One of the advantages of being a scout is being able to fire first against an opponent with superior health and come out on top once the opponent begins to fire back because of this element of surprise. However with the changes to assaults and heavys this may no longer work out.

What happens when you fire on an assault and he turns and flamb+¬s your @$$ because his weapon has a far superior RoF?

The way I usually deal with heavys is to first employ the sneaky grenade attack before I start firing at him. Well that is pretty much a thing of the past. Not only that but weapons are being made less effective against heavies as well.

What I think needs to be done is to add some kind cost efficiency to the clocking device that is dependant on what frame size you are warring. If you are warring a light frame you should be able to get off several shots before decloacking (I also think that this should be dependant on damage output, so if you are firring a scrambler pistol you would get off less shots than say an AR. If you are in a med frame this would be considerably less maybe one or two rounds before you decloack. A heavy would be imediate. This could work as a depletion of the cloack's health bar (whatever you want to call it).

I think that the ability to fire while cloacked may be an edge that scout will need, but that this should not translate as well, or perhaps at all, to other frame sizes.