In my humble opinion: Pre-uprising speed, moar CPU/PG, extra equipment slot, and fix the damn nova knives and shotguns pl0x!

CPU/PG fitting reduction on all biotics and EWAR, and most important of all- Cloaking.

\The Type II scout from Chromosome was the best the scout ever was, trading the sidearm for an extra equipment. If scouts aren't optimal for killing, give them to tools to help out in other ways. This would not take away from logis because I am suggesting they would only ever have at maximum 2 equipment slots.

I would love the Minnie scout to have 2 sidarms, no Light weapon, and 2 equipment

For you vets, if you recall in early beta scouts were common, but because the assaults were playing scouts as a slayer role, the suit literally got nerfed to the ground, and have been in the dark ever since. Repeating the process and making the forward grunts mad again would not be in our interest since they holds CCP's attention. If they can gun without any form of challenge, they keep content for the most part. Thus I think scouts need to be reworked outside of combat.

I'm going to po a few scouts here but I personally all think scouts should lose the light weapon slot, in exchange for some major upgrades.

Especially considering that the Ion Pistol will be shotgun like and the Bolt Pistol will be be a sniper esque

It would give room to really expand scout roles to something unique, by giving access to powerful support/sabatoge functions or even exclusive active modules just for the scout.

We wouldn't have to worry about about the slayerbro effect if scouts were to get buffed after losing their light weapon slot.

I'm going to po a few scouts here but I personally all think scouts should lose the light weapon slot, in exchange for some major upgrades.

Now I personally would be ok with that because I don't use a light weapon on my scout anyways, it's not really a suit ideal for combat in the first place. But this will only yield the same result as people suggesting the logi only get a sidearm, "But the mass driver is the weapon of the logi!" will turn to "But the shotgun is the weapon of the scout!"

Though I suppose one option would be for the basic light frames to keep the current layout and for the actual scout specialization to get changes.

CPU/PG fitting reduction on all biotics and EWAR, and most important of all- Cloaking.

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1) expand on scan radius and scan profile - they should have the best passive scanning ability and should be the hardest to detect. this is basic stuff. we were shocked to learn all suits now have the same radius...lore says they have adaptive camouflage and optic sensors so this needs to be one of the first fixes.

1: scouts will have the least amount of gear and CPU + PG. we all understand this.

2: they should have the highest resistance to active and passive scanning of all suits

3: we know speed has been an issue when it comes to hit detection but they need a slight buff here as fast assault suits are comparable. scouts need to be significantly faster than assault dropsuits..keep in mind they sacrifice health.

4: strafing is another past issue, but if the scout strafes at the same speed of other suits the cons of low health dont outweigh the benefits. it must be significantly faster.

5: Their stamina must increase. scouts should be the fastest dropsuits but should also have the most endurance as they carry hardly any gear.

we invite longtime scouts to chime in here with good suggestions so that CCP can make the right changes so each class fills its role.

If there's someone familiar with scouts willing to do a well-written, objective piece we'll give you the space on our blog.

We've got 4 racial suits, so no reason we couldn't have one with the two side slot config while another retains the light so shotgun scouts are still viable.

You guys are nuts, if you want to run two side arms do it. But shoe horning roles is the wrong way to go. Why do you think we only have one equipment slot? I've posted before that all roles need more diversity. I know some people get upset when people play outside of the typical role of whatever suit they are wearing, but why? What we need is more suit variants like there was in chrome.

My ideas for scout are more about stealth then speed. What is one of the big things for this game? It is hacking objectives, and generally what happens when you hack? The game lets everybody know that this objective/installion is being hacked. Which usually in turn draws every red (dead) or nearby to your current location, throwing out all the work of sneaking around lines for a behind the back hack. So all that to say we need hacking profiles as we as scanning and scouts should have next to none.

Scout squad vision: I know some scouts don't like this, and for pub matches I agree with them, so maybe have it be a toggible (or another module?) option it would be nice for scouts to be able broadcast enemy positions without an active scanner in PC.

Other than that another equipment slot would be nice.

You guys are nuts, if you want to run two side arms do it. But shoe horning roles is the wrong way to go. Why do you think we only have one equipment slot? I've posted before that all roles need more diversity. I know some people get upset when people play outside of the typical role of whatever suit they are wearing, but why? What we need is more suit variants like there was in chrome.

My ideas for scout are more about stealth then speed. What is one of the big things for this game? It is hacking objectives, and generally what happens when you hack? The game lets everybody know that this objective/installion is being hacked. Which usually in turn draws every red (dead) or nearby to your current location, throwing out all the work of sneaking around lines for a behind the back hack. So all that to say we need hacking profiles as we as scanning and scouts should have next to none.

Scout squad vision: I know some scouts don't like this, and for pub matches I agree with them, so maybe have it be a toggible (or another module?) option it would be nice for scouts to be able broadcast enemy positions without an active scanner in PC.

Other than that another equipment slot would be nice.

Passive scans work????? How??? lolol

this is usually somebody elses job, but...

approved.

I like all of the changes proposed. I've never seen the scout as a hacker but it is an infiltrator so if I were to add something it would be a bonus to uplinks in some manner. get behind enemy lines plant an uplink and let the logis and assaults do their job, ya know?

But then you'd have people complain that their favorite race has a scout suit with the wrong configuration for them. I'm not so sure what is so wrong with having multiple variants of the same suit per race.