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Matticus Monk
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Posted - 2013.12.26 18:42:00 -
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Roofer Madness wrote:So for the past few days I've been playing scout on my new ALT. The only skill points I used were to get level 1 remote explosives and level 1 nova knives.
My fit:
Militia Minmitar Scout
Militia Kin Cat
Militia Cardio Reg
Militia Shotty
Nova Knives
Remotes
Shield: 100
Armor: 70 lol
Been pretending I'm playing Metal Gear Solid and no one can see me or the level is over. So far I have had pretty good results and a lot of fun. One thing I've notices is maaaaaan, red berries are just as stupid as blueberries when you're stalking them. People almost never check for remotes on null cannon terminals. More than once this scenario has happened.
1. sneak out to their home point
2. take enemy home point and set explosives
3. wait for some ding dong to wander over from their spawn
4. blow him up
5. run up and shotgun his buddies or just reset explosives
6. repeat
This gives me so much enjoyment. I know everyone says speed tanking is dead but I'm doing it anyways because it is fun to run fast. I'm just posting this because I now know that scout is not broken or useless. It just requires extremely passive play and some patience. The shotgun is awesome. I'm killing protos on a damn 560,000 SP character in mostly militia gear. I kind of want to send them a message after I kill them and let them know that this dude is only 2 days old but I have not done that yet.
So new players, if you are having trouble getting protostomped. Try this. Make a little militia scout fit. And sneak around and only kill people who are asking for it. It's a blast!
The militia minmatar light frame is surprisingly competent when compared to the other scout frames.... It's lack of a high slot doesn't seem to impact me too much, as an extra shield extender or even two usually isn't gonna increase my longevity enough to really matter. It's still extremely disadvantaged when compared with the medium frames, but that is beside the point....
The speed is great for point defense, getting to things quickly for kills or causing chaos after an RE explosion. There are a number of proto suit players that do just walk into remotes.... good times indeed. I always enjoy making them pay.
As much as it's fun to be where the action is, if I'm going solo sometimes I just hold one objective down and hope the 15 other blueberries can manage to do the rest....  It can be boring but I'd rather go for the win than the KDR.
But dude, if you were only investing level 1 in remotes and level 1 in knives, why not just do this on your main? You'd have better core skills....
Playing a scout on an invested main character, against stacked odds and superior SP opponents in superios suits, when KDR, win/loss, corporate standings... well, if you are willing to do that and *then* tell me scouts are OK....?
Then I may believe you. |
Matticus Monk
Ordus Trismegistus
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Posted - 2013.12.26 18:58:00 -
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taxi bastard wrote:although i am not a "real" scout, some games i will play 100% in a militia mini light frame with advanced kinkats and stamina mods.
you can get a lot of WP's from uplinks and hacks, i always get over 1k WP's.
i will unlock mini scout for the hacking bonus as i enjoy this style of play and the scout suit is the best at this type of work.
As for a combat scout......tbh i don't think that the scout is a combat suit. if you ant to be a slayer why play scout?
Don't unlock the min scout if you are going for the hacking bonus.... it's the min logi that has that! The scout has the profile dampening bonus and the nova knife/melee damage bonus. |
Matticus Monk
Ordus Trismegistus
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Posted - 2013.12.27 00:30:00 -
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Roofer Madness wrote:CommanderBolt wrote:Ahh roofer man, me and kane made a 6 man scout squad the other day and it actually worked quite well! o_0 we were shocked and surprised!
I'm thinking we need to get the old crew together , I wonder what an entire team of scouts could do? (Except, you know, DIE lol) I'd like to run with a group of scouts. Just swarm a red dot and gang stab him like he was Julius Caesar. 1 person with remotes. 1 with scanner. 1 with hives. 1 with uplink. 1 with needle. 1 with reps. swarm objectives. fun fun fun
I've run with lots of scouts, and having a fully stacked 6-man squad of experienced scouts is pretty awesome. You just can't put that much trickery, deviousness and rabid hatred in one place and not expect to absolutely show people the bottom of a six foot hole over and over again.
It's especially fun when you've got half the scouts who are aggressive, merciless flankers disrupting the enemy and the other half are the stealthy, infiltrating assassins allowing no safe haven for folks outside the redline....
Anyway, happy to squad up with scouts anytime; new and old, full-time or 'tourists'....
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