THE GREY CARDINAL
PSU GHOST SYNDICATE
DARKSTAR ARMY
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Posted - 2014.01.09 22:27:00 -
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It's not always going to be just infantry and vehicles that factor into the outcome of battles; with the advent of scanners, situational awareness became a factor and I've seen many people go on about how lame it is and how it shouldn't be in the game. You wouldn't have to worry about whether a scout could shoot you while cloaked or not if you or someone in your squad had lit up all the red dots.
War can't just be concerned with offence and defense, weapons and armor on the battlefield. Knowledge is potentially going to play a bigger part in DUST if the passing examples of CCP Remnant at FF13 AtC are anything to go by. Increased intel on the enemy, like frame size coupled with your line of site is info that can really alter the outcomes of confrontations, if they even happen at all. Or the map scrambling he mentioned, what's it going to be like when the enemy knows your frame size, location and line of site while your looking at white noise in your minimap. My point is that one day things will come that are going to require countermeasures that people will need to spec into if they wish to be able to combat these things.
Which brings me back to my feelings on scout. It's not god mode. I'm assuming from the gallente scout bonus that cloaked mercs will show up on scanner so long as it's within its range. So if there are cloaked scouts in the match, you'll need a scanner to combat it in the same way If there are vehicles in the match, you need AV to combat it...and if nor your team have AV, you're kinda SOL. There is no way I won't be able to kill a cloaked scout while i'm scanning as I do. But Scouts ought to retain that ability to have the element of surprise.
This element of surprise is akin to the hardeners of tanks that make them god mode for a short while before leaving them weak and vulnerable. A cloaked scout will get a shot or two off on you and he had better hope he kills you with them because soon he'll be visible and weak..and do you think a scout will be doing this on the front line? Killing one person before appearing among beefed up heavies, commandos and assaults?
Anyway, at the end of the day, all I care about is that they find a balanced place within the grand scheme of things where it can be used tactfully and fairly in within the rock, scissors, paper of DUST 514 confrontations. I just don't think that kicking up a fuss about this is part of that balance.
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