I recently skilled mine all the way up from 0 to proficiency 4. I gotta say the thing is a beast. Use an assault variant and just go for center mass, if you get a headshot so be it, but with the auto aim the thing does mad damage at an insane rate.

If you have any ninja skills whatsoever, run a breach and just execute reddots with a headshot.

Be an opportunist, you'll get called all sorts of ragefilled hateful names but man is it ever fun.

Aim assist............ Don't listen to this guy. Turn aim assist off, aim at the head, get good, and have fun insta killing everyone.
Also I recommend the Tactical version. It's a salvage item, so treat it like an officer weapon. It has lots of zoom so you can be safe while headshotting people with it.

Um... yeah don't listen do this guy wither...reserve your ninja skills for the nova knives.

Scrambler Pistol > Nova Knives for one simple reason:

Range.

Currently i have op 4, and it makes your mlt scramblers have 10 shots, breach gets 8, assault i find has a higher fitting for lower damage, and marginally higher RoF.
The breach requires you to be patient, AA helps, but don't rely entirely on it. Aim up a bit and help 'ease' the crosshairs over the ememy. Also note that you will never need to ADS with this one. I run it as a main because it has higher maxium damage over it's ammo.
Standard/assault are pretty good as backups, though they're a little low on ammo to be main weapons. Recommend using as either locuses and spamming scram till shoelds down, then bait with nades.
Burst is a little odd, the Car9 has amazing potential DpS. Higher Rof than an Ar, but it is NECESSARY to ads at all times. Plus you only get 2-3 clips of backup, so nanohives are a necessity to even consider using this.
Tactical is a very wonderful scrambler, having better zoom and range. However it has 5 base shots, which at lv4 gives 9 base ammo...
Overall pretty good weapons.

The real reason you would use an assault over a standard is not for the marginally increased rate of fire but the increased ammo capacity.

Also I disagree with the "never ADS" thing. Yes most the time you should hip fire it, but I find there is this perfect distance you can find where ADS makes it very easy to land headshots.

The real reason you would use an assault over a standard is not for the marginally increased rate of fire but the increased ammo capacity.

Also I disagree with the "never ADS" thing. Yes most the time you should hip fire it, but I find there is this perfect distance you can find where ADS makes it very easy to land headshots.

I just have the basic pistol, but I'm wanting to get level 4 in it. My question is that although it's great for headshots, is the Scrambler Pistol that good at body shots? I usually don't want to miss my target, so I just aim for the body. I figure with more bullets in a clip, I can do better than a SMG can.

YES.

Aero and I are scouting with the right now with ScP as primaries.

I've been running Scramblers pretty much since Uprising started,and other than the gimped Burst,they are gold.I'll go toe to toe with anyone with my trusty TT-3 any day of the week.

Viziam is probably pound for ISK the best one to have,and with my proficiency up to 4,there isn't a lot that won't take massive damage from it.And even though the Cartham Assault has more ROF,it really isn't very noticeable.

In all,if there is absolutely nothing positive to say about Dust,I have to say that this game has the best pistols of any shooter that I've ever played.