Why not both?
Type A and type B, like in chromo

Just bring back type-IIs.

@Garrett

I thought the Pilot suit was to be the 2nd Light frame variant

Thought is was assumed to be light given the brief time the skills and stuff showed up in the game. When it comes who knows.

I wouldnt mind the pilot suit being the only one able to access hav / ds but I'm sure some will be up in arms about that.

1. Yes it's skills were dropped by accident at the beginning of uprising, as a light frame
2. See "1.".
3. What does that have to do with anything.

This is still a useful bonus to a cal scout. This is essentially a bonus to the cal scout's precision that also happens to be helpful to the rest of the team. I hope it is more than 5% per level though (but I doubt they would be that generous).

Logis should be for buffs, scouts should be for debuffs.

Rather, just bump base scan range to 20 or 25. This helps all scouts and allows the cal to make a decent passive scanner fit.

Edit:
Myos are high slots.

I know exactly what lowering the precision of the enemy means. How is that at all useful to the scout, that already is not at all worried about their profile. Its a buff to nonscouts....which is exactly my point. A buff to a bunch of blues that you are never around anyway.

Unless both scouts are stacking precision enhancers, neither scout is going to see each other either anyway.

If they went for this you should switch the names. An infiltrator only needs cloak and would benefit from two weapons. A scout doesn't need the firepower but the utility of two eq slots. I'd be fine with scouts just having two suit types to choose from, standard and type II.

Although I'm one of the people that would be fine with losing sidearm for eq if we've got to choose only one, but I can see your problems in deciding whether Minnie scouts should be an outlier and keep sidearms or what; maybe a Minmatar scout with two sidearms and two eq while other scouts get one primary and two eq? Minmatar do seem fond of their sidearms, and smg+knives sounds like a better proposal than using your primary for knives, though this probably alienates some other group of min scouts.

With respect, you're comparing Apples and Oranges that have "Apple" stickers on them.

Then you're scanned by a proto gal logi and your stealth link meant nothing. You're crossing a field and.......scanned by a proto gal logi. They shoot you once and now you can't flee b/c of the stunlock effect. You sneak up on an unsuspecting victim and fire with a shotgun or slash with a nk, they're still alive thanks to the new health buffs and start to jump around like a monkey on crack. They get out of your 5m optimal b/c follow up shots fail to register and now you have to reload.....and you're dead from back pedal hip fire (an smg could have saved your life).

Scouts lose theirs to get one extra equipment slot that, due to low cpu/pg, is forcing the cloak to take advantage of the terrible bonus they are getting... They get lowest health of all suits, low cpu/pg, low slot count, slightly more speed, slightly better dampening and precision..

Imagine this situation, one that is incredibly likely and often unavoidable.

Two assault players are standing next to each other, they hear a decloak and a shotgun blast. The second blast finishes the first assault as he warns the 2nd it is a Gal Scout. Instead of attempting to immediately fight back, he started running after hearing the first shot, knowing that the adversary is much less effective at >5m and has no other means of attack. He then turns and collects his guaranteed kill as the scout turns to run after finishing the first adversary. Meaning sneaking up on just two adversaries cloaked with a shotgun would still leave the scout at a disadvantage.

If the scout had a possibility of a sidearm, turning and running may have been suicide for the assault, as an SMG or ScP would have made quick work of him. The assault would have had to choose whether to run and predict the absence of a sidearm, or immediately fight back and rely on his skill and gun game. Giving the scout a sidearm makes the situation much more dynamic and rewarding of both intelligent and skillful play by both parties, which results in a much healthier and much more enjoyable game.

That's assuming a shotgun headshot will ohk an assault, which at the current time isn't always the case. If we're assuming all Proto on both sides, it often isn't the case, as it is nearly impossible to get a FULL headshot with the shotgun.

Since we can only consider what we currently know/have, then your proposed situation isn't necessarily viable, as Proto vs Proto means the shotgun would be 2HK or 3HK at best.

Assuming the average well fit proto has ~800 HP, then they weren't at full HP or weren't tanked properly. A militia shotgun cannot do 800HP of damage in a single headshot, not even to 100% shields, which in itself isn't possible. The proto shotgun has a bit more potential for an OHK, but it would still NEED a full headshot to do about 870HP of damage and would not OHK an armor tanked or dual tanked suit.

In case you were going to try to argue it, it is entirely reasonable to say the average PRO med frame has 800eHP. I know that a minmatar assault with 3 complex SEs and 2 enh APs has approximately 810eHP (about 1:1 for S:A). Considering it has the lowest base HP, and that all other assaults usually fit either the same or more in modules, 800 is a fair and even conservative average.

I dont beleive that that is possible. Unless you have three damage mods, a shotgun does, at the most (at STD level) under 500 dmage with a 10% reduction to armor. considering that gallogis can have somewhere near 1000 armor, and close to 200 sheild, attacking them with a gun that does under 500 damage and one shotting them does not seem likely, unless they forgot to put any modules on their suit. In fact, I've run into basic gallente assaults that require >1 full headshot to kill, as they can easily fit 350+ armor in modules, not to mention a 200+ base. In general, it takes 2-3 shots to kill a proto semi tanked logi if all shots hit in optimal range. However, I dont doubt that you are good with a shotgun

Weapons that can not be used on their own -
Mass driver - too little ammo
Sniper - too little ammo, long range only
Pistol - too little ammo
Shotgun - too little ammo, short range only
Knives - short range only
Swarms - AV only