IMO they need to nerf the movement capabilities of the other suits (especially heavy and medium strafing) by a significant amount and leave the scout as it is now, to give it a niche.

Something is wrong with this statement.

12: Even if we were able to dodge scanners, we would be insta-popped by a quick, indirect glance......

I don't seem to have any problems in this suit:

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Comp extender

Proto AR
Toxin SMG
locus

Comp Ferroscale plate
Basic plate
Comp kin cat
Comp repairer
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4. same fall damage for a heavy as for a scout.

In atmosphere, there is a little thing called terminal velocity. The heavy and you aren't that different in size, so you have the same drag roughly and will fall at the same rate (I am assuming neither of you has any real buoyancy.) However, if you would like CCP to work you scouts just a little bit over, I am sure they would consider making it so that the heavies take less damage due to their extra size and padding. The justification being that being larger means more drag and the greater armor increases the heavy's chance of being air drop capable without dampeners at least once.

Otherwise, a lot of good points. I think the issue is really the tin foil ehp of light suits, but there are other issues which don't help either.

While I am not a dropsuit mechanic, armor is not designed to handle fall damage but energy from ballistics. If you jump off a 10 m cliff by yourself and then do it again while wearing a 50 lb backpack, guess which one hurts more?

EHP is also the most boring buff you could make, might as well play a medium if that is what we are getting.

What is this 'scout' everyone speaks of, I can't seem to find any on the battlefield, now excuse me as I go kill things in ky light assault suit with +600 ehp.

I think you are just not doing it right, brah.

Here is how you should do it. Get militia scout and put militia SG on it. Start a random pub, go 3/4 then go back to the forums and tell us all how scout is really 'aight' and that you just gotta play it tactically and flank more instead of rushing in like an assault. And that, btw, scout is not supposed to be a combat role, it's supposed to be a role that walks around the red line and hacks supply depots and turrets that tankers have overlooked and not blown up. You just gotta learn your role better, really...

I am assuming that we are fighting on planets with a atmosphere since the gravity seems roughly similiar to Earth and there is plant life indicating that there is something blocking radiation, i.e. a magnetosphere. Finally terminal verlocity only occurs in atmosphere. If there was no atmosphere, say you were dropped onto the moon, you would keep accelerating at whatever the local rate of acceleration due to gravity. As opposed to .

Also weight does not affect acceleration in free fall. I could link you an explanation. I don't want to derail the thread more, and the explanation is complicated.