same as now. If they move with their squad, their squad will be able to move more intelligently and the scout doesn't have to be the only one watching the squad's back.

If they give us this and call it a scout buff, I'm going to throw rocks through the nearest window. Running around standing within 10-20M of enemies so my team can see them is NOT a role, thank you very much.

It's a buff in that scouts would gain an actual role in a team. As you yourself have pointed out, everything a scout can do, some other suit can do just as well with more eHP. Scouts sharing passive scan results allows scouts to do something no other suit can do--provide a constant stream of tactical data without alerting the enemy. I.E. the scout becomes the eyes and ears of their squad as a scout should be.

Can this hurt lone-wolf cqc hunting? Yes, if you squad with randoms who don't understand you are trying to lone-wolf... while in a squad. Otherwise, there is no real downside to the scout. If a scout moves off on their own, the game will be the same as now. If they move with their squad, their squad will be able to move more intelligently and the scout doesn't have to be the only one watching the squad's back.

Your position is well argued, and it makes perfect sense. The fact remains, however, that Active Scanners are the ultimate "eyes and ears" recon tool. They are far superior in this role compared to a Scout's passive Recon capability. They're more precise, they cover substantially greater areas, and they operate at minimal risk.

The Active Scanner would remain superior at Recon even if our base scan range was substantially buffed.

Once WP are awarded for scan-assisted kills, there will likely be more Active Scanners than Scouts in any given battle.
The Scouts' role -- if a buffed in relation to Recon -- will thereby remain undefined.

Assassination, Survivability, Mobility, Flexibility (equipment / module slots) ...
These are the things that affect Scout Performance.
These are the things I'm hoping CCP is focusing upon in crafting our long-awaited buff.

- Shotty GoBang

Tons of valuable feedback for CCP :-)

@Ghost Kaiser

The backstab bonus is probably going to be difficult to implement, glitchy, and can potentially be abused* so I don't think that is a good idea.

Any idea to make scanners actually not able to detect us is a good one.

It's going to be a hard sell (at least with the community) for us to get both a speed boost and an extra mod slot (would be nice though).

* I imagine people will abuse it the same way you can abuse that perk in Skyrim where enemies lose sight of you for a second to deal sneak attack damage in the middle of a fight. In dust, if you get noticed, run past enemy, quickly turn around and knife/shotgun them for the bonus.

Yeah, thinking back. A backstab/Rear attack bonus would be hard to implement.

Any other idea's? I still want to get a bonus that would reward flanking/stealth when used for offense.

I've thought about it and the only thing that I can come up with won't work until we get the ability to modify our guns.

My idea is for scouts to have access to a special gun mod that greatly increases damage but also reduces rate of fire as well as ammo capacity. This would allow us to trade effectiveness in sustained combat for greater initial damage.

It would make scanning more personalized for scouts to the point that they're not completely obligated to carry a scanner for starters. But since we'll be getting WP for using the scanner, it kind of makes the point moot.

That'd be a buff for everyone else but Scouts.
How would that this help Scout performance?

On the topic of suit bonuses what are your thoughts on changing the dampening bonus?

The current dampening bonus keeps Lvl(5) Scouts safe from Basic and Advanced Scanners.
As these Scanner tiers are most commonly used, this Bonus is actually quite useful (IMHO).

I notice that when I light up my pursuers with a scanner, there's often a blueberry that comes running and helps me out.