AfroSunshineY Consequence
TransLegio
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Posted - 2013.09.28 04:13:00 -
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TL;DR: CCP needs to throw scouts a bone and quick because the game is becoming (has already become?) joyless and trite.
So, as a scout, I've been trying to make this game fun for a while - but to no avail. I really just gave up today. There's no point. It takes 4 hits from an AR to kill me even at distance - and I'm talking militia gear here. I'm shredded before I even have time to think. Earlier today I spawned on an uplink and was dead before I even heard the sound effects of the AR firing. I'm a OHKO for mass drivers and flaylocks. SMGs eat my "armor" (read: wet tissue paper) for breakfast. HMGs (which people magically love to complain about for some reason) are a nemesis without a counter.
And I know the response from many in the forums are "Scouts are supposed to be weak! You're not being stealthy enough! You suck at scout!". Well no. You're wrong. I'm really good at scouting and I love the role I should be playing more than the everlasting d!ck measuring contest that is AR spam. To those who tell me to be stealthy, I say - by what mechanism? If I'm spotted I'm spotted and if I'm spotted I'm dead. I don't move fast enough to dash between cover even with a complex Kinetic catalyzer - I'm still easily spotted with an active scanner, profile dampener or not and so on and so forth. There is no mechanism for stealth in this game. Period. If you manage to flank somebody and chase them down, but they turn around by random chance, you're still dead. Period. So all you assault players who play one game as a scout, get a decent score and come onto the forums talking about how "I regularly go 30/2 with militia scout and militia shotgun. This is how you should really scout. Hardy Har Har", I suggest you keep it to yourselves because nobody believes you and nobody thinks you're cool.
Anyhow, I'm just bored of trying to make the game fun. I'm trying to get into dropships now as a last ditch effort of something I might like, but I know where that's ultimately headed. I would switch playstyles, but then I would have wasted 4 months on a playstyle that CCP could have told me months ago that they would not pay attention to. Fellow scouts, haven't you ever noticed? Scout topics NEVER. EVER. EVER. get blue tags - it doesn't matter how detailed the post. The last substantive feedback on scouts was over 2 months ago and wasn't followed up ever. We know there are no changes in 1.5 and I would bet my copy of GTA5 that there will be nothing in 1.6 either. I would think we could get something in 1.7, but does anybody here actually believe for a moment that it will actually happen?
I'm not leaving - so no, you can't have my isk. I'm just saying that at this point, the game is joyless for a scout. I recently developed a playstyle that saves me a lot of suits, but it is rather boring. It is disengaging. It's no fun. And its all because I've been pigeon-holed into this suit with absolutely no way to get around it except to slave away for another 4 months. That might be good for the game's numbers but it is hardly an effective way to build a solid userbase. I'm sorry. The last straw was being snuck up on by a heavy today. He managed to get with 3m of me without it showing up on my passive scanner. The problem I had with this is that I've spent a ton of time recently upgrading my precision enhancement and I use an advanced module in my high slot.....how can a heavy get so close when I'm continually monitoring my surroundings? Things aren't working like they should and it has become very frustrating.
PS: The first @$$hole that says "if you want to not be seen, stack 4 profile dampeners in your low slots" needs to get out right now and save their time. Nobody cares and that is an exceedingly poor fitting and you and everyone knows it. So just stop. |