Someone had to say it: cloaks should be scout only, for fucks sake we can't have one bloody thing to ourselves?

Mark my words that this module will be abused heavily by non scout players, just watch it happen.

6. Where do you plan on taking the Scout class? What specific roles do you see it playing on the battlefield?
by Knight Soiaire, BurgezzE.T.F, DUST 514 Forums

Alas, poor Scout, I knew him!

The ScoutGÇÖs not gotten too much love in recent months. What started out as a bullet-strafing monster back in Chromosome has slowly been marginalized as other aspects of the game have been worked on and improved. IGÇÖm happy to say that soon the Scout class should be wholly rejuvenated (or at the very least, be in a much better place). The introduction of cloaking equipment and revamped bonuses should help the Scout find his rightful place in the battlefield hierarchy. To me, the Scout role has always been about creating a disruptive force on the battlefield. HeGÇÖs the guy that can cover enough ground quickly enough to get drop uplinks into the right places (that is, if everyone didnGÇÖt carry one, but more on that later), hack objectives back, disperse squad members (nothing makes people scatter faster than a KC-amped shotgunner) and generally make a nuisance of himself.

The Scout role will get very high PG/CPU bonuses to fitting cloak equipment, making it just about the only role that can feasibly fit a cloak field without having to sacrifice the rest of its fit. Individual race skill bonuses will create opportunities for cloaked scouts to scan further and longer than other dropsuits, to have less GÇ£shimmerGÇ¥ as they move, and have lower innate scan profiles so that they can be visually and electronically invisible. These should help create more useful assassins, intel gatherers, and saboteurs. And in time, the introduction of additional Scout specializations will be added to further push the boundaries of the little Light Suit That Could.

--CCP Remnant

Nope, they should be for everyone, just really hard to fit. Scouts would be the only ones to be able to fit them easily. This allows people to make specialized, though gimped fits to make use of cloak, where scouts are given the freedom to fit as they please (assuming better fitting capabilities for scouts, since they're just god awful right now)

Also scouts will have reduced motion blur when moving, making them mobile while cloaked, unlike others who will be pretty obvious to attentive players.

Nope, they should be for everyone,

Give it a really high CPU usage then give the scout suits a 90% cloak CPU fitting reduction bonus.

WHY?

Like the OP says, scouts deserve something that is scout-exclusive. It's supposed to be a specialist suit.

Jealous? Want a cloak? You can have one. Just go change into a scout suit.

And to stop the re-re-rehash: No, not everything is usable in all suits, so your 'should' is completely unjustifyable.

There are heavy-only items, so it's perfectly justifyable to have scout-only items.

Someone had to say it: cloaks should be scout only, for fucks sake we can't have one bloody thing to ourselves?

Mark my words that this module will be abused heavily by non scout players, just watch it happen.

This does make me wonder though. If cloaks were an equipment module, then scouts couldn't use them AND another piece of equipment in their current manifestation. So either they won't give scouts the option of cloaks+equipment, cloaks would not be equipment, or they may be giving scouts an extra equipment slot.

Would love to see a logi with all it's lows filled with CPU mods just so he can fit a STD cloak! He'd be slow and really shimmery and picked up by all scans and probably even passive scans and wouldn't be able to fit any tanking or damage mods or more than a STD weapon. That sounds awesome!

Active modul maybe?

But when he drops the RE and it goes boom and you go, "WTF!" he will laugh.

That would be a good use for such a suit but with the fittings costs done right, he'd not be able to carry very good or very many REs.

That would be a good use for such a suit but with the fittings costs done right, he'd not be able to carry very good or very many REs.

This does make me wonder though. If cloaks were an equipment module, then scouts couldn't use them AND another piece of equipment in their current manifestation. So either they won't give scouts the option of cloaks+equipment, cloaks would not be equipment, or they may be giving scouts an extra equipment slot.

WHY?

Like the OP says, scouts deserve something that is scout-exclusive. It's supposed to be a specialist suit.

Jealous? Want a cloak? You can have one. Just go change into a scout suit.

And to stop the re-re-rehash: No, not everything is usable in all suits, so your 'should' is completely unjustifyable.

There are heavy-only items, so it's perfectly justifyable to have scout-only items.

Someone had to say it: cloaks should be scout only, for fucks sake we can't have one bloody thing to ourselves?

Mark my words that this module will be abused heavily by non scout players, just watch it happen.

Exactly, case and point. Covert-Ops cloak II

Can only fit to cov ops ships

Exactly, case and point. Covert-Ops cloak II

Can only fit to cov ops ships

It's not a module, it's an equipment. It will have crazy fitting requirements, but scouts will get major CPU/PG reductions so they are the only ones who can run it without sacrificing weapons and defenses. Still, since it is an equipment, the Gallente Logi will get a 25% reduction. Also since scouts only get 1 equipment slot, that pretty much means goodbye to active scanning scouts or uplink scouts since it sounds like cloaking scouts will be the only viable option.

I would concede that maybe Scouts should be able to fit them the "easiest" and reap the most benefit for using one, but if I want to "gimp" my Heavy Commando Suit with a cloaking device and only have enough CPU left for two sidearms, then so be it!

I want to be able to 'gimp' my scout, by fittinga forge gun on it.
When that is allowed,
then you can have a cloak on your commando suit.

It's not a module, it's an equipment. It will have crazy fitting requirements, but scouts will get major CPU/PG reductions so they are the only ones who can run it without sacrificing weapons and defenses. Still, since it is an equipment, the Gallente Logi will get a 25% reduction. Also since scouts only get 1 equipment slot, that pretty much means goodbye to active scanning scouts or uplink scouts since it sounds like cloaking scouts will be the only viable option.

Someone had to say it: cloaks should be scout only, for fucks sake we can't have one bloody thing to ourselves?

Mark my words that this module will be abused heavily by non scout players, just watch it happen.